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Laetitia Sadler singing Galaxie 500 classics with Damon & Naomi is the perfect start to any day!
A pay what you wish bandcamp exclusive...
And that trombone !!
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#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic
Day 8
A song about old people.
Love - Old Man
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R.I.P. Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald, frontman of counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish. He wrote the Berkeley band’s most enduring songs including the Vietnam War protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” a Hot 100 hit. McDonald was 84.
The latest Consumer Guide at And It Don't Stop on Substack, with reviews of Aesop Rock, Buck 65, Masaka Kids Africana, The Paranoid Style, The Cucumbers, Gogol Bordello, Madonna, Charli XCX, Abdallah Oumbadougou's desert blues, and more.
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Adele Bertei at CBGBs. Photo: Julia Gorton
From working with Brian Eno to playing with The Contortions and The Bloods, Adele Bertei had a front-row seat to New York's infamous No Wave scene. She talks to Elizabeth Wiet about noise and melody
Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
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Some very cool / freshly uploaded you-are-there footage of Talking Heads at a Connecticut country club on the Fear of Music tour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRcT...
When I began writing songs, it was outside the limits of my imagination that I'd ever get an A grade from Robert Christgau for any of my records. Today's Consumer Guide marks five full A's in a row for the Paranoid Style. Sharp as ever. I couldn't be more grateful.
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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
Remembering Townes Van Zandt on his birthday
youtu.be/zprRZ2wFQD4
irresistible-to-me ineffable lo-fi psych-folk by dagmar zuniga. can't remember how i came across this, but one of my quiet faves of the year. inscrutable weirdo timelessness. dagmarzuniga.bandcamp.com/album/in-fil...
A song that sounds scared of what it knows, Springsteen's 'Atlantic City' is the moment when the ultra-violence always latent in his urban picaresques turns manifest and terrifying. Some say to live outside the law you must be honest. Some debts no honest man can pay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3eu...
Unbelievable! The Mills Brothers essentially using extended vocal techniques to do an "instrumental" version of #Caravan
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NEW!!! ≈4000 words about boogie plod, classical prog, blue-eyed swamp soul, heavy blues, (possibly) peak bubblegum & reggae, fringed suede vests, moonshots, Altamont, whether Led Zep were unoriginal, whether Paul was dead, whether the Stooges stunk, Detroit radio and my 150 favorite albums of 1969.
#NoirAlley will not be back until March 21st...
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remembering New York rocker #DavidJohansen, who died a year ago today at the age of 75
Here's what I posted after he passed
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Image Designed by Adrian Shaughnessy, who designed (uncredited) the original Sun Ra Nuclear War 12" (Y Records 1982 UK).
“We’re Trying to Save Your Ass!” Sun Ra / Nuclear War Mega Mix (1982-1988)
🚨FIVE HOURS OF NOTHING BUT NUCLEAR WAR!🚨
Sat, Feb 28, 7-Midnight (ET) @wfmu.bsky.social
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“Elizabeth Nelson's wry, wounded reflections and shared jokes that bond the songs on Known Associates amount to a shared cultural vernacular." The great critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing brilliantly about the new Paranoid Style at his essential substack So It Goes. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Great shot from Columbo episode Étude in Black (1972) with Peter Falk and John Cassavetes...
New White Fence is my favourite Tim Presley record in maybe a decade? First taste of Orange: whitefence.bandcamp.com/album/orange
Jackson Pollock at work on Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 by Hans Namuth in Pollock's studio in Springs, New York (1950)
Traffic - “Dear Mr Fantasy” - Live - 1972
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2026 marks half a century since Phil Ochs’ death, yet his lyrics are more relevant now than perhaps even he could have imagined.
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A more deserving story couldn't be told during this black history month. I think Jimmy Carter was an absolute true humanitarian and Eartha Kitt should not have had to spend anytime away from home but alas, she did because she spoke up.
#USDemocracy
Willie Colón and Héctor Lavoe - Qué Lío (1968) youtu.be/yfDNolgGq0Q?...
25 songs 1958-2009: Blast, Carolina Tar Heels, Cyber People, Clint Eastwood+General Saint, Fehlfarben, Hatfield+North, Inca Babies, Koto, Myron Lee+Caddies, Liechtenstein, Mallard, Mofungo, Mtume, Prince Charles+City Beat Band, Gerry Rafferty, Sandie Shaw, Suburban Lawns, Wireless,Tappa Zukie, more!
Bird lives, the Dead come alive, and Xgau Sez is back—all this and more at And It Don't Stop.
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