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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Omni (Second Session)

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Just prior to the lockdown, Omni recorded their second entry for the Lagniappe Sessions. While their 2016 initial set paid tribute to 'the best Alice Cooper song you've never heard', here, the Atlanta trio take on Billy Joel's FM radio-ready paean to the shadow self -- "The Stranger." Next up... some 10cc . . .

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Circles Around the Sun :: S/T

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Recorded a week before the passing of guitarist Neal Casal, the deep-fried boogies of Circles Around the Sun suggest a Giorgio Moroder produced Shakedown Street. Exploring the middle ground between psych and disco, Circles Around the Sun III is all fat Moog basslines and slinky speedball guitars, with a fair amount of studious jazz fusion in the mix for good measure . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 10 :: Pico Boulevard Blues

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McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica isn't just one of the best musical instrument stores in the great Los Angeles area. For a half-century, its backroom has been the site of thousands of concerts. It's an incredibly intimate space, encouraging artists to loosen up and really connect with fans. For the latest Unearthed bootleg mix extravaganza, we've got 85 minutes of cherrypicked McCabe's performances, stretching from 1972 to 2017, featuring mellow folkies, punk rockers, jangle guitar gods and more . . .

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Got My Chips Cashed In (A Mixtape)

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These laments to weary-eyed truck drivers, CB radio farces, and runarounds with highway patrolmen offer a shoulder to lean on as you travel the literal or proverbial road to the end of the line. Got My Chips Cashed In is a playlist that stretches from the genre’s origin to its modern counterparts, with a few stops along the way for a hot cup of coffee, some southern fried, and a slice of cherry pie. Those big old wheels keep rolling …and the hits just keep on coming . . .

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Rose City Band :: The AD Interview

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Ripley Johnson has carved out a niche in psychedelic drone and motorik repetition, helming Wooden Shjips, the long-running experiment in lysergic primitivism, and Moon Duo, likewise mind-expanding but slanted towards electronics. But a lifelong affection for classic rock and country and a newly reawakened appreciation for the seasons led him recently to form the new Rose City Band. A mostly solo endeavor despite the name, Rose City Band’s sophomore lp, Summerlong, employs lap steel and mandolin as well as the usual rock band instruments to create a warm, buoyant, sunny Saturday morning vibe . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

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C’est normal. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Roedelius :: A Retrospective

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To celebrate the 86-year-old’s latest pair of releases – a return to the Selbstportrait series of albums he began in 1979, and the demo collection Tape Archive Essence 1973-1978 – the time felt fitting to compile a chronological musical retrospective. Of course, it barely skims the surface of Roedelius’s countless projects and partnerships, but should provide a pleasant introduction to the life of a man spent painting with sound . . .

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Spleen and Ideal :: The Return of Pure X

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...such elegies make for unintended eeriness in 2020. America, like rock ‘n roll, can be seduced by myths of its own destruction. And yet this is the sound of a band once again living for its music. What Pure X is bearing witness to, unmistakably, is its own will to rebirth . . .

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Damaged Bug :: “Sold America”

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The Record Store Day–attached project is now delayed until July, but the belle of the ball is the already released single “Sold America,” a track from Michael Yonkers Band’s 1968 classic Microminiature Love that feels so thoroughly modern in Dwyer’s hands that it’s somewhat baffling it was originally written and recorded during the Vietnam War . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show, Episode II

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More ether-access basement broadcasts transmitting from the hills of Glassell Park, Calif. Welcome to episode two of the Aquarium Drunkard picture show: Liminal Shift.

Feat: Julien Gasc / Maston / Map of Africa / White Fence / Conspiracy of Owls / Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy / Ty Segall / Thee Oh Sees / John Andrews & The Yawns / Lou Reed & more . . .

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Transmissions :: A Conversation With Buck Curran

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On this episode, your Transmissions co-host Jason P. Woodbury caught up with guitarist and songwriter Buck Curran. Formerly one half of the psychedelic duo Arborea, Buck is currently situated in Bergamo, Italy, in one of the areas hit hardest by COVID-19. Though he’s quarantining with his family, he decided now was the right time to release his third solo album, No Love is Sorrow . . .

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Tuluum Shimmering’s Infinite Nostalgia

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The UK-based musician known as Tuluum Shimmering (née Jake Webster) has a singular talent for channeling familiar songs into new forms, stretching the core of their nostalgic melodies into a cosmic infinite . . .

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Bill Nace :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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In May, Nace releases his first full-length studio album of solo material in Both, a riveting collection of long fractured drones, altered tones and insistent, nearly subliminal rhythms. Yet even though he’s the only player on the disc, the new record is still a collaboration. Bitchin Bajas’ Cooper Crain mixed and produced these tracks, playing an integral role in the way the finished product sounds . . .

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The End Is At Hand Vol. 5: God Is My Home

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And now, for another exploration into the sounds of the 60s and 70s Jesus People Movement, here's The End Is At Hand Vol. 5: God Is My Home. Continuing the tradition of the first four volumes, expect obscure, Jesus-centric, songs ranging in style from slow-burning psychedelia to loner folk. Glory . . .

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Bandcamping :: Quarantine Edition II

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Bandcamp threw thousands of musicians a lifeline in March by waiving its fees for 24 hours, ensuring that all cash spent went directly to artists and labels. The music community showed up in a big way, spending $4.3 million. Every good deed deserves an encore, so Bandcamp is waiving fees again on Friday, May 1. Just like last time, we’ve got some recent/random recommendations for you … and there’s a whole lot more in the Bandcamping archives . . .

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