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Mae Krell – “Phantom Limb”
Mae Krell shares a deeply personal new single today about overcoming addiction and the continuous process of recovering. “People often expect me to be ‘healed’ now that I’m sober, not realizing that my disease will continue to trail behind me for the rest of my life,” Mae says. “‘phantom limb’ speaks to my recovery, and what it’s like to choose to carry something difficult with you instead of letting it go untreated.”…
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Chelsea Rose – “Be Yrself”
Today Chelsea Rose shares the video for “Be Yrself,” a standalone (and standout) single released in advance of her upcoming 12″ Truth or Consequences, to be released early next year on Paul Is Dead Records. Chelsea’s sultry voice effortlessly carries the catchy ditty with a groovy guitar solo and a toe-tappin’ rhythm. “Be Yrself” was written and recorded pre-Covid. It serves as a reminder for me (and hopefully others) that…
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Tori Amos – “Spies”
🚨🚨🚨🚨 NEW TORI AMOS 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Um, somehow I missed the memo but the goddess herself released a new record recently? I’m so sorry. Today shares a lyric video for the song “Spies,” featuring animated creatures that taunt Tori’s daughter Tash at their Cornish home in the night. “Spies” is a mystical demystification, an urgent lullaby, a fierce invocation of protection for her daughter. Tori will be touring the UK and…
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ragenap mix
Our friend Joel Berk, aka ragenap, is a prolific inventor of distorted, monster of heady tones, master of swirling psychedelic expanses, and mind-bending melodies. He recently released a cassette entitled Thankrupcy on American Dreams, an improvisational, heavy head trip, as well as a split with Prana Crafter in early 2020 that got tons of air play in this house. His Bandcamp page boasts loads of recordings using other people’s songs…
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Mother Hips – “I Don’t Want To Drive You Away”
Today, Northern California musical icons the Mother Hips share their first-ever cover song from their upcoming new album Glowing Lantern, due out December 3rd on Blue Rose Music. The song was written by David Wiffen (whose songs have also covered by Tom Rush, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Hiss Golden Messenger), and the band first heard it when they scooped up an Anne Murray cassette at a truck stop. The Hips…
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Rose Hotel – “Expansion”
Rose Hotel’s single “Expansion” is the first from the upcoming EP The House That We Knew, due out soon on Cold Lunch Recordings. Rose Hotel is Atlanta-based musician Jordan Reynolds, and in her latest she conjures an image of a post-apocalyptic folk future, with shades of melancholia, relief, and a resigned, reserved, yet cautious optimism. The dreamy, introspective track features strings by Macie Stewart and Lia Kohl, as well as…
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Cher added to lineup for monastery benefit concert
Everyone’s favorite multi-talented superstar will be joining Laurie Anderson, Jon Batiste, Norah Jones, Angelique Kidjo, Steve Miller, Gregory Porter and Maggie Rogers for WisdomSound on November 8th. Richard Gere will be there too. The live-streamed event benefits Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery and Nagi Nunnery, two Tibetan religious institutions. The benefit will be viewable live at Mandolin.com on 11/8 at 8:00 PM EST, and will remain online for a short period of…
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Hella Halloween : A Petrifying Playlist
Happy Halloween weekend. Here’s a playlist I started in 2015 when I was heavily in a really weird phase of musical life where I was listening to *only* new wave music and Nancy & Lee (I… have no idea) which, the former, now, just makes me think of Halloween. Added more recently discovered scary songs, terrifying tunes, and monstrous melodies. Also including a short list of my favorite Halloweenish media:…
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Julie Doiron – “Darkness To Light”
Today Julie Doiron shares a gorgeous new single from her upcoming album I Thought Of You, out November 26th on You’ve Changed records. The song features just the right amount of twang, with Julie’s clear, wizened, gorgeous vocals and lyrics complimented by Daniel Romano’s ripping guitar line and our friend Michael Feuerstack adding soft and subtle pedal steel. I Thought Of You by Julie Doiron I started writing this song…
