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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…
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Bewitching Documents : the Pelt interview
This Friday, Pelt releases their latest recording Reticence / Resistance as part of the Three Lobed Recording’s 20-year anniversary series. It’s also the first Pelt release since 2012, and the 18th record in their nearing-30-year run, never minding the numerous overlapping projects of each individual member and in other iterations and formations. The family tree of Pelt is immense and continues to stretch its branches, rooted in the Virginia soil…
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Trevor Beld Jimenez – “Blue Sky Morning”
Our friend TBJ is back with a new song, the “Blue Sky Morning.” Trevor’s music is warm, inviting and sunny, so a blue sky anthem is especially appropriate. Trevor’s dear friend Rick Swan created the lovely Zuma-inspired artwork to match. Blue Sky Morning by Trevor Beld Jimenez Blue Sky Morning was recorded, mixed and mastered by Joel Jerome (DIOS Malos, Joel Jerome) in Los Angeles, CA. I wrote the song…
