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I picked up “Dopes to Infinity”, but turns out, I didn’t. I’m still in. 🎵

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My recent Discogs haul. 🎵

A collection of music CDs and a cassette tape, lying on a wood floor. The CDs are 'The Next Day' by David Bowie, 'The Very Best of John Lee Hooker', 'Down' by The Jesus Lizard, and 'Dopes to Infinity' by Monster Magnet. The cassette is 'The Traveling Wilburys Vol 1'.

I started getting into The Dandy Warhols. The name really annoys me, but …The Dandy Warhols Come Down is great. 🎵

Andrew Sacher wrote a beautiful elegy for Brian Wilson on Brooklyn Vegan. RIP. 🎵

Brian resonates so much with indie/alternative/underground musicians because, no matter how famous The Beach Boys are, being a Brian Wilson fan means you’re in on one of the most profound secrets in all of pop music history.

Correction: five days ago, I got French metal band Animalize confused with their album title. The band name is Animalize, and the album is called Verminator, not the other way around.

This brought to you by the department of corrections no one complained about.

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Everyone needs to reckon with how badass The Commodores looked.

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Been grooving to Animalize’s new album Verminator. They’re like if ‘80 glam and thrash metal got in a car crash in France. 🎵

I snagged Head Of The Love Club, an EP by up and coming British pop singer Gretel Hänlyn, on the strength of Drive. Nothing else on the record comes close to that one for me, but there’s a lot of promise. She’s one to keep an eye on. 🎵

I bought electronic music pioneer Susan Ciani’s 1982 album Seven Waves. Truly staggering atmospheric work. 🎵

I’ve listened to a lot of Jello Biafra & The Melvin’s side project collaboration Never Breathe What You Can’t See from 2006. It’s the angry, well wrought crush punk we need now. 🎵

I bought Fear - The Ultimate Anthology, by Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin. Cool re-recorded versions of a bunch of classic horror movies either Claudio or the original Goblin scored, and mostly Argento joints. Cool stuff! 🍿🎵

I heard about Scratch Acid by way of The Cobain 50 on KEXP, and then David Yow’s next band, The Jesus Lizard. It’s a basic starting point, but I really like Liar. Get some transcendent gutter noise. 🎵

I’m late to the party, but got turned on to Oneida, specifically Each One Teach One, again from The Best Show. Also learned that my roommate took drum lessons from Kid Millions, so when it rains it pours. 🎵

I really like Neil Francis’s new album Return to Zero. I’m not playing it as much as I had his first, but it’s still early days. 🎵

To the applause of sixteen people that already own the album, the 2021 Deluxe edition of Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy is available on archive.org. 🎵

A heard about Palestinian hip-hop group DAM maybe last year, I think on NPR of all places. I really like BEN HAANA WA MAANA, and I finally picked up the album a few weeks ago. Politically outspoken, although I had to look up lyric translations. Really tasty beats. 🎵

I picked up Viva Ngozi, by Ngozi Family, on a recommendation from The Best Show last month. Really cool ’70s Zambian garage rock. 🎵

My roommate turned me on to Mdou Moctar, and I picked up Funeral for Justice a bit ago. I haven’t listened to it as much as I thought I would, but it’s still really good. Hard Nigerian blues rock with great players? What’s not to like. 🎵

I got turned on to ’70s Italian pop singer Jenny Sorrenti from Aquarium Drunkard, specifically her Suspiro. Smooth, summer psyche folk. 🎵

I bought melodic Brooklyn punk band SAVAK’s Human Error / Human Delight a few weeks ago, and have been really digging it. Enough to pre-order their upcoming album SQUAWK!. Who can’t get behind that? 🎵

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I bought Betty Davis’s first album on Bandcamp. I already owned it on vinyl, but I need that deep funk digitally, too, you know? 🎵

I’ve been listening to internet radio via the slick Triode app.

My station staples:

Let me know of any fun streams I’m missing! 🎵

The album cover for A Glimse Of Light by Enno Velthuys. A black field with a strip of white in the middle that cuts across horizontally. The white widens in the middle. The white is not a hard line, rather a collection of particles made solid towards the middle. The edges are a sea of star-like points of white.

I’m listening to A Glimpse Of Light, by Enno Velthuys today. Lonely, haunted electronic explorations into empty space, that somehow connect to a deeply human place amidst, or perhaps because of, the alienation. 🎵

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I saw Parlour Magic last night. My friend knows Luke, the frontman/songwriter. Great show. Made me a fan. Check it out if you’re into electronic disco grooves. 🎵

I’ve been listening to a lot of Liar by The Jesus Lizard. Angry noise rock is very emotionally relevant for me right now. Who am I kidding, it always is. 🎵