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Bleep’s 100 Best Vinyl Soundtracks
What a great list! Bleep gathers up a nice, big, fat, and varied list of 100 soundtracks on vinyl to keep you inside on long hot summer days.
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Le Butcherettes on Tour
I had the good, no make that great, fortune of seeing Le Butcherettes live last year at Rough Trade in Brooklyn.
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Album of the Week: John Prine
I love John Prine like a dear friend. His first record, John Prine, from 1971 is Master-Class, Grade A songwriting. The Tree of Forgiveness continues that tradition after a 13-year respite where Prine mines the everyday for nuggets of wisdom and beauty.
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Haruki Murakami DJ
Anyone who has read anything by Haruki Murakami knows he loves music. Anyone who has dug a wee bit deeper knows he used to own a jazz bar/club/coffee house in Toyko called Peter Cat. Come August 5, he’ll be DJing a set on Tokyo FM. […]
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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: The Roxy July 7, 1978
Talk about choices! Let’s talk about these download options.
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Recommended Reading: This Is Your Brain On Music
“As Simon Baron-Cohen has described it, with all this sensory cross talk, the infant lives in a state of complete psychedelic splendor (without the aid of drugs).” Our brains develop into perfect musical receivers right around the time of puberty (but we already kinda knew […]
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The Quietus Offers Up Their Fav 100 Albums of 2018 (so far)
If you’ve recently thought to yourself—”Where’s all the new music?” The Quietus has your answer.
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Album of the Week: Welles
Do you like T. Rex? I do because I enjoy hook-rich rock. If you like T. Rex, you’ll like Welles.
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Alice Coltrane’s Lord of Lords Vinyl Reissue
Ethereal beauty. That’s what I think of when I think of Alice Coltrane’s music. Lord of Lords was her last record for Impulse!, released in 1972, and its a humdinger.
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:zoviet*france: Curates 60 Minutes of Music 314 Times
Attention :zoviet*france: fans: :zoviet*france: present A Duck in a Tree, a 60 minute continuous mix of some of the best genre-refusing, zero BPM, hypnatropic and maximinimalist recordings that have grabbed their attention.
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The Playlist
I have, in my life, made one playlist—The Playlist. While it gets refined with time, here it is in its present state. Guaranteed to cure all ills.
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Album of the Week: Lucy Dacus
Historian is Lucy Dacus’ latest release on Matador and it’s a record that has grown on me, or I’ve grown into it, over time like a too-big comfortable cardigan.
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Album of the Week: Tropical Fuck Storm
What the hell is going on in Australia?
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Album of the Week: Grouper
If there’s one thing you should know about Liz Harris, aka Grouper, it’s this—buy every record.
Classic Albums
Classic Albums: Solo Drumming by Fritz Hauser
Recorded live at the Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin) on the nights of April 4-7, 1985.