Time After Time

Time for an old fave. Here we go: uno, dos, tres, cuatro...

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - The Bottle

Stop The Car

The Dead C were always the weirdest of the Flying Nun bunch. Legendary lofi from kiwi country.

The Dead C - Speed Kills
The Dead C - The Wheel

Nicer View

Open them windows!  Sit back and enjoy a brand new six pack, my amigos da musica. Cool artwork above courtesy of the talented Tinca.

George Jones - If My Heart Had Windows
Swampwater - Look Out Your Window
George Harrison - Window Window
3/3 - Open A Window
Wire - The Other Window (Peel version)
Simon Joyner & The Fallen Men - Open Window Blues

Om

Please welcome the hip and high priest of the beats, who just happened to bring his harmonium with him. "Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddi Hum..." Holy soul jelly roll, indeed.

Allen Ginsberg - Pacific High Studio Mantras

Into Your Valley

Back refreshed and more than ready to play you all kinds of wonderful songs both old and new, as is the custom around here. Let's start with the latter variety, courtesy of Los Angeles-based picker and singer Kayla Cohen. Her band Itasca came to my attention a few weeks back thanks to the hip Doom & Gloom blog, and I've been tripping to their refined nouveau acidfolk ever since. An album is on the way on the always interesting Paradise Of Bachelors label, but until then a WFMU live session will sort you out nicely. Here's a characteristic sample.

Itasca - Angel

And we've got time for an oldie, too, for a sad reason. Cause while lingering on a sunny, far away beach somewhere, I got the news that the legendary Alan Vega, of Suicide fame, had died. The influential protopunk was 78. Speeding on down the skyway... Miss him.

Suicide - Rocket USA

Low And High

Time to put on my flying shoes, as I'm off on my hols tomorrow for some much-needed R&R. No worries: I'll be back before you know it, my amigos da musica. Oh, and here's a fly six pack to keep y'all busy until then. ¡Hasta luego!

Allen Brothers - Ain't That Skippin' And Flyin'
Guy Clark - To Live Is To Fly
J.K. & Company - Fly
Hüsker Dü - Flexible Flyer

Drivin N Cryin - Fly Me Courageous

Swervedriver - Sci-Flyer

You Got It?

Today we'll put the spotlight on that wonderful folk outsider Michael Hurley. The man they call Snock has been going at it since the sixties, but his circle of admirers is still way too small. So let's begin it.

Michael Hurley - Sweedeedee
Michael Hurley - Wildegeeses
Michael Hurley - Reconciled To The Blues

Got Good Taste

A classy 'lost' track with a wonderful title from my fave krautrockers, the mighty Can. Recorded live in their unique studio in Schloss Nörvenig, when Malcolm Mooney was still behind the mic.

Can - Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore

Don't Do It

Midnight Rambler is a modern blues-rock opera, says Buffalo Tom frontman turned rock hack Bill Janovitz in his insightful book Rocks Off: 50 tracks that tell the story of the Rolling Stones. And he especially recommends this never officially released live take from their notorious 1972 American tour. "After a spellbinding section where the band drones on the riff, nearly turning the beat around in the process, the song comes seemingly to a halt in the middle section, where the band just breaks the song down to bare bones, like a bump-and-grind for a big mama stripper..." Well said.

Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler (live '72)

Like The Dickens

Lubbock calling, so we go waltzing today. Just tell 'em because.

Joe Ely - West Texas Waltz

At The Heron House

Pay attention, my followers of chaos. San Francisco's Heron Oblivion is a band to watch alright. All members, of which the lovely Meg Baird of Espers fame is probably best known, did their time in the underground already, so we're talking something like a true indie supergroup here. If out of control noise-folk sounds like your thing, lend them your ears.

Heron Oblivion - Your Hollows