Podcasts about not not fun

"Future Thoughts Ft. Spaceface" by Brothers Griin from Joy City; "Docudrama" by Nyx Nott from Themes From; "DISinformation Desk" by The Black Dog from Music for Real Airports; "The Yips" by James Ellis Ford from The Hum. Courtesy of Warp; The single "Vento a Favor" by Sessa. Courtesy of Mexican Summer; "Cascade" by Niecy Blues from Exit Simulation. Courtesy of Kranky; "Sacred and Profane" by Moundabout from An Cnoc Mor. Courtesy of Rocket Recordings; "Reel Life (Evolution 2)" by Cinematic Orchestra from Man with a Movie Camera. Courtesy of Ninja Tune; "Theme from a Personal Prison" by Emil Amos from Zone Black. Courtesy of Drag City; "Delivery" by Black Duck from the self titled album. Courtesy of Thrill Jockey; "Visiting" by Craig Leon from Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1. Courtesy of RVNG Intl; "Sunset Theater" by Golden Hallway Music from Rules and Chance Vol 3. Courtesy of Not Not Fun; The Actress remix of Carmen Villain from Smalltown Supersound Remix Anthology Vol. 1-4 2002-2022.

It should come as no surprise that I'm a sucker for a Dad/Daughter duo jam, and it doesn't get much better then Dietrichs - Don and Camille. Plus some flowers for Not Not Fun, who really are one of the best labels of the last 20 years. Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Album of the Day: Dietrichs “Catch the Leaves” https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/catch-the-leaves Additional links for the day: Dietrichs first album https://picadisk.bandcamp.com/album/dietrichs Not Not Fun https://notnotfun.bandcamp.com/ Anna L.H. Rose & Brad E. Rose “Blanket” https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/album/blanket Brad Rose is the the principal writer and editor-in-chief of Foxy Digitalis, an online music magazine and has run various DIY record labels for the last 30 years. Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. foxydigitalis.zone patreon.com/foxydigitalis twitter: @foxydigitalis Instagram: @foxy.digitalis Mastodon: foxydigitalis@mastodonmusic.social

Coconut Dealers - Island Haze 2 - Not Not FunPsychedelic Digestion Therapy - Palmtree Calling - StrangeloveBonnie & Klein - Diamante - MM DiscosJuliana Martinez - Sensual Esperpento - ImaraEl Nino Diablo - Dorothea's Rainbow (Prins Thomas Remix) - El Nino Diablo MusicFantastic Man - Cloud Manager - Love InternationalFunboys - Garghouls (Richard Sen remix) - NeinSpectral Display - It Takes A Muscle To Fall In Love - EMI

Tokyo's Sapphire Slows has her own distinctive aesthetic. The music she makes is ghostly and delicate, eerie yet beautiful. The multi-talented artist plays her own synths and keys and layers her own beautiful vocal drones into her tracks to lend them extra intimacy. This of course means she has toured extensively and released on labels such as Japan's Big Love, Greece's Nous and LA's Not Not Fun/100% Silk. Despite often making and playing music with the brain cleansing purity demonstrated on 2017 album Time, Sapphire Slows can also do more caustic and mechanical sounds, as on 2014's Allegoria LP. This week's mix explores a melancholic and introspective mood, but it is never dark. A range of mid-tempo rhythms set the tempo. Sometimes they're dubby and linear, at others more bubbling and off-grid, while the synths above glow like fireflies or glisten like knives in the sun. Organic bird calls float above hyper-real synthetic textures and the overall effect is to cocoon you in suspensory and meditative sound that feels out of this world.

Like a lot of people, I haven't left my house much for the last seven months. I've spent a lot of time with headphones on, trying to find the dreamiest music possible to escape into and pass the time. EPISODE #88 is crammed full of distorted guitars, piercing synths, vocal histrionics, and meditations on lives both small and large.In this hour, you will hear classics from Lone Justice, The Soup Dragons, and Beverly, brand new jams from White Poppy, Maria Minerva, and The Lemon Twigs, plus a whole lot more. It jumps from country-rock to soul to garage pop to deep dance beats to progressive peacoat rock to trance-folk to throwback Britpop to real-deal Britpop. It's best experienced after spinning around for a few seconds and collapsing on the floor. Enjoy!Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via Apple Podcasts or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. Come back next month (or so) for another episode of Random Old Records. As always, thanks for listening!Random Old Records Podcast #88Released 10/27/20DOWNLOAD HERE (Right-Click, "Save As")1. Lone Justice - "This World Is Not My Home"(This Is Lone Justice, Omnivore 2014)2. Neal Francis - "These Are The Days"(Changes, Karma Chief 2019)3. The Lemon Twigs - "Live In Favor Of Tomorrow"(Songs For The General Public, 4AD 2020)4. Axxa/Abraxas - "So Far Away"(Axxa/Abraxas, Captured Tracks 2014)--I always wanted to say that!5. White Poppy - "Broken"(Paradise Gardens, Not Not Fun 2020)6. Girl Ray - "Friend Like That"(Girl, Moshi Moshi 2019)7. Maria Minerva - "I Could Be Your Best Friend"(Soft Power, 100% Silk 2020)8. Ashrae Fax - "Hurricanes In A Jar"(Never Really Been Into It, Mexican Summer 2014)--Those are tapeworms!9. Wax Machine - "Shade"(Earthsong Of Silence, Beyond Beyond Is Beyond 2020)10. Christine Harwood - "Question Of Time"(Occasional Rain, Ace 2020)11. Roger Rodier - "Easy Song"(Upon Velveatur, Sunbeam 2006)12. Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore - "Painter Of Tygers"(Ghost Forests, Three Lobed 2018)--Tips from Mary Weiss!13. Beverly - "Madora"(Careers, Kanine 2014)14. Soft Science - "Breaking"(Maps, Test Pattern 2018)15. Cullen Omori - "Happiness Reigns"(The Diet, Sub Pop 2018)16. The Soup Dragons - "Hang Ten"(Hang Ten, Sire 1987)17. Manic Street Preachers - "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"(Help, Go Discs 1995)

"Kawasemi Ah" by OOIOO from Nijimusi; "Neochrome" by Saariselka from The Ground Our Sky; "Anticipation of the Night" by Julie's Haircut from In the Silence Electric; The title track from Stress by Tycho; "Red Sky Sprawl" by Xander Harris from The New Dark Age of Love. Courtesy of Not Not Fun; "Windows" by Daniel Lopatin from Uncut Gems; "Unknown To The Peacock The Serpent And Scorpion Conspire (Alessandro Cortini Remix)" by Vatican Shadow from American Flesh for Violence; "Love Again" by Mr. Elevator from Goodbye Blue Sky; "Not This Time" by Andy Stott from It Should Be Us; "Mise En Abyme" by Joni Void from Mise en Abyme

"Kawasemi Ah" by OOIOO from Nijimusi; "Neochrome" by Saariselka from The Ground Our Sky; "Anticipation of the Night" by Julie's Haircut from In the Silence Electric; The title track from Stress by Tycho; "Red Sky Sprawl" by Xander Harris from The New Dark Age of Love. Courtesy of Not Not Fun; "Windows" by Daniel Lopatin from Uncut Gems; "Unknown To The Peacock The Serpent And Scorpion Conspire (Alessandro Cortini Remix)" by Vatican Shadow from American Flesh for Violence; "Love Again" by Mr. Elevator from Goodbye Blue Sky; "Not This Time" by Andy Stott from It Should Be Us; "Mise En Abyme" by Joni Void from Mise en Abyme

RED BULL MUSIC FESTIVAL MOSCOW и радио RTS.FM подготовили эксклюзивные подборки треков от участников фестиваля. Миксы звучат впервые и только на нашей платформе. https://soundcloud.com/atariame — сольный проект Наташи Салминой, которая поначалу следовала не теряющей своего шарма формуле “девушка с гитарой”, но вместе с лиричными песнями под шестиструнную сочиняла сложносочиненные инструментальные композиции. Сегодня первую скрипку в ее музыкальном арсенале играют синтезаторы, за ее плечами недавний дебют на американском лейбле Not Not Fun и участие в прошлогодней образовательной сессии RBMA в Берлине. 1 сентября на первом в России подводном концерте, организованном Red Bull Music Festival Moscow 2019 и британским проектом Wet Sounds, Atariame выступит с другой выпускницей RBMA — Сашей Виноградовой. RED BULL MUSIC FESTIVAL MOSCOW 2019 В последний уикенд лета, с 30 августа по 1 сентября 2019 года, RED BULL MUSIC FESTIVAL возвращается в Москву. Ежегодно проходя в крупнейших городах мира – от Лос-Анджелеса до Токио, музыкальные фестивали RED BULL отказываются от стандартной схемы «лайн-ап с хедлайнером» и делают акцент на сложносочиненных концепциях, новых музыкальных идеях и необычных для города форматах. RED BULL MUSIC FESTIVAL объединяет в совместных проектах зарубежных артистов с мировым именем и талантливых российских музыкантов, тем самым поддерживает культурный диалог между странами и готовит фундамент для появления новых культурных феноменов. В этом году фестиваль захватывает больше городского пространства, проходя одновременно на нескольких площадках Москвы. В программе RED BULL MUSIC FESTIVAL MOSCOW 2019 заявлены: - вечеринка открытия с участием «королей буги» Leroy Burgess и Dām-FunK на «Стрелке»; - круглосуточный концерт «SBP4 24h WHAT?» от группы «Самое Большое Простое Число» и приглашенных музыкантов в «Рихтере»; - речной музыкальный круиз Coast 2 Coast с Marcellus Pittman, Rick Wilhite, Gacha Bakradze, DJ Sports, DJ Central и командой друзей и резидентов формации Roots United; - вечеринка SELECTORS на «Стрелке» с Vladimir Ivkovic, KrLow и Ilya Simonov; - ночное «событие-исследование» в новом клубе Mutabor с Lanark Artefax, Machine Woman, Buttechno, Poima, C.A.R., Simple Symmetry, TMO x Piankov, Powder, Odopt, Deena Abdelwahed, Abelle и Hipushit, организованный совместно с британским проектом Wet Sounds; - первый в России подводный концерт в бассейне под открытым небом «Чайка» с участием первопроходцев философии нью-эйдж и эмбиента – Laraaji, Ariel Kalma и выпускников RBMA разных лет и вечеринка закрытия с участием замбийского коллектива 70-х W.I.T.C.H. feat. Jacco Gardner на «Стрелке». Полная информация о проекте и билеты redbull.com/moscow vk.com/redbullfestmsk2019 facebook.com/events/2387644697953502

“Two Negatives Make a Positive” is a famous math slogan that perfectly fits the humorous and nonsense name of the Los Angeles based enigmatic label explored in episode 78: Not Not Fun Records. Even if this law is not universal and we can all think of many, many cases where two negatives don’t make a positive — for example rain on your wedding day plus grand larceny on your wedding day does not make for a winning combination, despite what “two negatives make a positive” would suggest — the pretty unknown music published by Not Not Fun can be the perfect soundscape for your relaxing afternoons while reading your favorite novel in the countryside. The episode features: Channelers, Unknown Me, Atariame, Dravier, X.Y.R., Les Halles, Dreamers Cloth and Wave Temples.

Sup Doc kicks off the jams w ROCKTOBER a month long line-up of music docs and great guests. We hit the stage with The Devil and Daniel Johnston with our guest, musician Kip Uhlhorn!The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a 2005 documentary film about the noted American musician Daniel Johnston. It chronicles Johnston's life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder, and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession. The film was directed by Jeff Feuerzeig, edited by Tyler Hubby, and produced by Henry S. Rosenthal.Kip Uhlhorn formed Cloudland Canyon in 2002. The first Cloudland Canyon release, Requiems Der Natur, 2002-2004 was released by Tee Pee in 2006. Cloudland Canyon quickly set about releasing a number of other releases and touring that same year, most notably a single track collaboration 12”/LP entitled Exterminating Angel with Chicago musician Lichens in 2007 on Holy Mountain.In 2007, the band was signed to Kranky and released their first proper album Silver Tongued Sisyphus. In 2008, the band released another collaborative 12” with Mythical Beast on Not Not Fun, as well as their second full length, Lie in Light on Kranky. The latter was chosen as one of top 25 albums of the year 2008 by the Magnet magazine. Cloudland Canyon subsequently moved to Holy Mountain, where the band began their own imprint of Holy Mountain (Intercoastal Artists) for 2010’s album Fin Eaves, which has become their best-received work to date, landing on numerous year-end lists. They went on tour with the Flaming Lips (whom Uhlhorn has collaborated extensively with) as well as with Interpol and Bear in Heaven. Members of the Arcade Fire even name checked the band.Uhlhorn has also played in several other successful groups and bands during this time, including King Khan & the Shrines, Panthers (Dim Mak, Vice), Pharaohs (100% Silk, Stone's Throw, Intercoastal Artists), Eden Express (Holy Mountain), and Tav Falco's Panther Burns He has also played guitar live and on albums by Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca, including Chatham's Crimson Grail, which was staged at Lincoln Center. Cloudland Canyon’s ranks have included close friend Jerry Fuchs (also drummer for !!!, LCD Soundsystem, Maserati, Turing Machine, Moby) who died in 2009. Most recently, memphis drummer Ross Johnson (Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Alex Chilton) has joined the band.

We start things off with a rugged mix from Magnetizer, a machine-funk/body-music project captained by Oakland's Jackson Blümgart aka Wormhole. Magnetizer's fried and freaky 'Reality' EP is out now on Not Not Fun. FP DJ Gus rounds out the show. *Intro* Soundwalk Collective - Rimsky-Korsakov Court [Apollo] *Magnetizer* Kraus - A Cobweb My Dear [Self] The Jacka – Summer [SMC] William Onyeabor - Body & Soul [Wilfilms/Luaka Bop] Misfits Ov Stylz - It’s Going Down [Self] Magical Power Mako - Ruding Piano [Polydor] Erase Errata - Rider [Kill Rock Stars] Walt J - Feel What I Feel [Dow/Fit Sound] Aybee - Island In The Sky [Deepblak] Kowton - Glock And Roll [Whities] Magnetizer - They Are Stealing From Your Life [??] Indy Nyles - Timeline ft. Nackt [Self] Jason Halal - 1-10-17 [??] Hounds Of Hell & Alexoteric Invisible [??] Haus Arafna - You [Galakthorrö] Fatima Al Qadiri - Forbidden City [Hyperdub] San Quinn - Northern California [Frisco Street Show] Juvenile - Bounce Back [Cash Money] Iron Curtain - The Condos [Self/Pylon] Preening - Big Brain [??] Slugfuckers - Obbligato Necroplasm [Dogfood Production System] Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi [Better Days] — Brainwaltzera - Poly Ana Summers (Schoolyard Surph Beat) [FILM] *Gus* Mirdza Zīvere ‎ - Žozefīno [Мелодия] Al-Dos Band - Doing Our Thing With Pride [Warmer Productions/Leng] Crusaders - The Hustler [MCA] War - Hey Señorita [MCA] Fix - Rough Road [Мелодия] Hot Chocolate - Every1’s A Winner [RAK] The Vibrations - Shake It Up [Chess] Dolores Fuller - One More Chance Lord [Intro Records/Cultures Of Soul] Eddie Kendricks – Can’t Help What I Am [Tamla Motown] Gene Dunlap - It's Just The Way I Feel [Capitol] Eolika - Я Забыл Твое Лицо [Мелодия] Renee Geyer - Be There In The Morning [Polydor/Athens Of The North] Trinita - High Feeling [Carrere] Space Dimension Controller - The Love Quadrant [Kinnego Records] @realmagnetizer @not-not-fun-1 @goatytapes @hypeasgus facebook.com/friendlypotential

Because Of You, We Survived the Cold of Winter Snow by Cian Ó Cíobháin 24/12/16 Galway, Ireland Label: goo.gl/6VXilY Twitter: twitter.com/shockws All Podcasts: https://goo.gl/bkdZyY 1. Edward Williams - The Sex Life Of The Fern Strange tune title? Perhaps … but not when you realise its context. It's from the soundtrack to David Attenborough's 1979 BBC series ‘Life On Earth'. 2. John Martyn - Head and Heart Achingly beautiful loves song from John Martyn's 1971 classic LP ‘Bless the Weather'. 3. Shelleyan Orphan - Beamheart Caroline Crawley, the lead singer of Shelleyan Orphan, sadly passed away some months back. I was familiar with her vocal work on This Mortal Coil's LP ‘Blood', but had never taken the time out to explore any of her back catalogue, outside of her contributions to Ivo-Watts Russell's 4AD super-group. 4. Perfume Genius - Mr Petersen Taken from Mike Hadreas' debut LP from 2010, this is a song about a teacher he had in his formative years, who had a major influence on him, but later committed suicide. 5. Shiny Two Shiny - Moment To Moment Thanks to Mary Maguire for introducing me to this band. Based in Liverpool, they released 1 album and 2 EPs in the mid-80s. 6. The Strange Walls - Grey To Red ‘…. Won't Last' by New York-based The Strange Walls on Alrealon Musique is one of my albums of the year. 7. Worldbackwards - (Leaving Me) Now Minimal wave quartet from London who initially only released their music on cassettes (there are four of them, all C60s). 8. Peter Gordon & David Van Tieghem - Winter (feat Kathy Acker) Peter Gordon is the bandleader of Love Of Live Orchestra, a multi-genre downtown New York collective that has counted Arthur Russell, David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Phillip Glass and Laurie Anderson amongst its members. He sent me a thank you email VIA his publicist for playing this one so often on my radio show this year. 9. Thomas Leer - Private Plane Amazing debut single from 1978 from Thomas Leer. 10. Lives Of Angels - Imperial Motors Lost classic from husband/wife duo Gerald and Catherine O' Connell, taken from their 1983 album ‘Elevator To Eden'. Shades of Can, Suicide, Depeche Mode, New Order. 11. Rollers/Sparkers - Kodiak They're from Dublin, they are responsible for my album of the year - ‘Interior Ministry' - and by album, I mean a coherent collection of amazing songs that make complete sense in the way that they're sequenced on the LP. 12. Let's Eat Grandma - Eat Shiitake Mushrooms I believe that this precocious teenage girl duo from Norwich are still in school (only aged 16-17 when they wrote this) and yet…. how on earth did they come up with possibly the best pop-song of 2016? 13. Scraps - Dreams Brisbane's self-styled ‘dehydrated disco queen' released a corker of an album - called ‘TTNIK' - on the always essential Not Not Fun label this year. 14. Blood Orange - Desirée This was my highlight from ‘Freetown Sound', an album which features more great female vocalists, many who previously were unknown to me. 15. The Paradise - In Love With You Made by Alan Braxe (who had a hand in Stardust's ‘Music Sounds Better With You' with Thomas Bangalater and ‘Intro/Running' with Fred Falke) with Romuald Louverjon back in 2003, I have Mike Smalle to thank for introducing me to this 6am afterparty classic. 16. Ruby & The Romantics - Baby Come Home Akron, Ohio R&B 60s group who became big in Belgium when this one became a staple on the Popcorn scene. 17. Liz Damon's Orient Express - 1900 Yesterday Debut single from Liz Damon's Hawaiian band came out in 1971 but I have my truelove to thank for introducing me to it recently. 18. Cocteau Twins - Half-Gifts 20 years ago the Cocteau Twins released their final album ‘Milk & Kisses' and when it came out I recall many of us being completely besotted with this song. Liz Fraser's biographer speculated that songs from this period may be about Jeff Buckley, but the lady herself has neither confirmed or denied this.

Another month has passed, and Random Old Records Podcast has returned with another hour's worth of jams! Earlier in the year, I acquired the amazing 3 disc compilation on Cherry Red Records called Dust On The Nettles. This set goes deep into the UK's psychedelic folk scene, from big names like Pentangle, Fairport Convention, and Vashti Bunyan, to complete obscurities. This is a genre I knew very little about, and it totally blew my mind open! Also, my favorite artist of 2015, Ryley Walker, just released his brand new album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, and it is loaded with way out folk explorations as well.On episode #54, "The Roundabout" by Walker mingles with tracks from Dust On The Nettles, along with other folky favorites from the time period by Ramases and Mike Cooper. You will also hear brand new tracks from old favorites Night Beats and Klaus Johann Grobe, a sizzling jam from Columbus' Counter Intuits (featuring Ron House from Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments!), and more from The Lavender Flu double LP. Whether you love the rays of the August sun, or dream of a dank, air-conditioned pit, or you like long, languid jams, or dig snappy singalongs, there's something for you here. As always, thanks for listening!Random Old Records Podcast #54Released 08/08/16DOWNLOAD HERE1. Mike Cooper - "That's How"(Trout Steel, Dawn 1970)2. Ryley Walker - "The Roundabout"(Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, Dead Oceans 2016)3. Cian Nugent - "Shadows"(Night Fiction, Woodsist 2016)4. Ramases - "Hello Mister"(Space Hymns, Vertigo 1971)--The alternative society!5. Counter Intuits - "Rubber Gloves"(Monosyllabilly, Pyramid Scheme 2016)6. The Lavender Flu - "I Was The Sun/My Time"(Heavy Air, MEDS 2016)7. Night Beats - "Sunday Mourning"(Who Sold My Generation, Heavenly 2016)8. Klaus Johann Grobe - "Pure Fantasie"(Spagat Der Liebe, Trouble In Mind 2016)--More alternative society!9. Richard & Linda Thompson - "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight"(I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, Island 1974)10. The Owl Service - "The Skater"(His Pride. No Spear. No Friend., Horn 2016)11. Pentangle - "Springtime Promises"(Basket Of Light, Reprise 1969)12. Heron - "Upon Reflection"(Heron, Dawn 1970)13. The Occasional Word - "The Evil Venus Tree"(The Year Of The Great Leap Sideways, Dandelion 1969)14. Swanox - "The Whistler"(Duskrunner, Not Not Fun 2014)

Brainbeau are a Brisbane-based underground electronic duo featuring Chelsey Charlton and Kat Martin aka Chelvis Chesley and Kat Martian, aka Dust Storm Jogger and X in O, aka Emotional Hoon and El Crumple Dash. There are vestiges of classic Detroit and Chicago techno in their music, riffing off Warp and Rephlex, Not Not Fun and 100% Silk, muddied with a lo-fi aesthetic redolent of a slew of North American tape labels. Stu Buchanan talks to Chelsey and Kat about Brainbeau and Brisbane, the world they’ve created and now inhabit – a place where they take fun very seriously indeed.Originally broadcast on 'Out From Under' on Resonance Extra.

To be honest, one of the reasons I started doing Random Old Records Podcast again was because I was so close to episode #50 when I went on my hiatus. To be so close to that milestone when I gave it up never really sat well with me. Well, here we are, and I'll probably do another 50 before I'm done.In that spirit, there's no looking back in this episode. No compilation of the "best" songs I've ever played or the best in-between bits I've scavenged and put together. They're all supposed to be the best anyway, right? Soon all of the old episodes will be back online and then you'll be free to check those out any time. If you scroll down, you'll see that episodes #2 and #3 are back online for the first time in years. Episode #3 features a run of classic Dischord Records jams from Void, Embrace, and The Make-Up, while episode #2 takes a trip from The Rezillos to The Gun Club to The Lovin' Spoonful ("6' O'Clock", what a song!). Don't forget to check back frequently to the Podcast Archive below for more old episodes.Anyway, episode #50 contains nearly an hour's worth of songs that have never been played on Random Old Records before, kicking off with the opening track of La Sera's amazing 2014 album Hour Of The Dawn, and also featuring the opening track off the brand new La Sera album, which isn't quite amazing but is still really, really good. You'll also hear grungy punk jams from Fleabite, Sports, and Personal Best, classic power pop from Zombies frontman Colin Blunstone, a hot modern disco track from Pharoahs featuring Maria Minerva, and a closing monster of a track: Catwoman Eartha Kitt taking on "Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan and leaving no prisoners!Stream the episode in the player below, or go HERE directly to stream or download. As always, thanks for listening! I'll be back in a month with episode #51!!Random Old Records #50Released 04/01/20161. La Sera - "Hour Of The Dawn"(Hour Of The Dawn, Hardly Art 2014)2. Tacocat - "Bridge To Hawaii"(NVM, Hardly Art 2014)3. Personal Best - "The Mission/If You Meet Someone In Love (Wish Them Well)"(Arnos Vale, Specialist Subject 2015)4. Fleabite - "Missing Everyone"(T.T.Y.L. 7", Puzzle Pieces 2015)5. Sports - "Clean Jeans"(Sunchokes, self-released 2014)--Zombies Ate My Neighbors!6. Colin Blunstone - "She Loves The Way They Love Her"(One Year, Epic 1971)7. Foxygen - "How Can You Really"(...And Star Power, Jagjaguwar 2014)8. The Go-Betweens - "The Old Way Out"(Spring Hill Fair, Sire 1984)9. Dick Diver - "Beat Me Up (Talk To A Counsellor)"(Melbourne, Florida, Trouble In Mind 2015)10. Ultimate Painting - "Break The Chain"(Green Lanes, Trouble In Mind 2015)--The stud!11. Pharaohs ft. Maria Minerva - "Miraculous Feet"(Replicant Moods, 100% Silk 2013)12. Marie Davidson - "Excès De Vitesse"(Un Autre Voyage, Holodeck 2015)13. White Poppy - "Dizzy"(White Poppy, Not Not Fun 2013)--Vocal power!14. La Sera - "High Notes"(Music For Listening To Music To, Polyvinyl 2016)15. Charlie Hilton - "Long Goodbye"(Palana, Captured Tracks 2016)16. Bridget St. John - "Curl Your Toes"(Ask Me No Questions, Dandelion 1969)17. Margo Guryan - "Sunday Morning"(Take A Picture, Bell 1968)18. Lynn Castle & Last Friday's Fire - "The Lady Barber"(Soft Sounds For Gentle People Presents: Sounds Of She, Pet 2008)19. Eartha Kitt - "The Hurdy Gurdy Man"(Hello Everyone: Popsike Sparks From Denmark Street 1968-70, Grapefruit 2014)

Episode #46 of Random Old Records Podcast is absolutely LOADED front to back with killer jams. We're talking an hour of old and new synth-punk, power pop, punk rock, psychedelia, and straight-up rock n' roll from the likes of Mikal Cronin, Potty Mouth, Missing Monuments, MERX, Rockin' Horse, Informatics, Heavy Times, Roky Erickson, and MORE! If you're still listening and following along and enjoy what I do, then I offer my sincerest thanks. Hope you like this one, it was a blast picking out the tunes and putting them together.Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via iTunes, Google Play, or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the episode below. As always, thanks for listening!Random Old Records #46Released 12/13/2013DOWNLOAD HERE (Right-Click, "Save As")1. Potty Mouth - "The Gap"(Hell Bent, Old Flame 2013)2. Joanna Gruesome - "Sugarcrush"(Weird Sister, Slumberland 2013)3. Mikal Cronin - "Shout It Out"(MCII, Merge 2013)4. Ketamines - "Patients"(You Can't Serve Two Masters, Southpaw 2013)5. Heavy Times - "Night Manager"(Fix It Alone, HoZac 2013)6. Parquet Courts - "Descend (The Way)"(Tally All The Things That You Broke, What's Your Rupture? 2013)--Peter Ivers speaks7. Goldendust - "After The Smoke Grew Thick"(Goldendust, Night People 2013)8. Grave Babies - "No Fear"(Crusher, Hardly Art 2013)9. Informatics - "What A World"(Dance To A Dangerous Beat, Dark Entries 2013)10. Onyx System - "Future Fetish"(Dreams Are Not Dreams, ET Habit 2012)11. Merx - "Atlantic Painter Presents"(20000 Sq. Ft. Under The Sea, Permanent 2013)12. Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons - "Fantastic"(Screams To God, Dark Entries 2013)13. Group Rhoda - "Dust"(12th House, Not Not Fun 2013)--Peter Ivers speaks again14. Rockin' Horse - "Oh Carol, I'm So Sad"(Yes It Is, Sing Sing 2012)15. Games - "It's Just Impossible"(Games, HoZac 2013)16. The Dentists - "I'm Not The Devil"(Some People Are On The Pitch..., Trouble In Mind 2013)17. The Resonars - "Vanishing People"(Crummy Desert Sound, Burger 2013)18. The Last - "L.A. Explosion"(L.A. Explosion, Bomp 1979)19. Missing Monuments - "Dead To Me"(Missing Monuments, Dirtnap 2013)20. The Clap - "Get It While You Can"(Have You Reached Yet?, Sing Sing 2011)21. Roky Erickson & The Aliens - "I Think Of Demons"(The Evil One, Light In The Attic 2013)

So yeah, Random Old Records Podcast has been coming out like clockwork every second Wednesday of the month for like a year or so now, but my plans got derailed in the last few days. I had the playlist finalized on Sunday, then came home from work on Monday to find that my computer had taken a dump. LAME! After a couple hours of shopping online and several more hours of staring at progress bars, I had a brand new machine loaded with jams and cracked software and whatnot, so here's Random Old Records Podcast #34, approximately a day late and eight hundred dollars short. It's got roughly an hour of my favorite songs from the past month, and I'm hoping at least some of you faithful readers and listeners will enjoy them, too.Last month, I spoke a bit about being bored with new music, and judging by the stuff coming out lately, it seems like bands across the land are feeling the same way. My ears have gotten burned out by listening to nothing but lo-fi garage rock for awhile, and after hearing like fifty bands dealing in sounds of the sixties and seventies, the only logical place to go is the eighties. I just can't get down with all those sweater-vested weiners aping Talking Heads, but bands ripping off Depeche Mode, The Smiths, and The Cure get an immediate pass in my book. So this episode features a ton of classic tracks from the eighties by The Sound, The Comsat Angels, and Morrissey's band, along with songs by The Fresh And Onlys, Voxtrot, and Pernice Brothers that remind me of that post-punk time when bands slowed down and got all jangly and noisy and weird.Speaking of new music and old music, Captured Tracks has become my favorite label of the last few months. On this episode, you'll hear tunes from Soft Metals, Widowspeak, and Hoop Dreams, which bring back the sounds of the late eighties so perfectly that listening to their records might put you into a time warp. If you like dark dance, gothic country, or nervy college kid pop, then you're gonna love this stuff as much as I do. That Mike Sniper guy has a singular vision for his label that rivals Tony Wilson in his prime. Believe it!If you're a bit confused and are thinking "Well damn, I started listening to Random Old Records because it has a bunch of crazy garage rock n' roll jams every month" then I've got you covered, too. Random Old Records #34 finishes up with the best feral garage pop I've heard in the past month from the new Black Lips LP, The Happy Thoughts, Apache Dropout, and more! This one goes all over the place and back again, and I hope you have as much fun listening to it as I had putting it together!Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. Come back next month (or so) for another episode of Random Old Records. As always, thanks for listening!Random Old Records #34Released 08/11/2011DOWNLOAD HERE (Right-Click, "Save As")1. Tommy James and The Shondells - "Crimson And Clover" (Crimson And Clover, Roulette 1968) 2. The Sound - "Winning" (From The Lion's Mouth, Korova 1981) 3. The Comsat Angels - "Independence Day" (Waiting For A Miracle, Polydor 1980) 4. Hoop Dreams - "XCPR" (XCPR 7", Captured Tracks 2011) --Forbidden World. 5. Soft Metals - "The Cold World Melts" (Soft Metals, Captured Tracks 2011) 6. Zombi - "Slow Oscillations" (Escape Velocity, Relapse 2011) 7. Peaking Lights - "Key Sparrow" (936, Not Not Fun 2011) 8. Widowspeak - "In The Pines" (Widowspeak, Captured Tracks 2011) --The Mozzer speaks! 9. Pernice Brothers - "7:30" (The World Won't End, Ashmont 2001) 10. Voxtrot - "Raised By Wolves" (Raised By Wolves, Cult Hero 2005) 11. The Smiths - "Sheila Take A Bow" (Louder Than Bombs, Sire 1987) 12. The Fresh & Onlys - "Waterfall" (Play It Strange, In The Red 2010) --Amy Winehouse, 27, etc. 13. Black Lips - "New Direction" (Arabia Mountain, Vice 2011) 14. The Happy Thoughts - "One More Fish" (The Happy Thougts, Hozac 2011) 15. The People's Temple - "Axe Man" (Sons Of Stone, Hozac 2011) 16. Apache Dropout - "Sister Burnout" (Shot Down 7", Trouble In Mind 2011) 17. Ty Segall - "My Head Explodes" (Goodbye Bread, Drag City 2011)

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Another hour-long edition delving into Hip-Hop, Death Metal, Field Recording and a Not Not Fun label profile plus much more. Listen New Departures Episode 2 Subscribe via iTunes Second edition of the new podcast series from Sound and Music.read more

Another hour-long edition delving into Hip-Hop, Death Metal, Field Recording and a Not Not Fun label profile plus much more. Listen New Departures Episode 2 Subscribe via iTunes Second edition of the new podcast series from Sound and Music.read more

I'm not normally into comps but a few standouts have been released over the last few weeks. First up is the all femme-psyche comp My Estrogeneration on Not Not Fun, featuring blog mainstays Zola Jesus, US Girls, Valet, Pocahaunted, Tickley Feather, and Inca Ore, and a bunch of relative newcomers who haven't released much (or anything) or have been under most listeners radars--HNY, Topaz Rags and Talk Normal (feat. Blevin Blectum and Sumara Lubelski). Despite the wide range of vibrations picked up here, from the industrial hymns of Zola Jesus to the floating web of of HNY to the cavernous psych secretions of Topaz Rags, this comp flows easily from each track to the next. Highly recommended stuff, all of which is exclusive to this LP. Speaking of femme mystique, my ears were recently perked up by the Minneapolis via LA duo Tropic Of Cancer and their sadly out of print 10" EP, The Dull Age. Two tracks of dark 'n hypnotic chant-filled drones, most reminiscent of pre-dubbed-out Pocahaunted, and maybe with a sprinkling of Portishead. Camella Lobo, lead enchantress of the duo, has an excellent blog worth a regular peep here. Back on to the subject of comps, Secret Seven has just released an LP of unreleased tracks by various San Franciscan bands. Regular readers of this here blog will no doubt be familiar with The Fresh & Onlys, The Sandwitches, Sonny & The Sunsets, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall and Grass Widow, but there are plenty of tracks from newer or lesser known acts. A track by new band Exrays is the biggest surprise, which initially came off a little like a Tim Cohen (also featured on the comp) song. After a little research (and bugging Secret Seven for answers), I found that The Exrays are a new band lead by Ray's Vast Basement's Jon Bernson. According to his Wikipedia page we can expect an Exrays full length soon, and it'll feature contributions by--surprise, surprise!--The Fresh & Onlys' Tim Cohen. After a little more reading it looks like the two are also in a group called Window Twins, who released an LP in 2008 on Broken Twilight. This is all news to me, but looks like AQ is carrying this one. Anyways, In A Cloud is limited to 500 copies, so if yr a fan of any of the above I highly recommend tracking this one down.Sweet Rot has started the year off correct with 2 new 7 inches and their first full length LP. After two years of releasing a coupla satisfyin' 7 inches on labels like Severed Hands and Hozac, a 10 incher on Kill Shaman and a handful of cassettes, Richmond, Virginia's Nerve City finally get down to a full length release (pictured at top of the post), and it was well worth the wait. Comprised of recordings from 2007-2008, this collection is a varied, yet cohesive, batch of lurch 'n stomp-style rock reminiscent of early Velvets, dark 'n twangy surf rippers, and some rougher garage blues numbers. Fans of past Sweet Rot releases, particularly the now classic Meth Teeth 7 inch, oughta be lining up for this one asap. Absolute highest recommendation. Watch out for future NC releases on Sacred Bones, a split 7 inch with Flight on Needless and a split cassette with Florida's Tee Pee.Sweet Rot also launched two new 7 inches in the same week. Over the last few years Metz, France has been bustling over with releases by Anals, A.H. Kraken and Feeling Of Love, the latter of which drop this overdriven and infectious 7 inch and simultaneously release an LP on Kill Shaman. Not sure how a city of 125, 000 manages to come up with three exciting garage and punk bands, but if they keep pumping out high quality releases, I'll keep buyin´.Alabama's Amber Alerts whip up three tracks of lo-fi drum machine-driven synth punk with nicely placed low end bass grooves, which makes a bit of sense considering they share members with the like-minded Wizzard Sleeve. Though I wasn't quite as juiced on the recent Wizzard Sleeve LP on Hozac, it appears as if I can rest easy knowing the Amber Alerts are pickin' up the slack.Vancouver's own Von Bingen quietly released an LP late last year, and I was finally able to track down this ironically difficult to find record. Featuring Josh Stevenson (aka Magneticring, ex-Jackie-O-Motherfucker and Pink Mountaintops member, and head of the always-amazing FM Shades blog), Daniel and Jennie Pace Presnell (Feed and Seed Records), and Richard Smith, Von Bingen do some serious time traveling (backwards and forwards), visiting the ghosts of Kluster, Suicide and probably a bunch of them oddball records regularly seen on FM Shades. Walls of dense motorik kosmiche are explored here with the lead taken by some vintage synths that I'm not even gonna pretend I know anything about. You can track this one down at fine online retailers like Mimarogalu, Volcanic Tongue and Eclipse. Damn good company to be keeping. You can also buy this at their sporadic live appearances here in our fair city. Well worth tracking down.Olde English Spelling Bee dropped three LP re-issues of some recent "classic" cassette releases. Most notably is the released last year tape by Matrix Metals, which garnered many favorable reviews online, including Tinymixtapes ("the perfect soundtrack to the shittiest summer of your life") and Rose Quartz ("neo-primitive retro-futuristic FUN that oozes out of these claps and plastic beats), where it made it to number 1 on their best of '09 cassette list. I played it on the show several times and always got a positive, yet head scratching, response (fellow DJ Luke Meat said it "sounded like we had tuned into an alien pirate radio rave station"). All in all,pretty damn good responses for initially being limited to 100 copies. Check this recent video taken from the cassette/LP releaseMATRIX METALS "FLAMINGO BREEZE, PART 4" from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.Other reissues include a classic by James Ferraro (Skaters, Lamborghini Crystal, Vodka Soap) and a blinked-and-you-missed-it cassette from the mysterious Outer Limits Collective, who count Sam Meringue (aka Matrix Metals) as a member. All three are worth the dough and should be readily available at many of the above mentioned suppliers.In other local action, ETMS faves solars have released another fine cassette, this time issued on the newly launched Vacant Tapes label, run by the head of the always amazing Scrapyard Forecast and the metal and drone manipulator known as Empress. First release, though numbered as the second release on the label (when is that first one coming out??), is a lengthy, side-long synth and guitar drone-out. It never really blasts off, but leaves the listener gripping in dread. An excellent companion piece to solars continuously Pearl Harbor "Sunburn" Something About The Chapparalls 12" (Mexican Summer) 2010Zola Jesus "Heaven Sold You Back To Earth" V/A-My Estrogeneration LP (Not Not Fun) 2009Tickley Feather "For Rent" V/A-My Estrogeneration LP (Not Not Fun) 2009Tropic Of Cancer "Dull Age" Dull Age EP 10" (Downwards) 2009Nerve City "Disaster" s/t LP (Sweet Rot) 2010Amber Alerts "Somewhere Under A Shit Cloud" s/t 7" (Sweet Rot) 2010Feeling Of Love "School Yeah" School Yeah 7" (Sweet Rot) 2010Flight "Unpredicatable" s/t 10" (Kill Shaman) 2009The Fresh & Onlys "You Owe Your Life To The Streets" V/A-In A Cloud: New Sounds From San Francisco LP (Secret Seven) 2010Sonny & The Sunsets "Heart Of Sadness" V/A- In A Cloud: New Sounds From San Francisco LP (Secret Seven) 2010Exrays "Everything Goes" V/A-In A Cloud: New Sounds From San Francisco LP (Secret Seven) 2010Sun Araw "Live Mind" Sun Ark 7" (Not Not Fun) 2010Matrix Metals "Flamingo Breeze" Flamingo Breeze LP (Olde English Spelling Bee) 2009, **reissue of Not Not Fun CSFlashback Repository "untitled" s/t LP (Olde English Spelling Bee) 2009 ** reissue of Outer Limits Collective CS 20??Grippers Onesers Nothers "Alien Breeze Transistor" Live At Slimer Beach LP (Olde English Spelling Bee) 2009 **reissue of 2006 CS on New Age TapesVon Bingen "Eyeglasses Of Kentucky" s/t LP (Amen Absen) 2009solars "Eyes" Eyes CS (Vacant Tapes) 2010Blank Realm "Saint Tegram" Heatless Ark LP (Not Not Fun) 2010DOWNLOAD EPISODE 36 here (right click link, then Save As)

As expected, missed records from 2009 keep rolling in, with the Meercaz LP on Tic Tac Totally (reissue of Gulcher Records CD from early 2009) currently dominating the stereo. For those that are also late to the game on this one, Meercaz is based outta Portland, Oregon and even shares a member with one of my favorite bands from that city, Meth Teeth. Definitely one of those records that doesn't sound contemporary, but more like some long lost mid-70s proto-punk group hailing from some industrial city in middle America. Heavy riffage, tone deaf vocals and plenty o' weird analog synth bleeps and burps thrown in for serious left tiltage. Songs range from two-minute, fist pumping MC5-styled jams to seven-minute stormy industro-punk excursions. Highly recommended.Also late on the 2009 chopping block is the sprawling 2LP speaker shredder that is the new Shit & Shine. Over an hour of repetitive riffs that sound spewed through slashed amps and run over with a rusty lawnmower. 229-2299 Girls Against Shit also makes brief dalliances into dub, disco and, uhhm, race car humour(?). Yeah, anyways, fans of the early, damaged end of the Butthole Surfers and even the overkill fuzz-sludge of The Goslings are urged to pay attention.The painfully limited-run of the Siltbreeze 10 inch compilation Skulls Without Borders dropped in the mail slot last week, and it's an odd mix of folks trying to share the same airspace. Puffy Areolas make a nasty punk-splatter and give high hopes for their forthcoming Siltbreeze debut LP; Chickins, an FNU Ronnies off-shoot, put down a quirky number complete with raygun guitar shots; Dan Melchior plops down another grumpy blast of fuzz riffs and off-kilter guitar solos. The flipside, featuring Kurt Vile, Tommy Jay Band and Sic Alps, will be played next week...Heading back over to this side of continent, AFCGT (aka A Frames Climax Golden Twins), who have been given much love here on ETMS, drop their vinyl-only (!) release via Sub Pop next week, and I was lucky enough to be able to provide a sneak peek. Not much has changed from the Seattle juggernaut, hell, if anything, the 5 piece have beefed up their sound considerably on the more amped up tracks, and waded even deeper into their more experimental side. Not yr typical Sub Pop release, but we're pleased as all hell they've decided to put this one strictly to wax.Swimming up the coastline back to our city, Tassles sent over a few intriguing tracks of drifting bedroom electronic pleasantries. Tassles is better known in Vancouver as Sean Orr, who helms the shit detector on Beyond Robson's Morning Brew and fronts the recently reunited post-hardcore revisionists Taxes. Tassles sees Orr relaxing his jaw for a few and learning to relax a little bit. You probably won't see Tassles open for Taxes anytime soon. Either way, someone out there release fucking something from either of these...asap!Banana Head (aka Zully Adler, head of Goaty Tapes) also was kind enough to send some new jams my way. Brand new cassette of solo loner jams, absolutely perfect for these bland winter days. Goaty Tapes has come a long way since its inception a few years back; brand new tapes by HNY (awesome cassette on Not Not Fun reviewed here), Russian Tsarlag and Paradise Sisters, who have a forthcoming 12 inch due out soon on De Stijl. In the works are cassettes by El Jesus De Magico, Psychic Reality (split 12" with LA Vampires forthcoming for them on Not Not Fun) and Goaty will also head into LP territory with an Ancestral Diet full length. Get stoked, people.Hot off the heels of the much-loved seven inch, Brainbombs offshoot No Balls release a full length LP on Sweden's Release The Bats. And, of course, its in a disgustingly small pressing of 300 and sold out before it was even outta the pressing plant. Not far off the Brainbombs aesthetic of violent, hammering repetition, but, this time around with just drums and guitar, plus the occasional sax squlech and distance vocals, which may or may not be appallingly misogynistic. This meager pressing has annoyed me enough to share a ripped version with ya'll (courtesy of Soundeyet).Tassles "Brother Soft" unreleased mp3, 2010Indian Wars "Carol Anne" s/t 7" (Bachelor) 2009The Intelligence "Gettin' Classy" split w/ Unnatural Helpers 7" (Dirty Knobby) 2009Fair Ohs "Automatic" Obscene & Violent: A Tribute To GG Allin 7" (Italian Beach Babes) 2009Male Bonding "You Hate Me And I Hate You" Obscene & Violent: A Tribute To GG Allin 7" (Italian Beach Babes) 2009Chickins "Chickin Den" Skull Without Borders compilation 10" (Siltbreeze) 2009Dan Melchior "1000 Times" Skulls Without Borders compilation 10" (Siltbreeze) 2009Puffy Areolas "El Jita" Skulls Without Borders compilation 10" (Siltbreeze) 2009Meercaz "Unlust" s/t LP (Tic Tac Totally) 2009Shit & Shine "Have You Really Though About Your Presentation?" 229-2299 Girls Against Shit 2LP (Riot Season) 2009AFCGT "Black Mark" AFCGT LP (Sub Pop) 2010No Balls "Come Clean" Come Clean LP (Release The Bats) 2009Oneohtrix Point Never "Russian Mind" Russian Mind LP (No Fun Productions) 2009Afternoon Penis "...Jack Of Hearts" split w/ Eskimo King LP (Abandon Ship) 2009Banana Head "Take It Back" In The Tubs CS (Goaty Tapes) 2009Blue Sabbath Black Cheer & Nihilist Assault Group "untitled" Planned Obsolescence LP (Gnarled Forest) 2009