“Morning Terrors Nights of Dread”, Shipla Ray

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Shilpa Ray is an American singer-songwriter from Brooklyn, New York with a blues punk sound. Her music has been compared to Blondie, The Cramps, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins and her singing has been compared to the style of Patti Smith, Nick Cave, and Ella Fitzgerald. Ray is notable for combining an Indian harmonium with a "big-voiced blues-rock howler" vocal approach. Her eponymous band signed a record contract with Northern Spy Records and has toured internationally.

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“Portland Oregon”, Loretta Lynn feat. Jack White

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Loretta Lynn is an American singer songwriter. In a career which spans six decades in country music, Lynn has released multiple gold albums. She is famous for hits such as "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "One's on the Way", "Fist City" and "Coal Miner's Daughter" along with the 1980 biographical film of the same name.

Lynn has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music, including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and an individual artist. She is the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade (1970s). Lynn has scored 24 No. 1 hit singles and 11 number one albums. Lynn continues to tour, appear at the Grand Ole Opry and release new albums. 

Van Lear Rose is the forty-second solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on April 27, 2004, by Interscope Records. The album was produced by Jack White, then of the White Stripes. 

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“ Homer”, Miracle Legion

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Here is a great song for the end of baseball season. Miracle Legion is an American college rock band formed in 1983 in New Haven, Connecticut. They earned modest renown, especially in their native New England region, but also in the UK, where they were feted by music media such as NME and Melody Maker. 

The original lineup consisted of singer/guitarist Mark Mulcahy, lead guitarist Ray Neal, drummer Jeff Wiederschall, and bassist Joel Potocsky. In their early stages they received frequent comparisons to R.E.M., more for their presence and overall sound than for their lyrical content. Other than a few similar-sounding songs, the respective bands' sounds were largely dissimilar lyrically and musically, and as time passed, the comparisons became less valid. Their first EP, The Backyard, was financed by Brad Morrison and released on the Bridgeport, Connecticut co-op label Incas Records in 1984 and became a college radio hit.

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“Sit Down Meal”, Dry Cleaning

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Who doesn't have a little dry cleaning in their life? When Lewis Maynard, Tom Dowse and Nick Buxton – old friends whose previous bands had crossed paths in London – united to belt out some Deftones bangers, however, it proved to be the unlikely catalyst to start a new band together. 

The trio spent the next few months writing and rehearsing the songs that would ultimately become Dry Cleaning, perfecting their sweet-and-sour mix of acerbic post-punk and the kind of bass-heavy melodies that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Postcard Records compilation.

All the band needed now was a singer – presumably none of the trio had sufficiently nailed it on the night in question – and an answer soon presented itself in the form of Flo Shaw, with whom Tom had both studied and worked alongside, first as art school students at Royal College of Arts and then university lecturers.

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“Take Back Your Letters”, Tommy Keene

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Sometimes pop perfection can be a fast sled ride to oblivion. This tune is a slayer. Tommy Keene (born Thomas Clay Keene; June 30, 1958 – November 22, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for releasing critically acclaimed rock & roll/power pop songs in the 1980s. He has a longtime cult following among fans of the musical genre of power pop. If you like this, there is a gold mine waiting for you.

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“Jesus Chrysler Drives a Dodge”, Screaming Blue Messiahs

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The Screaming Blue Messiahs were a rock band, formed in 1983 in London by guitarist and singer Bill Carter, bass player and backing singer Chris Thompson and drummer Kenny Harris. The group emerged in the wake of the pub rock and punk scenes that had been very predominant on the UK capital's live music circuit during the late '70s/ early '80s. The band, a classic power trio, was active between 1983 and 1990 and released three major label LPs. They toured extensively throughout Europe, North America and Australasia, garnering wide critical acclaim for their aggressive blend of rhythm and blues, punk and rockabilly. 

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“Fools Gold”, Graham Parker

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Graham Parker (born 18 November 1950, Hackney, East London) is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead singer of the British band Graham Parker & the Rumour.

Heat Treatment is the second album by rock and roll singer-songwriter Graham Parker and The Rumour. A close follow-up to the debut album, Howlin' Wind, Heat Treatment was well received by critics and contains signature Parker songs like the rollicking title track, "Pourin' It All Out", and "Fool's Gold". "That's What They All Say" is a Dylan-esque putdown from a realist perspective, while "Turned Up Too Late" was perhaps Parker's most emotionally mature composition to date. "Black Honey" is a dark, downcast sequel to the debut's upbeat first track "White Honey". From 1976.

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“The Aughts”, Flat Worms

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2020: world in flames, deserts in permafrost, everyone in their own corners, looking down into their hands. What’s happening isn’t working, but Flat Worms’ have hardened their post-punk/psych sound, and are out there, playing to change minds at all times. Recorded at Electrical Audio with Steve Albini, they fight the cold realities on Antarctica. 

Released April 10, 2020.

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“Little Dead Bodies”, Algebra Suicide

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In the fall of 1982, at a reading at Columbia Squires, Hedeker publicly accompanied Tomkiw’s poetry for the first time. It was a rudimentary setup, with Hedeker providing minimally amplified washes of sound on a somewhat glitchy Vox Guitar Organ. This experiment soon coalesced into an actual band. Their name, Algebra Suicide, came from a line in the poem “Recalling the Last Encounter.” It was, from the very beginning, envisioned as a vehicle for Tomkiw’s poetry; Hedeker’s intention was to bring interesting accents and color to the poems themselves.

Tomkiw and Hedeker formed the label, Buzzerama Records, and in the winter of 1982 released their first 7” EP True Romance At The World’s Fair. Algebra Suicide’s first public performance was Labor Day evening 1983 at the West End Club. The song “True Romance at the World’s Fair” was selected by the New York-based new wave magazine Trouser Press for inclusion on its trailblazing 1983 compilation, The Best of America Underground.

Tomkiw and Hedeker spent the better part of that year developing and recording new work. Shows were infrequent; they viewed performances much more as special events than as part of a regular gigging schedule. In 1984, Algebra Suicide released its second EP, An Explanation for That Flock of Crows.

Momentum and interest were gathering behind Algebra Suicide and crucially for Tomkiw’s identity as a poet, nearly all the critics recognized the fundamental poetic aspect of the project. Tomkiw was regularly credited as a burgeoning, successful poet and the nature of the songs as poems was central to critical appreciation of the band.

In 1985, Algebra Suicide released their debut album, Big Skin, on the label Cause and Effect. Its format represented the firmly dual nature of Algebra Suicide — a cassette of thirteen songs paired with a chapbook presenting thirteen poems in the same running order.

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“I can be Killed”, Big Black

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Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun. In 1985, Pezzati was replaced by Dave Riley, who played on Big Black's two full-length studio albums, Atomizer (1986) and Songs About Fucking (1987).

Big Black's aggressive and abrasive music was characterized by distinctively clanky guitars and the use of a drum machine rather than a drum kit, elements that foreshadowed industrial rock. The band's lyrics flouted commonly held taboos and dealt frankly—and often explicitly—with politically and culturally loaded topics including murder, rape, child sexual abuse, arson, racism, and misogyny. Though the band's lyrics contained controversial material, the lyrics were meant to serve as a commentary or a display of distaste for the subject matter. They were staunchly critical of the commercial nature of rock, shunning the mainstream music industry and insisting on complete control over all aspects of their career. At the height of their success, they booked their own tours, paid for their own recordings, refused to sign contracts, and eschewed many of the traditional corporate trappings of rock bands. In doing so, they had a significant impact on the aesthetic and political development of independent and underground rock music. 

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“Nu Complication”, Disheveled Cuss

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Nick Reinhart, guitarist, and singer of cult favorites Tera Melos has created a new project under the moniker Disheveled Cuss. The songs live somewhere in-between early Weezer and Teenage Fanclub with a heavy 90's indie rock influence. The self-titled debut album Disheveled Cuss is an accomplished new turn and an exciting indicator of things to come from Nick Reinhart.  

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“Coffin”, Eagulls

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Eagulls were an English rock band, formed in Leeds in 2010. The band consisted of Mark Goldsworthy (guitar), Henry Ruddel (drums), Liam Matthews (guitar), Tom Kelly (bass), and George Mitchell (vocals). 

The ferocious 5 piece bands, Eagulls based in Leeds, England are pleased to share their 5 track EP on Canada’s prestigious punk label Deranged. A few lucky folks have been able to catch the band’s European shows. The shows received high accolades as some of the most thrilling and visceral performances ever. EAGULLS has shared the stage with Iceage, Milk Music, Ceremony, and Fucked Up. The five tracks - “Coffin”, “Moulting”, “No If’s, No Buts”, “Cripple” and “Still Born”; Drawing from a wide variety of influences, EAGULLS manage to create something new, while still paying homage to classical punk.

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“Young American medley”, Bowie and Cher

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Somethings should not be explained. From 1975. 

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“Desire”, Dehd

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Dehd is a three piece indie rock band from Chicago formed in 2015. The band consists of members Emily Kempf (vocals, bass guitar), Jason Balla (vocals, guitar), and Eric McGrady (vocals, drums). The creation of the band in 2015 is a result of Emily Kempf and Jason Balla's desire to go on vacation at the beginning of their romantic relationship in 2015. Balla and Kempf, who had been musicians with Chicago-area bands NE-HI and Lala Lala, respectively, reasoned that going on tour would be the best justification for travel. Later, Balla and Kempf recruited their mutual friend Eric McGrady, a first-time drummer, in order to socialize with him. 

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“Snake In The Grass”, The Black Angels

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The Black Angels are an American psychedelic rock band from Austin, Texas. Formed in May 2004, they took their name from the Velvet Underground's "The Black Angel's Death Song." They have released five studio albums and one compilation album. 

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“Hocus Pocus”, Focus

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Is it wrong to like this song? I mean it has Dutch yodeling. And it was a big radio hit. Anyway, sometimes an instrumental. Focus are a Dutch progressive rock band formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by keyboardist, vocalist, and flautist Thijs van Leer. The band has undergone numerous formations in its history. Since December 2016, it has comprised van Leer, drummer Pierre van der Linden, guitarist Menno Gootjes, and bassist Udo Pannekeet. Past members include guitarist Jan Akkerman, drummer Hans Cleuver and bassists Martijn Dresden, Bert Ruiter and Bobby Jacobs. They have sold one million RIAA-certified albums in the United States.  

After the addition of Akkerman to van Leer's rock trio in late 1969, the band named themselves Focus and were the pit band for the Dutch production of the rock musical Hair. Their debut album Focus Plays Focus (1970) gained little attention, but their follow-up album Moving Waves (1971), and its lead single "Hocus Pocus", earned the band international recognition. Their success continued with Focus 3 (1972) and Hamburger Concerto (1974), the former containing their second hit single, "Sylvia". After two additional albums recorded with various musicians, Focus dissolved in 1978. 

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“35a9”, John Bender

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Perhaps one of the most shadowy, mysterious statistics from the early-’80s experimental music underground, John Bender released 3 LPs and many cassettes of cool, sparse, abstract synth pop music that afterwards became the ultimate goal for aficionados of “minimal synth” or “minimal influx” music. Blessed in 1950 in Nuremberg, Germany, Bender relocated often as a kid, ultimately settling in Cincinnati. Motivated by experimental rock and roll luminaries like the Velvet Underground as well as the Motorik rhythms of Krautrock groupings like Can, but with a restricted supply of digital instruments readily available, Bender began documenting experimental synth pop music during the middle-’70s. He released his debut LP, I Don’t Keep in mind Right now/I Don’t Need to speak about It (which presented a cover of Faust’s “It’s a Rainy Day time Sunshine Woman”), by himself Record Sluts label in 1980. Plaster Falling adopted in 1981, as well as the aptly entitled Pop Surgery made an appearance in 1983. Bender also participated inside a overall performance project known as Johnny Vortex along with performers Jason Tannen and Kate Gallion; they released a tape in 1986. His recordings consequently obtained a cult pursuing among record enthusiasts and university radio DJs. His LPs have already been bootlegged, and unique copies possess fetched extravagant amounts within the secondhand marketplace. German label Vinyl-on-Demand finally granted Bender’s music the official reissue in 2012 using the release from the seven-LP package set Remembrances of Mindless Mechanised Monologues: 1976-1985.  

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“Alien I.D.”, Kicking Giant

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Rachel Carns' first band was Kicking Giant with fellow Cooper Union student Tae Won Yu, with whom she played drums and sang from 1990–1995. Their first show was in the storefront window of a Brooklyn junk shop; Carns stood up and played just one drum, a floor tom. Kicking Giant played around New York City and the northeast with bands like Codeine, Uncle Wiggly, and fellow "love-rockers" Sleepyhead; Carns continued to expand her stand-up kit, building around the central floor tom, anchor to Yu's whirling guitar and bedrock of their unique sound. Live, their largely improvised mash of punk, free jazz, sugar-candy pop, and pure poetry meant that Kicking Giant never played the same set, or even the same song, twice. I think Carns had left by the time they made this fantastic record.

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