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2026-03-11 14:26:22 GMT

Lucinda Williams - KGSR-FM, Austin, Texas, December 3, 1991
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJPWTkHor5o
, the King of Zydeco. Every now and then, things just sound absolutely right.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/810800049197056000

2026-03-10 14:27:37 GMT

Ron Carter / Jim Hall / Tommy Flanagan Trio - Struggles, Edgewater, New Jersey, May 11, 1985
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gx96GzdN4M
: AD: I keep waiting for a Jim Hall renaissance to happen.Ron Carter: Me too.So let’s do our part to get the Hallaissance going. Here, we’ve got a May 1985 tape of Ron, Jim and ace pianist Tommy Flanagan at the hilariously named Struggles jazz club in Edgewater, NJ. I’m a huge fan of the Carter / Hall collab LP Alone Together, and even with Flanagan in the mix, the vibe here is similar: breezy and relaxed, maybe, but not without a deadly focus and a high level of sneaky virtuosity. No one out of the three is really taking solos; they’re moving together as one, circling the melodies, playing around with the rhythms. No struggles detected!
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2026-02-17 15:40:06 GMT

Clydie King (Unreleased 1969 LP)
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. Clydie probably should’ve written a book, she must’ve had plenty of stories to tell. Alas, she passed away in 2019. But some enterprising label should figure out a way to release this album of hers — it’s more than good enough for a wide audience.
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2026-02-09 15:37:11 GMT

The Perilous Fight – Vol. 1: Justice for All
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https://seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/the-perilous-fight-vol-1-justice-for-all
, supporting critical legal and humanitarian work for immigrants facing detention, deportation, and systemic injustice. A necessary cause, now more than ever. Some familiar names in here, some unfamiliar, but it’s all sounding excellent, eclectic and well worth your hard earned cash. Stay tuned for two more volumes!I’ll hand it over to the two Mikes for the final word: “This is not an ordinary benefit compilation. The Perilous Fight is a collective statement of solidarity—a response to the escalating rhetoric, intimidation, and violence shaping daily life in communities across the country. The contributors are everyday Americans using music to speak out against cruelty, authoritarianism, and the atmosphere of fear fostered by the current administration. This first volume is largely instrumental. These are artists are expressing their voice through their instruments.”
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2026-02-06 16:07:44 GMT

The Modern Lovers - Mercer Arts Center, New York City, January 1, 1973
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, and they were of such high-quality that I always wanted more. The complete recording, made by the legendary critic/A&R man Paul Nelson (who you can hear providing commentary at times), does not disappoint. In fact, it may well be the best overall OG Modern Lovers live performance we’ve got. As the above poster shows us, the gig was headlined by the then-ascendant New York Dolls, but apparently Johnny Thunders heard the Lovers soundchecking and refused to follow them. Thus, the band took the stage well after midnight. But Jonathan Richman, Jerry Harrison, Ernie Brooks and David Robinson (and maybe John Felice?) certainly don’t sound tired; rather, they’re revved up like the proverbial Roadrunner out on Route 128, delivering a powerful, inspiring 50-minute set chock full of classics. This is the good stuff, people, miraculously beamed in from the old world. <img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/987ab2168d53ae8e975b361db8bd3685/156f498d592df7fa-ac/s640x960/ccb57ab46b1eb7de6224e5f09402ace7a7791747.jpg
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2026-02-04 15:59:30 GMT

Winged Wheel - La Station Gare des Mines, Paris, France, January 20, 2026
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2anVS3wggQ
. It’s got all the stuff I’ve loved about previous WW releases, plus plenty of added attractions, exploring woozy shoegaze zones (woozegaze?!), getting into Murray Street-era Sonic Youth situations (hey, Steve Shelley is in the band, it comes naturally) and plenty more uncategorizable areas. It’s great, and as I say in the review, it really sounds like a band, individuals coming together for the greater good. And that’s what it’s all about, right? Winged Wheel just wrapped up their first European tour a few weeks back. They went hard, with more than a dozen dates in a row — no nights off! And judging from a nicely shot video from the Paris gig, it all paid off. The band soars effortlessly through the set, guitars intertwining, violin droning, rhythm section driving. The whole thing is capped off by a glorious version of Neil and Crazy Horse’s “Danger Bird,” flying above the city of light like a shadow on the sky.
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2026-01-22 15:57:23 GMT

Ralph Towner - Postaula, Bremen, Germany, March 12, 1974
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/fkcb7p6x4qi7sgc/1974-03-12+-+Postaula,+Bremen,+Germany.zip/file
One of the arts of playing in classical guitar is making it sustain and make it sound even more sustained than it really is. It’s really an art, and it’s very orchestral in that way, because you’re paying attention to dynamics. I would tune all 12 strings to different pitches, have not only just unisons or octaves. I try to make every note have a reason for existing. It’s really fun to put that all together. It’s magical but difficult.
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2026-01-05 15:29:12 GMT

Jessica Williams - Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987
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https://pre-echo.bandcamp.com/album/blue-abstraction-prepared-piano-project-1985-1987
An absolutely magical collection of lost recordings from pianist Jessica Williams (1948-2022). Released by the Pre-Echo label, Blue Abstraction gathers eight pieces recorded by Williams on her prepared piano, as she uncovers new tonalities, buzzing percussive elements, weird harmonics, beautiful melodies. An ideal mix of avant-garde approaches and pure playfulness; there are moments that suggest a collab between Thelonious Monk and John Cage. But most of all, you get a sense of Williams as a singular personality, a unique creative force. She described these recordings as “my self encoded on a chrome oxide surface [audio tape].” That sounds exactly right.
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2025-12-24 13:00:29 GMT

Doom & Gloom 2025
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Doom & Gloom 2025Wave goodbye! It’s been another year on ye olde Doom & Gloom From The Tomb … and when I say “olde” I mean it! I think that’s roughly sixteen years on the books, if you can even believe it. Outrageous. Whoever you are out there, I hope you get some enjoyment out of this little corner of the internet. Here’s a quick bootleg roundup from the past 12 months … https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/801372562277990400/bob-dylan-bangor-municipal-auditorium-bangor
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2025-12-22 15:28:34 GMT

The Far Sound - To Heart, To Earth
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https://thefarsound.bandcamp.com/album/to-heart-to-earth
You may have heard Portland, OR-based pedal steel guitarist Rick Pedrosa with Rose City Band, Abronia and Jeffrey Silverstein, among other PNW acts. Under the Far Sound moniker, Pedrosa lets his imagination go in a variety of directions — all of them pretty awesome. On the latest release, To Heart, To Earth, Morricone-esque desert noir soundscapes brush up against free-form drifts. From the latter category, I especially love “Reach Back and Grab Something,” the pedal steel / drums duet with Rose City Band’s John Jeffrey, the sonic equivalent of a tumbleweed rolling happily through a barren landscape. Far out sound.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/803646802304909312

2025-12-18 15:38:03 GMT

Luna - Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles, California, December 29, 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et64TVeFNZ4
— feels like a million years ago now, but it was just this past spring!)
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/803285010708922368

2025-12-15 15:27:01 GMT

Jake Xerxes Fussell & James Elkington - Rebuilding
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https://jakexerxesfussell.bandcamp.com/album/rebuilding
over the weekend and really enjoyed it. Shot in Colorado’s harsh/beautiful San Luis Valley and starring man-of-the-hour Josh O'Connor (who seems to be in every other movie this year, including the new Knives Out installment), it’s an understated gem, both quietly devastating and ultimately uplifting. And its soundtrack is an understated gem as well, made by Jake Xerxes Fussell and James Elkington, two longtime Doom & Gloom faves . You could place its simple, rustic ambiance alongside other rustic OST masterworks as The Hired Hand or Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid; similarly, Fussell and Elkington conjure up the lonesome, wide-open spaces of the west without romanticizing them or falling prey to cliche. Great as accompaniment to the movie, but also just as great all on its own.
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2025-12-11 16:02:21 GMT

Natural Information Society - Roulette, Brooklyn, New York, October 13, 2025
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https://roulette.org/event/natural-information-society-kalia-vandever/
: Once we play a piece live, more possibilities are revealed. It is very specific material with specific parameters. There are ways everyone’s encouraged to explore and use their sound and use their musicianship so that we can get to new places. Something I would like to mention, is that I wanted the band to be a forum where all of us as musicians could learn while we’re doing this process. So that it is not a static execution, but it’s a process of learning, ideally, every time we play. I think that’s part of what keeps the music vital.
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2025-12-10 16:20:46 GMT

Snock ‘n’ Roll - Adventures With Michael Hurley
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: What I’ve been struck by since his passing is not necessarily how many fans he had—that’s not surprising, especially given the mystique of the “outsider” artist—but how many friends he had. He knew people in every corner of the country who he wrote letters to, played music with, who were partners in crime, or who would show up when he needed a ride to the next gig, a home-cooked burrito, or a comfortable place to crash. To have such a prodigious music career-turned-lifestyle while simultaneously rejecting corporate support meant that he had to rely on these friend networks. Michael knew that, and was good to his people in return, sharing paintings, recordings, or recipes as an expression of his gratitude and friendship.<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/92508b80f8d23fc984517275e035e696/082e333a4865351e-6e/s640x960/e5ddaee3b37a1a634af1309f84d777fd46140408.png
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2025-12-05 15:53:33 GMT

A Is For Antelope - An ABC book for little phans
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) and a ticket was available … so I went! No, I haven’t since become a die-hard; I probably won’t go to the Sphere for nine nights next spring. But I did have a great time! It was kind of impossible not to. Maybe the best thing about it was what you can’t really get from tapes — the interaction and communication between band and audience. A stadium full of people who are exactly where they want to be, pushing their favorite band forward into the unknown. I found myself as entranced by the crowd as I was by the music, this mass of people moving ecstatically in real time. As Phish sang during their “Crosseyed and Painless” cover that night: “The feeling returns, whenever we close our eyes / Lifting my head, looking around inside.”
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/802108225096974336

2025-11-28 16:55:48 GMT

Stars of the Lid Forever
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https://starsofthelidforever.com/
, right? Brian McBride: How do we change the situation? I’m not really concerned by that. Steering culture is kind of a fool’s game. It seems like the more you try to push it a direction it slips away from you. I don’t really want to know what the kids know as long as those damn kids stay off my lawn. Do what you do because it matters to you not because other people should.
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2025-11-25 15:40:35 GMT

Brian Eno - New Depression Music
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https://we.tl/t-KXoGpKFxcm
: Can we grasp this sense of ourselves as existing in time, part of the beautiful continuum of life? Can we become inspired by the prospect of contributing to the future? Can we shame ourselves into thinking that we really do owe those who follow us some sort of consideration, just as the people of the nineteenth century shamed themselves out of slavery? Can we extend our empathy to the lives beyond ours? I think we can. Humans are capable of a unique trick: creating realities by first imagining them, by experiencing them in their minds. When Martin Luther King said “I have a dream”, he was inviting others to dream it with him. Once a dream becomes shared in that way, current reality gets measured against it and then modified towards it. As soon as we sense the possibility of a more desirable world, we begin behaving differently, as though that world is starting to come into existence, as though, in our minds at least, we’re already there. The dream becomes an invisible force which pulls us forward. By this process it starts to come true. The act of imagining something makes it real.
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2025-11-19 15:26:23 GMT

The Breeders - Capitol Theater, Olympia, Washington, November 3, 1992
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05lRCbwEIlM
wrote an excellent Kim Deal appreciation: “She is a special breed of person who is simultaneously extremely charismatic and extremely chill. In my experience, she is true to herself to the point of being almost a void — that is, she is void of the crap that the rest of us live by, and it is a striking way of being. One external sign of this is that Kim enjoys performing to the top of her bent, and the way she expresses that is, she smiles the whole time she does it. No one else in rock music does that, and as soon as you see it, you realize how much you’re enjoying yourself too. We all are, always, at the rock shows we attend, because that is why we attend them. And yet you wouldn’t think that from how most people act on stage: only Kim Deal has the honesty to exude that enjoyment physically, to beam it out so obviously, from every fibre of her being, to be met by the audience, its collective breast outstretched for the hug of her essence, its collective face now grinning from ear to ear.”
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2025-11-18 15:56:41 GMT

Sleeping Pill - CBGB, New York City, January 31, 1992
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https://sacramentomusicarchive.com/1992/01/31/yo-la-tengo-cbgb-new-york-city-1-31-92-xfer-from-1st-gen-audience-cassette/
) and “Sudden Organ.” In between, there’s an interesting drum-less “Barnaby Hardly Working” and an epic “Sunsquashed” drone, the band’s trusty Acetone organ buzzing mightily, sending shockwaves up and down the Bowery. It won’t put you to sleep, that’s for sure.
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2025-11-17 15:34:00 GMT

Melvin Gibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2
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https://melvin-gibbs.bandcamp.com/album/amasia-anamibia-sessions-2
Bassist/bandleader Melvin Gibbs takes a deep dive into the Electric Miles zone on Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2, drawing inspiration from Miles’ (and Teo Macero’s) pioneering 1970s work. Well-trod territory at this point, maybe, but Gibbs and co. find plenty of undiscovered areas to explore — and hey, the album features late/great guitarist Pete Cosey, who was one of the primary architects of of this sound. You’ll also hear keyboard legend John Medeski on a handful of tracks. Amasia isn’t about soloists, though; it’s more about the ensemble sound, the collective blend, how the grooves come together and subsequently break apart. Exciting, adventurous music that’s well worth your time/money.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/800476249932939264

2025-11-13 15:25:12 GMT

Patti Smith - The Roxy, West Hollywood, California, January 30, 1976
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPpLFWNOYug
, with cool bonus material that illuminates how it all came together.Still, I’m a little surprised the powers that be haven’t taken the opportunity to release some live recordings from the Horses tour in 1976, which saw the Patti Smith Group really emerge as a unique and powerful force of nature. The well-traveled boot Teenage Perversity & Ships in the Night, recorded at the Roxy in January is as good an example as you could hope for — a pristine FM broadcast of the band (plus a brief appearance from Iggy Pop!) and audience having what can only be described as a real good time together. Sacred, profane and everything in between, it’s a blast from start to finish. Patti Says: When I perform, I just sort of mingle everything that I’m into at the moment. About a year ago, it was the legend of Scheherazade and Patty Hearst. But it keeps changing all the time. I"m always on a tightrope trying to keep all the stuff together. I got Rimbaud in my blood as strong as James Brown … If you’re really relentlessly into something and you’re into sound, it gets to the point where it doesn’t matter whether you’re good or evil or dream or whatever, you get into this rhythm of sound and you just have to be great no matter who you are.
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2025-11-11 15:13:59 GMT

Keith & Donna Band - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, August 20, 1975 (Set 1 /…
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Keith & Donna Band - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, August 20, 1975 (https://archive.org/details/jg75-08-20.021672.kdb.psbd.goetz.t-flac16
also pointed me in the direction of a very fun Keith & Donna Band gig from the summer of 1975. Taking place at the Great American Music Hall very soon after the famed One From the Vault Dead show, it’s a loose, ramble-y affair with plenty of pals lending hands, including Jerry Garcia and Bill Kreutzmann. Two sets of long jams, endless boogies, soulful struts, with Donna presiding over it all, no doubt with a big grin plastered across her face.
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2025-10-30 14:42:16 GMT

Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters - Music Hall, Omaha, Nebraska, November 17, 1975
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/uju9hle16kf9cls/herbie75.zip/file
Let’s hear it for Herbie! Just about 50 years ago, Hancock and the Headhunters were touring behind the classic Man-Child, which would turn out to be their last LP together. The end of a very funky era — an era that had taken Herbie from the outer edges of the avant-fusion scene to the dead-center of the jazz-rock mainstream. On an excellent FM broadcast from Omaha, NE, he’s in full freedom flight, playing a bank of state-of-the-art keys and synths with drummer Michael Clarke, bassist Paul Jackson, guitarist Blackbyrd McKnight, percussionist Bill Summers and reedsman Bennie Maupin shadow his every move. Hang up your hang ups for an hour and get into it. Herbie Says: See, before I was concentrating on the music and trying to say, “Well, how can I make this music in such a way that people could get into it?” I was putting the music on the pedestal, and then trying to figure out a way that people could get into it. I was making that the thing. And I changed my whole idea, making the people the thing first and figuring out what music is going to do them the best and then start the music from there. That makes a big difference. That way you start it from the bottom. You’re starting from the basis of the importance of anything. When you talk about music, you’re talking about values anyway.
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2025-10-27 14:36:25 GMT

Patrick Shiroishi - Forgetting is Violent
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https://patrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com/album/forgetting-is-violent
I’ve been lucky enough to catch Patrick Shiroishi twice in the past few months. The first, at Denver’s excellent Ghost Canyon Festival saw the saxophonist in a trio with guitarist Chaz Prymek and drummer Thom Nguyen; even though it took place in a bookstore basement, these three musicians sent everyone soaring into the stratosphere. The next time around Shiroishi was all on his own, but he still made a massive sound, delivering a set that was raw, emotional and often downright sublime. “Sublime” is a good way to describe Patrick’s latest LP, Forgetting Is Violent — in the broader sense of the word. Beautiful, yeah, but also terrifying, awe-inspiring. The overarching theme of much of Shiroishi’s work is memory, bearing witness against the erasure of past horrors and tragedies. His piercing tones, overlapping voices and hushed whispers aren’t always easy to listen to, but they’re impossible to ignore. How do you battle against the current tide of forgetting? Make something unforgettable.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/798570090806247424

2025-10-23 14:34:06 GMT

Hüsker Dü - City Gardens, Trenton, New Jersey, May 11, 1985
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xdy05FeSYc
, a collection of absolutely ferocious early 1985 Hüsker Dü live recordings. One complete gig on their home turf at First Avenue in Minneapolis, plus another compact disc’s worth of onstage highlights cherrypicked from the next 12 months or so. I’ve been mainlining the promo for awhile now and I can faithfully report that the whole thing is, in fact, a miracle! The Dü was thankfully pretty well-documented via live recordings during their existence — while you wait for The Miracle Year, check out a performance from deep in the American heart of darkness … Trenton, NJ! As far as I know, the City Gardens venue was a legendarily debauched/debased spot, and Mould, Hart and Hart seem to be having a not-so-great time there; judging from their commentary at the end, they spent the whole set getting showered with gobs of spit from the audience. Fun! Nevertheless, they give these terrible Trentonians their money’s worth, and much more, raging and roaring almost nonstop through the new New Day Rising material alongside plenty of dips into their impressive back catalog. Love is all around — no need to fake it!
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/798207556823744512

2025-10-14 15:15:39 GMT

The Bert Jansch Conundrum - In Concert (Athens, Ohio, 1980)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1FuYAS78vQ
More Jansch! After Danny Thompson passed away a few weeks back, I had to go back to Avocet, the wondrous instrumental LP Bert recorded with Thompson and multi-instrumentalist Martin Jenkins in the late 1970s. It still sounds so good. I also wanted to revisit this very sweet hour-long performance, taped in front of a live studio audience in Athens, OH, featuring Jansch, Jenkins and bassist Nigel Portman-Smith — AKA the Bert Jansch Conundrum. It comes and goes on ye olde YouTube, but it’s up in its entirety for now! The whole thing is a delight from start to finish, it’s got a bunch of great moments: a killer “Ask Your Daddy,” a lovely rendition of Avocet’s “Bittern,” and best of all, a unique “Running From Home” with Jansch and Jenkins singing in a cool round, circling each other beautifully. Jenkins is interesting — a real virtuoso on violin and mandolincello. He even gets a few solo spotlights, including a dazzling medley of jigs and reels that gets everyone in the crowd going. Martin deserves to be better known … maybe he should’ve been in bands with better names than Dando Shaft and Hedgehog Pie?! Oh well!
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/797394799145648128

2025-10-02 14:32:50 GMT

X - Toad’s Place, New Haven, Connecticut, November 7, 1983
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Worth reading in full, but here’s an excerpt: “First time I saw them, somewhere in Hollywood, they seemed like the biggest rock stars who ever existed. There they were, John and Exene, locking in on those harmonies that felt like blood-soaked incantations and also specifically the opposite of whatever Fleetwood Mac was. D.J. murdering the drums. Billy playing his Gretsch with that silver jacket and his legs spread impossibly wide, unbreakably smiling and bugging his eyes out at random women, acting like Eddie Cochran if he was from Mars. The visceral, bone-deep reaction, whatever that thing is you feel in your gut, they created was unbelievable. The audience was moving as one life form. People were losing their minds to this band I listened to in the dark in another town. Something about this, something in here, is what I do now.”
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/796304940884688897

2025-09-30 15:20:22 GMT

Myriam Gendron in Paris
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65biC_KigV0
Spend an early spring afternoon in Paris with Myriam Gendron? Don’t mind if I do. This EAR FiLM production is a downright perfect 15-minutes of music and conversation — voice, guitar, fading Parisian sunlight … what more do you need? Myriam’s records have been a true gift over the past decade or so, if you’ve yet to get into them. But don’t take my word for it! Take these guys’ words for it! Damon Krukowski: When I first heard Myriam’s recordings, they sounded like Vashti Bunyan or another free spirit from the 1960s who seems to have been accidentally caught on tape while they were singing through life.Steve Gunn: Myriam’s music holds a remarkable weight and resonance, transcending any genre or timeframe. Her guitar playing, voice, and words are otherworldly, striking a stark balance of beauty and pain.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/796126738082054144

2025-09-25 15:18:35 GMT

Pentangle - Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, California, May 29, 1970
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RIP to the great Danny Thompson, the bassist who lent his singular talents to everyone from Nick Drake to Kate Bush and about a million others — a giant of 20th century music with a sound that hits you right in your soul. Danny was perhaps best-known as the always sturdy backbone of Pentangle; in tandem with drummer Terry Cox, he always brought such an incredibly rich and deep vibe to their performances, both in the studio and onstage. I’ll probably have more to say, but in the meantime, check out a nice (occasionally a little glitchy) KPFA-FM radio broadcast from the quintet at their early 1970s height, taking the Berkeley crowd from ancient folk ballads to less-ancient Mingus ballads. Listening to Pentangle is one of the great pleasures in life, as always, truly one of the best bands ever. Just sit back and revel in the 18-minute “Pentangling” that closes things out here — total bliss. Thirty years ago, before I ever even knew much (or any) Pentangle, however, I caught Danny playing with another talented Thompson — Richard — down in San Juan Capistrano. As I remember it, both of these dudes were having about as much fun as two musicians could have (legally, anyway), cracking each other up between songs … or even mid-song. Even when RT’s patented Doom & Gloom set in, the energy was absolutely invigorating and life-affirming. So long, Danny! <img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/e80962b2636dd2a61fe5512c928d4370/531569ea4363012e-5b/s640x960/82b759d99517737d65eab47aa0a3f9a1266d4fc7.png
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/795673641287368704

2025-09-22 14:34:03 GMT

Shelley Burgon - The In Between
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https://shelleyburgon.bandcamp.com/album/the-in-between
The Meditation Mount Auditorium in Ojai, California! I’ve never been there, but just the words have a relaxing quality. It’s there where Shelley Burgon took her acoustic concert harp a few years back to make The In Between. An entrancing, unbroken/un-amplified 56-minute performance, this is music that (as the title suggests) blurs the lines between the natural and the manmade worlds, finding almost perfect harmony. I say “almost” because you do hear the faint drone of an airplane at one point. Burgon’s playing is gorgeous throughout, minimal and spectral at certain points, lush and cascading at others. It’s the aural equivalent of a breath of fresh Topatopa Mountain air.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/795399047717470208

2025-08-29 14:28:19 GMT

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy, May 1, 1987
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/o144zobs9a2s4uj/neil+verona+87.zip/file
to see just how hard Neil was working, running all over the place, desperately trying to connect with his audience. Effort isn’t really what we look for in Crazy Horse, of course. We want it to be free-flowing, pure and elemental. But it’s fascinating to hear Neil and the gang sinking — and occasionally rising to the surface.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/793224360466022400

2025-07-24 14:40:17 GMT

Richard & Linda Thompson - Cambridge Folk Festival, July 1975
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https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/789963622061375488

2025-07-21 14:26:20 GMT

Music is a Message From Space
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https://corbettvsdempsey.bandcamp.com/album/music-is-a-message-from-space
Kicking off with a whispered a capella piece from the man from Saturn himself, Music is a Message From Space is a kind of Sun Ra mixtape compiled by the fine folks at Corbett vs. Dempsey. It’s appropriately wide-ranging, taking the listener on an interstellar voyage through sound. There are heavy hitters like Joe McPhee and Wolfgang Voigt — the latter’s multi-part reimagination of Lanquidity is very cool indeed. But it’s Jason Adasiewicz’s solo vibraphone medley of “Lanquidity” and “Where Pathways Meet” that takes top prize here, with flowing, luminous overtones gently leading us into unknown worlds.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/789690954015703040

2025-07-15 14:44:11 GMT

Rose City Band - The Miniplex, Arcata, California, March 5, 2025
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https://archive.org/details/rose-city-band-live-on-2025_03_05-at-the-miniplex-goudini-ca
. It’s going to be sweet.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/789148495499198464

2025-07-02 14:27:22 GMT

All One Song: “Lookout Joe” w/ Chris Forsyth
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https://www.talkhouse.com/all-one-song-chris-forsyth-on-lookout-joe/
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https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/787969676120555520

2025-06-18 14:52:58 GMT

All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast
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https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/06/18/all-one-song-a-neil-young-podcast-from-aquarium-drunkard-transmissions/
). I’ll also be kicking off a little Summer of Neil bootleg listening thing soon … because Neil Young bootlegs are going to get me through this summer.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/786702929047486464

2025-06-04 15:11:14 GMT

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk (Prof. Stoned Deluxe Edition)
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https://www.profstoned.com/2025/04/captain-beefheart-his-magic-band-safe.html
: Music is the most important medium of all of the art forms because for the kids it is the easiest to understand — it gets through to them. You can write a poem, and use the word “yellow.” OK. But if you put music to it, you add another depth to the word yellow, and this conjures up pictures in the mind — and that’s where it’s all at, in the mind.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/785435720998322176

2025-05-29 14:08:13 GMT

Jim O'Rourke - Banana Hall, Osaka, Japan, July 8, 1999
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https://archive.org/details/jim-o-rourke-live-at-banana-hall-1999-07-08
Since we checked out the Jim O'Rourke-produced Eiko Ishibashi masterpiece Antigone yesterday, here’s some of Jim all by his lonesome, playing a relatively rare acoustic set in Osaka way back in 1999. After a freeform sound collage intro, O'Rourke gives the Banana Hall crowd a nice sampling of tunes from that trio of late 1990s classics — Bad Timing, Eureka and Halfway To A Threeway. I think I heard Jim recently claim he doesn’t even own a guitar anymore, but the guy could pick with the best of them!A little over a year before this Osaka gig, I saw O'Rourke open for Sonic Youth in Los Angeles, and — correct me if I’m wrong, Jim Heads! — his entire set was a 30+ minute rendition of “Women Of The World Take Over,” Ivor Cutler’s mantra repeating ad infinitum, until the words stamped themselves on your skull. I was just a kid then, I didn’t really understand what was happening. But maybe I understand now?
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/784888174864465920

2025-05-28 13:05:46 GMT

Eiko Ishibashi- Antigone
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https://eikoishibashi.bandcamp.com/album/antigone
Have people been raving enough about Eiko Ishibashi’s latest LP? Maybe they have and I’ve just missed it. But allow me to rave for a minute here. Antigone is a total marvel, a jewel box of inventive production and arrangements, rapturous (sometimes Bacharachian) songcraft and cinematic moods. That latter aspect is a bit more heightened than on previous Ishibashi albums — she’s spent the last several years immersed in the soundtrack world, earning wide acclaim for the Drive My Car and Evil Does Not Exist scores. But it’s cool to have her back in a relatively poppier mode, whether it’s the swoon-y sounds of “Coma” or the ambitious moves of “Mona Lisa.” A rich, textured collection that goes deep into the mystery.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/784793648254566400

2025-05-23 13:00:31 GMT

David Johansen - Players Tavern, Westport, Connecticut, September 21, 1978
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/52gjiud42r0keku/wetransfer_david-johansen-audio-cd-graphics_2025-04-18_1745.zip/file
I kind of went through a Jungian phase of life kind of change thing where… I think towards the end of the Dolls, I had gotten, it sounds silly but… I think I’d gotten a little full of myself and thought 'oh man, I’m like a rock star…’ I think around the time when I was getting that thing together and writing those songs, in retrospect, I was going through this looking at myself and thinking like 'You’re really a kind of a fool. You should get down with the people a bit more.’ Which was kind of like our (the Dolls’) ethic when we started but then you start getting full of yourself or something… So I think I was trying to get a little right-sized. So, I just wanted to make an entertainment that was… I got into this thing where people would say 'You’re a rock star’ and I would say 'No, I’m a rock singer’ and stuff like that … That’s when I really paid my dues and learned my craft. With the Dolls, we essentially had this rarified existence because we exploded so quickly and started playing all over the world. With the Johansen band, we did go all over the world but also, I spent a lot of time in a van going from town to town and playing like… 300 nights a year. I was just in a working band and we played clubs and then we would have to open for all of these… “heavy mental acts” in hockey rinks. And we would just work, work, work, developing a bit of a work ethic.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/784340333369622528

2025-05-19 14:13:15 GMT

King Blood - Eye I Aye Ivy
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https://kingbloodplays.bandcamp.com/album/eye-i-aye-ivy
A very radical collection of righteous riffage from King Blood … AKA Ry? Details are scant on the man that the Petty Bunco label calls “your favorite unknown guitarist’s favorite unknown guitarist,” but when you’ve got sounds this good, who needs details? Eye I Aye Ivy delivers awesomely cronchy, spiraling grooves that feel a bit like listening to isolated tracks from Stooges genius Ron Asheton. Raw and relentless, but not without a canny sense of melody and imagination. Maximum hypnosis!
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/783982522167148544

2025-05-16 12:48:15 GMT

“The Diamond Sea” - Sonic Youth, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, May 15, 1995
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/nlnkifinmynkaob/06+Diamond+Sea.mp3/file
, with all kinds of vintage gear going up for sale — including “the Ludwig Phase II Synthesizer that [Lee] Ranaldo called ‘The sound of Washing Machine’s "Diamond Sea”’ and 'preposterously cool.’“ Good timing. It was just about 30 years ago this week that SY was debuting a bunch of Washing Machine tunes while opening R.E.M.’s Monster tour. So! Here’s one of the earliest live versions of that album’s epic closer "The Diamond Sea,” performed at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. Not quite as epic as it would get over the course of the next year or so — just under 10 minutes. But it’s already a luminous, haunted beauty of cracked mirrors and fragmented feedback. I was supposed to see both R.E.M. and Sonic Youth for the first time about a week prior to the Shoreline show down in Los Angeles. But Bill Berry’s mid-tour aneurysm meant that the Great Western Forum gig was pushed back to the fall — and Sonic Youth wasn’t on the bill by then (it was Luscious Jackson instead). Bummer! Oh well, Sonic Youth can make it up to me all these years later by releasing a ginormous 30th anniversary Washing Machine box set. Pretty please?
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/783705383357300736

2025-05-13 14:32:58 GMT

Grails :: The Sounds Behind Miracle Music
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https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/05/13/grails-the-sounds-behind-miracle-music/
to go in San Diego, he loved it) and I’m going to assume there are more dates in the offing for 2025. In the meantime, get lost in the light of the Miracle.
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/783440180817297408

2025-04-23 14:28:42 GMT

XTC + R.E.M. - B&L Warehouse, Athens, Georgia, April 24, 1981
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https://dbs-repercussion.blogspot.com/2025/04/r-e-m-x-t-c-one-night-in-athens-ga-1981.html
The excellent Repercussion blog has revved itself back to life in recent weeks — and they’ve been sharing some serious goodies. More jangle than you can wrangle! Recent must-hears include this long-ago double bill, which has been upgraded with a crisp SBD source for the R.E.M. portion. This is very early days for the band, of course; so early, in fact, that just a week prior, Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe had recorded their debut single, a little tune called “Radio Free Europe,” at Mitch Easter’s Drive-In Studio up in Winston-Salem, NC. As their 45-minute set shows, R.E.M. had plenty more material in their backpockets, churning with energy, enigma and imagination. That beat!R.E.M. would spend the rest of the 1980s touring the globe. XTC, meanwhile, were about to say goodbye to live performance altogether, thanks to frontman Andy Partridge’s crippling stage fright. But they don’t show any signs of weakness at the B&L Warehouse. This is hardcore power pop, mixing muscle with melody expertly. The rowdy crowd of Athenians love it. Music and Pandemonium!
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/781627972949032960

2025-04-17 14:51:27 GMT

Basic - Cactus Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 13, 2024
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<a href="http://www.milwaukeetaper.com/2025/03/basic-live-at-cactus-club-in-milwaukee.html" rel="nofollow">Basic - Cactus Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 13, 2024</a>Since we listened to a little Jeff Parker yesterday, let’s check out what his longtime Tortoise bandmate Douglas McCombs has been up to. Basic, the trio Doug is in with guitarist Chris Forsyth and percussionist Mikel Patrick Avery just released https://chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/dream-city-e-p
More to come apparently, which is great news, right?
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2025-04-14 14:22:56 GMT

Matt “MV” Valentine - Grateful
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https://wettuna.bandcamp.com/album/grateful
Keeping up with Matt Valentine’s various and varying visions can sometimes seem like a full-time job — but whenever I dip back in, I usually think that I should apply for this job! Grateful, a recent digital download seeks to answer the oft-asked question: What if Neil Young recorded Trans at Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Black Ark studio? With outrageously rubbery dub textures, vocoder vocals and slippery synths, these five tracks take us down the rabbit hole of MV’s always active imagination, revealing a teeming, headphone-friendly wonderland. More like Dank Tuna!
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/780812237428375552

2025-04-02 14:24:11 GMT

Allen Toussaint - Community Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 18, 1978
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/o0j71frvbwpm9b1/toussaint78.zip/file
Vintage live tapes of the genius Allen Toussaint are few and far between — so we gotta get into this 1978 New Orleans audience recording. Yes we can! With a friendly hometown crowd at his feet, Allen is mostly alone at the piano for the show, playing a relaxed set filled with some of his best tunes — “I’ll Take A Melody,” “Southern Nights” (twice!), “What Do You Want The Girl To Do?” — his playing and singing masterful/soulful. I don’t think Toussaint performed a ton during this era, but he sounds totally at ease onstage for these 90 minutes. To wit, there are several seemingly off-the-cuff medleys, classical themes blending seamlessly with Crescent City-style vamps. Most interesting is when Allen jumps over to electric organ for a wild, almost avant-garde improv, a drum machine rhythm wafting in at one point — and hey, is that the Close Encounters of a Third Kind melody drifting in at one point? I’ll take it!
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/779725151978897408

2025-03-31 14:35:01 GMT

Emergency Group - At Westbeth
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https://emergencygroup.bandcamp.com/album/at-westbeth
Emergency Group started out strong a few years back, but seriously — this Brooklyn-based collective just gets better with each new release. At Westbeth, the latest EG cassette/digital offering, sees the quartet climbing to new heights of improvisational interplay, streamlining their approach without losing an ounce of raw vitality or exploratory attitude. While these musicians are clearly comfortable with one another, they’re not interested in coasting, as rollicking keys bounce off scintillating guitar work, the rhythm section driving things along without falling into predictable grooves. The mellower, more melodic moments are great, too; there’s a playfulness and joy to this music, showcasing a Group at the top (so far, at least) of its game.
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2025-03-17 13:02:56 GMT

The Anchors - Black Soul
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https://matsulimusic.bandcamp.com/album/black-soul
A South African band from the early 1970s picking up transmissions from Memphis? Sign me up. The Anchors’ Black Soul is drenched in that classic Stax sound — lean, mean and gloriously funky — but with an added Johannesburg flavor that makes for a magical half-hour. Recently reissued and remastered by the expert diggers at Matsuli Music, it’s a must-hear, packed with sweet horn stabs, endlessly grooving rhythms, organ swells and tasty guitar.
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2025-03-11 15:37:36 GMT

TrummorsWolf 2025
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TrummorsWolf 2025Since we mentioned Trummors’ contribution to that Relatively Clean Rivers tribute yesterday, it’s a good time to mention this — the https://trummors.bandcamp.com/album/5
: “Further slightly fried country rock from Trummors, masterfully delivered and sensitively crafted. David Lerner and Anne Cunningham aren’t out to reinvent the wheel with their fifth LP; instead, they’re finding interesting and personal ways to take a tried-and-true landscape and explore its every river, canyon and summit. The results are quietly spectacular.”
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2025-03-07 15:27:43 GMT

“Kicks” - Lou Reed, Palais des Grottes, Cambrai, France. March 12, 1975
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2025-02-24 15:29:12 GMT

Emily Robb - Live at Jerry’s
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https://emilyrobb.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-jerrys
More radical solo electric action from Philly guitarist extraordinaire Emily Robb. Armed with an amp, an axe and a looping pedal, she’s like a one-woman VU bootleg, effortlessly / awesomely channeling the raw/beautiful skronk of Lou’s freakiest moments from back in the day; and hey, like a good live “Sister Ray,” Live at Jerry’s clocks in at just about 24 minutes. And, like a good live “Sister Ray,” it’ll leave you exhilarated and exhausted, but somehow still clamoring for more.
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2025-01-31 15:47:52 GMT

Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm (The Never Ending Tour Years)
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/ff4oi1ewu9grgw7/shelters.zip/file
stretching back to that ragged/glorious Rolling Thunder arrangement, but I’m focusing in on the Never Ending Tour years, seven versions that are all pretty radically different — a creature void of form! The mythopoetic “Shelter” is not exactly a greatest hit, but it’s one that Dylan never sleepwalks through, no matter what the era. He always seems to find a new angle on it, whether in the musical presentation or his vocal delivery, each one conjuring up another lifetime. A song of love and devotion on the face of it, but always weirder than you think — what other love songs have lines about being hunted like a crocodile? Ravaged in the corn?! 1988: I don’t think Johnny Cash ever covered “Shelter From The Storm” but here’s a readymade arrangement for him and the Tennessee Three. Dylan’s vocal is suspicious — “You wanna give me shelter from the storm? What is that, a threat?”1991: An almost comically revved up rendition, Bob dispatching the verses in rapid-fire fashion. It actually sounds like he might slip into “The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.” If the Feelies ever need to play “Shelter,” they can take notes here. 1995: A guitar-less, flu-ridden Dylan delivers a breathtaking performance in Prague, floating over Bucky Baxter’s pedal steel at the start and building into one of the most open-hearted vocals of his life. Bob himself can barely believe it. 2000: The “Love and Theft” lineup gets a crack at “Shelter,” and no surprise, it’s a lovely, elegant version, swelling in all the right spots, coaxing a restrained but beautiful reading from Dylan. 2005: A slow-but-steady train arrangement, with some inspired harmonica and piano work from Bob and sterling solos from the then-new Modern Times band. The singing is pretty wolf-y, but it works. 2010: Things get funky, with George Receli laying down a beat that might be at home on a mid-70s Meters record, minimalist breakdowns and Dylan’s roller-rink organ. It’s awesome, with Bob turning the song into a shaggy dog story, his phrasing hilarious. 2015: “Shelter” hasn’t been played since ‘15, and fittingly, its final (for now) form has an elegiac vibe in keeping with the Sinatra years. With Receli providing subtly threatening thunder clouds in the distance, this is designed for a fairly boozy Irish wake. Beauty walks a razor’s edge.
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2025-01-24 15:40:06 GMT

Garth Hudson - Our Lady Queen Of The Angels
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uXUVhDw7ZQ
). It was reissued on CD in the mid-00s, but that seems to be way out of print — someone should put it out on vinyl, maybe? With Maud Hudson and Richard Manuel adding wordless vocals, it’s a celestially weird trip … and pure Garth.
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2025-01-20 15:23:15 GMT

Tropical Fuck Storm - Inflatable Graveyard
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https://tropicalfstorm.bandcamp.com/album/tropical-fuck-storms-inflatable-graveyard
This may come as a shock, but I love a good live album. And Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard is a good live album. Really good. Recorded in Chicago in 2022 and recently released by Three Lobed, it captures the delightfully named Australian quartet in their natural habitat. There’s plenty of the raw, wiry energy that TFS has become renowned for, but it’s not all just blowouts and rave-ups; this is a band that can be devastatingly precise and economical when they need to be — and also highly melodic, as well. Groovy, even. The Clash might be the first comparison you reach for, but I kept thinking of early B-52’s, too. I’m sure it’s no substitute for actually being there, but this Fuck Storm will still blow you away.
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2024-12-10 15:20:10 GMT

Brian Eno - Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan (New York 1980-1981)
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. “The word ‘mediaeval’ was a sideways allusion to an experience of culture shock and stimuli overload in Chinatown, where his senses were assaulted by strange smells and sounds. Eno decided that to survive in the city he needed to imaginatively transform the place into something less overwhelming; after all, he was a Suffolk native raised amid the 'aloneness’ and 'very slow pace of things’ that characterized that sparsely populated coastal region of eastern England. The idea of New York as a 'strange, medieval, huge complex town in the middle of nowhere… suddenly made the place tolerable for me. You can easily live in New York and just see the mess of it. I wanted to make it mysterious again.’”<img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/220c04d2b4b865af2db4049521440dcf/71ea525ea73c6ea0-e0/s640x960/58be8a229452599dea3d71839c438712e6c08bf3.png
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2024-10-24 14:15:04 GMT

Lou Reed - October 1974
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— he sounds like he’s having a great time onstage, whether dispatching the hits (with plenty of nasty asides) or jamming on some rarely played Sally numbers. The roaring version of “Kill Your Sons” is definitive. Definitive, I say! <img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/29b8e39376c9c445092ffc8d0a176a3d/ff098ba849e9f4a6-5c/s640x960/c0196781096aced94e8911b5cc51bdddb2a3db60.jpg
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/765229063650557952

2024-10-14 14:26:06 GMT

Golden Feelings - Be Healed
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https://goldenfeelings.bandcamp.com/album/be-healed
Further ambient loveliness from Dustin Krcatovich, who makes sound under the Golden Feelings moniker. I had the good fortune to catch Dustin doing his thing live this past summer and — as the the title of his latest release suggests — it was a restorative, rejuvenating experience. Golden Feelings music, it turns out, is “tuned to 432 hz, a very subtle shift from the western standard of 440 hz which is nonetheless said to promote mental health and alignment of the chakras.” So yeah! Think Stars of the Lid, think Bitchin Bajas in yoga mode, think blissful, sun-kissed clouds. Stressful times call for healing sonics.
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2024-09-11 14:53:33 GMT

Guided By Voices - Canal Street Tavern, Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 2, 1994
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, I think. That’s where a 15-year-old had to go for these things back then, kids! Nothing too huge, just a staff mention here, a single review there. Charles Aaron reported: “GBV singer-songwriter Robert Pollard writes jittery, surging, sideways tributes to John/Paul, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Ray Davies, et al, like a teenager in full flush.” Sounded enticing! Then there was Jim Greer, in his A Year In The Life of Rock ‘n’ Roll column, closing out a long musing on the recently departed Kurt Cobain with this: “I listen a lot these days to 'Exit Flagger’ by Guided By Voices, an amazing song written by 37-year-old schoolteacher Robert Pollard in the middle of nowhere, where I live too, like most people, without a whole lot to go on. I quoted part of the lyrics at the beginning of this piece because however Pollard intended the song, it’s come to mean a lot more to me since Cobain’s death. The song’s lyrics end on a tag line after the chorus, which I have never been able to decipher properly. Just before the guitars begin their quick, cathartic crescendo to the fadeout, Pollard can be heard singing either 'Promise to lead you,’ or 'Promise to leave you.’ Or maybe both. So far it’s the closest thing I’ve come across to a clue in all this mess.” Oddly, Greer would’ve been able to ask Pollard what those lyrics were very soon; the writer joined GBV as bassist sometime in the summer of '94. He was also engaged to Kim Deal! Jim was leading some kind of indie rock charmed life, it seemed (of course, him and Kim never got married and he didn’t last all that long with Pollard and co., but hey). And what about me?! Well, after reading all of this and more, I finally came across a copy of Bee Thousand that fall at Go-Boy Records in Redondo Beach and took a chance — I don’t think I’d heard a note of Guided By Voices yet. And though I was confused at first when I dropped the needle on that bright-red vinyl, by the end I was more or less head over heels. It’s hard to re-create in my mind the weird, mysterious beauty of hearing that LP for the first few times, trying to figure out what was going on, but I know it unlocked something. Parallel lines on a slow decline, the story of our lives. Anyway, here we are 30 years later, and I’m listening to GBV play a typically rowdy hometown show that’s packed with Bee Thousand tunes, plus plenty of Alien Lanes tunes (then called Scalping The Guru, as Bob notes), alongside a host of classic numbers that still sound like they’ve been beamed in from some other, better universe. “Guided By Voices are fucking pussies!” Pollard exclaims bewilderingly in between songs. Hell yeah they are.
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2024-09-10 14:51:37 GMT

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 4, 1982
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/zz03en38lgxh5ms/petty82.zip/file
In the final analysis, I’m afraid, it’s all down to what’s on those records and what you put out at the shows. Sometimes it’s easy and sometimes it’s painful but you’ve got to try and evolve your art because you yourself get bored with it if you don’t. And once you get bored with it you might as well just be a plumber, cause it’s a miserable fuckin’ gig if you’re bored.
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2024-09-09 14:46:21 GMT

JPW - Raw Action On Route
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https://fortlowell.bandcamp.com/album/raw-action-on-route
A great writer/editor/podcaster/dude — Jason P. Woodbury is definitely all of those things. But he’s also slowly but surely building a beautiful sound world as JPW. This short-but-sweet EP is like JJ Cale and Cass McCombs going on a long desert road trip with no particular destination in mind. Lonesome drum machines, drift-y vocals, burnt guitar lines — the good shit, as we like to say. And hey, another great dude Chris Schlarb (Psychic Temple/Big Ego Records) shows up to lend his skills to a dank ‘n’ dubby remix of “The Road That Knows No Law.” My only complaint for this one is that it should go on for at least 10 more minutes.
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