#vin du select qualitite

[one-track-daily]

Chuck Johnson Riga Black (2017)

From the album: Balsams (Vin Du Select Qualitite / Thin Wrist Recordings / Tak:til)

[noloveforned]

no love for ned on wlur – april 9th, 2021 from 5-7pm

artist // track // album // label hop along // buddy in the parade // painted shut // saddle creek portabella // window // return to the fountain of olives cassette // paisley shirt child's pose // october // eyes to the right 7" ep // thrilling living oh ok // playtime // the complete reissue // happy happy birthday to me hazy sour cherry // little run // tour de tokyo // damnably blanketman // beach body // national trust ep // pias * stiff richards // point of you // state of mind // legless eleventh dream day // yves klein blues // since grazed // comedy minus one daniel romano // kissing the foe // kissing the foe // you've changed esther rose // how many times // how many times // father/daughter * lee ann womack // from life's other side // industrial strength bluegrass: southwestern ohio's musical legacy compilation // smithsonian folkways chuck johnson // red branch bell // the cinder grove // vin du select qualitite caterina barbieri featuring bendik giske // fantas for saxophone and voice // fantas variations // editions mego ototsky quartet // pam // stamp a spot // fancymusic muriel grossmann // quiet earth // quiet earth // rr gems str4ta // we like it // aspects // brownswood the philadelphia experiment // lle lfe // the philadelphia experiment // ropeadope navy blue // durag anthem // durag anthem digital single // freedom sounds oddcouple and jamila woods // reflections // reflections digital single // (self-released) alice phoebe lou // glow // glow // (self-released) * l'impératrice // anomalie bleue // tako tsubo // microqlima * manuela gernedel // supermarket // manuela // lost map eric slick featuring natalie prass // closer to heaven // wiseacre // slick monnone alone // feel it disappearing // feel it disappearing 7" // emotional response blast off country style // cutie pie // rainbow mayonnaise deluxe // teen-beat

* denotes music on wlur’s playlist

[dustedmagazine]

Dusted Mid-Year 2017, Part 3: The Lists

Michael Chapman and the 50 crew

In this final segment of our Mid-Year report, Dusted writers list their favorite albums from the first half of the year.  If you missed them, read parts one and two, as well.

Tobias Carroll

Dreamdecay — Yú (Iron Lung)

Julie Byrne — Not Even Happiness (BaDaBing)

Sarah Davachi — All My Circles Run (Student of Decay)

The Bug Vs. Earth — Concrete Desert (Ninja Tune)

Mary Lattimore — Collected Pieces (Ghostly)

Priests — Nothing Feels Natural (Sister Polygon)

Slowdive — Slowdive (Dead Oceans)

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister — Planetarium (4AD)

Cold Beat — Chaos by Invitation (Crime on the Moon)

Alice Coltrane — World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane (Luaka Bop)

Dude York — Sincerely (Sub Pop)

Pissed Jeans — Why Love Now (Sub Pop)

Various Artists — Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988 (Ostinato)

Future Islands — The Far Field (4AD)

The New Year — Snow (Undertow)

Bill Meyer

Amir ElSaffar/ Rivers of Sound, Not Two (New Amsterdam)

Anthony Pasquarosa Abbandonato Da Dio Nazione (Vin Du Select Qualitite)

Evan Caminiti, Toxic City Music (Dust Editions)

Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die (International Anthem)

Michael Chapman, 50 (Paradise of Bachelors)

Richard Osborn, Endless (Tompkins Square)

Jennifer Kelly

Michael Chapman — 50 (Paradise of Bachelors)

Julie Byrne — Not Even Happiness (BaDaBing)

Group Doueh and Cheveu — Dakhla: Sahara Sessions (Born Bad)

Tinariwen — Elwan (Anti-)

Imaginary People — October Alice (Five Five Diamonds)

Sleaford Mods — English Tapas (Rough Trade)

Mark Lanegan — Gargoyle (Heavenly)

Xetas — The Tower (12XU)

James Elkington — Wintres Woma (Paradise of Bachelors)

Chuck Johnson — Balsams (VDSQ)

Justin Cober-Lake

Tift Merritt — Stitch of the World (Yep Roc)

Jaimie Branch — Fly or Die (International Anthem)

Led Bib — Umbrella Weather (RareNoiseRecords)

Jens Lekman — Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian)

Jesca Hoop — Memories Are Now (Sub Pop)

Bill Brovold and Jamie Saft — Serenity Knolls (RareNoiseRecords)

Charly Bliss — Guppy (Barsuk)

Son Volt — Notes of Blue (Thirty Tigers)

Eivind Opsvik — Overseas V (Loyal Label)

Anthony Pasquarosa — Abbandonato Da Dio Nazione (VDSQ)

House and Land — House and Land (Thrill Jockey)

Avishai Cohen — Cross My Palm With Silver (ECM)

Chris Potter — The Dreamer Is the Dream (ECM)

Eric McDowell

Bottle Tree — s/t (International Anthem)

Nathaniel Braddock — Quadrille & Collapse (Invertebrata)

Jaimie Branch — Fly or Die (International Anthem)

Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society — Simultonality (Eremite)

Rune Your Day — s/t (Clean Feed)

Bill Orcutt — s/t (Palilalia)

Juana Molina — Halo (Crammed Discs)

Ben Donnelly

Shadow Band — Wilderness of Love (Mexican Summer) Folk-psych of my dreams, or the dream folk in my psychosis.

Banana — Live (Leaving) Taking mallets to chamber music

Here Lies Man — S/T (Riding Easy) Shaking like a man on fuzzy tree, appropriating like Elvis

RVG — A Quality of Mercy (Bandcamp) Romy Vager's Group makes pretty jangle isn't too pretty, as per the habits of early Flying Nun

Various — Monika Werkstatt (Monkia) Composition by committee has never worked so well

Delicate Steve — This is Steve (Anti) The sort of guitar ringer Reed would put in his band when he was sick of being described as raw.

Derek Taylor

Jaimie Branch — Fly or Die (International Anthem)

Stephen Riley & Peter Zak — Deuce (Steeplechase)

Roscoe Mitchell — Bells for the South Side (ECM)

Ellery Eskelin/Christian Weber/Michael Griener — Sensations in Tone (Intakt)

Peter Brötzmann/Heather Leigh — Sex Tape (Trost)  

Lee Konitz — Europe ’56 (Fresh Sound)

Oscar Pettiford — New York City 1955-1958 (Uptown)

Billy Bang — Distinction Without A Difference (Corbett vs. Dempsey)

Kostas Bezos & the White Birds (Mississippi)

Jackie Mittoo — Striker Showcase (VP)

Patrick Masterson

Migos — Culture (300 Entertainment)

Pile — A Hairshirt of Purpose (Exploding in Sound)

Big Thief — Capacity (Saddle Creek)

Colin Stetson — All This I Do for Glory (52Hz)

Future — Hndrxx / Future (Epic)

Gas — Narkopop (Kompakt)

Overmono — Arla II EP (XL)

Ricardo Villalobos — Empirical House ([a:rpia:r])

Young Thug — Beautiful Thugger Girls (Atlantic)

Vince Staples — Big Fish Theory (Def Jam)

Ian Mathers

Aidan Baker & Clair Brentnall — Delirious Things (Gizeh)

Los Campesinos! — Sick Scenes (Witchita)

Blanck Mass — World Eater (Sacred Bones)

Jens Lekman — Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian)

King Woman — Created in the Image of Suffering (Relapse)

Slowdive — s/t (Dead Oceans)

Kelly Lee Owens — s/t (Smalltown Supersound)

High Plains — Cinderland (Kranky)

Demen — Nektyr (Kranky)

DREAMDECAY — YÚ (Iron Lung)

[mycatisanalien]

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN contribute to the first book entirely focused on THURSTON MOORE:

“Thurston Moore - We Sing A New Language” by NICK SOULSBY Omnibus Press (UK/ USA) OUT MARCH 13, 2017

From author Nick Soulsby: For “We Sing A New Language: The Oral Discography Of Thurston Moore”, I wanted to use the experiences and perspectives of the people who have played on the numerous records he’s featured on outside of Sonic Youth, to paint a picture of his development and his interests in music across the years. It’s notable how much of his energies, very early on, were on gaining this wider experience while – since the mid-Nineties – there’s a veritable explosion of effort devoted to other scenes which then feeds back into Sonic Youth in the form of the SYR records, releases with Mats Gustafsson, the presence of Borbetomagus on the Murray Street album, their choices of support acts when touring. There’s even a specific character to Moore’s efforts during Sonic Youth’s peak of commercial success in the early-to-mid-Nineties with Moore evangelising and paying tribute to the underground bands who he felt was important – so much of that era is spend on covers and tributes. It’s that kind of pattern that speaking to the people involved was able to tease out.

The book includes a comprehensive Contributors section in which each of the 170 people involved summarises their personal creative urges and expressions – the hope being that it gives the reader a sense of who they’re speaking to and a starting point for further exploration. Frankly, if you enjoy the work of Thurston Moore then there are a lot of people in here worth finding!

In first name alphabetical order:

Aaron Dilloway, Adam Golebiewski, Adam Kriney, Alan Bloor, Alan Licht, Alan Read (Krayon Recordings), Alex Ward, Amanda Kramer, Ambrose Bye (Fast Speaking Music), Andrew Clare, Andrew Kesin, Andrew MacGregor, Andrya Ambro, Andy Moor, Anne Waldman, Anne-James Chaton

Balazs Pandi, Benoit Bel (Mikrokosm Studios), Benoît Bourreau (Film Maker), Bill Nace, Brett Robinson, Brian Kinsman (Deathbomb Arc), Britt Brown, Bryn Harris, Byron Coley, Byron Westbrook

Campbell Kneale, Carlos Giffoni, Carlos van Hijfte (Tour Manager), Chris Corsano, Chris Gollon (artist), Chris Pottinger, Christian Marclay, Colin Langenus, Cory Rayborn (Three Lobed Recordings), Cris Deison, Cristiano Nunes (ZDB Venue)

Dagobert Sondervan, Daniel Sandor (Producer), Dave Keay, David Markey, David Newgarden (Manager to Yoko Ono), David S. Blanco (Blank Editions), Deb Goodge, DJ Spooky, Don Dietrich, Don Fleming. Dylan Nyoukis

Evan Parker, Frank Rosaly, Frans de Waard, Gene Moore, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Glenn Branca, Greg Vegas, Hal Rammel, Hanin Elias, Heath Moerland (Fag Tapes)

J.D. King, Jim Thirlwell, Jack Rabid, James Nares (Artist), James Sedward, James Toth, Jane Scarpantoni, Jean-Marc Montera, Jef Whitehead, Jeff Hartford (Bonescraper Recordings), Jeremy Miller, Jim Dunbar, Jim Sauter, Jim Sclavunos, Joe McPhee, Joe Tunis (Carbon Recordings), Johannes Buff (Mikrokosm), John Clement, John Corbett, John Howard, John Moloney, John Olson, John Russell, John Tye (Lo Recordings), John Wiese, Jon Forss (Lo Recordings), Josh Baer (White Columns), Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonelab)

Karl Hofstetter (Joyful Noise), Keith Wood, Kevin Crump (Wintage), Kim Rancourt, Kommissar Hjuler

Lasse Marhaug, Lea Cummings, Lee Ranaldo, Leslie Keffer, Lin Culbertson, Loren Connors, Lydia Lunch

Mani Mazinani, Manuel Mota, Marc Urselli, Marco Cazzella (My Dance The King), Marco Fusinato, Margarida Garcia, Martin Bisi (Producer), Massimo Pupillo, Mat Rademan (Breathmint), Mats Gustafsson, Matthew Saint-Germain (Freedom From), Maurizio Opalio (My Cat is an Alien), Michael Chapman, Michael Gira, Mike Gangloff, Mykel Board

Nathaniel Howdeshell (Fast Weapons), Neill Jameson, Nels Cline, Nolan Green, Pascal Hector, Patrick Best, Paul Flaherty, Paul Smith (Blast First), Pete Nolan, Phil Blankenship (Troniks), Phil X. Milstein

Rafael Toral, Rat Bastard, Rhys Chatham, Richard Hell, Richard Kern (Film Maker), Rob Hayler, Robert Meijer (En/Of), Robert Poss, Roberto Opalio (My Cat is an Alien), Ron Lessard (RRRecords)

Samara Lubelski, Sanford Parker, Sarah Register, Sérgio Hydalgo (ZDB), Shayna Dulberger, Sonny Vincent, Stavros Giannopoulos, Steve Lowenthal (Vin Du Select Qualitite), Stuart Braithwaite, Susan Stenger

T. Mortigan (Destructive Industries), Terri Kapsalis, The New Blockaders, Thurston Moore, Tim Foljahn, Tom Moore, Tom Smith, Tom Surgal, Toshi Makihara, Trumans Water

Venec Miller, Vice Cooler, Virginia Genta, Wally Shoup, Walter Prati, Warren Defever, Wharton Tiers, William Hooker, William Winant, Yoko Ono

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NICK SOULSBY: https://nirvana-legacy.com/

OMNIBUS PRESS: http://www.omnibuspress.com/Product.aspx?ProductId=1127389

[tinymixtapes]

Premiere: Chuck Johnson - “Calamus”

Graceful contemplations overflow on Balsams, a new Chuck Johnson record that exchanges earthy fingerpicking for the expressive sweep of pedal steel. As fitting a Vin Du Select Qualitite release, Johnson travels through the steel’s less-explored dimensions, cultivating a field of sustained tones that cohere into Skelton-scape twang. Quite lovely, this music — ethereal, emotionally expressive, painterly, intimate yet vast. Johnson’s sonic layerings conjure the ephemerality of clouds, vapor, or tides, and in the video for album opener “Calamus,” a continuum of abstracted water patterns mirrors the sound. Sound is in fact creating the abstraction, thanks to director Marielle V. Jakobsons’s Macro-Cymatic Visual Music instrument, a soundboard that translates resonance into pattern via water and LED lights, demonstrated here. Whether using pedal steel or the Macro-Cymatic, Johnson and Jakobsons are negotiating between latency and manifestation. Together, sound and image open a space between vibration and visualization while avoiding a collapse into figurative resolution. http://j.mp/2rnP8i9

[inplaceofrealinsight]

Sarah Louise (ft. good, nice pupper)

[one-track-daily]

Chuck Johnson Balm of Gilead (2017)

From the album: Balsams (Vin Du Select Qualitite / Thin Wrist Recordings / Tak:til)

[noloveforned]

we're just about set for this week's show on wlur at 4pm today. tune in live or catch up with last week's show below!

no love for ned on wlur – february 12th, 2021 from 4-6pm

artist // track // album // label ben folds five // song for the dumped (japanese version) // whatever and ever amen (remastered) // epic albertine sarges // roller coaster // the sticky fingers // moshi moshi * eaglemont // heteronormative nightmare // heteronormative nightmare digital single // (self-released) cheekface // crying back // emphatically no. // new professor * baker's pace // ninth hymn stroke // turrella 21 cassette // strange pursuits waltzer // i don't wanna die // time traveler // side hustle * smirk // do you? // smirk i cassette // (self-released) romero // honey // honey digital single // cool death longstocking // teenage angst at 27 // once upon a time called now (remastered) // jealous butcher collate // medicine // medicine 7" // domestic departure preening // economy head // dragged through the garden // ever/never the sunday painters // aversion // (bandcamp mp3) // (unreleased) jim ford // she turns my radio on // the sounds of our time // bear family vagabon featuring courtney barnett // reason to believe // reason to believe digital single // nonesuch sarah mary chadwick // at your leisure // me and ennui are friends, baby // ba da bing! arthur russell // keeping up // sketches for 'world of echo'- live at ei on june 25th, 1984 cassette // audika chuck johnson // raz de maree // the cinder grove // vin du select qualitite yusef lateef // open strings // before dawn- the music of yusef lateef // verve tony burkill // work money death // work money death // all things analog immanuel wilkins // ferguson - an american tradition // omega // blue note alan braufman // sunrise (angel bat dawid sunset remix) // sunrise (remix) digital single // valley of search mckinley dixon featuring pink siifu and seline haze // sing for me // the house that got knocked down ep // (self-released) an only child // pick me up after work // prepare the body // (self-released) * triiibe // green thumb // iii am what iii am // (self-released) haviah mighty // atlantic // atlantic digital single // mighty gang inc. the notwist featuring angel bat dawid // into the ice age // vertigo days // morr music * leisure walks // red days // roll a dead world // (self-released) the weather station // robber // ignorance // fat possum * nana yamato // fantasy // before sunrise // dull tools brontosaurus // a do-it-all dad's denim dream // these people // (self-released)

* denotes music on wlur’s playlist

[dustedmagazine]

Donald Miller — Transgression!!! (Vin du Select Qualitite)

Transgression!!! by Donald Miller

When a guitarist is known for blowing out eardrums and short-circuiting cerebella with uncompromising noise, hearing them strum nakedly in an acoustic setting can be just as powerful. Nobody’s hiding behind a board full of pedals or a wall of amps. Resonant vibrations are free to float in the air, unadulterated. The Vin du Select Qualitite (VDSQ) label focuses on the acoustic guitar’s unique emanations, and quite a few electrified axe-wielders have unplugged for the imprint. With Transgression!!!, Donald Miller joins the ranks of the unadorned alongside the likes of Thurston Moore, Mark McGuire, Chris Brokaw, Wendy Eisenberg and Bill Orcutt.

Miller forges a path that veers between the blues and American primitive picking with these six exploratory pieces. On the surface, this seems to be at odds with the fire music bursting from the most recent releases of his Borbetomagus bandmates. Don Dietrich’s Option is a blown-out cacophony of noise, and Jim Sauter’s latest duet with Kid Millions for the Astral Spirits label is a free jazz maelstrom. Miller is capable of a considerable heft with his 12-string setup and is keen to show just how powerful he can be right out of the gate. “The Man in the Well” lurches from a few sparse chords into a swirling miasma of glittering steel-string churn. His fingers deftly pick out rapid-fire arpeggios and dance from string to string effortlessly as he creates hypnotic cascades of sound from the guitar. 

The guitarist isn’t shy from playing around with extended techniques, either. On “A Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconsciousnesses,” Miller trades in his e-bows for acoustically generated glissandi. Dedicated to avant-garde guitarist Davey Williams (R.I.P.), the piece eschews discernability, instead choosing to switch moods from roaring drone to violin-like see-sawing and back again. The guitar’s strings buzz strangely on “For I Am a Cat of the Devil I Am”, as Miller adopts a slide to rework a chord progression from Charlie Patton’s “A Spoonful Blues”. He mixes in some sprightly picking between returning again and again to the main descending blues theme. 

In addition to Williams, Miller dedicates songs to Jack Rose and “our beloved Squeaky Frome (sic).” The former is titled “A Pseudoragasque Pavanne” and gives both folk raga and American primitivism a wide berth. This is what the guitarist excels at: hooking onto genre signifiers without aligning too closely. With Transgression!!!, Miller has crafted a guitar style that is sui generis. The man can wrench just as much visceral power from a twelve-string acoustic guitar as he can from an amplified six-string axe, and that’s just plain cool. 

Bryon Hayes

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we're just one hour out from this week's no love for ned on wlur. tune in or check out last week's show below!

no love for ned on wlur – july 26th, 2017 from 5-7pm

artist // track // album // label francis macdonald and harry pye // i feel like a record that's scratched // bonjour // shoeshine park // moodwatch // alligator!! ep // blackbean and placenta tape club the memories // turn around // royal united song service // burger * kitty kat fan club // talk about love // songs about cats 7" // asian man star tropics // lost world // lost world // shelflife hawaiian gremlins // la unión // burger world mexico compilation cassette // burger * palm // walnut // shadow expert ep // carpark * growl // suhffering // won't you // austin town hall garageland // come back // last exit to garageland (deluxe edition) // flying nun the pinheads // fight or flight // the pinheads // farmer and the owl material girls // tightrope // mg vs iq ep // chunklet industries kane strang // my smile is extinct // two hearts and no brain // dead oceans * rick white // eerie acquintance // one three seven // blue fog james elkington // grief is not coming // wintres woma // paradise of bachelors house and land // the day is past and gone // house and land // thrill jockey stringbean and his banjo // suicide blues // hillbillies in hell- country music tormented testament, 1952-1974- the final chapter compilation // the omni recording corporation circuit rider // how long // circuit rider // numero group platform // reflux // flux reflux // clean feed dave jackson and richard hemmings // war on error // out side // (self-released) fred frith and hans koch // lots out large // you are here // intakt ash ra tempel // le sourire volé // (the microcosm): visionary music of continental europe, 1970-1986 compilation // light in the attic jasmine guffond // post human // traced // sonic pieces chuck johnson // riga black // balsams // vin du select qualitite rose elinor dougall // ride, ride // split 10" w/ toy // vermilion terry // heavin' heavies // remember terry // upset! the rhythm roya // end times // roya // burger * the shifting sands // coming back // cosmic radio station // fishrider pet politics // taken away by aliens // 2005-2008 // novoton

* denotes music on wlur’s playlist

[noloveforned]

recommended digital releases, july 7th

a large majority of the music i listen to these days is done at work through a premium spotify subscription. the hardest part seems to be trying to remember when an album i’ve been anticipating finally comes out on whatever random friday.

i figure i’m not the only one so every friday i’m aiming to post five new releases from the past week (or so) as well as five recent releases from the past couple months that are available through spotify (and presumably the other streaming platforms).

new releases from the past week (or so):

chris bell "looking forward- the roots of big star" on omnivore [spotify] everyone talks about alex chilton's pre-big star life with the box tops but chris bell was busy before big star as well. the anthology collects nearly two dozen tracks from his pre-big star bands including rock city, icewater, and the wallabys. this is just the start of a massive chris bell reissue project on omnivore that will also yield an expanded 'i am the cosmos' this fall and a six lp 'complete chris bell' box set at some point. hozac books will also issue "there was a light: the cosmic history of big star founder chris bell" by rich tupica.

peter brötzmann, steve swell and paal nilssen-love "live in tel aviv" on not two [spotify, bandcamp] a new live album recorded in israel last fall from one of my favorite active brötzmann trios with swell on trombone and nilssen-love on drums.

great outdoors "fake news" on smooch [spotify, bandcamp] zachary schneider has been involved in a handful of great australian bands over the past few years including full ugly, free time, and totally mild. great outdoors has been his solo project and with their second album they've graduated to a proper band.

francis macdonald and harry pye "bonjour" on shoeshine [spotify] francis macdonald lives in scotland and plays drums in teenage fanclub (as well as guesting all over the place). harry pye lives in london and is a visual artist and webzine editor. pye handles vocals on three tracks that tell stories (ala "the gift" by the velvet underground or various looper tracks) over strings. macdonald's tracks are (unsurprisingly) teenage fanclubby pop that continue last year's teenage fanclub album in addressing adult life.

bill orcutt "bill orcutt" on palilalia [spotify, bandcamp] bill orcutt founded the noise band harry pussy in the early nineties but his solo work over the past ten years has leaned towards solo guitar explorations of the american songbook. here he pulls out the electric guitar to twist "when you wish upon a star", "white christmas", and others into almost unrecognizable territory.

slightly older stuff:

annabel lee "wallflower" ep on luik [spotify, bandcamp] annabel lee are a belgian band led by audrey marot that vacilate between the twee sounds of allo, darlin' (r.i.p.) and the garage pop of alvvays.

mark mcguire "ideas of beginnings" on vin du select qualitite [spotify] this is mark's second album of solo guitar for vdsq and you'd be forgiven if you thought this wasn't the same mark mcguire who was a member of emeralds. the a-side is acoustic and fits right in with all of your modern day acoustic friends like steve gunn, william tyler and so forth. the b-side is electric and maybe a little more familiar to those that were a fan of the multitude of blissed out cd-rs he was a part of ten years ago.

the monks "hamburg recordings 1967" ep on third man [spotify] the final recordings from the short-lived band of american g.i.'s stationed in berlin. a little more straightforward than their earlier recordings but fans of poppy sixties psych won't be disappointed!

poppies "good" ep on topshelf [spotify, bandcamp] new york twee-mo indie pop band in the double double whammy vein.

prince "purple rain (deluxe edition)" on warner bros. [spotify] a couple years before his death prince and warner bros. finally reached an agreement for him to return to the label in exchange for prince regaining control of his catalog. the first fruit of the deal was last fall's '4ever' compilation. things begin to really ripen with the deluxe edition of 'purple rain' which include a remaster job and single mixes from the album. the real treasure though are more than an hour's worth of 'purple rain' era tracks from prince's vault which was formerly (and notoriously) shut tight for most of the 21st century.

more 'recommended releases' posts from no love for ned

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all caught up posting old radio shows and we're on wlur right now with a new one!

no love for ned on wlur – june 21st, 2017 from 5-7pm

artist // track // album // label rollerskate skinny // bring on stigmata // shoulder voices // beggars banquet lost balloons // numb // hey summer // dirtnap superchunk // i got cut // i got cut 7" // merge fishboy // art guard // art guards // lauren the spinto band // road to newark // nice and nicely done (deluxe edition) // bar/none * roya // the lords chirp // roya // burger * lavender holyfield // where do those lasers go? // rabbitboxing midnightmouth // cloud autococoon // inspirational ghost // spirulina cassette // bridgetown small world experience // dregsy // shelf-life // siltbreeze hollow everdaze // still ticking // cartoons // (self-released) * bill baird // quicksilver slip // easy machines // talk show bedouine // dusty eyes // bedouine // spacebomb * mud pie sun // zinc treasure // microcosmic island- songs of jim rao ep // revolving bell united waters // even the moon remembers // the narrows // drawing room mark mcguire // beginning of winter // ideas of beginnings // vin du select qualitite bellows // untitled #6 // strand // shelter press ryoko akama, seamus cater, kate halsall, sarah hughes, ecka mordecai, harriet richardson, leo svirsky and kathryn williams // ockeghem octets, part three // antoine beuger's ockeghem octets // another timbre timuçin şahin's flow state // nothing bad can happen // nothing bad can happen // between the lines harris eisenstadt canada day quartet // we all ate what we wanted to eat, part one // on parade in parede // clean feed merry clayton // gimme shelter // gimme shelter // ode lavice and company // thoughs were the days // thoughs were the days 7" // numero group sly and the family stone // m'lady / don't burn baby // live at the fillmore east october 4th and 5th, 1968 // epic karl hector and the malcouns // tamanrasset // tamanrasset ep // now again can // spoon // the singles // mute noys // you don't know // bloodstains across virginia compilation // prompt critic productions cool ghouls // only grey // gord's horse cassette // (self-released) white mystery // cerebellum // outta control // (self-released) ooga boogas // eisbaer // booga box // (self-released) needles/pins // all the same // goodnight, tomorrow // dirt cult

* denotes music on wlur’s playlist

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no love for ned on wlur – june 14th, 2017 from 5-7pm

artist // track // album // label villagers // set the tigers free // where have you been all my life? // domino bonny doon // relieved // bonny doon // salinas community radio // travel endlessly // look now you're cursed // novella major leagues // it was always you // good love // popfrenzy tops // dayglow bimbo // sugar at the gate // arbutus * spectre folk // action ray // volume four // vampire blues marika hackman // boyfriend // i'm not your man // sub pop * chain and the gang // the logic of night // best of crime rock // in the red r.ring // cutter // ignite the rest // sofa burn * tica douglas // down and out // our lady star of the sea, help and protect us // team love * suss cunts // anaemic boyfriend // suss cunts 7” // emotional response little whirls // broken village of x-rays // rearrange the comfort zones // hangover central station voigt/465 // is new is // slights still unspoken- selected recordings 1978-1979 // mental experience boys club // gotta get right // turn it on again // omnian axis: sova // violent yellow // motor earth // god? joseph ford, doug gaston, amrom chodos, dennis kahle, benjamin hudson, georgia mitoff, jan williams and petr kotik // stay on it // julius eastman: unjust malaise // new world jandek // sorrow // dallas thursday // corwood industries gosheven // excluded and abused // leaper cassette // opal tapes chuck johnson // eye on the sparrow // balsams // vin du select qualitite roe enney // comme everyone // glare // root strata the proper ornaments // deep one perfect morning // deep one perfect morning 7" // tough love el palacio de linares // senteemienties // ataque de amor // pretty olivia florence raynaud // singes // singes 7" // emotional response jad fair and tenniscoats // my heart has wings // raindrops // joyful noise the wild poppies // this person // heroine: the complete wild poppies collection (1986-1989) // manufactured

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recommended digital releases, june 23rd

a large majority of the music i listen to these days is done at work through a premium spotify subscription. the hardest part seems to be trying to remember when an album i’ve been anticipating finally comes out on whatever random friday.

i figure i’m not the only one so every friday i’m aiming to post five new releases from the past week (or so) as well as five recent releases from the past couple months that are available through spotify (and presumably the other streaming platforms).

new releases from the past week (or so):

bedouine "bedouine" on spacebomb [spotify, bandcamp] the debut album by bedouine calls to mind beck's sea change and leonard cohen. she recorded it with gus seyffert in los angeles and then traveled to richmond to have the spacebomb crew add strings and horns.

can "the singles" on mute [spotify] can have been considered an album band by just about everyone i know but they also released a single or two every year during their initial run from 1969 to 1980. there were a few singles-only tracks but for the most part the singles featured either their short songs or edited versions of the longer numbers. as someone that was never sure where to start with can this seems like a great way to find an era you dig and then explore the albums more deeply.

hüsker dü "everything falls apart" on numero group [spotify] numero group has been teasing us with the hüsker dü catalog since they reissued the 1980 debut single for record store day in 2013. numero's exact plans are still uncertain (the latest mailorder poster/catalog listed a 4xlp "savage young dü") but they've started with a digital reissue of the first hüsker dü studio album from 1983. the pop-inflected post-punk created by bob mould, grant hart and greg norton would become a foundation of the punk, hardcore and alternative scenes that spawned in the eighties.

doc and merle watson "never the same way once- live at the boarding house, may 1974" on owsley stanley foundation [spotify] excerpted from the new seven cd box set of the same name, this live album was recorded over four nights in may 1974 by owsley "bear" stanley and sounds pristine. it preserves the immediacy of the live folk performance while benefitting from an almost studio-like, properly balanced recording. it's the first release from the foundation created to preserve and share the legacy of owlsey stanley's recordings and has me excited for what's to come next!

mikey young "your move, volume one" on moniker [spotify, bandcamp] mikey young is the quarterback prom king of the current resurgence in the australian garage rock scene. since his time in total control, eddy current suppression ring and ooga boogas he's become the go-to fellow for producing, mixing and mastering (which was the nlfn theme for fall 2014). his first solo release (supposedly the first in a series) is an instrumental synth album that recalls the eighties, new age and kraftwerk.

slightly older stuff:

bent "mattress springs" ep on emotional response [spotify, bandcamp] new ep from the australian trio that recalls the no wave and post-punk vibes of kleenex and the raincoats (lazily quoting myself from six months ago).

buffalo tom "let me come over (deluxe edition)" on beggars banquet [spotify] on their 1992 album buffalo tom moved away from the dinosaur jr. distortion of their first two albums for a replacements-inspired sound more in line with the emerging alternative power pop scene. the new 25th anniversary edition tacks on a live show from 1992 to catch the transition in progress.

marika hackman "i'm not your man" on subpop [spotify, bandcamp] londoner marika hackman calls on the ghosts of britpop-era blur to explore modern day sexuality and queerness.

chuck johnson "balsams" on vin du select qualitite [spotify, bandcamp] chuck johnson has now released five solo albums in a row on five different labels to acheive an 'indie rock bingo'. it's honestly quite fitting as the material is significantly different from album to album. his latest album melts pedal steel guitar all over patient synth and bass arrangements that remind me of sigur rós' quiet moments. quite likely the most relaxing album of the summer and an amazing headphone listen.

evan parker and rgg "live at alchemia" on fundacja sluchaj [spotify, bandcamp] pretty sure this is the third or fourth evan parker release i've recommended this year but the british saxophonist is always doing something interesting. he guests here on a live album recorded last year with the polish rgg trio handling piano, bass and drums.

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