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Jan 5, 2023 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Music
With Lizbot
A tangy mélange of modern classical composition, rock in opposition, and songs of petition on a free-form mission
Paying tribute to the late Alan Rankine of The Associates and the late Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters, who both passed away this week, plus other musics!
5:03 PM |
![]() | The Associates Bap De La Bap Sulk Beggars Banquet 1982 R.I.P. Alan Rankine (May 17th, 1958 – January 3rd, 2023) of The Associates, who passed away this week at the age of 64. Scottish musician and record producer best known as keyboardist and guitarist for rock band the Associates, which he co-founded with lead vocalist Billy Mackenzie in the late 1970s. He also gave Belle & Sebastian their first break, releasing their debut album, Tigermilk, on his Electric Honey label.
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5:07 PM |
![]() | Black Ox Orkestar Moldovan Zhok N Everything Returns Constellation 2022 Quartet of musicians from Montreal who play European Jewish folk music.Texts are sung in Yiddish.
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5:11 PM |
| Magma Do Rïn Ïlï Üss N Kãrtëhl Seventh Records 2022
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5:16 PM |
![]() | The Associates Club Country Sulk Beggars Banquet 1982
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5:23 PM |
![]() | Big Joanie Cactus Tree Back Home Kill Rock Stars 2022
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5:23 PM |
![]() | Kit Sebastian Hayat N Hayat - Single 2022 Multi-instrumentalist duo comprising France and London-based Kit Martin and Istanbul artist and vocalist Merve Erdem.
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5:27 PM |
![]() | Sneaks I Don't Want It The Eva EP Merge 2022
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5:28 PM |
![]() | Horse Lords Zero Degree Machine Comradely Objects RVNG Intl. 2022 Quartet of Andrew Bernstein (saxophone/percussion), Max Eilbacher (bass/electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar), and Sam Haberman (drums) from Baltimore, Maryland. The band plays experimental music with elements of krautrock, post-punk, Appalachian and African musical traditions, polyrhythmia, arcane tunings and modular synthesis. The band uses the just intonation tuning system favored by avantgarde composers La Monte Young and James Tenney, so the musicians are playing hand-modified guitars with repositioned frets, re-tuned and customized by Gardner.
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5:36 PM |
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5:36 PM |
| Innovations Put a Little Away N Seabird - Single Munster 2022 Peruvian duo from Lima with catchy synth bass-driven songs. This is a new reissue. The original 7" single is from 1977, released on the Peruvian Mag label
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5:40 PM |
![]() | Big Joanie Taut Back Home Kill Rock Stars 2022 British punk trio formed in London in 2013 with Stephanie Phillips (guitar and vocals), Estella Adeyeri (bass guitar and vocals), and Chardine Taylor-Stone (drums and vocals).
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5:42 PM |
| The Pointer Sisters Yes We Can Can Allen Toussaint The Pointer Sisters Blue Thumb 1973 Anita Pointer, who passed away this week on December 31st at the age of 74, sang lead vocal on this excellent Allen Toussaint cover from The Pointer Sisters' debut album
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5:48 PM |
| Los Yorks Esperando N 67 Munster 2023 reissue of Peruvian garage/psych band originally released in 1967. Los Yorks came out of the Rímac district of Lima, Peru and were one of Peru's leading rock & roll bands of the 1960s and '70s.
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5:50 PM |
| The Pointer Sisters Fire Bruce Springsteen Energy Planet Records 1978 Anita sang lead vocal on this Springsteen cover that became a big hit for The Pointer Sisters and was released as a single. Record producer Richard Perry had introduced the song to the Pointers by playing them a tape of Bruce Springsteen singing it, causing Anita Pointer to say: "It's too low for me: I guess you want Ruthie to sing it" to which Perry replied: "No – I want you to sing it." Anita later recalled we had had gold albums before but I didn't realize what a difference a gold single made 'cause...that one song [is played] over and over all over the world. ['Fire'] really became a major hit for us and made a total difference in our career."
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5:54 PM |
![]() | The Associates Nude Spoons Sulk Beggars Banquet 1982 R.I.P. Associates co-founder and guitarist/keyboardist Alan Rankine
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5:58 PM |
| Magma Dëhndë Kãrtëhl Seventh Records 2022
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6:05 PM |
| Innovations Seabird N Seabird - Single Munster 2022
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6:08 PM |
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6:13 PM |
![]() | The Associates Green for Grief Double Hipness V2 Billy MacKenzie and Alan Rankine formed The Associates in Dundee, Scotland, in 1976. They released a self-funded 7" of Boys Keep Swinging mere weeks after David Bowie had released his original. This scam got them a publishing deal with Bowie's publishers and a proper record deal.
By 1980 they were touring with The Cure and signed to Fiction Records, for whom they recorded The Affectionate Punch. At the turn of the year they relocated to Situation Two and put out a string of singles, later compiled on the album Fourth Drawer Down, recorded using money from major labels who were expecting demos to be produced with their cash. In tandem with their increasing consumption of cocaine and speed, the group's music became increasingly deranged and experimental. John Murphy and Michael Dempsey (ex-The Cure) became official members.
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6:18 PM |
![]() | Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian Grains (Sweet Paulownia Wood) - David Sylvian Remodel A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto - To the Moon and Back Milan 2022
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6:24 PM |
![]() | Joseph Decosimo The Lost Gander N While You Were Slumbering Sleepy Cat Records 2022 Solo project of American banjo player and fiddle player Joseph Decosimo of the group The Bucking Mules
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6:26 PM |
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6:26 PM |
![]() | Weyes Blood It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody Natalie Mering N And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow Sub Pop Records 2022 Coming to Union Transfer Feb 28th & March 1st 2023
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6:33 PM |
![]() | Szun Waves Garden Earth Patterns The Leaf Label 2022 British band composed of electronic producer Luke Abbott, Laurence Pike of PVT on drums and Jack Wyllie of Portico Quartet on saxophone. The band combines elements of spiritual and experimental jazz with electronic music.
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6:39 PM |
| Guidall Jellyfish Sleep Ursula K Leguins The Lathe of Heaven
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6:40 PM |
![]() | Laura Marling, LUMP & Mike Lindsay May I Be the Light Laura Marling LUMP Dead Oceans 2018
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6:45 PM |
![]() | Alec Holowka Microfiche Night in the Woods (Original Soundtrack, Vol. 2) [Hold onto Anything] Alec Holowka 2017
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6:48 PM |
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6:52 PM |
![]() | Angel Olsen Lark Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjaguwar 2019
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6:58 PM |
![]() | Arthur Russell This Is How We Walk On the Moon Another Thought The Estate of Arthur Russell 1993
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7:04 PM |
![]() | Yo La Tengo How Some Jellyfish Are Born R The Sounds of the Sounds of Science Egon Records 2003
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7:05 PM |
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7:11 PM |
| The Pointer Sisters Pinball Number Count Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music 2003
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7:14 PM |
![]() | The Pointer Sisters Jump (For My Love) Break Out RCA Records Label 1982 HELL YES
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7:18 PM |
| Swing Out Sister Breakout It's Better to Travel Mercury 1987
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7:22 PM |
![]() | Joan Armatrading Drop the Pilot The Key A&M 1983
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7:26 PM |
![]() | Midnite Snaxxx No Time to Spend Typical Girls, Vol. 2 V/A Emotional Response 2017 Punk rock band from Oakland
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7:27 PM |
| XTC Into The Atom Age White Music Virgin Records 1978
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7:30 PM |
![]() | Cuasares Cuasares Afro-Progresivo Pais 1973 Funk/soul from Argentina, led by Waldo Belloso, a pianist/arranger.
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7:35 PM |
| The Comet Is Coming Blood of the Past (feat. Kae Tempest) Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery Impulse! 2019
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7:44 PM |
![]() | Jessica Henry The Moon Veiled Jessica Henry Grass Roots Record Co. - Family Album V/A GRASS ROOTS RECORD CO 2006
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7:47 PM |
![]() | Dalis Car Moonlife The Waking Hour V/A Beggars Banquet 1984 collaboration between Bauhaus' singer Peter Murphy and Japan's Mick Karn
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7:52 PM |
![]() | Stereolab Space Moth Sound-Dust Duophonic / Warp Records 2001
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8:00 PM |
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