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The Downer Party

Feb 21, 2023 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With Casey

Subbin' for Dante and bringing you some of my favorite release since my hiatus in September

8:00 PM		Heartworms Retributions of an Awful Life A Comforting Notion - EP Speedy Wunderground 2023 From a forthcoming EP produced by Dan Carey and released on his Speedy Wunderground label (of black midi, Black Country New Road, Squid, and Kae Tempest fame), due out March 24th Pre-Order
8:06 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:08 PM		U.S. Girls Futures Bet Bless This Mess 4AD 2023 Eighth LP from Toronto-based singer-songwriter Meg Remy due out this Friday. East coast tour with Jane Inc. scheduled for April, coming to Philly on the 15th and Brooklyn on the 17th Bandcamp \| Pre-order \| Tickets
8:12 PM		New Order Temptation (7" Version) Singles Rhino/Warner 2016 From a 1982 single between Movement and Power, Corruption and Lies
8:18 PM		Miss Grit Lain (phone clone) Follow the Cyborg Mute 2023 New album due out this Friday February 24. Also playing Baby's Alright in Brooklyn tomorrow night February 22 with Datachoir Bandcamp \| Tickets
8:22 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:24 PM		DIIV How Long Have You Known Oshin Captured Tracks 2012 Bandcamp \| Vinyl
8:27 PM		Robbie & Mona Sensation Tusky Spinny Nights 2023 New album Tusky due out March 10 from this Bristol dream pop duo Bandcamp
8:31 PM		John Cale MARILYN MONROE'S LEGS (Beauty Elsewhere) [feat. Actress] Mercy Double Six Records 2022 First new album from The Velvet Underground's John Cale since 2012 Vinyl
8:38 PM		Yo La Tengo Miles Away This Stupid World Matador 2023 New album from New Jersey's own Yo La Tengo, who are playing the Union Transfer in Philadelphia March 17 and Brooklyn Steel March 18 Bandcamp \| Vinyl \| Tickets
8:45 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- PSA for Religion & Forced Migration Initiative rfmi.princeton.edu
8:49 PM		Puppy Angst Yellow Paint Scorpio Season 2022 Playing two Philly shows before heading to SXSW in March, Ortlieb's this Saturday February 25 with Mandy Valentine and MilkBoy opening for NYC bands THICK and Jigsaw Youth on March 1 Bandcamp \| Tickets
8:52 PM		So Totally Welcome Back R Welcome Back (Radio Edit) - Single 2023 Possibly teasing a new album, their second single since last year Bandcamp
8:56 PM		Doused Cherrycolacrush Cherrycolacrush 2529056 Records DK2 2022 Playing PhilaMOCA on March 19 with Japanese dream pop group Luby Sparks Bandcamp \| Tickets
8:58 PM		Purling Hiss Yer All in My Dreams Drag on Girard Drag City 2023 Pre-OrderFrom a new album due out March 24. Also opening for Chris Forsyth at Johnny Brenda's on April 21 Bandcamp \| Pre-Order \| Tickets
9:03 PM		Dinosaur Jr. Been There All the Time Beyond Fat Possum 2007 Bandcamp \| Vinyl
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9:09 PM		Straight Arrows Fast Product Fast Product - Single Rice is Nice 2023 New single from this Sydney garage rock band (not to be confused with the Scottish label that launched Gang of Four, The Human League and The Mekons in the '70s) Bandcamp
9:11 PM		Kids on a Crime Spree NOYC Fall in Love Not in Line Slumberland Records 2022 Bandcamp
9:14 PM		Heavy Mother Heavy Mother N This Time Around Feel It Records 2022 Pay-what-you-wish album from this Bloomington, IN band Members of The Gizmos, The Cowboys, and Circuit Des Yeux Bandcamp \| Vinyl
9:16 PM		Dead Kennedys The Man With the Dogs Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death Manifesto Records 1987 Originally released as a B-side to the 1979 "California Über Alles" single, the first release on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label (also on Fast Product in the UK)
9:19 PM		The Velvet Underground Foggy Notion VU Polydor 1985 Previously unreleased track from the period between the band's second and third LPs. Released in 1985 on an outtakes compilation
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9:29 PM		Mhaol No One Ever Talks to Us Attachment Styles TULLE 2023 New album from this Dublin feminist post-punk band Bandcamp
9:32 PM		Catalogue Ageing (As time goes by) N Modern Delusion Crapoulet 2023 New record by this Marseille post punk band Bandcamp
9:36 PM		Speedy Ortiz Homonovus Foil Deer Carpark Records 2015 Guitarist Devin McKnight playing with his band Maneka and Swim Camp at Sundown Bar in Queens March 3 and Space 1026 in Philadelphia on March 4 Bandcamp \| Vinyl \| Tickets
9:39 PM		MSPAINT Delete It (feat. Militarie Gun) Delete It - Single Convulse 2023 New single from this Hattiesburg, MS synthpunk band, who seem to be teasing a new album Militarie Gun on tour now, supporting their fall album All Roads Lead To The Gun Bandcamp \| Tickets
9:42 PM		Melkbelly A Case of the Krampus single Loud Loop Press 2013 Pay-what-you-wish single, originally released as an exclusive for the Chicago music outlet Loud Loop Press Bandcamp
9:46 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- PSA for Table to Table tabletotable.org
9:49 PM		Hole Plump Live Through This DGC 1994
9:51 PM		PJ Harvey Rub 'Till It Bleeds Rid of Me Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1993
9:56 PM		Pile Poisons All Fiction Exploding In Sound Records 2023 New album from the cult Boston post-hardcore band. They are finishing their US tour with 2 dates at PhilaMOCA, February 27th and 28th and TV Eye in Queens, March 1st and 2nd Bandcamp \| Vinyl \| Tickets
10:01 PM		Birds In Row Noah Gris Klein SIVIANA, RED CRK AB 2022 Released in Octobre by this post-hardcore groupe from Laval, France Bandcamp
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10:09 PM		Pale Shade Heaven's Feel Darker Days 2023 New album from this Collingswood, NJ band due out March 10, playling Anchor Rock Club in Atlantic City on March 3 Bandcamp \| Tickets
10:13 PM		Pelican Gw Australasia Thrill Jockey Records 2003 Bandcamp
10:17 PM		Waxahatchee Bonfire Ivy Tripp Merge Records 2015 Bandcamp \| Vinyl
10:21 PM		Sonic Youth JC Dirty Geffen 1992
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10:28 PM		Screaming Females Mourning Dove Desire Pathway Don Giovanni 2023 New album from these local heroes just released this past week Bandcamp \| Vinyl
10:31 PM		The Replacements Can't Hardly Wait (Outtake) [Electric] Tim (Expanded Edition) Rhino/Warner Records 2008 Recorded for their 1985 album Tim with original guitarist Bob Stinson but not released until their next album. Definitely in my top 3 of the 5 or so versions of this track that have been released...
10:34 PM		Bonny Doon Crooked Creek Crooked Creek - Single 2023 New album teaser from this Michigan trio. Also the former backing band for Waxahatchee Bandcamp
10:37 PM		Wilco War On War Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Nonesuch 2002
10:41 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- PSA for Amistad Law Project amistadlaw.org
10:44 PM		The Lemon Twigs Corner of My Eye Everything Harmony Captured Tracks 2023 First single off a new album from the sons of Irish folk singer Tommy Maken, due out May 5. Playing Irving Plaza in NYC on May 13 Bandcamp \| Vinyl \| Tickets
10:47 PM		Native Harrow As It Goes N Old Kind of Magic Loose Music 2022 Bandcamp \| Vinyl
10:51 PM		Simon & Garfunkel Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme Columbia 1966
10:53 PM		Meg Baird The Saddest Verses N Furling Drag City 2023 Bandcamp \| Vinyl
10:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:57 PM		RIBBON STAGE Nowhere Fast N Hit With the Most Perennial / K Records 2022 Bandcamp \| Vinyl

Chat is archived.

I'm filling in for Dante tonight. Welcome everyone!

HELL yeah. Odd though I'm also seeing an active playlist page for Classy Murmur at this same time

Holï Aïoli!

I have an order of tacos waiting to be picked up though, will be back ;)

DJ Casey! Let’s GOoooOoo0o!

Always appreciate the notes and Links! in the playlist! Cheers, DJ Casey!

Much obliged!

NEW ORDER ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 big favourite!

Been listening to them a whole lot the last couple years. Definitely grew into one of my favorite bands

I heart the first five studio albums. I have yet to dive into the rest of the discography. 🤗

This show is anything but downers rn, I'm happy as hell to be hearing this right now

Haha well I always thought of the show's name as a bit of an oxymoron. Could be interpreted either way

ohmygoshitsthedownerpartyeveryoneistalkingaboutit

Helloooooooooooooooo Jimbooooooooooooo

That's "gosh it's", not "go shits".

Yeaa okay

😏

Well I AM very excited...

Yeoooooo

Whoa, THIS 💃🏼

This new John Cale record was the first of the year to leave a real impression on me

Noted 📝 ✅

Yeoooo welcome back from the Left Coast TAndy and howdydoo MrM!

Yo la Tengo 😍

The new YLT is also very very good

ALL YLT is good. All of the time.

oh my god so much good music this pat hour

I need to go to this show

I'm doing the thing where I pay very close attention to new releases at the beginning and end of the year. Years past have shown that this peters out after a few months but there's been a lot of good stuff that I'm excited about

Loved going to Johnny Brenda's in the fall. Could head down right after work, grab a bite, a drink and get a few games of pool in before bands started

Oooh that purling hiss was gooooooood

Yeah probably the best track I've heard from them since the Water on Mars album

hell YES dead kennedys

hell YES YES

Phone call over, where’s the rewind button ⏪⁉️

Purling Hiss and Kids On A Crime Spree were the best tracks ngl

This whole show is wprb gold!

i need some more foggy notions, i've been seeing things too clearly lately

smoke with me colin

lol tandy, the process is in process!

Gotta trust the process

this process is trustworthy. some not so much

im takeing it easy for the process now, it's been a while.

why do i always like the tracks that the band (at the time) didn't want to release

Sometimes you gotta leave em wanting more

it's pronounced q'hlalomuughl.

I'm just not gonna say it then. I physically can't

this GOES

liking the layers in this.

also, my version of pronouncing mhaol is 100% made up.

I tried 1 day of Duolingo for Irish and concluded that I would just have to change my idea of what sounds letters were supposed to make and that was too much for me

this chat rn af lol

But the name might not even be Irish, could just be a made up word cause all the normal band names are taken

Try learning Dutch, you'll get that tongue rolling in no time

Plus, the language of the Irish is Gaelic.

Go GHERKINS!

Guud Stuffs 🎵🎶

I think MIlitarie Gun put out another new track today too

That MSPAINT and this Melkbelly kick ASS

Thoroughly enjoying all these nice selections!

Melkbelly is one of the few bands I haven't seen that I made a resolution to see before all the tours got cancelled 3 years ago

I think they only have 2 LPs but hopefully there will be another to tour off of soon

HOLE 🖤🖤🖤 this album❣️

PJ HARVEY 💟

Hole vs Pile

Haha 4 of the last 5 artists I played I have grouped together as "witchy alt rock," been listening to a lot of that since the fall

luv it!

🧙‍♂️🎸🎶

Birds In Row? I prefer my birds more randomly arranged. Less menacing.

gonna keep an eye out for pale shade shows for sure!

@ Casey (host) Wow ... "Witchy alt rock" ... Just like there's "Death metal" there's definitely "Witchy alt rock". Is that term original to you? It's brilliant!

@Colin, looks likethey're gonna be at Anchor Rock Club in AC on the 3rd, I'll drop link in the playlist

i just noticed that show too. This could happen

SONIC YOUTH 🤎🤎🤎

Kim Gordon, another one who fits under my "witchy" label

Maybe SMASHING PUMPKINS too or others that I’ll think of after the show haha 😛

Didn't Courtney Love say once that she put a curse on Billy Corgan that made him go bald?

I’m dead. Aaahahahaha

Dang! This playlist is SuperDuper!

I can't find it right now lmao but I swear I read a quote from her saying that years ago

It sounds familiar and it’s surprising to find out that not everything is on the internet!

Found it, it's quoted on the Wikipedia article for the "Violet" single

I believed you! I hadn’t retained it! Completely tickled by your mentioning it!

It should have its own page!

Wow, this has such a "classic" feel. Thought it was an obscure band from the '70s

Courtney Love, the only confirmed witch of this new genre I am creating post hoc

Oooh yeah for sure. It feels so sunny and warm

Killer sub show tonight. Thanks, DJ Casey!

And she made BILLY CORGAN a Warlock of Rock with that h e x !

Hello, MrM--haven't seen your smiling face in a while

I’m putting all of them under the witchy banner

Hi, LiMaria! I was hiding out from bounty hunters!

Aha, so that's what TAndy was doing out in Cali! ;)

Hey everyone, and thanks for the show Casey!!

I was trailing him around town! L0LZ

Hey TAndy--were your ears burning?

Thank you all for listening and for your kind words

It's been a blast!

DJ Casey! Another TopNotch Show! Many thanks! Big cheers! Kind regards! When are you back on air??

Oh MrM, is this your origin story? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/467333126255804418/1077801399817076757/1676313973733.jpg

good show tonight! glad i caught this.

Nope. Why would a vegetarian put a fish in a pocket. Try harder.

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Ears!

Glad you caught it Colin. Good night all!