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Oct 19, 2025 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Music

folk textures! often crafted from a deep fascination with acoustic instruments and styles, and their canoodling with electricity. what even is it? is it alive? and who cares? love of collage-y and crooked music. respect for ever warping tradition. cheers

plant of the day:

sweet pepperbush (clethra alnifolia)

Coastal Sweet Pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)

nj pine barrens native. can be identified by peppery-sweet smell, distinctive parallel veined leaves and the unique shape of its flowers.

7:02 AM		Deakin Harpy (Red) Deakin Harpy Sketches - Single Domino Recording Co 2016
7:06 AM		Mila Culpa One Word Sentence Mila Culpa Face Off Cloud of Unknowing 2025
7:10 AM		Haley Heynderickx Oom Sha La La I Need to Start a Garden Mama Bird Recording Co. 2018
7:13 AM		Wilder Maker Skewered by the Daystar (feat. Joseph Shabason) Wilder Maker The Streets Like Beds Still Warm Western Vinyl 2025
7:14 AM		Buzz' Ayaz Zali Buzz' Ayaz Buzz' Ayaz Glitterbeat Records 2024 buzz' ayaz has really cool instrumentation. an amplified bass clarinet and an electric tzouras, a greek stringed instrument, are used. here's a picture of a tzouras!
7:24 AM		THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB This Is What I Want This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb Front Seat Solidarity
7:25 AM		Nirvana Plateau (Live Acoustic) Meat Puppets MTV Unplugged In New York (Live Acoustic)
7:28 AM		Apes of the State What's Another Night? Apes of the State What's Another Night? life is fleeting, wutang is forever 2025
7:30 AM		Marty Robbins A Hundred and Sixty Acres Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs Columbia/Legacy 1959
7:32 AM		David Ball Amigo David Ball Amigo Dualtone Music Group 2001
7:39 AM		Sweet Pill High Hopes (Unraveled) Sweet Pill Unraveled - EP Hopeless Records 2025
7:45 AM		skinnyveins Crosshair skinnyveins purity - EP skinnyveins 2025
7:49 AM		Jack The Wanderer Twist The Knife Lance Greene Twist The Knife (Single)
7:52 AM		Jacob Augustine White Hearse (feat. Hamilton Belk) Jacob Augustine White Hearse (feat. Hamilton Belk) - Single OSO 2020
8:02 AM		Little Mazarn Remember the Night Rainbow Little Mazarn Mustang Island Dear Life Records 2025
8:05 AM		Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru Ballad of the Spirits (feat. Maya Dunietz) [Live in Paris] Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru Played by Maya Dunietz & String Ensemble, Live in Paris (feat. Maya Dunietz) Latency 2024
8:13 AM		Jean Ritchie A Short Life of Trouble Jean Ritchie Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family Rhino/Elektra 1951
8:14 AM		Jean Ritchie One Morning In May (Another Version) Singing the Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family Rhino/Elektra 1951
8:15 AM		Doc Watson The Cuckoo Bird The Doc Watson Family Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1990
8:18 AM		Gregory Alan Isakov All Shades of Blue The Weatherman Suitcase Town Music 2013
8:26 AM		David Dondero Carolina Moon David Dondero # Zero With a Bullet Affairs of the Heart 2010
8:30 AM		Peter Stampfel and the Brooklyn & Lower Manhattan Banjo Squadron Sukiyaki Peter Stampfel Better Than Expected Don Giovanni Records 2014
8:33 AM		The Mothers of Invention Concentration Moon Frank Zappa We're Only In It for the Money Frank Zappa Catalog 1968
8:35 AM		Animal Collective Soul Capturer Animal Collective Isn’t It Now? Domino Recording Co 2023
8:46 AM		Greg Freeman Wolf Pine Greg Freeman Burnover Transgressive Records 2025 a "wolf pine" is an often solitary pine tree that has grown to become gnarled and multi-trunked! this kind of growth pattern often requires damage to the tree causing the trunk to split into several shoots or a lot of space surrounding the tree. here's a picture i pulled up from the interweb.
8:56 AM		Cranston Dean Golden Cage Cranston Dean Golden Cage - Single Independent 2025