A Place to Bury Strangers unleash “Disgust” from their upcoming album, “Synthesizer,” due October 04, 2024.

Photo credit: Ebru Yildiz

New-York based band A Place To Bury Strangers release the new single/video, “You Got Me,” from their forthcoming seventh album, Synthesizer, out October 4th via Dedstrange. Following lead single “Disgust,” which “sounds as pleasurable and danceable as it does revolting and mangled,” (Paste), “You Got Me” continues to follow suit. The earworm is representative of a photograph from a perfect summer of love, lust, breaking out from the pack, and getting lost in the night. In the middle of the track, a field recording from one of those kinds of days on the beach can be heard as a 747 barrels through the sky overhead. Play it loud, and play it now.

 
Watch the Video For “You Got Me”
 

Synthesizer is the title of the album, but it is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album (a synthesizer that you too, can own (in part), if you buy the record on vinyl). In an era of making music where so little is DIY and so much is left up to AI, never setting foot in a practice room or a home studio, making something that feels deliberately chaotic, messy, and human, is entirely the point. Synthesizer is a record that celebrates sounds that are spontaneous and natural, the kind of music that can only come from collaboration and community.
 
The writing sessions for Synthesizer started in the band’s Queens studio, shortly after the release of 2022’s See Through You. The band re-formed with a new lineup, Ackermann still at the helm, now featuring friends John and Sandra Fedowitz. This new iteration of the band was inspiring for Ackermann, “It felt like a fresh new thing,” he says, “I wanted to write songs everyone was excited about playing.” Indeed, the sense of connectivity is everywhere on the record. Synthesizer very much feels like a record of reinvention, of taking a carefully honed aesthetic and sound and cracking it wide open, gutting it, reimagining it. And of course, to ever so slightly reinvent one’s sound, one must also build a new instrument, thus again the synth in question. The resulting record is one that is romantic, colorful, loud as hell, and one of A Place to Bury Strangers’ most live sounding records to date.

 
Pre-order Synthesizer
 
Watch the “Disgust” Video
 
A Place To Bury Strangers Tour Dates:
Sat. Sep. 7 – Xi’an, CN @ Loop Festival
Sat. Sep. 21 – Groningen, NL @ – Vicefest
Mon. Sep. 23 – London, UK @ The Shacklewell Arms
Tue. Sep. 24 – Wed. Sep. 25 – London, UK @ No90 Live Hackney Wick
Thu. Sep. 26 – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute %
Fri. Sep. 27 – Dublin, IE @ The Grand Social %
Sat. Sep. 28 – Belfast, IE @ Oh Yeah %
Sun. Sep. 29 – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo %
Mon. Sep. 30 – Bedford UK @ Esquire %
Thu. Oct. 3 – Berlin, DE @ Berlin Metropol [Record Release Show] %
Fri. Oct. 4 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen %
Sat. Oct. 5 – Oslo, NO @ Goldie %
Sun. Oct. 6 – Gothenburg, SE @ Fangelset %
Mon. Oct. 7 – Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan %
Wed. Oct 9 – Wroclaw, PL @ Lacznik %
Thu. Oct. 10 – Warsaw, PL @ Hybrydy %
Fri. Oct. 11 – Poznan, PL @ 2progi %
Sat. Oct. 12 – Bmo, CZ @ Kabinet Muz %
Sun. Oct 13 – Jena, DE KuBa Jena %
Fri. Oct. 25 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat &
Sat. Oct. 26 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings &
Sun. Oct. 27 – Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle &
Mon. Oct. 28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl &
Wed. Oct. 30 – Houston, TX @ White Oak &
Thu. Oct. 31 – Austin, TX @ Levitation &
Sat. Nov. 2 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #
Sun. Nov. 3 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom #
Mon. Nov. 4 – San Francisco, CA @ GAMH Psyched Fest #
Thu. Nov. 7 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios #
Fr. Nov. 8 – Seattle, WA @ Freakout Festival ^
Sat. Nov. 9 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl
 
% w/ Stella Rose
& w/ YHWH Nailgun
# w/ Pop Music Fever Dream
^ w/ The Black Angels, Martin Rev, The Black Lips & Shabazz Palaces

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GLARE release new single – “Mourning Haze.”

Photo by: Estavon Hawley

GLARE is an alternative rock/shoegaze five-piece from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Since their inception in 2017, the band has wasted no time making a name for themselves with the release of heaps of singles and an abundance of touring and high-profile festival appearances.

Now, GLARE have teamed up with Deathwish Inc. + Sunday Drive to release a new song, “Mourning Haze.”  Guitarist Toni Ordaz comments, “‘Mourning Haze’ had been with us for awhile, written around the time we were doing ‘Void in Blue’ and developing what would later become ‘Heavenly’.  Immediately, we knew it sounded way different from what we did before and decided early on that it was going to be a part of what would become the album.  The lyrics didn’t come much later until the recording sessions, but I think they are very much a reflection of what we were all going through at the time.”  Toni continues, “‘Mourning Haze’ is about grief, and how dreams play a role in processing it.”

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GLARE will release their new LP sometime in spring 2025 via Deathwish Inc. / Sunday Drive.  In the meantime, catch the band on tour this fall with Turnover, Panchiko, and more on select dates.  Also see GLARE at Desert Daze  and Levitation Fests:

GLARE, live:

Sep 5  San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger # [7inch release show]
Sep 6  McAllen, TX – El Cine # [7inch release show]
Sep 27  Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar ^
Sep 29  Salt Lake City, UT – Church & State ^
Sep 30  Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall $
Oct 02  Ft. Collins, CO – The Coast $
Oct 03  Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep $
Oct 04  Omaha, NE – Slowdown $
Oct 05  Columbia, MO – Blue Note $
Oct 06  Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue $
Oct 07  Huntington, WV – The Loud $
Oct 08  Louisville, KY – Mag Bar ^ 
Oct 09  Little Rock, AR – Stickyz ^
Oct 10  Oklahoma City, OK – Resonant Head ^
Oct 10-13  Lake Perris, CA – Desert Daze
Oct 14  San Diego, CA – Voodoo Room ^
Oct 15  Tucson, AZ – Club Congress ^
Nov 03  Austin, TX – Levitation, Far Out Lounge %
Nov 15  Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live! ~
Nov 17  Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel ~
Nov 19  St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live ~
Nov 20  Orlando, FL @ The Beacham ~
Nov 21  Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade, Heaven ~
Nov 23  Houston, TX – House of Blues ~
Nov 24  Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum ~

# w/ Trauma Ray, Maldosa
^ w/ Glixen
$ w/ Turnover, Glixen
% w/ Slowdive, Drop Nineteens 
~ w/ Panchiko

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Chastity announce self-titled album due September 13, 2024 and new single – “Jaw Locked.”

Photo by: Chris Payne

Chastity is for the skids, the headbangers, the freaks. Chastity is for everyone who has suffered and survived the lethal combination of suburban overculture and mental distress. Chastity is especially for everyone who didn’t survive—the ones who didn’t get out. Brandon Williams did, luckily, and his work with Chastity has been to collect people like him, who got out by the skin of their teeth.

Chastity’s first three full-length records—2018’s Death Lust, 2019’s Home Made Satan, and 2022’s Suffer Summer—formed a trilogy that defined a 4 year arc of the band’s contribution to outsider music. Each record was informed by Williams’ life, but each was also conceptual and interpretive, refracting his experiences through a level of remove. On Chastity’s upcoming, self-titled fourth record, there is no such distance: Williams decided to write a fully non-fiction work. Incoming September 13, 2024 on Deathwish Inc. (US), Dine Alone (Canada), and Big Scary Monsters (UK/E) Chastity is a 13-track record about the things that have always run through the band’s records—struggle, death, despair, redemption, darkness, and light—but this time, the songs ascend to new depths of intensity and desperation, new heights of resolution and power.  “It’s really about the first nosedive that I did as a young person,” says Williams. “It’s a record about struggle, about the missing years. It’s also a thank you to some people in my life.”

Today, Chastity album opener “Jaw Locked” premieres.  Williams continues, “For a few years we’ve closed our live show with the same song, but we’ve never really had a song that opens our live show totally right. I am so excited that we’ve found that in this song ‘Jaw Locked’, and that we can open the self-titled album with this song as well.” 

Listen / share / playlist “Jaw Locked” on DSP’s.

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Chastity hurtles through melodic hardcore, shoegaze, and emo, all magnificently and enormously rendered thanks to slick work from John Paul Peters (Propagandhi, Comeback Kid), who engineered and mixed the record. Recorded at Peters’ Private Ear Recording in Winnipeg in March 2024, Chastity’s guitars have never sounded so immediate and towering, sometimes exploding into a sputtering, ripped-speaker chaos. And there are perhaps the most ferocious bass and drums sounds of the year on Chastity, splitting the difference between gnarly-as-fuck generator-show tones and vividly textured, hi-fi chest-beaters.

The new record arrives on the heels of a whirlwind six years for Chastity. Williams founded the project in Whitby Ontario and from the start, it’s been a project of absolution via community connection. There weren’t any venues for independent punk music in the suburban town, so Williams and his friends started throwing punk shows in a barn on Whitby’s rural outskirts. People took notice: Before long, Ontario punk stalwarts like PUP and Metz were making the pilgrimage to the barn to headline gigs, and profits from the shows went to a regional youth mental health services. Chastity spent the next years touring North America including shows with Sunny Day Real Estate, Alexisonfire, and Deafheaven, culminating in their spring 2024 headline run, with a set that synced to an original feature film projected behind the stage. 

Now, Chastity will tour alongside Fucked Up in support of Chastity and will close out the year with a highly anticipated set at The Fest in Gainesville, FL.  Pre-order / pre-save Chastity here ahead of its September 13 release date and look for more news soon.

Chastity, on tour:
September 12  Oshawa, ON @ The Biltmore Theatre ^
September 13  Montreal, QC @ Foufounes Electriques ^
September 14  Ottawa, ON @ The 27 Club ^
September 17  Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre ^
September 18  Saskatoon, SK @ Capitol Music Club ^
September 19  Edmonton, AB @ The Buckingham ^
September 20  Calgary, AB @ Modern Love ^
September 21  Kelowna, BC @ Reverly ^
September 23  Victoria, BC @ Capital Ballroom ^
September 24  Nanaimo, BC @ The Queen’s ^
September 25  Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl ^
October 25  Gainesville, FL @ The Fest [Heartwood Soundstage]

^ w/ Fucked Up

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WSND DJ set list: Throwback Thursday – August 15, 2024

Thanks to all who listened to my last Throwback Thursday show of the 2024 summer on WSND. Here’s the set list:

  1. Chic – Le Freak (1978)
  2. America – A Horse with No Name (1971)
  3. The Steve Miller Band – Fly Like an Eagle (1976) (request)
  4. David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging (live) (1979)
  5. Yesterday and Today – Dreams of Egypt (1978)
  6. Gordon Lightfoot – Sundown (1974)
  7. Atlanta Rhythm Section – Champagne Jam (live) (1978) (request)
  8. Donna Summer – I Feel Love (1977)
  9. The Human League – Path of Least Resistance (live) (1979)
  10. Adam and The Ants – Deutscher Girls (1977)
  11. Madam Kitty radio spot (1976)
  12. Mountain – Mississippi Queen (1970)
  13. Disco 9000 radio spot (1977)
  14. McFadden & Whitehead – Ain’t No Stopping Us Now (1979)
  15. Marvin Gaye – Got to Give It Up (Pt. 1) (1977)
  16. Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out with Him? (1979)
  17. Devo – That’s Pep! (1980)
  18. Devo – That’s Good (live) (1988)
  19. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (1986)
  20. Dickie Betts – Blue Sky (live) (1988) (request)
  21. AC/DC – Back in Black (1980)
  22. Kajagoogoo – Too Shy (1983)
  23. The Motels – Suddenly Last Summer (1983)
  24. Radio ad for Derma-plast
  25. Midnight Star – No Parking on the Dance Floor (1983)
  26. Tears for Fears – Shout (1984)
  27. The Cure – Fascination Street (1989)
  28. Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock (1984)
  29. Men at Work – It’s a Mistake (1983)
  30. Kool & The Gang – Get Down on It (1981)
  31. Sarah McLachlan – Building a Mystery (live) (1999)
  32. Julian Cope – Leperskin (1991)
  33. John Lee Hooker & Eric Clapton – Boogie Chillin’ (1998) (request)
  34. Midnight Oil – Bushfire (1993) (request)
  35. Tori Amos – Silent All These Years (1992)
  36. Morcheeba – Trigger Hippie (1996)
  37. Moby – Bodyrock (1999)
  38. Chemical Brothers – Music: Response (1999)
  39. Chemical Brothers – Setting Sun (instrumental mix) (1997)
  40. Bad Religion – American Jesus (1993)
  41. The Telescopes – High on Fire (1992)
  42. Ten Foot Pole – Walkin’ (1995)
  43. The Raveonettes – Aly, Walk with Me (2008)
  44. Garbage – Sex Is Not the Enemy (2005)
  45. Ladytron – They Gave You a Heart, They Gave You a Name (2008)
  46. Dickie Betts – Ramblin’ Man (live) (2008) (request)
  47. Neko Case – Rated X (live) (2004)
  48. Janelle Monae – Many Moons (2007)
  49. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Weapon of Choice (2007)
  50. Electric Wizard – Dunwich (2007)
  51. Film School – Sick of the Shame (2006)
  52. Earth, Roots & Water – Tribulations (2008)
  53. Tommy T. w/ Gigi – The Response (2009)
  54. The Carnies Deluxe – Speed Kills (2000)
  55. The Smithereens – Nobody Lives Forever (2011)
  56. The Black Keys – Howlin’ for You (2011) (request)
  57. Night Beats – Little War in the Midwest (2011)
  58. The Holydrug Couple – If I Could Find You (Eternity) (2017)
  59. Fire Down Below – Dashboard Jesus (2016)
  60. Soft Play – Where’s Your Car, Debbie (2015)
  61. Mars Red Sky – Strong Reflection (2011)
  62. Windhand – Orchard (2013)
  63. The Dunes – Badlands (live) (2015)
  64. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – I’m Not in Your Mind (live) (2014)
  65. TV on the Radio – You (2011)
  66. St. Germain – Latin Note (2012)

Be sure to tune in for my last Deep Dive and Nocturne show of the 2024 summer break on August 18, 2024!

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Chat Pile declare “I Am Dog Now” on first single from upcoming album, “Cool World,” due October 11, 2024.

Photo by Matthew Zargoski

Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile have returned with their follow up to 2022’s breakout album God’s Country with Cool World, the new 10-song LP set for release on October 11th via The Flenser [pre-order].

Besides being the name of a largely forgotten (and panned) 90s film, Cool World makes for an apt title of Chat Pile’s sophomore full-length record. In the context of a Chat Pile record, the words are steeped in a grim double entendre that not only evokes imagery of a dying planet but a progression from the band’s previous work, moving the scope of its depiction of modern malaise from just “God’s Country” to the entirety of humankind. “’Cool World‘ covers similar themes to our last album, except now exploded from a micro to macro scale, with thoughts specifically about disasters abroad, at home, and how they affect one another,” says vocalist Raygun Busch.  “If I had to describe the album in one sentence,” Busch continues, “It’s hard not to borrow from Voltaire, so I won’t resist – ‘Cool World‘ is about the price at which we eat sugar in America.”

Today, album opener “I Am Dog Now” arrives with a music video directed by Will Mecca.  Stin (bass, Chat Pile) says, “Will’s vision captures the essence of ‘I Am Dog Now’ by channeling his specific style of low-fi, exploitation cinema aesthetic into a dusty, religious bad-trip exclusive to the southern plains of America. Eagle eyed viewers may actually notice shots of the literal chat piles from which we take our name.”

Stream / playlist / share Cool World first single + album opener   “I Am Dog Now”

Like the towering mounds of toxic waste, the music of Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has stuck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift – a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems.

Though very much on-brand with Chat Pile’s signature flavor of cacophonous, sludgy noise rock, the band’s shift to a global thematic focus on Cool World not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting but also how they dissect the album’s core theme of violence.

Melded into the band’s twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings, with examples of gazy, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album’s ten tracks. “While we wanted our follow-up to ‘God’s Country’ to still capture the immediate, uncompromising essence of Chat Pile, we also knew that with ‘Cool World,’ we’d want to stretch the definition of our ‘sound’ to reflect our tastes beyond just noise rock territory,” reflects bassist Stin. “Now that we had some form of creative comfort zones in place after hitting that milestone of putting out a full-length record, album #2 felt like the perfect opportunity to challenge those limits.” Besides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound, Cool World is also the band’s first record to have someone else handle mixing duties, with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers, Drab Majesty, Metz) capturing and further amplifying the quartet’s unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge.

The proverbial thread tying all of the experimentation on Cool World together is the depth to which Chat Pile dissects the album’s theme of violence, and the record itself is apocalyptically bleak. Sure, Chat Pile’s debut album was plenty disturbing with its B-movie-inspired interpretation of a “real American horror story”; what Chat Pile depicts on Cool World is unsettling not just from its visceral noise rock onslaught, but from depicting how all sorts of atrocities are pretty much standard parts of modern existence. 

Cool World will be released via The Flenser on October 11, 2024.  See Chat Pile on the road this November with label mates Agriculture and Mamaleek in select markets – tickets are available at chatpile.net/shows.

Chat Pile, on tour:

November 1  Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street %
November 2  Columbia, MO – The Blue Note %
November 3  Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room %
November 5  Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall %
November 6  Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line %
November 8  Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s %
November 9  Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theatre %
November 11  Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall %
November 12  Montreal, QC – Théâtre Fairmount %
November 14  Burlington, VT – Showcase Lounge @ Higher Ground ^
November 15  Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church ^
November 16  New York, NY – (Le) Poisson Rouge ^
November 17  Boston, MA – The Sinclair ^
November 19  Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery *
November 20  Richmond, VA – The Broadberry *
November 21  Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819 *
November 22  Nashville, TN – The End *

% with Agriculture, Porcelain
^  with Mamaleek, Traindodge
* with Mamaleek, thirdface

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Cold Cave call to us on their new single – “Siren Song.”

Photo courtesy of Cold Cave

Since March, Cold Cave have released a new song on the 15th of each month, culminating in the announcement of their forthcoming album, Passion Depression, on July 15th (album incoming October 15th). Today, Cold Cave have released another album track “Siren Song,” a synth driven dance track of mystery and desire.

Listen / share “Siren Song” on YouTube.

Formed in 2007 by Wesley Eisold, Cold Cave jump started and popularized the resurgence in modern synth and darkwave genres after releasing seminal and influential albums, Love Comes Close and Cherish The Light Years (Matador Records) and were subsequently invited to tour with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, The Cult and The Jesus and Mary Chain along with collaborations and performances with legends Genesis P-Orridge and Mark Lanegan. Eisold and his partner Amy Lee’s mix of celebrated poetry and urgent romantic new wave grants Cold Cave the rare 100% DIY approach to all aspects of their universe, producing and releasing their own music, involved directly with their fans and curating by their own rules. Spiritual depth and consistency in a media manipulated world. Love enchained and the polarity of truth. Passion Depression is protest music against the war within and without.

Passion Depression will be available on Rainbow Ice vinyl with a Hologram Sleeve or Glitter vinyl October 15th, 2024 (pre-order here).

Passion Depression, track list:

  1. She Reigns Down
  2. Shadow Dance
  3. Blackberries
  4. Hourglass
  5. Siren Song
  6. Everlasting
  7. Holy Road
  8. Octavia 

See Cold Cave on tour this summer and fall:

September 5  Santiago, Chile @ Blondie
September 6  Sao Paolo, Brasil @ Carioca
September 7  Lima, Peru @ C Festiva
September 8  San Jose, Costa Rica @ Amon Solar
September 20  Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
September 22  San Diego, CA @ The Observatory
September 27  San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
September 28  Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
October 4  Brooklyn, NY @ The Monarch
October 5  Amityville, NY @ Amityville Music Hall
October 6  Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
October 11  Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
October 27  London, UK @ 02 Forum
November 2  Los Angeles, CA @ Substance Festival

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WSND DJ set list: Deep Dive of Henry Mancini

Thanks to all who listened to my Deep Dive of Henry Mancini. It was fun to put together and play for you.

Here’s the set list!

  1. Henry Mancini – The Pink Panther Theme
  2. Rudolph Kopp – The Crusades opening theme
  3. Henry Mancini – Sing Sing Sing (live)
  4. Cole Porter – Night and Day
  5. Glenn Miller – Moonlight Becomes You
  6. Tex Beneke – I’ve Got a Girl in Kalamazoo
  7. Henry Mancini – The Glenn Miller story love theme
  8. Henry Mancini – Creature from the Black Lagoon opening theme
  9. Henry Mancini – Tarantula opening theme
  10. Henry Mancini – This Island Earth opening theme
  11. Henry Mancini – The Benny Goodman Story opening theme
  12. Henry Mancini – Sleepy Lagoon
  13. Henry Mancini – Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (request)
  14. Henry Mancini – Touch of Evil opening theme
  15. Henry Mancini – Peter Gunn theme
  16. Henry Mancini – Free and Easy
  17. Henry Mancini – The Blues and the Beat
  18. Henry Mancini – Mr. Lucky (vocal version)
  19. Henry Mancini – Bachelor in Paradise
  20. Henry Mancini – Moon River Cha Cha
  21. Henry Mancini – Experiment in Terror
  22. Johnny Hartman – Charade
  23. The Coffin Daggers – A Shot in the Dark
  24. Henry Mancini – Hatari! theme (request)
  25. Henry Mancini – Baby Elephant Walk (live)
  26. Frank Sinatra – Days of Wine and Roses
  27. Henry Mancini – Lujon (Midnight remix)
  28. Henry Mancini – Dear Heart
  29. The Anita Kerr Quartet – Dreamsville
  30. Henry Mancini – The Sweetheart Tree
  31. Andy Williams – In the Arms of Love
  32. Henry Mancini – Romeo and Juliet love theme
  33. Henry Mancini – The Night Visitor main theme
  34. Henry Mancini and Doc Severinsen – Brass on Ivory
  35. Henry Mancini – Mystery Movie theme
  36. Henry Mancini – Whistling Away the Dark
  37. Johnny Mathis – The Greatest Gift
  38. Tom Jones (with Peter Sellers) – Come to Me
  39. Henry Mancini – All His Children
  40. Henry Mancini – What’s Happening!! theme
  41. Henry Mancini – Frenzy rejected main title
  42. Henry Mancini – Nightwing main title
  43. Henry Mancini – Monster on the Campus main title
  44. Henry Mancini – Newhart theme
  45. Dudley Moore – It’s Easy to Say (live)
  46. Julie Andrews – Crazy World
  47. Henry Mancini – The Thorn Birds main theme
  48. Henry Mancini – Lifeforce theme
  49. Henry Mancini – Life in a Looking Glass
  50. Henry Mancini – Silver Streak main theme
  51. Henry Mancini – Green Onions
  52. Henry Mancini – Moment to Moment
  53. Henry Mancini – Charlie’s Angels theme

Tune in August 18, 2024 for my last Deep Dive of the summer!

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WSND DJ set list: Throwback Thursday – August 08, 2024

Thanks for all who listened and chimed in with requests for Throwback Thursday. Here’s the set list from August 08, 2024!

  1. Van Halen – Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love (1978)
  2. Blondie – One Way or Another (live) (1979)
  3. 10cc – Rubber Bullets (1973)
  4. Grateful Dead – Big Boss Man (1971) (live) (request)
  5. The Rolling Stones – Miss You (1978) (live)
  6. Bad Company – Bad Company (1974) (request)
  7. Earth, Wind & Fire – Shining Star (1975)
  8. Betty Davis – Is It Love or Desire? (1976)
  9. Michael Jackson – Rock with You (1979)
  10. Sparks – This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us (1974)
  11. Hot Chocolate – Every 1’s a Winner (1978)
  12. T. rex – Metal Guru (1972)
  13. Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy (1978)
  14. Squeeze – Cool for Cats (1979)
  15. Buzzcocks – What Do I Get? (1979)
  16. The Meteors – Shout So Loud (1981)
  17. The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? (1984)
  18. Iggy Pop – Lust for Life (live) (1981) (request)
  19. Simple Minds – Up on the Catwalk (1984)
  20. Devo – Girl U Want (1980)
  21. Kool & The Gang – Get Down on It (1981)
  22. Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough (1981)
  23. Bananarama – Cruel Summer (1983)
  24. The Cars – Shake It Up (1981)
  25. The Power Station – Communication (1985)
  26. Wall of Voodoo – Far Side of Crazy (1985)
  27. New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle (1986)
  28. Yazoo – Don’t Go (1982)
  29. Cameo – Word Up (1986)
  30. Indeed – Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (1982)
  31. Fluke – Groovy Feeling (Make Mine a 99) (1993)
  32. John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt – I’m in the Mood (1998)
  33. John Mayall – Run (1995)
  34. The White Stripes – Cannon (1999)
  35. Burlap to Cashmere – Anybody Out There? (1998) (request)
  36. Natalie Merchant – San Andreas Fault (1995)
  37. Garbage – Only Happy When It Rains (1995)
  38. Bleach – Fragment (1992)
  39. Tremors radio ad (1990)
  40. The Humpers – Anarchy Juice (1996)
  41. New Bomb Turks – Slung Jury (1999)
  42. Sleater-Kinney – The Size of Our Love (1999)
  43. Bangs – He’s a Groupie (1998)
  44. The Pharcyde – Passin’ Me By (1992)
  45. 3rd Bass – Microphone Techniques (1991)
  46. The Dirtbombs – Infra-Red (2005)
  47. Acid King – 2 Wheel Nation (2005)
  48. The Rolling Stones – Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (live) (2002) (request)
  49. Gossip – 8th Wonder (2009)
  50. Spider-Man radio ad (2002)
  51. Treat Her Right – My Dog Can Bark (2007)
  52. Twinemen – Come Clean (2007)
  53. Skywave – Nothing Left to Say (2004)
  54. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Love Burns (2000)
  55. The Radio Dept. – Keen on Boys (2003)
  56. M.I.A. – Bingo (2005)
  57. Basement Jaxx – Romeo (2001)
  58. Lo Fidelity Allstars – Lo Fi’s in Ibiza (2002)
  59. Mauro Picotto – Pulsar (Original Tea mix) (2002)
  60. Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings – Better Things (2010)
  61. The Ronnie Wood Band – Big Boss Man (live) (2013) (request)
  62. LCD Soundsystem – You Wanted a Hit (2010)
  63. Leathers – Phantom Heart (2019)
  64. Monomotion – Ecocline Patterns (2019)
  65. And One – Dancing in the Factory (2011)
  66. Highlands – Staring Away (2019)
  67. Ancient River – Idle Threats (2010)
  68. Temples – Keep in the Dark (2014)
  69. Goat – The Light Within (2014)
  70. Bo Ningen – Henkan (2013)
  71. Kadavar – Doomsday Machine (2013)
  72. Deap Vally – Bad for My Body (2013)

I’m back on air August 13, 2024 with a new Deep Dive and then two hours of Nocturne!

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Wrecka Stow: Blackbird Records – Medina, Ohio

Located at 8 Public Square in Medina, Ohio, Blackbird Records has a wild mix of stuff in it, partially because it shares the same building and door as a toy shop. Walk in the place, look left, and you’ll see this.

Look to the right, and you’ll see this.

The toy store has plenty of stuff ranging from signed football jerseys to Harry Potter collectibles. The record store’s stock is primarily vinyl albums and EPs.

The selection is a good mix of stuff for a small space. For instance, here’s an interesting bin.

Just here we have The Gap Band, Kenny Loggins, Grand Funk Railroad, and Ian Dury and The Blockheads all within easy reach of each other.

Looking for bargains? They have those, too.

Sheena Easton, Kenny Rogers, Wayne Newton, Buster Poindexter, and Climax Blues Band all in the same bargain bin. They also have some cool gig posters for sale, both originals and reprints. This one was a standout.

However, this one is the one thing I would’ve bought at the place if I had the money for it.

My late wife, Mandy, and I were at this show. It was the only time we got to see Nirvana, or Meat Puppets or The Boredoms. The Boredoms freaked out everyone in the audience. No one had any idea who they were or what they were doing. Meat Puppets dropped a solid set, and Nirvana had a fun time that even included taking a break until an audience member called his mom.

So, if anyone needs a Christmas gift idea for me, go to Blackbird Records. You’ll find plenty of options.

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Chicago’s new Warm Love Cool Dreams music festival to premiere September 28-29th at the Salt Shed.

Today, Empty Bottle Presents announces WARM LOVE COOL DREAMS, a newmulti-genre festival taking place September 28th and 29th at The Salt Shed. Featuring the triumphant return of The Jesus Lizard (their first Chicago show in over 6 years), as well as Kelela, Floating Points, Sister Nancy, Shabaka, Sextile, King Woman, and more, WARM LOVE COOL DREAMS is a two day, thoughtfully curated festival with no overlapping sets, each day feeling like a progression through a mixtape. Inspired by a line from Nelson Algren’s novel The Man With The Golden Arm, the criteria for the curation was to have each day of the festival occupy a side of a spectrum, from the fervid and energetic WARM LOVE to the calm and misty COOL DREAMS.

Each day’s programming will move through a carefully crafted sonic spectrum, defining WARM LOVE and COOL DREAMS as their own micro-genres. Artists falling into the WARM LOVE category speak to the more experimental, fiery, and untamed, the likes of which you’d hear from Jesus Lizard, Sextile, and King Woman. Meanwhile, COOL DREAMS leans into the more inviting or chill tones, the likes of which you’d hear from Kelela, Floating Points, and Sister Nancy.

WARM LOVE COOL DREAMS continues Empty Bottle Presents’ legacy of deeply adventurous and thematic programming, building off their Beyond The Gate shows at Bohemian National Cemetery, immersive Plantasia events at Garfield Park Conservatory, and annual Music Frozen Dancing winter block party outside of Empty Bottle.

“The simplicity and beauty of the ideas of warm love and cool dreams was something that occupied my mind for many years,” explains WARM LOVE COOL DREAMS curator Brent Heyl. “ We wanted to build a festival framework that creates an opportunity to showcase the artists we love in a way that is concise, unique, and also rips. Playing into these two concepts feels like the way to do just that.”

Tickets are on sale now, with general admission tickets for the weekend set at $90 and premium tickets at $200. Single day tickets will be $49 and $115, respectively. All tickets will be available at www.emptybottle.com. The full daily lineups can be found below, with more auxiliary programming to be announced soon.

WARM LOVE LINEUP (Saturday, September 28th)
The Jesus Lizard
Sextile
Provoker
King Woman
Bendik Giske
Aitis Band
Stress Positions

COOL DREAMS LINEUP (Sunday, September 29th)
Kelela
Floating Points
Sister Nancy
Shabaka
454
John Glacier
SML

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