DJ set list for July 26, 2018

Thanks to all who listened to my first WSND show in a couple weeks.  I was a bit late getting into the studio due to more problems with my ID card and pass code, but a kind janitor let me into the building.  Here’s my set list from last night, which includes many artists I saw at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.  I’ll have a full review of that on the blog soon.

  1. Screaming Females – Agnes Martin
  2. Adam and the Ants – Red Scab
  3. The Texas Gentlemen – Pain (requested)
  4. Melkbelly – Kid Kreative
  5. The Sword – The Warp Riders
  6. Devo – Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA
  7. Alvvays – Plimsoll Punks
  8. Lucy Dacus – I Don’t Want to Be Funny Anymore
  9. Natural Information Society and Bitchin’ Bajas – Anemometer
  10. Toolbox Murders vintage radio ad
  11. Skyland Drive-In Theatre vintage intermission ad
  12. Robert Palmer – Trick Bag
  13. Tame Impala – The Less I Know the Better
  14. Zola Jesus – Dangerous Days
  15. Rival Sons – Manifest Destiny Part 1 (requested)
  16. Moses Sumney – Doomed
  17. The Town that Dreaded Sundown vintage radio ad
  18. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band – Tarotplane
  19. Big Daddy Kane – Ain’t No Half Steppin’ (requested)
  20. Diagonal – Find the Sun
  21. Chaka Khan – Like Sugar
  22. Kelly Lee Owens – Arthur

I should be back on air at least once in August.  Stay tuned.

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Desert Daze 2018 lineup released…and it’s almost more psychedelia than you can handle.

The annual Desert Daze music festival in Lake Perris, California has unveiled a whopper of a lineup for their October 12-14th event.  Tame Impala are headlining while promising new material in 2019.  Shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine are also playing new material nowadays.  Unstoppable touring machines King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are continuing their roll across the United States.  Other must-see acts include Ty Segall, A Place to Bury Strangers, Earthless, Follakzoid, All Them Witches, True Widow, Imarhan, and Here Lies Man.

I don’t know if I can make it to this one, but you should if you can.  It might be a new annual destination for me.

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Fat Possum Records to remaster and re-release four classic X albums.

FAT POSSUM RECORDS TO RELEASE REMASTERED X ALBUMS IN 2018
‘LOS ANGELES’
‘WILD GIFT’
‘UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN’
‘MORE FUN IN THE NEW WORLD’

Photo: Gary Leonard

Fat Possum Records and X are teaming up.  Effective immediately, Fat Possum Records will begin distributing for the world four classic X albums; ‘Los Angeles’ (1980), ‘Wild Gift’ (1981), ‘Under The Big Black Sun’ (1982), and ‘More Fun In The New World’ (1983). There are plans to release remastered versions of all four albums by the end of 2018. More details to come.
Formed in 1977, X quickly established themselves as one of the best bands in the first wave of LA’s flourishing punk scene;  becoming legendary leaders of a punk generation.  Featuring vocalist Exene Cervenka, vocalist/bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom, and drummer DJ Bonebrake, their debut 45 was released on the seminal Dangerhouse label in 1978, followed by seven studio albums released from 1980-1993. Over the years, the band has released several critically acclaimed albums, topped the musical charts with regularity and performed their iconic hits on top television shows such as Letterman and American Bandstand.  X’s first two studio albums, Los Angeles and Wild Gift are ranked by Rolling Stone among the top 500 greatest albums of all time.  The band continues to tour with the original line-up fully intact.  In 2017, the band celebrated their 40th year anniversary in music with a Grammy Museum exhibit opening, a Proclamation from the City of Los Angeles and being honored at a Los Angeles Dodgers game where Exene threw out the first pitch and John Doe sang the National Anthem. The band continues to tour with the original line-up and are currently on the road, including select dates with The Psychedelic Furs.
X Tour Itinerary:
July 25  SOMO Village Event Center – Rohnert Park, CA (w/The Psychedelic Furs)
July 27  Oregon Zoo Summer Concerts – Portland, OR (w/The Psychedelic Furs)
July 29  Woodland Park Zoo – Seattle, CA (w/The Psychedelic Furs)
July 31  The Rockwell/The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT (w/The Psychedelic Furs, The FIXX)
Aug 2 The Ogden – Denver, CO (w/The Psychedelic Furs)
Aug 17 The Cave – Big Bear, CA
Aug 18 Burton Chase Park – Marina Del Rey, CA
Aug 19 North Park – San Diego, CA
Aug 22 Marty’s -Tustin, CA
Aug 23 Marty’s – Tustin, CA
Aug 24 Weins Family Winery- Temecula, CA
Aug 31 Del Mar Hall – St. Louis, MO
Sept 2 Muddy Roots Music Festival – Cookeville, TN
Sept 3 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
Sept 4 The Cat’s Cradle –  Chapel Hill, NC
Sept 5 The Neighborhood Theatre – Charlotte, NC
Sept 7 Sidetracks – Huntsville, AL
More Dates To Be Announced!
Los Angeles (1980)
1. Your Phone’s Off the Hook, But You’re Not
2. Johnny Hit and Run Paulene
3. Soul Kitchen
4. Nausea
5. Sugarlight
6. Los Angeles
7. Sex and Dying in High Society
8. The Unheard Music
9. The World’s a Mess, It’s In My Kiss
Wild Gift (1981)
1. The Once Over Twice
2. We’re Desperate
3. Adult Books
4. Universal Corner
5. I’m Coming Over
6. It’s Who You Know
7. In This House That I Call Home
8. Some Other Time
9. White Girl
10. Beyond and Back
11. Back 2 the Base
12. When Our Love Passed Out On the Couch
13. Year 1
Under the Big Black Sun (1982)
1. The Hungry Wolf
2. Motel Room In My Bed
3. Riding With Mary
4. Come Back To Me
5. Under the Big Black Sun
6. Because I Do
7. Blue Spark
8. Dancing with Tears In My Eyes
9. Real Child of Hell
10. How I (Learned My Lesson)
11. The Have Nots
More Fun in the New World (1983)
1. The New World
2. We’re Having Much More Fun
3. True Love
4. Poor Girl
5. Make the Music Go Bang
6. Breathless
7. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
8. Devil Doll
9. Painting the Town Blue
10. Hot House
11. Drunk In My Past
12. I See Red
13. True Love Pt. #2
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Introducing one of your new favorite artists – Black Belt Eagle Scout

INTRODUCING BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT

DEBUT ALBUM, MOTHER OF MY CHILDREN,
OUT SEPTEMBER 14TH ON SADDLE CREEK

LISTEN TO LEAD SINGLE, “SOFT STUD”
https://youtu.be/LXsfiYigeg4

photo credit – Jason Quigley

“Having this identity—radical indigenous queer feminist—keeps me going. My music and my identity come from the same foundation of being a Native woman.” Katherine Paul (aka KP) is Black Belt Eagle Scout, and Mother of My Children is her debut album, out September 14th on Saddle Creek. Recorded in the middle of winter near her hometown in Northwest Washington, Paul’s connection to the landscape’s eerie beauty are palpable throughout as the album traces the full spectrum of confronting buried feelings and the loss of what life was supposed to look like. Paul reflects, “I wrote this album in the fall of 2016 after two pretty big losses in my life. My mentor, Geneviève Castrée, had just died from pancreatic cancer and the relationship I had with the first woman I loved had drastically lessened and changed.” Heavy and heartbroken, Paul found respite from the weight of such loss in the creation of these songs that “are about grief and love for people, but also about being a native person in what is the United States today.”

On Mother of My Children, the songs weave together to capture both the enduring and fleeting experiences of loss, frustration, and dreaming. The structures are traditional, but the lyrics don’t adhere to any format other than what feels right in the moment. Mother of My Children begins with lead single  “Soft Stud,” which Paul describes as her “queer anthem.” It’s “about the hardships of queer desire within an open relationship.” “It’s a sprawling six minutes that feels surprisingly compact, tight nerves and circuitous guitars and muddy drums building and breaking” (Stereogum). “Indians Never Die,” a call out to colonizers and those who don’t respect the Earth, follows. As Standing Rock was happening, many people in Paul’s life were coming together to fight for the most basic necessity to sustain human life: water. “Our treaty rights weren’t being honored. Imagine hearing on the news that the government doesn’t support you as a human being and never has. They don’t care about the water, they don’t care about how they are destroying what is around them. Indigenous people are the protectors of this land. Indians never die because this is our land that we will forever protect in the present and the afterlife.”

Paul grew up in a small Indian reservation, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, surrounded by family focused on native drumming, singing, and arts. From an early age, Paul was singing and dancing at powwows with one of her strongest memories at her family’s own powwow, called the All My Relations Powwow. Paul reminisces, “When I was younger, my only form of music was through the songs my ancestors taught the generations of my family. Singing in our language is a spiritual process and it carries on through me in how I create music today.” With the support of her family and a handful of bootleg Hole and Nirvana VHS tapes, Paul taught herself how to play guitar and drums as a teenager. In 2007, she moved to Portland, Oregon to attend college and get involved with the Rock’n’Roll Camp for Girls eventually diving deep into the city’s music scene playing guitar and drums in bands while evolving her artistry into what would later become Black Belt Eagle Scout.

Mother of My Children is a life chapter gently preserved. The access listeners have to such vulnerability feels special and generous.

Listen To Black Belt Eagle Scout’s “Soft Stud” —
https://youtu.be/LXsfiYigeg4
Mother of My Children Tracklist:
1. Soft Stud
2. Indians Never Die
3. Keyboard
4. Mother of My Children
5. Yard
6. I Don’t Have You In My Life
7. Just Lie Down
8. Sam, A Dream
Pre-order Mother of My Children —
Black Belt Eagle Scout Tour Dates:
July 23 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
July 24 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza

Mother of My Children cover art
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Wild Nothing’s groovy new single, “Partners in Motion,” is a sweet track for the summer.

Wild Nothing Presents “Partners In Motion,”
New Single Off Indigo, Out August 31st On Captured Tracks

Listen HERE

photo credit – Cara Robbins
 “a project that has virtually perfected the art of writing about romance”
– Vulture, Summer Music Preview

“an intoxicating, pristine cut of melancholy pop”
– The A.V. Club, 2018’s Second Half Preview

“A retro sensibility is nothing new for Tatum, but the urge sounds more fleshed out on
[‘Letting Go’], more bright and ambitious. . . The effort to stay true to his digital
creations shines through in the tight, sparkly rendering.” — Stereogum

“[‘Letting Go’]s chiming guitar and Tatum’s sweet falsetto in the chorus bring you to a pastel-painted room where there’s a slow-motion pillow fight going on.” — Paste

“On ‘Letting Go,’ Jack Tatum’s Wild Nothing project is working in familiar dreamy and nostalgic territory, though this is a little more frenetic and muscular than usual. By the time the bridge hits, though, Wild Nothing shows a willingness to experiment and wade into uncomfortable waters. It’s enough to pique interest into what’s to come.” – Uproxx

Wild Nothing, the project of Los Angeles-based Jack Tatum, will release his fourth album, Indigo, on August 31st via Captured Tracks. He’ll tour North America for a month beginning mid-October with newly announced support, Men I Trust. After presenting the chiming guitar and sweeping synths of lead single, “Letting Go,” Wild Nothing now shares the ’80s-heavy “Partners In Motion” featuring saxophonist Taylor Plenn. As discussed with FADER, it’s a song he’s been inching towards for years.

Recorded at LA’s Sunset Sound and produced by Tatum and Jorge Elbrecht, Indigo is its own cyborg world, utilizing the artful mechanisms of human touch with the precision of technology to create the classic, pristine sound Tatum has been seeking his entire career. After a decade of making music as Wild Nothing, Indigo finds Tatum at his most efficient, calculated, and confident. It’s both a return to the fresh, transcendent sweep of his debut, 2010’s Gemini, and a culmination of heights reached, paths traveled, and lessons learned while creating the follow-ups, Nocturne and Life of Pause.

To make Indigo, Tatum confronted the Man vs. Machine dichotomy by seizing on the surrounding synergy. In his studio, he would write pieces of songs with whatever instruments and programs held his interest on any given day. He built a series of highly detailed demos, intending to record the final package swiftly with a live band in a studio and in a clear, bright, 1980’s-inspired fidelity. “I wanted it to sound like a classic studio record, as close as I could get it there. It just boils down to me wanting to fit into some larger narrative, musically, in terms of these artists I love,” says Tatum. “I think about how my music will age. Ideas of ‘timeless’ are going to be different—so if Indigo is not timeless then it’s at least ‘out of time.’”

Stream “Partners In Motion” –
https://youtu.be/6ksagHpqCKo

Stream “Letting Go” –
https://WildNothing.lnk.to/LettingGo

Pre-order Indigo –
https://WildNothing.lnk.to/Indigo

Wild Nothing Tour Dates:
(all shows with Men I Trust)
Tue. Oct. 16 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
Wed. Oct. 17 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
Thu. Oct. 18 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
Fri. Oct. 19 – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
Sat. Oct. 20 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Sun. Oct. 21 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
Tue. Oct. 23 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Wed. Oct. 24 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
Thu. Oct. 25 – Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory
Fri. Oct. 26 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater
Sat. Oct. 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
Tue. Oct. 30 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
Wed. Oct. 31 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial Vancouver
Thu. Nov. 1 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
Fri. Nov. 2 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux
Sat. Nov. 3 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Sun. Nov. 4 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Tue. Nov. 6 – Omaha, NE @ The Slowdown
Wed. Nov. 7 – Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center
Thu. Nov. 8 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
Fri. Nov. 9 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sat. Nov. 10 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
Mon. Nov. 12 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Tue. Nov. 13 – Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
Wed. Nov. 14 – Boston, MA @ Royale Nightclub
Fri. Nov. 16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Sat. Nov. 17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
Sun. Nov. 18 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

Download hi-res press images and cover art –
www.pitchperfectpr.com/wild-nothing/

Indigo cover art
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Pitchfork Music Festival artist spotlight: Zola Jesus

Singer, songwriter, and electro / goth musician Zola Jesus will be playing an early set on Saturday at Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival.  Her voice is something to behold, and her near-darkwave music will be jarring under the afternoon sun.  There is a chance of rain, however, and that would be perfect for her somber songs.  Don’t miss this one.

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Pitchfork Music Festival artist spotlight: Tame Impala

Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala have a huge following.  They’ve been together since 2007 and have produced quite a bit of material in the last 11 years.  I missed them in Austin a few years ago when they played the Levitation festival there, but they’re closing the Pitchfork Music Festival on Friday.  I’m sure it will be a packed set and a big freak-out for a crowd dehydrated, sunburned, and fuzzy from alcohol, fried chicken, and other odd substances.

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Pitchfork Music Festival artist spotlight: Tierra Whack

Replacing Earl SweatshirtPitchfork Music Festival , who has cancelled his upcoming performance at Chicago’s (possibly due to recent depression issues over the death of his father, some sources say), Tierra Whack is a welcome addition with her experimental hip hop and visual artistry.  She has a lovely voice, fine mic skills, and a neat aesthetic that combines hip hop culture with 80’s retro, glam, and soul.

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Pitchfork Music Festival artist spotlight: Mount Kimbie

The British electro duo Mount Kimbie make neat music that combines synthetic beats with dream-pop vocals, guitar, and some live percussion.  They’re another band that’s new on my radar.  I love discovering new bands through festivals, and their performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival might be a nice surprise.

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Pitchfork Music Festival artist spotlight: Open Mike Eagle

Hometown artist Open Mike Eagle will be working the Blue Stage on July 20th at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.  Mr. Eagle has a good blend of electronic beats and a smooth flow that discusses issues serious to him, his hometown, and the world in general.  I haven’t heard much of his material, but I do like the few things I have heard.  It should be an interesting set.

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