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The Gilded Palace of Sin – You break our hearts, we’ll tear yours out (Central Control)
10 January 2010Love TOM WAITS, NICK CAVE and JIM WHITE? Then THE GILDED PALACE OF SIN is your new favorite band.
Tin Huey – Before Obscurity: The Bushflow Tapes (Smog Veil)
11 December 2009TIN HUEY is the redheaded stepchild of Akron’s underground rock scene in the 70s.
Devo with JP Inc. - The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza (New York, NY) - November 20, 2009
29 November 2009Whether you want to call Devo legends or not, their highly influential legacy is finally being given its due.
Black Tape For a Blue Girl – 10 Neurotics (Projekt)
28 October 200910 Neurotics has fourteen songs and revolves around themes of alternative sexuality.
Chris Connelly – Pentland Firth Howl (Busted Flat)
10 October 2009Pentland Firth Howl is a song cycle about Connelly’s native Scotland that strips down to just voice and guitar.
David Sylvian – Manafon (Samadhi Sound)
12 September 2009Manafon finds Sylvian continuing down the improvisational path, but backed by a gaggle of musicians from the jazz, pop and electronic worlds.
Harmonia & Eno ‘76 – Tracks and Traces (Groenland/High Wire)
6 September 2009Tracks and Traces moves through evocative synthesizer washes and melodies that take the brain into a cosmos within and without.
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Dawn of the Cycads (Cuneiform)
10 July 2009They were basically a modern classical chamber group playing written music, but they played at rock clubs, and despite the unusual instrumentation Birdsongs rocked hard – in a looping, minimalist way.
Devin Townsend Project – Ki (InsideOut/SPV)
29 May 2009Now that DEVIN TOWNSEND has laid his many projects to rest, he can worry less about which tune fits which sobriquet and just thrown everything he likes onto one album.
Three SF Bay Area Radio DeeJays
1 May 2009I think once having the internet in your car is a normal thing, FM stations will suffer heavily, escpeially if commercial free stations such as Soma FM still exist. I’m pretty sure that college stations will continue to broadcast on line and perhaps having these online station options available in cars will finally pull some of the stranglehold away from Clearchannel….Who knows, it might be just what the music industry needs to recover from this current dire situation it has fallen into.” (Elise Nordling)
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of February 7
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The Joy Formidable – A Balloon Called Moaning (Pure Groove U.K.)
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The Joy Formidable – First You Have to Get Mad limited edition live LP (Pure Groove U.K.)
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Rogue Wave – Permalight (Brushfire)
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Sloan – Hit & Run digital EP (Murder)
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Catherine Wheel – Ferment (Cherry Red U.K.)
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Lou Barlow – Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
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Mission of Burma – The Sound The Speed The Light (Matador)
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Visqueen – Message to Garcia (Local 638)
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For Against – Never Been (Words on Music)
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The Dimes – The King Can Drink the Harbour Dry (Pet Marmoset)