Jesse Jarnow's Frank and Earthy Blog

Detailed playlist (with listening links).

1. The Prisonaires - "just walkin' in the rain" - Night Train To Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970 (CMF)
2. Mike Nesmith - "Looks Like Rain" - Rarities
3. Fabio Orsi/Gianluca Becuzzi - "Act III" - So Far (Porter)
4. Tian-Yi Liu - "Fang Zhi Mang (Busy with Weaving)" (Zhonggou Changpian) [feat. "13 I 73 5 : 35 - 6 : 14 : 03 PM NYC " by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela from The Theater of Eternal Music (Shandar) & 5. Harry Patch scale loop (via John Schneider/BBC/YouTube)]
6. Ducktails - "Beach Point Pleasant" - Ducktails (Not Not Fun)
7. Evan Parker - "Aerobatics 2" - Saxophone Solos (PSI) [feat. "Rain" (unbackwards) by the Beatles, from "Hey Jude" (Capitol)]
8. Grateful Dead - "The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion" - Grateful Dead (Warner Brothers)

9. VietNam - "Welcome To My Room" - VietNam (Kenado)
10. Hanatarash - "Ultra Cocker" - Hanatarash (Alchemy)
11. Television - "Marquee Moon" - The Blow-Up (Roir)
12. Pocahaunted - "Ashes Is White" - Island Diamonds (Arbor)
13. The Wipers - "D-7" - Is This Real? (Park Ave)
14. Neil Young - "What Did You Do To My Life?" - The Archives, vol. 1 (1963-1972) (Warner Reprise)

15. Sly and the Family Stone - "You Can Make It If You Try" - The Woodstock Experience (Sony/Legacy)
16. Marlena Shaw - "California Soul" - Spice of Life (Cadet)
17. Darren Solomon - "In Bb 2.0" [http://inbflat.net/]
18. Greg Davis - "Pythagorean" - Primes (Autumn)
Badings - "Genese" - More Electronic Music (Basta) [feat. "13 I 73 5 : 35 - 6 : 14 : 03 PM NYC " by La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela from The Theater of Eternal Music (Shandar)]
19. The Present - "Saltwater Trails" - The Way We Are (Loaf)
20. Daniel Higgs - "All Cherished Things" - Metapsychotic Melodies (Holy Mountain)
21. Borbetomagus - "Chiote a l'esprit" - A Go Go (Agaric)
22. Harry Taussig - "Dorian Sonata" - Fate Is Only Once (Tompkins Square)
23. Sun Araw - "Beams" - Beach Head (Not Not Fun)
24. Hikashu - "Shuffer" - Hikashu History (Tzadik)
25. SyZyGys - "Badol Bashimu" - Complete Studio Recordings (Tzadik)
26. Ojooba Ha - "Polhaee Skakastah" - Raks! Raks! Raks! 17 Golden Garage Psych Nuggets from the Iranian 60s Scene (Raks)
27. Bobb Trimble - "You're In My Dreams" - Jupiter Transmission (Paralell World)

28. Cryptacize - "What You Can't See Is" - Mythomania (Asthmatic Kitty)
29. The Hooterville Trolley - "No Silver Bird" - Get Ready To Fly: Pop-Psych From The Norman Petty Vaults (Big Beat UK)
30. Sir Douglas Quintet - "What About Tomorrow?" - 1+1+1=4: Return of Doug Saldana (Raven)
31. Merle Haggard - "Silver Wings" - A Portrait of Merle Haggard (Capitol)
32. Paul Simon - "St. Judy's Comet" - There Goes Rhymin' Simon (Warner)
33. Gene Clark - "She Don't Care About Time" - Roadmaster (Edsel UK)

34. John Biz - "Mornings Made of Gold" - tXXXs demos (Industrial Park)

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Posted by Jesse at 11:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Detailed playlist (with listening links).

1. Tall Dwarfs - "Over the Waves" - The Sky Above The Mud Below (Carrot Top) [Get better, Chris!]
2. Cause Co-Motion! - "And You Wonder" - Because Because Because EP (Slumberland)
3. The Drones - "I'm Down Today" - Off the Wall (Past and Present)

4. - "Surprise Ending" - After the Fox OST (Rykodisc)
5. Darlene Love - "Long Way to Be Happy" - Back to Mono (Abkco)
6. Dorothy Ashby - "Soul Vibrations" - Afro-Harping (Verve)
7. Serge Gainsbourg - "Relax Baby Be Cool" - Aux Armes Et Caetera (Sunny Side)
8. Nazir Ali [Feat. Nahid Akhtar] - "Society Girl" - The Sounds of Wonder! (Finders Keepers)
9. Levon Helm - "Tennessee Jed" - Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer/Vanguard)

10. Dave Longstreth & Sam Grossman - "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" - Todd P's Springtime Unamplified Acoustic BBQ 2006, Roosevelt Island, New York City [via YouTube]
11. Christopher DeLaurenti - "Before Patrushka (excerpt)" - Favorite Intermissions (GD Stereo)
12. Jonathan Goldberger - "Vietsounds field recordings" - Let Freeform Ring: 2009 Marathon Premium for Stochastic Hit Parade (WFMU)
13. Asian Blues Dude & G Train - 12 June 2009 Lormier/Metropolitan
14. Sony Pavilion - Consumer Electronics Show 2006
15. bedecken procession - 14 June 2009 Jeff & Pam's wedding [Mazel tov!]
16. Jeff Mangum - "Orange Twin Field Works, v. 1 (excerpt)" - Orange Twin Field Works, v. 1 (Orange Twin)
17. Eight Lamas from Drepung - "Purifying the Environment" - Tibetan Sacred Temple Music cassette (Shining Star)
18. Deep Listening Band - "Cave Water" - Troglodyte's Delight (What Next?)
19. Steve Ward and Jeff Larson - "Twin Solid State Musical Tesla Coils Out of Phase" [via YouTube]
20. The Nether Dawn - "Greet the Evening with a Kapai" - Outer Dark (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
21. Bill Bissett & the Mandan Massacre - "She's A Very Good Cook" - Awake In th Red Desert (Gear Fab)
22. Gregg Kowalsky - "Into the Marshes They Drove Me" - Through the Cardial Window (Kranky)
23. Emeralds - "Underwater Mountains" - Allegory of Allergies (Weird Forest)
24. - "Invitation of the Dance" - Music Box Waltz Melodies cassette (Bornand Music Box Co.)
25. Daniel Hecht - "Baba Dream Songs" - Wayfaring Strangers: Guitar Soli (Numero Group)
26. J.G. Thirwell - "Descension" - The Venture Bros : The Music Of JG Thirlwell (Williams Street)
27. Sonic Youth - "Walkin Blue" - The Eternal (Matador)
28. Amorphous Androgynous - "Mr. S Sponge's Groovy Oscillations" - A Psychedelic Guide To Monsterism Island (Lo Recordings)
29. Lydia Mendoza - "Olvidarte Jamas" - Excavated Shellac: Volume 1

30. 15 Degrees - "3.4.4" - Resting On A (Edgetone)
31. Ira Bernstein - "American Step Dance Medley" - Ten Toe Percussion: Clog, Tap, and Step Dnacing (Global Village)
32. Tavagna - "Dies Irae" - A Capella (Silex)
33. Holger Hiller - "Train Stations and their Melodies" - Little Present
34. William Parker - "Lights of Lake George" - Double Sunrise Over Neptune (Aum Fidelity)
35. Serengeti & Polyphonic - "Dawn Under The Bridge" - Terradactyl (Anticon)
36. A Broken Consort - "The Elder Lie" - Box of Birch (Tompkins Square)
37. Peter Laughner - "Lullaby" - Take the Guitar Player for a Ride (Tim Kerr)
38. Kath Bloom and Loren Connors - "Light from the Lighthouse" - Sing the Children Over (Chapter)
39. Akron/Family - "Suchness" - Akron/Family (Young God)

40. Tall Dwarfs - "Think Small" - Fork Songs (Flying Nun)

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Posted by Jesse at 11:43 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Detailed playlist here (with listening links).

1. Coleman Family - "People Has It Hard" - Local Custom: Downriver Revival (Numero Group)
2. The Other Ones - "The Laugh's On You" - She Was So Bad! Unissued Sixties Garage Acetates Volume 2 (Norton)
3. The Beach Boys - "Take A Load off Your Feet" - Surf's Up (Caribou/Epic)

4. Ducktails - "Boating" - II c30 (Future Sounds)
5. The Circulatory System - "The Spinning Continuous" - Signal Morning (Cloud)
6. Terry Riley - "A Rainbow In Curved Air" - A Rainbow In Curved Air (Sony)
7. Jim Altieri - "ACA drones" (tweeg.net)
8. David Parsons - "Three Spirits" - Tibetan Plateau / Sounds of the Mothership (Fortuna) [feat. Buddha Machine 2.0]
9. - "Kah Mohno (Dogon)" - Bush Taxi Mali: Field Recordings From Mali (Sublime Frequencies)
10. Lionel Marchetti, Voice Crack & Jerome Noetinger - "Afternoon 1" - Double Wash (Grob)
11. Nicky Andrews - "Desperate Boing" - Realistic Psychosis (Thomas Tomcat)
12. Conet Project - "Gong Station-Chimes" - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations (Irdial Disc)
13. Timothy Leary - "The Beginning of the Voyage (Heart Chakra)" - Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out OST (Performance)
14. A'Ohn - "Tov Don Deung Koun Ke (Incompatible Love)" - Tiny Toones (Tiny Toones)
15. Hugh Le Caine - "Noctune" - Pioneer in Electronic Music Design: Composition and Demonstrations: 1948-1972 (JWD)
16. Ben Reynolds - "How Day Earnt Its Night: 1.) Dawn Hurt, 2.) Noon and the Nails in the Coffin, 3.) Dusk and Darkness (Revolution)" - How Day Earnt Its Night (Tompkins Square)
17. Hermit Thrushes - "An Oil Fruit > Snowflake Heart" - Slight Fountain (Joyful Noise Recordings)
18. Wand - "Dead of Night" - Hard Knox (Ecstatic Peace)
19. Freddy Fender - "Dime" - 15 Early Tejano Classics (Arhoolie)

20. Grateful Dead - "Me and My Uncle" - 23 May 1969 Seminole Indian Village
21. Yo La Tengo - "Periodically Double or Triple" - Popular Songs (Matador)
22. Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band - "Ask the Elephant" - Don't Stop Me! EP (iTunes)
23. Talibam! - "Jim O'Rourke" - Boogie in the Breeze Blocks (ESP-Disk)
24. Jim O'Rourke - "Seven Stars" - Tiny Mixtapes Vol. 1: Darfur (Tiny Mixtapes)
25. Susie Ibarra - "Drum Sketch #1" - Drum Sketches (Innova)
26. The Institute of Sub-Dimensional Frequency Research - "Recordings from the 3rd Paradigm (June 2nd 1948)" - The Speech Organs (Unverified)
Max V. Matthews - "Eight Tone Canon" - Computer Music Currents 13 (Wergo)
27. Glenn Kotche - "Stagger On" - Introducing (Locust/Quakebasket)
28. Theo Bleckmann & John Hollenbeck - "(love is patient) (it doesn't matter)" - Static Still (GPE)
29. Olatunji - "Mbira" - More Drums of Passion (Columbia/Legacy) [feat. "Meditative Music 3" by Pulse Emitter (Pulse Emitter)]
30. Orchestre Sankai - "Rythme Kuatankuaka" - Zaire: Musiques Urbaines A Kinshasa (Urban Music in Kinshasa) (Ocora France) [feat. "Kah Mohno (Dogon)," "Tov Don Deung Koun Ke (Incompatible Love)," & Conet Project reprises]
31. Phish - "You Enjoy Myself" - 4 June 2009 Jones Beach / The White Tape (Phish.com/Phish Archives)
32. Soulful Strings - "I Wish It Would Rain" - Chess Psychedelic Jazz and Funky Grooves (Chess)
33. Kan Mikami - "It's Good That I Dream" - Anthology of Japanese New Folk 1960-1976 (WFMU/Janitor From Mars)

34. Lord Sitar - "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby?" - Mindexpanders, v. 1 (Past & Present)

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Posted by Jesse at 5:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Detailed playlist (with listening links).

1. The Mountain Goats - "Absolute Lithops Effect" - All Hail West Texas (Emperor Jones)
2. Dock Walsh - "Bathe In That Beautiful Pool" - Take Me To the River (Dust to Digital)

3. - "福岡ソフトバンクホークス" [Translation (and mp3) here: http://umpbump.com/press/2008/01/04/if-only-the-royals-had-a-fight-song-like-this/]
4. Hideki Okajima - "Okajima Okie-Dokie"
5. Wooden Shjips - "Contact" - Contact 12-inch (Mexican Summer)
6. Leighton Craig - "San Souci" - Fabrique (Room40)
7. Oneida - "I Will Haunt You" - Rated O (Jagjaguwar)
8. Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - "Kolob Canyon" - When Sweet Sleep Returned (Tee Pee)
9. D. Charles Speer & The Helix - "In Madagascar" - In Madagascar 7-inch (Sound@One)
10. Jeff Mangum - "I Love How You Love Me" - 4 February 2001 King's Arms

11. Los Blops - "Maquinaria" - Blops (Shadoks)
12. Grateful Dead - "Dark Star" - 30 May 1969 Springer's Inn
13. Haino Keiji and Yoshida Tatsuya - "Avenue D" - New Rap (Tzadik) [feat. rain, 29 May 2009, 9:05 am]
14. Machinefabriek - "Field Recordings, Rocks, Speakers" - Box Music
15. Forcefield - "Field Recording of 3rd Annual Roggabogga" - Roggaboggas (Load) [feat. "Heart of Darkness, ch. 1, pt. 2" by Joseph Conrad & "The Baby's Family, Second Series" by Heitor Villa-Lobos, performed by Jose Echaniz (Westminster Gold)]
16. Iancu Dumitrescu - "Nimbus" - Nimbus / Zenith (Generation Unlimited)
17. Sunn O))) - "Alice" - Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord)
18. Tom Paley - "Love Henry" - Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?

19. - "皆川おさむ　黒ネコのタンゴ"
20. Bellerose Instrumental Club (Stephanie Gralow, conductor) - "See Dees" [recorded 20 May 2009 by elementary school students in my hometown. Northport, represent!]
21. Grigory Smirnov - "Mirrors of Emptiness" [feat. side B from Sun Circle 12-inch (Lichen), The End (side A, excerpts) by Tachibana Hajime.]
22. Cindy McTee - "Metal Music" - CDCM Computer Music Series, v. 9 (Centaur)
23. Halim El-Dabh - "Leiyla Visitations Six" - Leiyla Visitations [feat. "Feel Good! Look Great! Exercise Along with Debbie Drake, Noel Regney and His Orchestra" (Epic)]
24. Victor Herrero - "Trenos" - Anacorta (Bo'Weavil)
25. Ween - "What Deaner Was Talking About" - Chocolate and Cheese (Elektra)

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Posted by Jesse at 6:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Detailed playlist (with listening links).

1. Wilco - "My Darling" - Summerteeth (Elektra) [Gudbuy t'Jay]
2. The Breeders - "Saints" - Last Splash (4AD)
3. Holy Modal Rounders - "Boobs A Lot" - Good Taste Is Timeless (Sundazed)

4. Bob Dylan - "Absolutely Sweet Marie" - Blonde on Blonde (Columbia) [Happy birthday, Bob.]
5. The Byrds - "Wasn't Born to Follow" - The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Columbia)
6. The Gladiators - "Fling It Gimme" - Studio One Singles (Studio One)
7. Eno Moebius Roedelius Plank - "Mr. Livingstone" - Begegnungen II (Sky)
8. Kawabata Moko & Michishita Shinsuke - "Me and Bitter, Psychedelic Tokyo" - Sex, Voyage and Echo Chamber (Beta-Lactam Ring) [feat. "Meditative Music 3" by Pulse Emitter]
9. Willie Lane - "Silversleeve Raga" - Known Quantity (Cord Art)
10. Telecult Powers - "Strange News From A Distant Star" - Kiss The Viper's Fang cassette (Obsolete Units) [feat. "Space-Time" lecture by Richard Feynman (from "Six Not So Easy Pieces")]
11. Sun Ra - "solos" - Live at Slug's Saloon (Transparency) [Happy (earthly) bday, Sonny.]
12. Starving Weirdos - "Shrine of the Post-Hypnotic" - Shrine of the Post-Hypnotic (Root Strata)
13. Chris Watson - "River mara At Midnight; Masai, Kenya; Sept. 1994" - Stepping Into the Darkness (Touch)
14. Gamelan Pacifica - "In a Landscape (John Cage)" - Trance Gong (What Next?) [feat. "Underwater Dynasty" by Magic Lantern (Urck)]
15. Goro Yamaguchi - "Koku-Reibo (A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky)" - Shakuhachi Music: A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky (Nonesuch Explorer Series)
16. Grouper - "Tidal Wave" - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
17. Evan Levine - "The Storm Outside (Amarillo, TX)" - From Jersey to LA (04-28-07 to 05-05-07)
18. Noah Creshevsky - "Circuit" - The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky (1971-1992) (Em)
19. Lambchop - "You're A Big Girl Now" - 22 October 2008 Orpheum, Graz, Austria

20. Caetano Veloso - "Lost in the Paradise" - Caetano Veloso (1969) (EMI)
21. JACK Quartet - "Ergma (Xenakis)" - Complete String Quartets (Mode)
22. Alain Savouret - "Etude aux sons realistes" - Archives GMR [2] L'Art de l'Etude
23. Masahiko Satoh & Sound Breakers - "Side A" - Amalgamation (Drone Syndicate)
24. Tossi Aaron - "Fernario" - Sings Folk Songs and Ballads (Prestige)
25. J.D. Emmanuel - "Sunrise Oer Galveston Bay" - Solid Dawn - Electronic Works, 1979-1982 (Kvist)
26. Jeffrey Lewis - "To Be Objectified" - Em Are I (Rough Trade)
27. John Cale - "You Know More Than I Know" - Medium Rare (Ryko)
28. Dinosaur Jr - "Feel A Whole Lot Better" - Time Between (A Tribute to the Byrds) (Imaginary)
29. Don Gibson - "Sea of Heartbreak"
30. Marc Bolan - "Sunken Rags" - A Wizard, A True Star (Edsel)
31. Elvis Costello - "I Dreamed of My Old Lover" - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane (Hear Music)
32. Emmitt Rhodes - "Long Time No See" - Emmitt Rhodes (Dunhill)
33. Johnny Cash - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
34. Sonny Curtis - "A Hard Day's Night" - Beatle Hits Flamenco Guitar Style (El)

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Posted by Jesse at 6:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Feature:
American Beautys: More other-worldly psych-rock investigations with Akron/Family (Village Voice)
Suggested Uses for Buddha Machine 2.0

Albums:
Willie and the Wheel - Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel
Preteen Weaponry - Oneida
Fuckbook - The Condo Fucks
Swoon - Silversun Pickups

Live:
The Dead at Angel Orensanz Center, Gramercy Theater, Roseland Ballroom, 30 March 2009 (Village Voice blog)

Movies:
The Limits of Control (Paste)

Print:
o June Relix (Phish cover): album reviews of Black Moth Super Rainbow, Crystal Antlers, Heroes compilation.
o Paste #52 (Decemberists cover): feature on reading Harry Potter and Marcel Proust; album review of the Silversun Pickups

Posted by Jesse at 6:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Lost in the post-holiday malaise...

Suggested Uses for the Buddha Machine 2.0
by Jesse Jarnow

FM3's Buddha Machine 2.0, an ugly plastic box that emits nine different ambient loops and which looks like a transistor radio, was practically designed for urban life. Inspired by the drone boxes at Buddhist temples in Asia, it is a chilled escape from Twittered-out internet devices, mp3 players, stray noise (cultural or literal), and even well-meaning friends.

The new edition of Christian Virant and Zhang Jian's Buddha Machine (first issued in 2005) is the post-holiday balm to end all balms. Because now it has pitch control. Armed with a headphone jack, a small tinny speaker, nine new loops, and a nearly infinite life from two AA batteries, the Buddha Machine--$23 + shipping from Forced Exposure--and its flexibility might be your new bff. (That or the $3.99 iPhone version, modeled on the original, which is also pretty rad, albeit too quiet.)

Suggested uses:
1. Put on before sleep. Place on pillow next to head.
2. Turn on in pocket while out and about, surruptiously adjusting as needed.
2a. With friends, keep volume low, free of detection. They will wonder why you are glowing.
2b. On subway, keep volume louder. The Buddha Machine is an interesting gauge of ambient noise.
3. For street use, try headphones. Though each track is a short loop, extended close listening creates illusions of developing pieces of music, replete with movements and sections.
3a. The Buddha Machine occasionally picks up interference from passing cell phones, like speakers at a club. But it also sometimes adds layers of localized static, like sonic dirt, which is kinda cool.
4. In noisy environment, such as a bar or party, crank Buddha Machine, press closely to ear, close eyes. Listen to the ocean in the seashell.
5. Different loops for different occasions. Each is named ("Mao," "Li," etc.), but better remembered by one's own mnemonic: the piano-bells, the downtempo one, the ice fields, etc..
6. Add new layer to whatever music is playing. Use pitch control to match key.
7. Go to LaMonte Young's Dream House. Upon exit, use pitch control to match drone, carry vibe home with you.
8. Float downstream. It is not dying, dude.

Posted by Jesse at 6:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Four reviews from this year & last that fell through the cracks between issues, editors, and/or otherwise never made it entirely to print.

THE CONDO FUCKS
Fuckbook
(Matador)

Provoked, perhaps, by Times New Viking's scuzz-fidelity challenge, "Times New Viking vs. Yo La Tengo," the Hoboken trio returns in their punchiest guise yet. Rehearsing for a stealth gig at Brooklyn's Magnetic Field under the moniker the Condo Fucks, Fuckbook is a rude sequel to 1990's whisper-heavy covers album, Fakebook. The Fucks shag ass through 11 deep cuts from the Kinks, the Zantees, the Flamin' Groovies, and other garage faves whose names begin with definite articles. The crappy recording adds delirious fuzz, shouted backing harmonies coming out like power chords, power chords coming out otherworldly. Guitarist Ira Kaplan (as Kid Condo) is at his gnarliest, solos oversaturating into utter bliss. The Tengos' sixth sense for covers has never been more unerring, nor--more importantly--more fun. Fuck!

WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
Willie & the Wheel
(Bismeaux)

Ironically, probably the best way to dig Willie Nelson's new session of vintage Western swing is through the tiniest, tinniest computer speakers one can find. Recorded with veteran string masters Asleep at the Wheel and spearheaded by late Stax producer Jerry Wexler, who passed away last August, Willie and the Wheel is neither hit nor miss. And that's a bummer, because a late-career disc of Nelson returning to Western swing should be awesome. But, despite all the weed, Willie's voice has barely aged, and he never really stopped singing Western swing anyway, so his takes on sweet, familiar tunes like "Hesitation Blues" and "Sittin' On Top of the World" are sweet and familiar and almost nothing more. The Wheel are crisp, but--just as with Nelson--it feels like just another session. Pumped through an iPhone, though, the recordings become three-dimensional, as if from a mysterious mirage of an old radio.

ONEIDA
Preteen Weaponry
(Jagjaguwar)

Though they recently issued the 7-inch Heads Ain't Ready featuring the Grateful Dead's "Cream Puff War" backed with "Cold Rain and Snow," Brooklyn's Oneida truly let their headiness blossom on Preteen Weaponry. Divided into three jams of roughly 13 minutes each, the music (credited to "Oneida members past, present, and future") floats on double-drummer crests, subterranean keyboard studies, a few vocals (on "Part II"), and Boredoms-like ecstasy. Coalescing the shorter, silvery fragments of their decade-plus career into a tripped whole, the band moves without lead voices, letting waves of noise create movement above Sonic Youth gallops and fuzz drones. Atmospheric but never sleepy, Preteen Weaponry is allegedly the prelude to a triple album due next year. One hopes that heads will be ready by then.

SILVERSUN PICKUPS
Swoon
(Dangerbird)

I ran an eighth-inch cable out of the headphone jack, ripped the encoded promo stream of the new Silversun Pickups album, Swoon, burned a dozen copies, and passed them around to the neighborhood kids. "The guitars sound like Sonic Youth," said Thomas, 6, who'd just BitTorrented 3 GB of noise rock. "I like that they're layered. But the drums are all, like, major label." Irma, who is seven, made a face like she'd eaten a sour gum ball. "It sounds like music you'd, like, hear on TV or something," she said, "like in an ad." Later, though, a street party broke out, with Swoon as the soundtrack. Somebody uncapped a fire hydrant. And then an ice cream truck gave out free cones. The next day, the street was littered with CDs. "I didn't even leak it," Irma said, satisfied. "They taught us not to. I'm starting my own band. I'm indier than them, anyway."

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Detailed playlist (with listening links).

1. Dillinger - "Natty Kung Fu" - When Rhythm Was King (Studio One)
2. King Khan & the Shrines - "le fils de jacques dutronc" - what is?! (Vice)

3. Dirty Projectors - "Stillness is the Move" - Bitte Orca (Domino)
4. Tadahiko Yokogawa - "Limbo" - Volo Interno (Sleepy Mammal Sound)
5. Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - "Eleking The Clay" - Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir (Alien8)
6. Harris Newman - "A Quarter To Call the Ambulance" - Decorated (Strange Attractors)
7. Ted Hayes - "On Ships at Sea and Stars" - Current Working Directory
8. Port of Notes - "Duet With Birds (a capella)" - Duet With Birds 12-inch (KYTHMAK)
9. Steve Gunn - "Side A" - End of the City 12-inch (Abandon Ship)
10. James Ferraro - "Side A" - Clear (Holy Mountain)
11. Pimmon - "Some Days Are Tones" - Smudge Another Yesterday (Preservation) [feat. "The Desert Music" by William Carlos Williams]
12. Sarah Cahill - "Ruth Crawford: 9 Preludes" - Crawford/Beyer (New Albion)
13. Eric Cordier - "Osorezan" - Osorezan (Herbal) [feat. "Bayaka Harp Songs" cassette, recorded by Louis Sarno (Anachron)]
14. Famous Blue Jay Singers of Birmingham - "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" - Vocal Quartets: Volume 2 D/E/F/G (1929-1932) (Document)
15. Newband - "Columbus (Dean Drummond)" - Microtonal Works by... (Mode 18)
16. Ata Ebtekar & the Iranian Orchestra For New Music - "Little Tales 4point5" - performing works of alireza mashayekhi (Sub Rosa)
17. Elfin Saddle - "Muskeg Parade" - Ringing For the Begin Again (Constellation)
18. Dragging an Ox Through Water - "a.) The Unbearable Dumbness of Being, b.) Earthen Airlock > Snowbank Treatmant" - The Tropics of Phenomenon (Freedom To Spend)
19. Wilco - "Bull Black Nova" - Wilco (The Album) (Nonesuch)

20. The Vaselines - "Son Of A Gun (demo)" - Enter the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
21. The Oh Sees - "Carol Ann" - Carol Ann 7-inch
22. Yoshida Tatsuya - "Drevoredo" - A Million Years (Magaibutsu)
23. LSD March - "Kumoitachikumo" - Uretakumo Nakunarutorika (Beta-Lactam Ring)
24. Patrick Watson - "Machinery of the Heavens" - Wooden Arms (Secret City)
25. Harry Partch - "Rotate The Body In All Its Planes (Ballad For Gymnasts)" - Harry Partch Collection, v. 3 (Composers Recordings)
26. Realax - "Melonaire" - Apollo Guise (Little Fury Things)
27. White - "Song 5" - Look Directly Into the Sun: China Pop 2007 (Bloodshot)
28. Bob Dylan - "This Dream of You" - Together Through Life (Columbia)

29. The Buzzcocks - "Love Is Lies" - Love Bites (EMI)

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Detailed playlist (with listening links).

1. Robbie the Werewolf - "Drums and Guns" - Live at the Waleback
2. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - "Motherly Love" - Joe's Corsage (Vaulternative)

3. The Questionmarks - "The Ghost Left Town" - The Questionmarks v. NYC, v. 1 (Little Fury Things)
4. Woods - "Where and What Are You?" - Songs of Shame (Shrimper)
5. Peter Walker - "Morning Joy" - Rainy Ray Raga (Vanguard)
6. Jean-Claude Vannier - "Le Roi Des Mouches Et La Confiture De Rouse" - L'enfant Assassin Des Mouches (Finders Keepers)
7. Akai Ikuo - "I Don't Like Such A Hot Day" - Language Without Words (Black Series) [feat. "Opening Prayer Song (Kiowa)" by David Apekaun]
8. Jacques Thollot - "Cecile" - Quand le son devient aigu, jeter la girafe à la mer (Futura)
9. Masayuki Takayanagi and New Direction For the Arts - "Second Movement" - Free Form Suite (Three Blind Mice) [feat. "Amber" by Ken Nordine from "Colors" (Asphodel)]
10. Jackson 5 - "I Was Made to Love Her" - Joyful Jukebox Music (Motown)

11. Akron/Family - "improv" - Live in the Love Room @ WFMU, 7 May 2009 [engineered by Chris Koltay and Jeff Simmons]

12. The What Four - "I'm Gonna Destroy that Boy" - Destroy That Boy: More Girls With Guitars (Ace)
13. Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet - "Strawberry Fields Forever" - Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet (Union Disc)
14. Derek Bailey and Anthony Braxton - "The second set - area 11 (open)" - First Duo Concert (Emanem)
15. The Pyramids - "Mogho Naba (King of Kings)" - King of Kings (Ikef)
16. Omar Souleyman - "La Sidounak Sayyada" - Dabke 2020 (Sublime Frequencies)
17. Keith Richards - "The Harder They Come" - Run Rudolph Run 7-inch (Rolling Stones Records)

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