"So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." JFK, June 10, 1963.
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Bonnie "Prince" Billy live in Santa Cruz, September 16, 2022
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Elizabeth Cotten To Be Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Elizabeth Cotten (1893 - 1987), guitar pioneer, is being inducted this year into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. That's fantastic news! If you haven't heard Libby Cotten sing "Freight Train", here's your chance to correct that oversight:
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Highly Anticipated Music Releases Fall/Winter 2022-2023
Highly Anticipated Music Releases September, October, November, 2022
The Afghan Whigs. How Do You Burn? [Royal Cream/BMG] September 9
Built to Spill. When the Wind Forgets Your Name [Sub Pop] September 9
The Kinks. Everybody’s in Show-Biz (Deluxe Version) [BMG] September 9
The Kinks. Muswell Hillbillies (Deluxe Version) [BMG] September 9
Joe Strummer. Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years [Dark Horse] September 16
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin. Ali [Dead Oceans] September 23
OFF!. Free LSD [Fat Possum] September 30
Pixies. Doggerel [BMG] September 30
Titus Andronicus. The Will to Live [Merge] September 30
Wilco. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition) [Nonesuch] September 30
Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Cool It Down [Secretly Canadian] September 30
Plains. I Walked With You a Ways [Anti-] October 14
Arctic Monkeys. The Car [Domino] October 21
Dry Cleaning. Stumpwork [4AD] October 21
Tinariwen. Kel Tinariwen [Wedge] November 4
PJ Harvey. B-Sides, Demos, & Rarities [UMe/Island] November 4
Bright Eyes. Digital Ash in a Digital Urn: A Companion EP [Dead Oceans] November 11
Bright Eyes. I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning: A Companion EP [Dead Oceans] November 11
Bright Eyes. Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A Companion EP [Dead Oceans] November 11
Weyes Blood. And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow [Sub Pop] November 18
David Bowie. Divine Symmetry [Parlophone] November 25
Idles. Five Years of Brutalism [Partisan] December 9
Nathan Salsburg. Landwerk No. 3 [No Quarter] December 9
Iggy Pop. Every Loser. [Gold Tooth] January 6, 2023
The C.I.A. (feat Ty Segall) Surgery Channel [In the Red] January 20, 2023
John Cale. Mercy [Domino] January 20, 2023
King Tuff.Smalltown Stardust [Sub Pop] January 27, 2023
Bob Dylan.Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 (Deluxe Edition) [Columbia/Legacy] January 27, 2023
Ellie Goulding. Higher Than Heaven. [Polydor] February 3
Yo La Tengo. This Stupid World. [Matador] February 10
Caroline Polachek. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You [Perpetual Novice] February 14
Shame. Food For Worms [Rough Trade] February 24
Iris DeMent. Workin’ on a World [Flariella] February 24
Gorillaz. Cracker Island [Warner] February 24
Lana Del Rey. Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. [Polydor] March 24
Baaba Maal. Being [Marathon Artists] March 31
boygenius (Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker). the record. [Interscope] March 31
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