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Joe Bisirri, Dylan Sevey, Ron Gallo

19-05-2020 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from recent past] # Ron Gallo, Overlake, Salad Boys, Steve Mason, Of Montreal, El Michels Affair, Duster, The Liminanas, Elf Power, Sacred Paws, M. Ward, Liz Brasher, Sore Eros, Mr. Elevator, Shopping

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Witty and street-smart singer and songwriter who evolved from a roots rocker with Toy Soldiers to a garage punk on his own.
Ron Gallo
Young Lady, You're Scaring Me 3:40
Put the Kids to Bed 2:54
from Heavy Meta 2017
Ron Gallo spent close to a decade exploring the boundaries of his blues, country, and roots rock influences with his band Toy Soldiers, but when he jumped ship to go solo, he left all of that behind. At least that's the very strong impression given by Gallo's second solo album, 2017's Heavy Meta. Gallo's first solo effort, 2014's Ronny, was a step away from Toy Soldiers' sound into a brighter and poppier direction, but with Heavy Meta, he's done an about-face into raw, wiry, guitar-based rock & roll. Backed by bassist Joe Bisirri and drummer Dylan Sevey, Heavy Meta is a gritty, energetic exercise in punk-informed 21st century garage rock, with Gallo's buzzy, rough and ready guitar figures and high-attitude vocals front and center in the mix at all times...

Big guitars and emphatic melodic hooks define this indie rock trio from Jersey City, New Jersey. Overlake are a trio from New Jersey whose music combines the hooky melodies of indie pop with the big guitars and crashing drums of vintage shoegaze outfits.
Overlake
Unnamed November 3:58
You Don't Know Everything 6:52
from Fall 2017
Shoegaze is alive and well and living in Jersey City, New Jersey, where it has adopted the name Overlake. On the group's second full-length album, 2017's Fall, Overlake have taken the usual tropes of classic shoegaze -- the big, billowy guitar figures, the murmur-y vocals, the thick undertow of bass, and the languid but crashing rhythms -- and transformed them into something that sounds fresh, engaging, and honestly exciting. With a band like this, good tunes usually make all the difference, and Fall shows that Overlake has them to spare... Fall is big music with an intimate heart, and Overlake will give you the contemplative ride you've been looking for with this splendid album.

Fuzzy, melodic indie rock trio from Christchurch, New Zealand whose pop hooks recall the Flying Nun heyday.
Salad Boys
Psych Slasher 2:50
Scenic Route to Nowhere 3:37
from This Is Glue 2018
The Salad Boys' 2015 debut album Metalmania was a fine update on classic jangle pop, full of ringing guitars, hooky melodies, and a mix of uptempo and more relaxed tunes. They don't deviate much from their winning formula on This Is Glue, the 2018 follow-up. Unlike the previous album, which was a more collaborative effort, this time the band's songwriter Joe Sampson took control. With drummer James Sullivan in tow, he recorded the album in various locales around his hometown of Christchurch and gets a much less polished sound than on Metalmania. This approach fixed one of the main problems that album had, which was how sleek and shiny it was. Jangle pop can easily come off as too polite if there isn't some grit under the chiming guitars, and This Is Glue has just enough scruff and lo-fi appeal to avoid this pitfall...

20-04-2020 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX

Sunwatchers

20-04-2020 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from recent past] # Sunwatchers, The Heliocentrics, Wire, En Attendant Ana, Shadow Show, Leslie Mendelson, Jim Noir, HXXS, Overlake, Ron Gallo, Salad Boys, Steve Mason, Of Montreal

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Intense New York-based free rock ensemble led by Jim McHugh of Nymph and Dark Meat.
Sunwatchers
New Dad Blues 6:16
Psychic Driving 4:59
from Illegal Moves 2019
New York quartet Sunwatchers make instrumental music that exists where the spiritual reach of free jazz and the screaming chaos of psychedelia intersect. Bandleader Jim McHugh was a founding member of the late-2000s freaked sounds collective Dark Meat, and he carried on their deep-fried blend of structure and skronk when he uprooted from Athens, Georgia, to New York City in 2010 and began working towards what would become Sunwatchers. Wildly prolific, the band quickly established their untethered sound over the course of multiple releases captured both in the studio and in live performances. Illegal Moves is their third studio album, and its seven selections capture the group at their tightest and most electric state of sonic and psychic connectivity yet...

Eclectic U.K.-based ensemble blending influences such as hip-hop, jazz, soundtracks, Ethiopian funk, outré electronics, and more.
The Heliocentrics
Human Zoo 4:49
A World of Masks 7:45
from A World of Masks 2017
After 2016's From the Deep, an excellent summation of all their previous musical directions, the Heliocentrics go -- as the banner on Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters bus proclaimed -- "Further." While the Malcolm Catto-led outfit has been digging through many varieties of jazz, psych-funk, hip-hop, library grooves, and international sounds (having worked with Mulatu Astatke and Lloyd Miller) for over a decade, A World of Masks presents an intergalactic take on many of the above.
Added to the band's personnel on this date is Slovakian vocalist Barbora Patkova, who has been working with the outfit live since 2013. Like her fellow Heliocentrics, she is an explorer. While June Tyson is a reference point, Patkova is so versatile that other comparisons are equally apt: Urzula Dudziak, Julie Tippetts, Jeanne Lee, and Patty Waters also come to mind...

The most innovative of British punks, an art band with a penchant for dissonant, minimalist arrangements and lyrical abstraction.
Wire
Be Like Them 3:52
Primed and Ready 2:43
from Mind Hive 2020
One of the great joys of Wire's music in the 2010s and beyond is how brilliantly they reinvent their enduring strengths in equally timeless and timely ways. On Mind Hive, the band's legendary skill at writing concise songs filled with layers of meaning comes to the fore. Even its title is compact yet complex, flipping a statement of shared knowledge -- and perhaps conformity -- into one of restless intelligence. Wire don't waste any of the album's terse 35 minutes; instead of the ruminative approach they took on Silver/Lead, they immediately spring into action... The issues Wire grapple with are evergreen, and as they persevere in the face of stupidity and apathy, Mind Hive's unflinching, poetic songs prove maturity is a weapon they wield just as deftly as outrage.