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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...

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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.

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Iglooghost

04-01-2019 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Iglooghost, The Besnard Lakes, Dhani Harrison, Anna Calvi, John Maus, Steve Mason, KATIEE, Letherette, Melkbelly, Gudrun Gut, Johnny Jewel, Heron Oblivion, Katie Dey, Airiel, Kate Nash

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Irish producer blending hip-hop, juke/footwork, IDM, pop, and video game-like concepts into an intense, hyperkinetic rush. 
Iglooghost
Pale Eyes 2:24
Super Ink Burst 3:27
from Neō Wax Bloom 2017
Iglooghost is an Irish lad named Seamus Malliagh, and his music appears on Brainfeeder, the Flying Lotus-helmed imprint which often releases abstract hip-hop and jazz, but it could just have easily appeared on an obscure Japanese netlabel like Maltine Records, or experimental meta-pop collective PC Music. Malliagh's productions are giddy, cartoonish, and extremely busy, with densely packed samples and squeaky voices flying around at an impossibly rapid pace...

Montreal-based psych/space rock unit led by the husband-and-wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. 
The Besnard Lakes
The Bray Road Beast 5:30
Pressure of Our Plans 5:21
from A Coliseum Complex Museum 2016
There are five musicians in the Besnard Lakes, but it sounds like some sort of pop orchestra was on hand to record the group's fifth full-length album, 2016's A Coliseum Complex Museum. The scope of this music is vast, combining the melodic angles of indie pop with the grand scale ambitions of prog rock, and group founders Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas are determined to make the most of it, filling every nook and cranny of these songs with banks of guitars, keyboards, percussion, and massed vocals, until the music takes on the shape of a vast ship at sea, moving deliberately but with a strong sense of purpose through choppy waters in the chilly nighttime...

Son of the Beatles’ George Harrison formed his own band the newno2 in the late 2000s. Dhani Harrison started his musical career relatively late, switching from the automotive industry to performing following the death of his father, George Harrison, in November 2001. Initially, Dhani served as the custodian of his dad's legacy, assisting family friend Jeff Lynne in the completion of George's posthumous 2002 album, Brainwashed...
Dhani Harrison
Never Know 5:23
Úlfur Resurrection 7:24
London Water 7:52
from IN///PARALLEL 2017
Like other children of the Beatles, Dhani Harrison found himself drawn to music and, like all of the members of this select group, he was reluctant to capitalize on his famous father. He initially solved this problem by burying himself within the confines of thenewno2, a band he formed in 2002, but after a decade of playing with the group, he decided to pursue a solo career. Maybe this 15 years of experience is the reason why 2017's IN///PARALLEL doesn't feel tentative in the way so many first albums do. Harrison exudes a quiet confidence, letting IN///PARALLEL unfold surely and steadily, keeping the music meditative and slightly trippy...

British singer/songwriter with influences ranging from Nick Cave's post-punk to Django Reinhardt's flamenco. Hailed as "the best thing since Patti Smith" by Brian Eno, as well as being included in the BBC's Sound of 2011 list, the hype surrounding London-born Anna Calvi came to a crescendo in late 2010. Gaining critical acclaim among music journalists, Calvi drew comparisons with passionate and brooding musicians like Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. The dense and rich musical influences that inhabit Calvi's world are broad and distinctive strokes of sultry flamenco, smoke-filled blues, and seductive goth pop/rock. Adding to this tapestry of influences, Calvi claims to have been inspired by the films of David Lynch, Gus Van Sant, and Wong Kar Wai; the cinematic element of her music contributes a mysterious and unyielding undercurrent to her work.
Anna Calvi
As a Man 3:46
Indies or Paradise 4:41
from Hunter 2018
Anna Calvi took a five-year break after releasing 2013's One Breath, but the intervening time didn't diminish the grand sound she's been cultivating since her debut. From the title track's breathy opening to the soaring melody of "Away," her gift for elucidating the drama of a bygone era is intact and just as effective. If anything, the lustily provocative nature of her artistry reaches its dizzy apex on Hunter...

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Darlene Shrugg

23-11-2018 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Darlene Shrugg, Arc Iris, The Limiñanas, Mark "Porkchop" Holder, Yuck, Battleme, Tash Sultana, P.O.D., Iglooghost, Moby & the Void Pacific Choir, The Besnard Lakes, Dhani Harrison, Anna Calvi, John Maus, Steve Mason, KATIEE

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Brash Toronto indie art-pop quintet featuring members of U.S. Girls, Slim Twig, and Ice Cream. 
Darlene Shrugg
Inherit the Wind (Meg Remy / Simone TB / Maximilian Turnbull) 4:23
Freedom Comes in a Plastic Card (Meg Remy / Simone TB / Maximilian Turnbull) 3:47
from Darlene Shrugg 2017
Representing a confluence of regional indie power sources, Toronto's Darlene Shrugg unites Maximilian Turnbull (Slim Twig), Meg Remy (U.S. Girls), Simone TB (Fake Palms), Carlyn Bezic (Ice Cream), and Amanda Crist (Ice Cream), who together form one surprisingly brash and unyielding rock & roll unit. Initially formed in 2013, the quintet maintained a somewhat shadowy presence over their first few years, honing a brutal but tuneful live set before entering the studio with engineer and co-producer Steve Chahley...

Arc Iris are a genre-blurring New England ensemble led and fronted by former Low Anthem member Jocie Adams. Arc Iris are a wildly adventurous, genre-blurring band founded in Massachusetts by frontwoman, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jocie Adams, formerly of the Low Anthem. Her bandmembers include the seasoned rhythm section of bassist Max Johnson, pianist and multi-instrumentalist Zachary Tenorio-Miller, and drummer Raymond Belli, with cellist Robin Ryczek and trumpeter Mike Irwin. Adams, a formally trained classical composer (as well as a former NASA researcher), formed the band as a wide-ranging ensemble informed by everything from sophisticated 1970s pop to folk, country, cabaret, jazz, classical music, and contemporary sources such as Grizzly Bear.
Arc Iris
$GNMS (Arc Iris) 6:24
Suzy (Arc Iris) 6:04
from Icon of Ego 2018
Each album by Arc Iris is an adventure. Over two previous albums, they created an original hybrid of indie art pop that was deeply infatuated with sophisticated archival pop to alt folk, cabaret, jazz, and even country. Given the quark strangeness and heartbreak that are the 21st century music business -- they lost their manager, their booking agent, and their record label -- this outfit has been pared down from its original incarnation as a sextet to its core trio of vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Jocie Adams (ex-Low Anthem), keyboardist/electronicist Zachary Tenorio-Miller, and drummer Raymond Belli (with a couple of guest string players assisting). Icon of Ego was released on Ba Da Bing, its third label in as many recordings. While their music has always been as exploratory and adventurous as it is accessible, they've honed their focus and concentrated on becoming a pop-prog outfit, mixing musical directions that include but aren't limited to '70s-era vintage electronica, dreamy pop, musical theater, and bigger beats...

Indie band that recaptures the glory days of '60s French pop. Working in the sweetly swinging tradition of Serge Gainsbourg and the yé-yé sound of the '60s, the Limiñanas have a sound that blends sunny psychedelia with vintage pop. Based out of Perpignan, France, the group is composed of drummer and sometime vocalist Marie Limiñana and bassist, organist, and jack-of-all-trades Lionel Limiñana, as well as a host of guest vocalists including MU.
The Limiñanas
Ouverture (Lionel Limiñana / Anton Newcombe) 3:19
Shadow People feat.: Emmanuelle Seiger (Lionel Limiñana) 3:11
from Shadow People 2018
On their 2018 album Shadow People, French duo the Limiñanas don't budge an inch from the formula they honed to a knife edge on all the albums that preceded it. Starting in 2010, Lionel and Marie Limiñana mapped out territory that hit the sweet spot where the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Velvet Underground, sultry French pop, and Italian soundtrack music all meet to smoke cigarettes and look hard...