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The Duke Spirit

29-05-2019 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # The Duke Spirit, Charlie Hunter, Jackson MacIntosh, Jack White, The Yawpers, Ultramarine, Anna Domino, The Limiñanas, Anton Newcombe, Peter Hook, Emmanuelle Seigner, Priests, Giorgio Tuma, Matilde Davoli, The James Hunter Six, Niia, Eyes of Love, Le SuperHomard

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A spirited melding of Northern Soul, garage punk, and noisy shoegaze. 
The Duke Spirit
See Power 4:48
Magenta 3:17
from Sky Is Mine 2017
Most of the Duke Spirit's albums are graced by only one or two of their stately ballads, but on Sky Is Mine, they're in the majority...  Indeed, the somber restraint they show on Sky Is Mine ends up feeling and sounding liberating, and the result is the band's most beautiful album yet.

Greatly talented jazz guitarist whose remarkably fluent style is suited to styles from early bop to fusion. 
Charlie Hunter
Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth 5:01
No Money, No Honey 3:52
from Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth 2016
Charlie Hunter's Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth is not only his first recording for a major label in nine years, but his first with a larger-than-trio-sized band since 2003. His personnel include drummer Bobby Previte, trombonist Curtis Fowlkes (who both played on 2015's Let the Bells Ring On and 2003's Right Now Move), and cornetist Kirk Knuffke. The album's title paraphrases a quote by former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. It's a metaphorical reference to the contrast between an envisioned plan for living and the reality that transpires later.
Hunter saturates his approach in blues and vintage R&B here. To get the vibe right, the band recorded live in a Hudson, New York studio; there are no overdubs -- everybody walked the tightrope. First single "No Money, No Honey" opens with a guitar hammer on, but the band quickly establishes a funky Meters-esque vamp that gets inverted by knotty jazz syncopation...

Charlie Hunter - 7-string guitar, Curtis Fowlkes - trombone, Kirk Knuffke - cornet, Bobby Previte - drums

Busy Montreal musician/producer known for running the Drones Club studio and fronting Sheer Agony, but also for his solo work. 
Jackson MacIntosh
Can It Be Love 2:40
My Dark Side 3:07
from My Dark Side 2018
... He decided to turn them into an album, and 2018's My Dark Side is the result. Digging into subdued '70s ballads like one might hear on a Todd Rundgren or Harry Nilsson record, dishing out heartbroken lyrics that were the result of two breakups in the span of three years, and keeping things sparse and simple, MacIntosh reveals himself as a very credible singer/songwriter in the classic sense. The record begins with a suite of slow, sad songs that showcase his aching, melancholy vocals and create a late-night, crying-in-a-drink mood that's hard to shake. Built around clunky drum machines, electric pianos, occasional guitars, and a thick coat of reverb, the songs come off like bedroom Memphis soul at times, only MacIntosh seems far too bummed to break a soulful sweat...

23-11-2018 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX

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...

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Bully

25-10-2018 alter:MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Bully, Tough Age, Léonie Pernet, Guerilla Toss, And So I Watch You from Afar, James, The Pretty Reckless, Leonard Cohen, Darlene Shrugg, Arc Iris, The Limiñanas, Mark "Porkchop" Holder, Yuck, Battleme, Tash Sultana

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Engaging blend of indie rock melodies, pop hooks, grungy guitars, and confessional lyrics from Alicia Bognanno. Playing upbeat but noisy indie rock with pop hooks and more than a slight grunge influence, Bully is a band from Nashville, Tennessee founded by vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Alicia Bognanno.
Bully
Feel the Same 1:59
Guess There 3:00
from Losing 2017
On the release of their debut record, Feels Like, '90s alt-rock revivalists Bully appeared to be the band with the most authentic credentials. Their ostensibly unwavering commitment to the sound of that era was supported by the recording of their debut at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio (Bully's founding member Alicia Bognanno interned at the studio under the tutelage of Albini, and returned there to engineer Losing herself) as well as their recent signing to Sub Pop. However, while there was a great deal of praise for her songwriting, that admiration was sometimes footnoted by mild regret at a lack of unique character in their music. Extraneous circumstances aside, Bully have very much stuck to their guns with this latest offering, but not at the expense of development. If Feels Like revealed a very promising young songwriter, Losing cements that early potential...

Vancouver four-piece blends sounds of rock & roll's past with 21st century lyrical concerns. Fusing elements of surf, garage rock, punk, and a dash of indie pop, Vancouver's Tough Age describe their music as "culmination rock," with four veterans of the Canadian underground rock scene pooling their ideas, influences, and experience for the project.
Tough Age
Everyday Life 3:15
Unclean 4:46
from Shame 2017
Canadian indie outfit Tough Age alter their formula on record number three, leaning deeper into elements of post-punk and the quirky melodicism of Flying Nun-inspired guitar pop while leaving behind much of the '60s-indebted garage affectations of earlier releases. Slimmed down to a trio and now calling Toronto home, former Vancouverites Jarrett Samson (vocals/guitar) and Penny Clark (vocals/bass) hooked up with drummer Jesse Locke in search of a sound that was more minimalist and dynamic. Having signed with Mint Records just prior to their debut, Shame is Tough Age's third outing with the label and their first working with Montreal-based producer/engineer Peter Woodford (Freelove Fenner), whose all-analog Bottle Garden studio was elemental in facilitating their leaner approach...

Also a sidewoman, arranger, and film composer, French musician Léonie Pernet puts an artful spin on anxious synth pop as a solo artist. 
Léonie Pernet
African Melancholia 3:28
Crave 5:51
from Crave 2018
Crave is the debut of French musician Léonie Pernet, who spent ten years as a touring bandmember, DJ, arranger, film composer, and emerging solo artist before endeavoring to write and produce her first full album. While a prior EP previewed the deadpan vocal delivery and experimental edge to Pernet's atmospheric indie electronica -- then centered around electronic keyboards, piano, and live rock drums -- Crave relies on danceable beats and reveals a more cinematic and cosmopolitan synth pop...

Brooklyn-via-Boston group combining no wave, punk, funk, psychedelia, and more in chaotic and ecstatic ways. Equal parts ecstatic and hallucinogenic, the genre-unrestricted group Guerilla Toss draw from no wave and noise as well as funk, punk, and psychedelia.
Guerilla Toss 
Magic Is Easy 3:11
Walls of the Universe 4:04
from Twisted Crystal 2018
Since moving to Brooklyn and signing with DFA, Guerilla Toss have evolved from their beginnings as a cathartic, free jazz-influenced noise-rock band to an acid-splashed party machine. Twisted Crystal is their third album for the iconic dance-punk label, and it's easily their most striking, focused, and fun work to date. As with Eraser Stargazer and GT Ultra, there's an abundance of thick, rubbery basslines and complex polyrhythms, as well as ecstatic vocals from frontwoman Kassie Carlson. However, Twisted Crystal stands out simply by having catchier songs which concentrate on new wave-influenced hooks without abandoning the experimentation or urgency of the group's earlier work...