you’ve no doubt seen (many times) this week the 2023 video of Vice President Kamala Harris emerging from a Washington DC’s HR Records brandishing albums by Charles Mingus and Roy Ayers. Not to be outdone (?), GOP VP hopeful JD Vance was revealed to be a longstanding fan of allegedly funny duo Ween and directorial auteur Zach Braff. None of these are especially compelling reasons to support either candidate, though as much as I hate to be a single issue voter, I would look somewhat favorably on anyone who pledged to eliminate and/or outlaw Ween. It doesn’t have to be a drone strike, maybe just a house arrest scenario that keeps them away from recording gear or tour buses. Just throwing that out there if anyone’s mulling a third party run.
This week’s episode is the first (and hopefully not the last) to feature on the newly relaunched East Village Radio. The same program that hits Mixcloud on Wednesday mornings can be heard on EVR Thursdays at 10am.
RP Boo – Suicide
Peter King/Maffi – Bad Memory
Bolka – Minúta Techa
Moroka – Sovereign
Crystal Distortion – Storm Jackets and Bin Bags
Psyche/BFC – Chicken Noodle Soup
Rat Henry – The Down & Out Cop
Black Eyes – Have Been Murdered Again
X – Cabaret Roll
SEMTEX 87 – Robbed You
Chain Gang – My Fly
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – The Operation
Asteroid Ekosystem – Outer Orbit
Matchess – In Sleep
Roswell Rudd – Sacred Song
Samara Lubelski – Bill Nace Duo – Gravity Drains
Patty Waters – Black Is The Color
The Vomit Arsonist – Increased Risk Of Catastrophic Failure