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I'm not here if someone calls, unless it's from apartment 3...
From 1998. I remember being thoroughly immersed and invested in this when it came out.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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The Charlottes - Lovehappy+ (1989/2020, Radiation)
Typically on Record Store Day I share something released on a prior RSD, but I'm quickly run out of "safe" items to post, simply because most titles released on the most agonizing Saturday morning of...
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Too many holes in your story, jeans alright.
This week it's four eps spanning three decades.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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Autumn Teen Sound - demo (1995)
Just as I was about to drop the "cold case" tag on this Phoenix-area foursome I discovered they have a Facebook page. Sounding heavily indebted to another band they shared the same area code with (Gin...
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Medelicious - Miss N 7" (1994, Lucky)
Not as egregiously grungy as many of their counterparts due south in Seattle, Bellingham, WA's Medelicious were still a mightily noisy aggregation wielding copious amounts of angsty amperage and...
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An unpredicted ends to a means...
From 2004. Picking up on morsels of everyone from Nada Surf to Creeper Lagoon and even Mercury Rev. Enjoy**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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Victorian Parents - Silence Follows (1981)
I usually save most of my revelatory finds for the end of the year, but what the hell. And a major label release (Polydor) no less, but unless you snatched up Victorian Parents'Silence Follows as as...
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Supermarket lights burn in the darkness...
Im spoiling you this week. This is a two CD set compiling a healthy number of this UK band's b-sides, neglected album tracks, and alternate versions of more renown singles and such. Have at it....
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URL, interrupted.
Am taking the week off. Will see you back here for Mystery Monday next week. Cheers.
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I was staring at your eyes in my wall...
An almost complete discography from these sardonic, San Diego outliers, circa 1979-89.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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The Montanas - s/t ep (1988, Lucy)
Well shucks, I don't have much to tell you about this crew, nor does the internet. There's not a tremendous amount to go by on The Montanas first and ostensibly last 12" record save for the fact that...
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Zeke Fiddler - 1/2 Baked, 1/2 Inflated 7" (1993, Chunk)
I remember Zeke Fiddler's one-and-done LP, Waterproof being pretty ubiquitous in the mid-90s, so much so that I was armed with a promo copy myself. Nonetheless I never quite caught the Z/F bug, simply...
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I've been ten days in overdrive...
Perhaps not the most popular opinion, but I was utterly disappointed with the direction this band took on their third album. Though it did entail a significant lineup alteration, they corrected course...
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Richard Barone and James Mastro - Nuts and Bolts (1983) ...plus my thoughts...
Call it a sheer coincidence, or musical synergy, or whatever you wish, but it didn't dawn on me until just an hour or so ago that tandem with my post this week of the long-neglected Richard...
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I've got a manual instructing my brain.
This weeks it's disc 3 of a deluxe reissue, featuring radio sessions and a handful of live tracks, all originating from 1981-82.**Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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The Loch Ness Mouse - From the Countryside ep (1993, Perfect Pop)
Here's one of many records that I'm just not sure how it found it's way into my collection. What's more surprising is that some 30+ years later Norway's Loch Ness Mouse still have something of a...
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...they play shadow games, I play with the light
From 2020. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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The Texas Instruments - ¡More Texas Instruments! (1985, Longhead)
Austin's Texas Instruments are no strangers to this site, and tonight I'm dropping what appears to be their debut release. At this stage in the game our protagonists were functioning as an economical...
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The Passions- Sanctuary (1982)
You'd almost think "I'm in a Love With a German Film Star," was the only song The Passions ever committed to tape - and regrettably for about 98% of listeners who were fortunate to encounter them at...
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I ain't run out of track...
This band's parting shot from '93. Maybe not as glorious as the albums that preceded it, but in terms of the alterna-rock era it's still well above average. I've also tacked on a b-side, a cover no...
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Shrubs - Somebody's Watching tape (1996)
It's been yet another bummer of a week, and I know I haven't provided you with much since MM, but hopefully this lil' reel will tide you over until tomorrow. Not sure where I acquired this Shrubs...
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...twist and rearrange, the spaces always show.
A debut from 2006. Not dissimilar to the grand gestures Interpol gave us, but with even more flexibility and nuance. **Please do not reveal artist in comments!**Hear
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GhostShirts 7" (1992, Cypher)
Yet another casualty of the pre-internet era, and I'll be damned if i can shed much relevant info on this bunch who boast a Brooklyn correspondence address. GhostShirts were produced by Kramer, at his...
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The Effigies - live WZRD, Chicago 1981
How is it that I've neglected The Effigies for so long? For as long as I've been acquainted with the late John Kezdy and Co, they've never been an obsession. In some respects that's been a convenient...
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It's nearly impossible. Highly improbable. But not hopeless.
From 1999, and I think I've shared this before. It's not Pet Sounds, nor in the same genre, but thematically there's some significant crossover with this one. Eye of the beholder I guess. **Please do...
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