What Are You Listening To?

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High Llamas - Buzzle 🐝

Very relaxing

[Justin Tonation]

One for Justin

https://lavendersweep.bandcamp.com/album/orice-timeless-elevation-3-5-floppy-disk

ORICE - Timeless Elevation (3​​​.​​​5" Floppy Disk)

Limited edition of 16 floppy disks, each containing two mono 32kbps mp3's. Comes in plastic case with inlay.

Thanks! Just might gamble on this. Don't have a floppy drive but I can borrow one from work.

[sweetcell]

Floppy Disk Store Day confirmed!!

where will it be held - Staples and Office Depot?

(do they even sell floppies anymore?)

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Glad this is finally out on vinyl even if it’s a flat transfer.

[kosmo vinyl]

Tchotchke - Tchotchke

https://tchotchke.bandcamp.com/album/tchotchke

heard via James Skelly of the The Coral, dude has an amazing ear... this NY based female trio offer an interesting twist on the girl group sound. produced by the Lemon Twigs which one should have made my top albums from last year but now a definite fav...

anyways if anyone is going to the upcoming King Tuff show, they are playing with him..

also, thanks for the tip on the King Tuff album very much in my wheelhouse. 

[Space Freely]

Caroline Polachek has the best album of 2023 so far and it ain't even close.

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Bold

[Space Freely]

Bold

Weirdly, Pitchfork's top 3 are my top 3.

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/1-pitchfork-highest-rated/2023/1

[kosmo vinyl]

Hello Mary - Hello Mary on Frenchkiss Records

Feeling nostalgic for the early 90s, specifically Veruca Salt and Belly?  Then check out this debut by a NYC trio, lots of noisy guitars, soaring harmonies, pounding rhythm section.   Produced by Bryce Goggin who has produced/engineered many a noisy guitar over the decades... including Pavement, Dino Jr, Lemonheads, Spacehog, etc

lifted from Qobuz review

They've already been praised by Belly's Tanya Donelly and Luna's Britta Phillips for their big, dark grunge guitars and bittersweet harmonies.

weirdly the whole album isn't on Bandcamp, just all the singles leading up to it..

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Best of the Beta Band

I got into these guys pretty early thanks to a recommendation from that wonderful NYC store, Other Music.

Steve Mason has a new album coming out; they say it’s real good.

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[Space Freely]

I confuse Beta Band with Budos Band. Like, I read that Steve Mason from Beta Band has a new album coming out, but my brain thought of Budos Band.

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Can’t go wrong with either!

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[kosmo vinyl]

Fake Names - Expendables

I thought by law all Fugazi related projects were to mentioned in these parts..

anyways I totally judged the group by it's name when I saw, name suggests lame indie rock... but, i saw the review and turns out it's quite the punk super group...

Fake Names is almost exactly what you want from a supergroup made of members of Minor Threat and Bad Religion (guitarist/vocalist Brian Baker), Refused and The (International) Noise Conspiracy (singer Dennis Lyxzén), Fugazi and Rites of Spring (drummer Brendan Canty), S.O.A and Embrace (guitarist/vocalist Michael Hampton), and Girls Against Boys and Soulside (bassist Johnny Temple): loud, fast, in-your-face.

Going in on the their first album soon