Left of the Dial #173 - 2016 Newport Folk Festival
This week on the show we're featuring sets recorded at the 2016 Newport Folk Festival, thanks to NPR Music. Named as a folk music festival its focus is certainly on the broad spectrum of the genre, but...
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #179 - DJs Don't Play Guitar
This week we're playing new music from Blood Orange, which is the moniker of Dev Hynes. Hynes’ musical career has included noise punk in the band Test Icicles, a singer-songwriter folk stint as...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #181 - Spectral Class B9
Emma Ruth Rundle is a long-time member of the Los Angeles post-metal progressive rock scene by way of the bands Nocturnes, Red Sparowes, and Marriages. The gloomy apocalyptic atmospheres that pound out...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #191 - Nothing Stops The Dreams
Toronto's Phèdre has a track that's as stomach-churning and dizzying as the carnival rides featured in their latest video. Psychic Twin is the project of Erin Fein, who came up with that name from the...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #193 - Neotenic Tendencies
The Veils have a song on their new album Total Depravity titled "Axolotl." An axolotl is a completely charming and sadly endangered salamander. De La Soul have new music out, an album titled And The...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #197 - Helms Aweather
This week we're featuring the mighty Helms Alee. It's not that unusual for a heavy metal band to be heart-achingly beautiful, have an intelligent loftiness, and to have a meticulous sense for...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #199 - Horror Movies & Mope Rock
Preoccupations have a new album, their first since changing their name from Viet Cong, and it's their second self-titled album. The band's original name raised plenty of eyebrows from the start, and...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #211 - 90.9, A Million
I recognize that the reference in the headline of this post is ultimately misleading, as when you're small-time like me you sometimes can't get music any earlier than its release, so the new Bon Iver...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #227 - What, Me WORRY.
Bon Iver's 22, A Million successfully merges the legend of the lonely cabin-dweller with a collage of found sound, autotune, and what is quite possibly a choir of Sing-A-Ma-Jigs. It is experimental in...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #233 - Potter Plays Potter
A Tribe Called Quest just released their first album in 18 years. It unfortunately comes in the wake of Phife Dawg's death last March, though he is on it, and the group says the blueprint for the...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #239 - Our Favorite Music of 2016
10.) Freakwater - Scheherazade Americana with a punk sensibility is no longer reason enough to pay attention, but Freakwater have been doing it since the late ‘80s, playing open-mic gigs in strip clubs...
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