Asheville FM staff lists their favorite music (and stuff) of the past year 2019 … (as well, AFM celebrated our 10th year in existence as a community radio station, so some of our 30 DJ respondents included Best of Decade lists where specified)
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Shad Marsh, 2000 Years of Radio, Sunday, 9-11am
Negativland, True False. Seeland
People Like Us, The Mirror. Discrepant
Black to Comm, Seven Horses for Seven Kings. Thrill Jockey
Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant / Karkhana With Nadah El Shazly, Carte Blanche. Unrock
Connect_icut, No Darkness. Aagoo
Nivhek, After its own death/ Walking in a spiral towards the house. Superior Viaduct
Jaimie Branch, FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise. International Anthem
Dire Wolves, Grow Towards the Light. Beyond Beyond is Beyond
Aaron Novik, The Fallow Curves of the Planospheres. Avant LaGuardia
Maurice Louca, Elephantine. Northern Spy.
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Minx, Cesspool of Sin, Sunday, noon-1pm
Jenny Lewis – On the Line
Methyl Ethel – Triage
Ex Hex – It’s Real
The National – I Am Easy to Find
Drahla – Useless Coordinates
SASAMI – SASAMI
Chaka Khan – Hello Happiness
Julia Jacklin – Crushing
Freddie Gibbs – Bandana
Lizzo – Cuz I Love You
Ladytron – Ladytron
French Vanilla – How Am I Not Myself?
Jamila Woods – LEGACY! LEGACY!
Rapsody – Eve
Baroness – Gold & Grey
Swallow the Sun – When a Shadow is Forced into the Sun
Sir Woman – Highroad, Making Love, Speak singles
Cherry Glazerr – Stuffed & Ready
Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
Un-ironically loved it: Harry Styles – Fine Line
And a great single that deserves a shout out: Sofia Portanet – Planet Mars
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DJ Mouse, Come On In My Kitchen, Sunday, 6-7pm
A) Top 10 Foods I will Miss when the Climate Apocalypse of 2050 hits (Thank God I’ll be dead by then!):
1. Corn (and all the tasty Critters who eat Corn) – Temps getting too high for successful corn crop yields; already a 7% percent drop in corn production, which may not sound like a lot, but Agricultural Experts think it is quite significant.
2. Coffee – “Coffee Rust” in the tropics, droughts in Brazil, and loss of over 65% percent of suitable coffee-growing land in the African continent making coffee beans increasingly harder to grow.
3. Chocolate – Rising temps in Guyana and Ivory Coast making cacao beans, the raw material for chocolate, much less plentiful. (Though chocolate is a “Food of the Gods”, perhaps this could end the child-slave labor perpetrated in that area of the world by Hershey, Nestle, and Mars.)
4. Seafood – Rising CO2 levels are leading to acidification of the oceans, threatening a wide range of edible sea creatures. Will rivers fair better or worse? Not sure, will research. You know, the Mouse is a huge fan of the Catfish Nugget!
5. Maple Syrup – Yum! Got some for Christmas! Unfortunately, the maple trees aren’t getting enough cold snaps to expand and contract, which is a necessary process for sap production to occur.
6. Beans – Ah oh: a staple in the Mouse House; the increasing temperatures have an adverse affect on flowering and vine production. From what I have read, research shows that Garbanzo beans (Chick Peas) are heartiest and may survive the Climate Apocalypse.
7. Cherries, and other yummy fruits as well
8. Wine grapes – Maybe we can still make eating grapes, but likely not.
9. Wheat – It’s the end of bread as we know it, and cake, and pie! But never fear, we may be able to make flour using Sourghum and Millet, grains which we better start familiarizing ourselves with, as they may be the only grains hearty enough to survive the Climate Apocalypse.
10. Rice – Awe, man! Another staple in the Mouse House and so many houses around the world! Serve up some Millet instead!
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B) Musical Artists I I Didn’t Know This Time Last Year whom I have played on ” the Kitchen” and was turned on to by either Asheville FM deejays, through researching topical songs for my thematic shows, by my recently 18 year old son:
1. King Gizzard And the Wizard Lizard – Such eclectic, good old rock n roll from such young folks! And my, are they prolific!
2. Brock Hampton – Homosexual Hip hop?! Cool! Love their beats an horn riffs!
3. Sugar Candy Mountain – Melow, dreamy and introspective, with an awesome strong female lead presence on guitar and vocals
4. Samantha Fish – Wow! Can that cool chick pick! Check out her cover of Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs”!
5. Diva String Quarter from Toronto, Canada – JD turned me on yesterday, they did a 20 minute instrumental cover of Rush’s title track to the album 2112! Blew my mind!
6. Zemer Levav – beautiful, majestic! And kind of sums up my fervent, pentacostal humanist, united fight for what’s right type of spirituality
7. Rise Against – “Hero of War”, Wow! Perhaps the most poignant, hard hitting, eloquent plea for peace I have ever heard!
8. Kati Ran – Norwegian neo-folk, creates a righteous mood
9. Nechochwen – Black, Native American folk metal out of West Virginia! Intensely awesome!
Now, ain’t that America, for you and me?
10. The HU – Not to be confused with mod rockers from England; Mongolian Folk Metal by classically trained musicians from Mongolia, playing hard folk Prog rock on electric and traditional instruments, with Tuvian throat singing! My new favorite band!
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Don Howland, Orchestral Maneuvers, Sunday, 10pm-midnight
Ten favorite compositions I heard for the first time in 2019, arranged chronologically:
Anton Webern (1883-1945): Five Movements, Op. 5
from Webern: Passacaglia, Symphony, 5 Pieces, Etc. [Naxos, 19]
Takuo Yuasa: Ulster Orchestra
Grace Williams (1919-1970) : Violin Sonata (1930, rev. 1938)
from Grace Williams: Chamber Music [Naxos, 2019]
Madeline Mitchell (v) w/ Konstantin Lapshin (p)
Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881-1950): String Quartet No. 13 in A minor (1949)
from Glinka String Quartet No. 2/Myaskovsky/Taneyev Trio No. 2 [Vox, 1989]
Gosteleradio Quartet
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) : Cello Concerto; Tout un monde lointain (1967-70)
from Lutoslawski/Dutilleaux Cello Concertos [Pentatone, 2018]
Johannes Moser w/ Thomas Sondergard: Berlin Radio SO
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970): Photoptosis
from Die Soldaten/Photoptosis/Violin Concerto [Ondine, 2019]
Hannu Lintu: Finnish Radio SO
Allan Pettersson (1919-1980): Violin Concerto No. 2
from Pettersson Violin Concerto/Symphony No. 17 (fragment) [BIS, 2019]
Ulf Wallin w/ Christian Lindberg: Norrkoping SO
Abramovich Prigozhin (1926- 1994) : Sonata Burlesca (1967)
from Youtube
Igor Arkhiman
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Kat Weiglein, Live Transmission, Monday, noon-2pm
1. Thom Yorke – ANIMA
2. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains
3. Angel Olsen – Mirrors
4. Wilco – Ode to Joy
5. Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
6. Kim Gordon – No Home Record
7. Nick Cave – Ghosteen
8. FKA Twigs – Magdalene
9. Beck – Hyperspace
10. The Bird and the Bee – Interpreting the Masters Vol 2. A Tribute to Van Halen
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Joey Books, Life Out of Tunes, Monday, 2-4pm
The Claypool Lennon Delirium / South of Reality / ATO Records
Big Lazy / Dear Trouble / Tasankee Records
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard / Fishing for Fishies / ATO Records
Vanishing Twin / The Age of Immunology / Fire Records
The Raconteurs / Help Us Stranger / Third Man Records
Elephant9 / Psychedelic Backfire I / Rune Grammofon
The Flaming Lips / King’s Mouth: Music and Songs / Warner Records
Tyrnaround / Colour Your Mind / GUERSSEN
Locksley Hall / Locksley Hall / Out-Sider
Chelsea Wolfe / Birth of Violence / Sargent House
Mdou Moctar / Ilana (The Creator)
Sefi Zisling / Expanse
Favorite live shows of 2019:
Willy Porter at Ambrose West
Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan at Ambrose West
The Claypool Lennon Delerium at Orange Peel
Paul McCartney in Greenville, SC
The Lost Chord at Isis Music Hall
Kronos Quartet at Diana Wortham Theatre
3.2 featuring Robert Berry at the Grey Eagle
Rodrigo y Gabriela at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Dead Horses at Ambrose West
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Sarah B., Songs For Friends, Monday, 4-6pm
1. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains
2. Angel Olsen – All Mirrors
3. Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence
4. Jay Som – Anak Ko
5. MJ Lenderman – MJ Lenderman
6. Bill Callahan – Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest
7. Damien Jurado – In the Shape of a Storm
8. Shannon Lay – August
9. Aldous Harding – Designer
10. Julia Jacklin – Crushing
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Matt the Free Range DJ, Let There Be Rock, Monday, 10pm-midnight
1. Guided By Voices – Zeppelin Over China
2. Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains
3. Guided By Voices – Warp & Woof
4. Guided By Voices – Sweating the Plague
5. Reigning Sound – Abdication … for Your Love
6. Prince – Originals
7. The Mystery Lights – Too Much Tension
8. Secret Shame – Dark Synthetics
9. Torche – Admission
10. Psychic Lemon – Freak Animal
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Robert Price, Beyond the Realm of Comprehension, Tuesday, 11am-1pm
Bill Orcutt _ Odds Against Tomorrow _ My band Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa played almost all our shows in them far gone 90s with Bill’s breakout noise rocktostrophy Harry Pussy. For too many years Bill stopped playing music, raised kids, and worked as a programmer in SF. (retirement) Bill appeared to have disassociated himself from his past, and suddenly re-arrived on the scene 10 or so years ago. Releasing heaps of lo-fi 7”s on his Palilalia label and playing acoustic like nobody’s bizznizz. His discography proves that Lou Barlow and many others whom deeply appreciated the scree underestimated Bill’s capabilities on his ol’ 3-string hunk of wood. Odds Against Tomorrow is meticulously engineered by Chuck Johnson and is darn tootin beautiful w/o being darn tootin embarrassing. There’s absolutely no ODing here on the saccharine. It’s passionate, stirring and non-pretentious. This makes me happy without feeling like I also just had a lobotomy.
Axxa Abraxas _ Get Weird or Die Trying _ This is starting to resemble a laundry list of my friends whom play music. Ben Asbury is a legend in his own time. Still in his 20s, he plays inspired obsessive pop ditty’s recalling Television Personalities and Small Faces and Syd Barrett. Very keen n swell in equal measures.
Anything on the Guerssen label. Where the hell do these guys find this stuff? From previously unreleased or private label psyche masterpieces _ to some dude n his friends weird Peruvian high school 70s Rock band. I knew immediately when obscure kraut freaksters Sexiphonie landed at the station a few years ago. I needed to seriously court and milk this label for all they care to send us. Accept no substitutes. Unless affiliated.
Omega _ 10,000 Paces _ Hungarian Psyche, prog legends (yes, I throw around this term very leisurely). They’ve been around for over 50 years. Hard to find their stuff for affordable prices online. I think I heard the aforementioned title track on a comp at Static Age years ago. Later I saw tons of wicked videos on the YouTube. I had credit so irresponsibly blew 30 bux getting this bugga from Russia and whallah a month and half later it was mine. Rare English language versions of their late 60s period.
Simply Saucer _ Cyborgs Revisited _ French Canada’s answer to Cleveland’s Electric Eels. Awash in noise synth and feedback. There’s actual songs here as well. Edgar Breau (the main kahuna who still sings n plays guitar on this 73 reissue) also recently released some engaging singer-songwriter stuff under the clever pseudonym of his actual name. It was awesome seeing ‘em hit Asheville with Craig Bell (Rocket from the Tombs, The Mirrors) on bass.
Lung _ All the Kings Horses _ Explosive Cleveland 2-piece saw em tear it up with Shellshag a few months back. Female vox, cello and drums. Don’t expect some mellow sanctimonious yada yada hey. This is blow yer head up n back again rock. In new releases.
Period Bomb w R Stevie Moore _ ? Cami and Dj are the sweetest and most insanely inspired lunatics this side of Miami (and they are indeed from Miami). R Stevie sent them an ancient unfinished track that they fleshed out and resolved into what sounds like Zappa meets Big Star meets Nina Hagen meets Moon Unit doin her best Freddie Mercury.
Matron _ Standing Water _ New Orleans female-fronted avant post punk prog. Clever and intentionally good. Very good. Excellent to be exact.
Asheville Locals Goin Loco Have Seen n Dun Dig Dug: The Mouthbreathers, Harriers of Discord, Sinnersoid, Swamp Ape, Space Grandma, Jane n Tonic.
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Dr. Hyena of The Please Pass the Hacksaw (Chain-cutting Radio) show, Tuesday, 1-3pm
Best Of 2019 Top 33
local
33. Dude Eclaire joins Asheville Vaudeville
32. Daydream Creatures Rock Opera: The Legend of Qalu & Ahti live at Ambrose West
31. Creamy ‘lecric Santa w/Perrin opens for Simply Saucer at Mothlight
30. The Pritchard Park Evicts: The We Can’t Afford Echo Mountain Sessions
29. All Hell: The Witch’s Grail
28. The Callers: A Means To Begin
27. Bana Haffar: Matiere, and Genera – Live at AB Salon
26. ROND does Another last ROND show ever
global
25. Iggy Pop postpones retirement again
24. Amyl and the Sniffers: Self titled
23. Uncle Meg: Butterfly
22. Cartel Madras: Age of the Goonda: Goonda Gold
21. The Coathangers: The Devil You Know
20. Flight of the Conchords: Live in London
19. Femi: From Indiana with Love
18. Rainbow Star: Music from the Rainbow Sparkle Palace Vol. 2
17. Theo Croker: Star People Nation
16. Maurice Louca: Elephantine
15. The 1865: Don’t Tread On We!
14. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Bandana
13. Combo Chimbita: Revelacion
12. Juatra Putra: The Sacred Entertainment
11. Tinariwen: Amadjar
10. Les Filles de Illeghadad: Eghass Milan, and Self-titled on Sahel Sounds
9. Les Filles de Illeghadad: Live show at Mothlight
8. Buncombe Sheriff Quentin Miller refusing to assist ICE agents attack our community
7. john bolton got fired / resident rump got impeached
6. david koch is dead
5. Elizabeth Warren’s “…This president is just Sucking up to Dicktators…” w/a straight face
4. Bernie Sander’s opponents applying Bern Creme after debates (ok I made that up)
3. Sean Swain “Do You Know How To Fire This?
2. Sean Swain declares run as “America’s Last President” from Maximum Security Prison
1. Greta Thunberg Sings Norweigen Death Metal
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Asheville FM Music Sessions, Tuesday, 5-7pm
Asheville area bands and musical artists of 2019 and beyond: Abhorrent Deformity * Abjex * Ahleuchatistas * Adderall * Adi the Monk * Adventure Adventure * Alarm Clock Conspiracy * Alec Sturgis * Alex Brown * Alex Travers * Alexa Rose * Allii Wayy * All Hell * All Night Mike * Aloonaluna * Amanda Anne Plat & The Honeycutters * Ambiguous Roots * American Maid Band * Amnesis * Anastasia Valentine & Katy Don’t * Ancient Ethel * Angel Olsen * Anders Manga * Andre Cholmondeley * Andrew J. Fletcher * Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats * Andy Loebs * Anywhere From Here * April B. & The Cool * Armadilla * Art Wavey * Artificial Oceans * Arwen & Dustin * Ash Devine * Ashby Gale * The Asound * Astronauta de le Fumar * A World of Lies * Augur * Aunt Sis * Aunt Vicki * Autarch * Axxa/Abraxas * 13AGH3AD (Baghead) * Bad Banker * Bad Molly * Bad Ties * Bald Mountain Boys * Balkan Beat Box * Balkan Death Grip * Balloon Man * Bana Haffar * The Band Moves * Banjo Mitch * Bank of Christ * Battery Powered Hooker Boots * BASK * Bedazzlor * Ben Phan * Ben Shirley * BEX * Big Nasty Jazz Band * Bill Coonan * The Bill Maltba Xperience (BMX) * Binding Isaac * Black Mountain Hunger * Black Sea Beat Society * Bleedseason * Bless Your Heart * Blitch * Bob the Singing Bass Player * Bobbie Snakes * Bombay Gasoline * Bonny Dagger * Brief Awakening * Broad River Nightmare * Brody Hunt & The Handfuls * Brucemont * Brynn Estelle * Bryan Marshall and His Payday Knights * Buddy Davis * Clair Brockway * Clifton Hicks and Jake Book * Built By Slaves * Built On The Ruins * Bulter & Thompson * Buskits * Busted Chops * Cadavernous * Call The Next Witness * The Callers * Cannonball Jars * Carbon Bandit * Cardboard Box Colony * Carly Taich * Carpal Tullar * Carolina Catskins * Case Dakota * Cassandra Complex * Castor * Cave Grave * Celia Verbeek * Chalwa * Chaos Among Cattle * The Cheeksters * Chelsea LaBate * Chilltonic * Chris Head & The Broken Family Band * Chris Rodrigues and Abby the Spoon * Cyndi Lou & the Want To * Circle Verse * Clair Brockway * Clarence Gallagher * Clifton Hicks and Jake Book * Cloud City Caskets * Cloudgayzer * Coconut Cake * Coffin Moth * Cold Choir * Colin Miller * Convalescent * Cora Hill * Covenater * Cowbaby * Cowboy Judy * Crooked Ghost * C.Shreve the Professor * Curt Castle * C.W. Stoneking * Dangerous Goods * Daniel Rassum * Dave Desmelik * David Washington * Dawn Carol * Day and Dream * Daybreaker * Daydream Creatures * The Dead Tongues * Death Nebula * Death Tapes * Deep Chatham * Delta Quadrant * Derek Poteat * The DiMarcos * Dirty Badgers * DirtyBoys * Dissent * Dixie Dave Allen * Doc Aquatic * DOSE * Drayton & The Dreamboats * Dreads For Brains * Drew Burgess * Drunk In A Dumpster * Drunken Prayer * Dr Aqueous and the Fantastik Apparatus * Drury Peek * Dub Cartel * Dude Babe * Dulci Ellenberger * Dynamo * EarthCry * Earth Collider * Eaze Dogg * Eat The Label * Egg Eaters * Eggshell Emily * 8 Vacant Graves * Electric Karma * Electric Phantom * Elisa Faires * Elvis Depressedly * Emily Easterly * Emmalee Hunnicutt * Emotion in General * Empire Strikes Brass * Empty Ritual * Falcon Mitts * Fantømex * Fashion Bath * Feminazgûl * Fifty Year Flood * Firecracker Jazz Band * Fleur Geurl * Floating Action * Flugel * Folder * Forest Bailey * 4 Front * Fractured Frames * Frances Eliza * Fruit * FTO: C.Shreve the Professor, DJ Jet, Mike L!VE, Good Shepard, Ill Will, Phil Dangerous, She Carretta, Mind Ninjas * Fuck Jamz * GÄK * George Trouble * The Get Right Band * Glass Bricks * The Glory Committee * Gnarl Scar * Gold Light & Snakemusk * Goldie & The Screamers * Good Flavor * Good Grief * Gracie Lane * Greg Cartwright / The Reigning Sound * Gutterhound * Half Blind Eyes * The Half That Matters * Hank Bones * Hard Rocket * Harsh Mike * Harriers of Discord * Harsh Realm * Hear//Say * Heather Taylor * Herb Da Wizard * Het Ward * Holiday Childress * Hieronymus Bots * High Strung String Band * Hit Dogs * Hokum High Rollers * Holiday Childress * Holy Moly * Hoo:Lumes * Hope Griffin * The House Hoppers * House & Land * Hug * Human Energy Field * Human Ladder * Hunter Griggs * Hustle Souls * I the Supplier * Ian Moore * Indigo De Souza * Yssabel Gernandt * Jack Victor w/Maddie Shuler * Jackson Harem * Jacqueline Terry * Jail * Jane n Tonic * Jangling Sparrows * Jason Decristofaro * Jeremiah Greer * Jeremy Isaac Eubanks * Jericho * Jerry Jones * Jerry Read Smith and Tom Fellenbaum * Jesse Barry & the Jam * Jessie & The Jinx * Jigsaw Zay * Jody Carroll * Joe Medwick * Joe Sundell * Joel Ragan * Johan Smogwafer * John Wolf * Jon Charles Dwyer * Jon Reid * Jonathan Scales Fourchestra * Jordan Okrend * Josh Phillips and The Feel Good * Joshua Carpenter * Joybang * Julia Sanders * Junt * Just Die! * Kangarot * Kare Strong & Josh Goforth * Kate Rhudy * Katie Sachs * Kevin Fuller * Kima Moore * Kimathi Moore * King Garbage * King Jo * Kismet * Kitty Tsunami * Knives & Daggers * Koresma * Kortriba * Kovacs and the Polar Bear * Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa * Krektones * Kri Samadhi * Landon George & Andy Loebs * Laura Reed * Larkin * Last Frost * Lavender Blue * Leather Britches *Leeda Lyric Jones * The Lefties * Leigh Glass * Lil Connie * Lil Meow Meow * Living Dog (& Mike Johnson) * Lommol * Lords of Chicken Hill * Loretta Davis * Loved Ones * Lo Wolf * Lull * Lunar Creature * Lush Agave * Luxury Club * Lyric * Madelyn Ilana * Makato * Man Man * Mandolin Orange * MANAS * Manmade Devil * Many A Ship * Marley Carroll * Marley P * Mark Hosler / negativland * Mary Sparks * Matt Heckler * Matt Rivers * Meg Mulhearn * Melissa Meyers * Melodic AF * Mendocino * Midnight Snack * Mike Andersen * Mike L!ve * Mike Kane * Mild Windigo * Mindshapefist * The Minnies * Minorcan * MJ Lenderman * Modern Strangers * Mombi Yuleman * Mondays * Moonbeam Jim * The Moon and You * Moonlight Street Folk * Morbids * Mordaga * Mother Marrow * Motherhood * Mountain Bitters * Mouthbreathers * Movies * Mr. Mange * Mr. 1NE 5IVE * M.T. Sullivan * Musashi Xero * Nash to Stoudemire * Nate Hall * Nathanael Jordan * Nathanael Roney * Natural Born Leaders * NeoElph* Nervous Dupre * Nest Egg * Never Understand * Nihilist Davis * Night Beers * Night’s Bright Colors * Nikki Talley * Nomadic War Machine * Nostalgianoid * Normal State * Oariana * OBSiDEONEYE * Okapi * Onawa * One Leg Up * onj. * Ouroboros Boys * Papdosio * Penny * Pet Collective * Peter the Poet * Phoenix Noel * Pianos From Peru * Pictures of Vernon * Planefolk * Pleasure Chest * Pleasures of the Ultraviolent * Poet Radio * Po’folk * Polly Panic * Poor Excuse * The Power * Preach Jacobs * Pressed * Pretty Boy Floyd * Pretty Pretty * Pronounced Heroes * P.T.P * Queen Bee and the Honeylovers * Rahm Squad * Rapsody * RBTS WIN * Rebecca and the Reckoning * Red Bait * Red Dwarf * Red June * Red Clay Revival * Reddenhollow * Resonant Rogues * Reversels * Rhoda Weaver * Rich Nelson Band * Rising Appalachia * River Whyless * Road Gang * Roaring Lions * Robin Lewis * Rocky Mountain Roller * Rond * Ross Osteen Band * The Rouge Duo * Saché * Sacred Daisy * Sami Pait * Sane Voids * Santos Soul * Sarah Louise * The Scatterlings * Scott Damage / GENEraL ChrYsT * Scotty Stalebread * Screaming Js * Secret B-Sides * Secret Diary * Secret Shame * Seven and a Half Giraffe * Shadow of the Destroyer * Shadow Show * Shake It Like a Caveman * Shaken Nature * Shane Conerty * Shane Parish * SHIKI XO * Shutterings * Thee Sidewalk Surfers * Sin Kitty * Sinnersoid * Sinker * Siren XO *SIYAH * SK the Novelist * Ska City * Skunk Ruckus * Sleepy Dog * Sleepy Poetry * Slow Poison * Slugly * Small Country * Snake Prophecy * Southern Pine * Space Heater * Space Grandma * Spaceman Jones & The Motherships * Spaceman Jones & The Motherships * Sparrow and Her Wingmen * Spearfinger * The Spiral * Stalebred Scottie * Starcrushed * State Park Ranger * The Stillwater Hobos * Strange Cousin * Styrofoam Turtles * Sun Sing Star * Survival Crimes * Swamp Ape * Swamp Hag * Systematic Devastation * Tan Universe * Tar & Rosin * Tashi Dorji * TEEM * Telic * Temptations Wings * Teso McDonald * Then Came Dragons Thin Pigeon * Third Nature * T-Hood * Thresher * Tides * Tidy * Tin Foil Hat * Tin Roof Echo * Tina and Her Pony * Tomato Calculator * Tombstone Highway * Tongues of Fire * Trees Eating Humans * Truth Club * TV Set * Twin Star * Tyler Ladd * Ugly Runner * Uncle Kurtis * Unikorn * Utah Green * Vaden Landers * Velvet Reaper * The Velvet Wolves * VIA * Vic Crown * Vince Junior Band * Violent Thing * Vive Le Vox * Voice of the Sidhe * VVitchboy and VVITCHGANG COVEN * Wizards In Training * Walkhome * Wednesday * Wes Tirey * Wham Bam Bowie Band * Witch Party * WRHCKD * Wyla * Xero God * Yo Mama’s Big Phat Booty Band * Young Fly Mafia * Young Mister * Young Pine * The Zealots * Zoe * and Zin Vetro …
… plus any forgotten, unknown, or thought ya broke up over a year ago
… email to lettuce know: Sessions@ashevillefm.org
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DJ Erik Maddox, The UnCola, Tuesday, 8-10pm
The Uncola’s favorite albums of 2019
Joe Jackson – Fool
Raphael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee
The Bird & the Bee – Interpreting the Masters Vol. 2 : a Tribute to Van Halen
Monkey House – Friday
Soulpersona & Princess Freesia – The Game
Al Sunny – Planets
Howard Jones – Transform
Chelsea Wilson – Chasing Gold
Benny Sings – City Pop
Ole Borud – Outside The Limit
Burrows & Dilbeck – All The Same
State Cows – Challenges
JP Sutcliffe – Just Me
Mandoo – Pacific Addiction
Leon Ware – Rainbow Deux
Free Nationals – Free Nationals
The Pendletons – 2 Steps Away
Allen Stone – Building Balance
Kraak & Smaak – Pleasure Centre
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DJ Camaro, Ya Don’t Stop, Tuesday, 10pm-midnight
Best of the Decade
1- Anderson .Paak _ Malibu
2- Kanye West _ My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3- Kendrick Lamar _ Good Kid Maad City
4- Frank Ocean _ Channel Orange
5- Watch the Throne _ Watch the Throne
Best of 2019
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib _ Bandana
Rapsody _ Eve
Skyzoo & Pete Rock _ Metropolitan
SK, the Novelist _ Baggage
Mothership _ In My Feelings
Anderson .Paak _ Ventura
Murs & 9th Wonder _ The Illiad is Dead
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Gypsy Flores, Musical Migrations, Wednesday, 1-4pm
Some of my Favorite Releases of 2019 from around the world
1. I Muvrini—Portu In Core—-Wrasse Records 2019 (Corsica)
2. Milagro Acustico—Rosa Del Sud Remix—-Cultural Bridge (Italy/Sicily)
3. Mara Aranda——Sefarad en el Corazón de Turquia——Self-released (Spain)
4. Benedicte Maurseth——Benedicte Maurseth—Label: Heilo 2019 (Norway)
5. Gaiteiros de Lisboa——Bestiário——Uguru 2019 (Portugal)
6. Vildá——Vildaluodda——Bafes Factory 2019 (Finland)
7. Sinafi Trio——Iho——Z Ses Görüntü (Turkey)
8. Carminho——Maria——WM Portugal (Portugal)
9. Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa—-Poetic Trance——Blue Line Records (Morocco)
10. Tinariwen——Admadjar—-Anti/Epitaph (Mali/Touareg)
11. Guo Gan Trio——Gobi Desert——Felmay Records (China/Turkey)
12. Pauanne—-Pauanne—Nordic Notes. (Finland)
13. Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou——Oulad Lghaba——Ajabu! Records (Morocco)
14. Tartit——Amankor/The Exile——Riverboat Records (Mali/Touareg)
15. Maja Milinkovic—-Fadolinka——Seven Muses Records (Bosnia)
16. Romano Drom——Give Me Wine——World Music Network (Hungary/Roma)
17. Yann-Fañch Kemener — Roudennoú — Buda Musique– (Brittany)
Some of Gypsy’s favorites From the Last Ten Years (that are NOT on my best of 2019)
Artist —- Album Title — Label—Country/Region
1. I Muvrini — Imaginà — 2012 AGFB Corsica
2. Stéphane Casalta — I Vascelli — Association Canzona Vagabonda 2014 Corsica
3. Milagro Acustico — Sicilia Araba —Cultural Bridge 2013 Italy/Sicily
4. Annie Ebrel, Nolluen Le Buhe, Marthe Vassallo — Teir — L’Oz Production 2012
5. Carminho —— Fado —— EMI Portugal 2009 Portugal
6.Eva Salina & Peter Stan –Sudbina — Vogiton 2018 –U.S.A. /Serbia
7. Mathias Duplessy and The 3 Violins of the World — Marco Polo —OP Conseil 2010 Various Countries
8. Kepa Junkera — Maletak — Fol Musica 2016 Basque Country
9. Dremmwel — Hirbad — Self-released 2018 — Brittany
10. Mahsa Vahdat — Traces of an Old Vineyard —Valley Entertainment 2015 Iran
11. Alexis Zoumbas — A Lament For Epirus, 1926-1928 — Angry Mom Records 2014 Greece
12. Titi Robin and Mehdi Nassouli — Taziri —World Village 2015 France and MoroccoTen
13. Dakha Braka — Na Mezhi —Self-released 2014 — Ukraine
14. Keyvan Chemirani — Avaz ——Innacor 2014 — Iran
15. Imamyar Hasanov, Arslan Hazreti, Volkan Kaplan — Bozlak/Segah/Chargah —Volkan Kaplan Production 2018. Azerbaijan
16. Christina Pluhar & L’Arpeggiata — Mediterraneo — Erato Disques 2013 Various Countries
17. Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal — Songs of Time Lost — No format 2014 England/France
18. Aziza Brahim — Abbar El Hamada — Glitterbeat 2016 —Western Sahara
19. Rhiannon Giddens — There Is No Other — Nonesuch 2019. U.S.A.
20. Katarina Máliková — Pustvopol —Sinko Records 2016. Russia
21. Fatoumata Diawara — Fenfo (Something to Say) Shanachie 2018 Mali
22. Warsaw Village Band — Mazovian Roots —Jaro Medien 2019. Poland
23. Helladelics — Underdrive — Self-released 2010 –U.S.A.
24. Monsieur Doumani — Angathin —Self-released 2018 Cyprus
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Gerry Leonard, Sound Hive, Wednesday, 6-7pm
Top 20 Albums:
Steve Lacy – Apollo XXI
FKA Twigs – Magdalene
Solange – When I Get Home
Little Simz – GREY Area
Tyler The Creator – IGOR
GoldLink – Diaspora
Sudan Archives – Athena
Anderson .Paak – Ventura
Helado Negro – This Is How You Smile
Ana Frango Elétrico – Little Electric Chicken Heart
Freddie Gibbs – Bandana
DaBaby – KIRK
Sampa The Great – The Return
Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe
Toro y Moi – Outer Peace
Kindness – Something Like A War
Blood Orange – Angel’s Pulse
(Sandy) Alex G – House of Sugar
Michael Kiwanunka – KIWANUKA
Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
Top 19 Songs:
Peggy Gou – “Starry Night”
ROSALÍA – “Aute Cuture”
Jai Paul – “Do You Love Her Now”
Madison McFerrin – “Try”
Caroline Polachek – “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings”
Daniela Andrade – “Ayayai”
Free Nationals & Chronixx – “Eternal Light”
Tyler, The Creator – “GONE, GONE / THANK YOU”
Koffee – “W” (feat. Gunna)
Noname – “Song 32”
Tierra Whack – “CLONES”
Solange – “Binz”
FKA Twigs – “Sad Day”
Helado Negro – “Running”
Mahalia – “Simmer” (feat. Burna Boy)
Little Simz – “101 FM”
Steve Lacy – “Basement Jack”
GoldLink – “Zulu Screams” (feat. Maleek Berry & Bibi Bourelly)
Anderson .Paak – “Twilight”
Favorite Live Show: Madison McFerrin @ the Songbyrd Music House in Washington, DC
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Avel Veeta, Flytrap, Wednesday, 10pm-midnight
some recommendations from 2019:
Amyl and the Sniffers – Amyl and the Sniffers
She Past Away – Disko Anksiyet
Drab Majesty – Modern Mirror
Boy Harsher – Careful
Idle Hands – Mana
Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence
Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
HIDE – Hell is Here
Mannequin Pussy – Patience
Snuggle – Holiday Heart EP
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Jon Wain, AFM album reviewer, probationary DJ
Top 10 Releases of 2019:
Purple Mountains – S/T
Aquarian Blood – A Love That Leads To War
Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow
Coachwhips – Night Train
Gino And The Goons – Do The Get Around
The Hunches – Same New Thing
My Head Is Like A Radio Set (Girlsville Records Compilation)
Rocket 808 – S/T
Virvon Varvon – Mind Cancer
The Intelligence – Un-Psychedelic in Peavey City
Top 10 Releases of Decade:
Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania (2011)
Thee Oh Sees / Total Control Split (2011)
Coachwhips – Hands On The Controls (2013, Expanded LP reissue)
The Lavender Flu – Heavy Air (2016)
Mr. Airplane Man – Lost Tapes (2014)
Don Howland – Life Is A Nightmare (2015)
Ork Records: New York, New York — Numero Group Box Set (2015)
Intelligence – Everybody’s Got It Easy But Me (2012)
Oblivians – Desperation (2013)
Bird Cloud – Singles Only (2016, Singles Compilation)
Top 10 Concerts/Experiences of Decade:
Debauch-A-Reno, The Sticker Guy 25th anniversary party. Got to see The Mummies, Oblivians, King Khan & BBQ, Reigning Sound, The Losin’ Streaks, The Spits, and many more all in one barn-burner Reno, Nevada weekend.
Burger Boogaloo. Saw The Damned, Le Shok, The Rip Offs, Firestarter, The Gris Gris, Battleship, Quintron, and more all in one awesome day while visiting San Francisco. Partner said she’d never seen me smile so much in the entire time we’ve known each other. Ha.
Guitar Wolf with Hans Condor opening in Providence, RI. It was a shit-show in the best possible way. A bunch of drunk dudes kept shouting Wild Zero quotes all night and sang Motorhead karaoke with Hans Condor.
King Brothers at The Shelter, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, JP. First real “live house” show I ever saw in Japan. Finished work in Osaka then took a 3 hour bullet train ride to Tokyo for the show. It was a ridiculously loud, awesome, wild, and crowded show.
Poor Cow, Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, JP. A few blocks from the Shelter is the Poor Cow, a bar owned and run by Fifi of Teengenerate. He’s one of the nicest people you will ever meet and has an insane knowledge of music. Hung out there one night, talking to him and other local musicians, listening to and playing records, just having a great time in general.
Gino And The Goons, Party Pigs, and The Monsieurs at Dusk in Providence, RI. Any show where a band decides to wing a cover of another band on the bill’s song is a fun one.
Buck Biloxi & The F*cks and The Monsieurs at an Art Gallery in Cambridge, MA. It was a wild show involving a crowd surfing couch.
Gories, Oblivians, and Derv Gordon (of The Equals) in Brooklyn, NY. Never thought I would see any of these bands, let alone at the same show.
Timebomb Records, Osaka, JP. While working in Japan, I got to visit the Garage Punk mecca that is Timebomb Records! Never thought I would ever make it there.
Tunnel of Love reunion show. One of the greatest art/garage punk bands in Boston, no, world history decided to play a one-off reunion show 10 years after calling it quits. It was at an Elks Lodge and they were almost as wild as they had ever been. One of the best shows and crowds I have ever seen.
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Marissa, Not Your Mother’s Tongue, Thursday, 1-3pm
Albums:
#1 V/A – Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu, Somalia 1972-1991
#2 Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy – “Mam Yinne Wa”
#3 KOKOKO! – “Fongola”
#4 V/A – Alefa Madagascar: Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island 1974-1984
#5 V/A – Pour Me A Grog: The Funaná Revolt in 1990s Cabo Verde
#6 Nicola Cruz – “Siku”
#7 Combo Chimbita – “Ahomale”
#8 V/A – Mamazonia: Odes to the Forest Vol. 1
#9 Nigeria 70: No Wahala Highlife, Afro-Funk & Juju 1973-1987 (Vol. 4)
#10 Sister Mantos – “Songs in the Key of Destroy Capitalism”
Top 10 Singles of the Year
#1 The 100 Knights Orchestra – “Soul Fugue”
#2 Buscabulla – “Vamono”
#3 Stirling March – “Under Cover Lover”
#4 Antibalas – “Fight Am Finish”
#5 Mdou Moctar – “Kamane Tarhanin”
#6 Sotomayor – “Quema”
#7 Vula Viel – “My Own Skin”
#8 Acid Arab – “Malek Ya Zahri (feat. Cheikha Hadjla)”
#9 Sankayi – “Il Ne Faut Pas Intervenir (Martin Meissonnier Reconstruction)”
#10 Vance & Suzzane – “I Can’t Get Along Without You”
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JD, Closer to the Edge, Thursday, 3-6pm
Favorite Studio Albums: In Cauda Venenum by Opeth, You Know What They Mean by Bent Knee, Distance Over Time by Dream Theater, Waiting For Miracles by The Flower Kings, Third Degree by Flying Colors, Loops In The Secret Society by Jane Weaver, Grand Tour by Big Big Train, South of Reality by Claypool Lennon Delirium, Resistance by IQ, A Storm Is Coming by Bjorn Riis, Birth of Violence by Chelsea Wolfe, Futha by Heilung, All Aboard The Skylark by Hawkwind, The Spell by Cellar Darling, Pitfalls by Leprous, Giants of All Sizes by Elbow, Spiritual Instinct by Alcest, Zess by Magma, In The Raw by Tarja, Things As They Appear by Red Bazar, Nocebo by The Dave Foster Band, Blood Year by Russian Circles, A Boat on The Sea by Moron Police, Kings Mouth: Music And Songs by The Flaming Lips, Love You To Bits by No-Man
Favorite Debut Albums: Head Without Eyes by Per Wiberg, The Chaos Game by Cabinets of Curiosity, Every Night Something Happens by Lost Crowns, Feed Me To The Stars by Skaar, Tranquilize by Fervent Mind, Pattern-Seeking Animals by Pattern-Seeking Animals, Cocoon by Richard Henshall, Rosalie Cunningham by Rosalie Cunningham, Wanderlost by Dizzy Mystics
Favorite Live Albums: Genesis Revisited Band & Orchestra: Live at the Royal Festival Hall by Steve Hackett, Decades: Live in Buenos Aires by Nightwish, Live USA 17 by The Fierce And The Dead
Favorite Reissues: In The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson, The Soft Parade by The Doors
Favorite Boxset: The Later Years by Pink Floyd
Favorite Local Concerts: The Aristocrats at Isis Music Hall, Dream Theater at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, Claypool Lennon Delirium at the Orange Peel
Favorite Local Bands: The Lost Chord, Bask
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Force ghost Ben Herring, Feels Like The First Time, (moved to Florida)
Sunwatchers – illegal moves
75 Dollar Bill – I was real
Purple Mountains – s/t
Moon Duo – stars are the light
Rye – here’s to feeling good all the time
Mdou Moctar – Ilana
De Lorians – s/t
Black Midi – schlagenheim
Fontaine’s DC – dogrel
The Comet is Coming – trust in the life force….
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – all in good time
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Devyn, Too Dark For Disney, Friday, 5-7pm
Top 5 regional live shows of 2019:
5. daikaiju – static age
4. mary ocher – the grey eagle
3. ESG – the orange peel
2. angel olsen – the haw river ballroom
1. mike watt – the mothlight
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Steven Howard, Mental Notes, Friday, 7-9 pm
In no particular Order, here’s my top 21:
1) The Bevis Frond – We’re Your Friends, Man (Fire Records)
2) Howe Gelb – Gathered (Fire Records)
3) Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant – Carte Blanche (Unrock)
4) The Flesh Eaters – I Used to Be Pretty (Yep Roc Records)
5) Sleaford Mods – Eton Alive (Extreme Eating Records)
6) David Behrman – On the Other Ocean (Lovely Music First)
7) Mekons – Deserted (Bloodshot Records)
8) Black to Comm – Seven Horses For Seven Kings (Thrill Jockey Records)
9) Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi _ s/t (Trost)
10) Tropical Fuck Storm (TFS) – Braindrops (Joyful Noise)
11) Ian Downey Is Famous – Destroy Language (Carbon)
12) Karen O & Danger Mouse – Lux Prima (BMG)
13) Lungbutter – Honey (Constellation)
14) Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Bryce Dessner & Eighth Blackbird – When We Are Inhuman (37do3d)
15) Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal & Jesse Paris Smith – Songs from the Bardo (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
16) Holly Herndon – PROTO (4AD)
17) Oiseaux-Tempête – From Somewhere Invisible (Sub Rosa)
18) Kronos Quartet- Terry Riley – Sun Rings (Nonesuch)
19) Michael Chapman – True North *Paradise of Bachelors)
20) Negativland – True False (Seeland)
21) best compilation: No Other Love – Midwest Gospel 1965-1978 – Tompkins Square
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Randy Booher, … And the Address, Friday, 9-11pm
Temples _ “Hot Motion” (ATO Records)
Elephant9 _ “Psychedelic Backfire I” (Rune Grammophon)
Eisenlager _ “@work” (Attenuation Circuit)
Bask _ “III” (Season Of Mist)
Negativeland _ “True False” (Seeland)
The Claypool-Lennon Delirium _ “South Of Reality” (ATO Records)
Rodrigo y Gabriela _ “Mettavolution” (ATO Records)
The Telescopes _ “Exploding Head Syndrome” (Tapete Records)
Psychic Lemon _ “Freak Mammal” (Drone Rock Records)
Angel Olsen _ ”All Mirrors” (Jagjaguwar)
Chelsea Wolfe _ “Birth Of Violence” (Sargent House)
Mimico _ “Hi-Action” (Hand Drawn Dracula)
Sunn O))) _ ”Pyroclasts” (Southern Lord)
Axxa/Abraxas _ “Get Weird Or Die Boring” (Rta Art Collective)
Fat White Family _ ”Serf’s Up” (Domino)
Tyrnaround _ ”Colour Your Mind” (Guerssen) reissue from 1986
Laurie Spiegel _ “Unseen Worlds” (Unseen Worlds) reissue from 1991
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Dogeye, Melody in Mayhem, Friday, 11pm-2am
1. Michael Pisaro – “Nature Denatured and Found Again” (GRAVITY WAVE)
2. The Caretaker – “Everywhere, an Empty Bliss” (HISTORY ALWAYS FAVOURS THE PAST)
3. Nate Wooley – “Columbia Icefield” (NORTHERN SPY)
4. Bill Orcutt – “Odds Against Tomorrow” (PALILALIA RECORDS)
5. Laura Luna Castillo – “Folksonomies” (CUDIGHI RECORDS) [cassette]
6. Carl Stone _ “Baroo” (UNSEEN WORLDS)
7. Toshiya Tsunoda – “Extract From Field Recording Archive” (ERSTPAST)
8. Catherine Christer Hennix – “Waves of the Blue Sea”- (Blank Forms Edition)
9. JACK Quartet / Sō Percussion (Dan Trueman) – “Songs That Are Hard to Sing” (NEW AMSTERDAM)
10. Israel Martinez – “Pausa” (AAGOO)
11. Negativland – “True False” (SEELAND)
12. Kate Tempest – “The Book of Traps and Lessons” (AMERICAN RECORDINGS)
13. Matana Roberts – “COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis” (CONSTELLATION)
14. Caterina Barbieri – “Ecstatic Computation” (ESITIONS MEGO)
15. Shasta Cults – s/t (IMPORTANT)
16. Moor Mother – “Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes” (DON GIOVANNI RECORDS)
17. Kali Malone – “Sacrificial Code” (IDEAL)
18. Natalia Beylis – “Real Live Birds Vol 1” (SOFIA RECORDS) [cassette]
19. Clarice Jensen – “Drone Studies” (Geographic North)
20. Ellen Arkbro – “Chords” (SUBTEXT)
best reissues:
1. Ernest Hood – Neighborhoods (Freedom to Spend)
2. Robert Ashley – “Private Parts” (Lovely Music)
3. Laurie Speigel – Unseen Worlds (UNSEEN WORLDS)
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Sagan Thacker, Radio Active Kids, Saturday, 8-10am
Singles:
10. Andrew Best – “Bucket of Squid” (SELF-RELEASED)
9. Mariano Pose ft. Germán Lema, Gabriel Piratto Mazza & Matilda Pose – “Agua que va” (SELF-RELEASED)
8. Erin Lee & the Up Past Bedtime Band – “That Kid on the School Bus” (SELF-RELEASED)
7. Kath Bee & Claudia Robin Gunn – “Making My Way” (LITTLE WILD MUSIC)
6. Pointed Man Band – “Le Grand K” (DOO-DAH! RECORDS)
5. Levity Beet – “Shall We Build a Wall or a Bridge?” (WILDBEET PRODUCTIONS)
4. Kindiana Jones – “The Questions” (HEY! BACON!! RECORDS)
3. Walter Martin – “Do-Dilly-Do (A Friend Like You)” (LAKESHORE RECORDS)
2. Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats – “Flick of My Wrist” (A FEW LITTLE NOTES)
1. Secret Agent 23 Skidoo ft. Laura Williams – “Wake Up” (FACEBOOK CREATOR STUDIO???)
Albums:
10. Mike Debenham – Treasure (SELF-RELEASED)
9. Bee Parks & the Hornets – Welcome to the Hive (SELF-RELEASED)
8. PlaySoundz – A Clamorous Collection of PlaySoundz (SELF-RELEASED)
7. Randy Kaplan – Shake It and Break It (YELLOW THING RECORDS & BOOKS)
6. Harry & the Potters – Lumos (CHARMING RECORDS)
5. Jon Samson – Ageless: Songs for the Child Archetype (COCREATIVE MUSIC)
4. Formidable Vegetable – Earth People Fair (GROW DO IT)
3. Ants on a Log – Curious: Think Outside the Pipeline! (ANT HILL)
2. Lori Henriques Quintet with Joey Alexander – Legion of Peace: Songs Inspired by Nobel Laureates (MOTEMA MUSIC)
1. Alphabet Rockers – The Love (SCHOOL TIME MUSIC)
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Ernesto, Loose Fit, Saturday, 10am-noon
Fave AVL Releases 2019
REDDENHOLLOW – HAUNT EP
SECRET SHAME – DARK SYNTHETICS
AXXA/ABRAXAS – GET WEIRD OR DIE BORING
SHAKEN NATURE – SHKNTRE EP
THE POWER – WEIRD VIBES
GOLD LIGHT – SHADOWS IN THE SHALLOWS
SHUTTERINGS – KOUROSH
DRUNKEN PRAYER – CORDELIA ELSEWHERE
BAD MOLLY – <3
DAYDREAM CREATURES – QUALUPALIK
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Andy Miller, Brown Mountain Lights, Saturday, noon-2pm
The Comet Is Coming: Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
[great stuff – I saw them play a fantastic exploratory set at Big Ears 2019]
Baroness: Gold and Grey
[i used to live in Savannah and regularly saw this band in their early days – super tight!]
Purple Mountains
[“I loved being my mother’s son” made me cry, good review by Sarah B]
Christian Scott: Ancestral Recall
[ambitious player and composer who blends genres]
Kishi Bashi: Omoiyari
[very creative and moving record art-pop from Athens, ga – my alma mater – great review, Talia!]
Mercury Rev: Bobbie Gentry’s the Delta Sweete Revisited
[i also saw them at Big Ears – great stuff – great review, Tonya]
Angel Olsen: All Mirrors
[epic production and gorgeous and dark music – good review, Sarah B]
Leonard Cohen: Thanks for the Dance
[post mortem lyrical power from the Canadian poet – just check out Puppets]
Mekons: Deserted
[amazing music from punk’s most tireless band – great review, Airon]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen
[powerful tribute to real grief – thanks for reviewing, Kat!]
Lightning Bolt: Sonic Citadel
[they somehow keep doing amazing things with speed, humor (“Husker Don’t”) volume and intensity – striking review, Donovan Quixote]
Joe Henry: The Gospel According to Water
[more great songs from this cancer survivor and lyrical wordsmith]
Matthew Halsall: Oneness
[a great artist who plays the most mellow modal spiritual jazz]
Matmos: Plastic Anniversary
[although i’m late to the matmos party, this record is pretty amazing and relevant]
The Art Ensemble of Chicago: We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
[50 years!! of creative energy – thanks for the great review of their Big Ears set which I sadly missed, Greg Lyon]
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Corey Parlamento, Scores For You and Yours, Saturday, 2-3pm
Favorite soundtracks of 2019:
Jung Jaeil – Parasite
Hildur Guonadottir- Joker and Chernobyl
Alex Somers – Honey Boy
Ben Frost – Dark (Season 2)
John Debney – The Beach Bum
Leonardo Heiblum – Birds of Passage
Stuart A. Staples – High Life
Mark Korven – The Lighthouse
Bobby Krilic – Midsommar
Disasterpeace – Under The Silver Lake
Daniel Lopatin – Uncut Gems
Bryce Dessner – The Two Popes
Max Richter – Ad Astra
Michael Ables – Us
Nathan Johnson – Knives Out
The Favourite – Various Artists
The Lobster – Various Artists
Jonny Greenwood – You Were Never Really Here
Thom Yorke – Suspiria
Call Me By Your Name – Various Artists
Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk
Dan Deacon – Rat Film
Josef Van Wissem – Only Lovers Left Alive
Colin Stetson – Hereditary
Anna Meredith – Eight Grade
Mark Korven – The Witch
Clint Mansell – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
Carter Burwell – Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri
Oneohtrix Point Never – Goodtime
Evgueni Galperine and Sacha Galperine – Loveless
Scott Walker – The Childhood of A Leader
Gustavo Santaolalla – Biutiful
Anthony Partos and Sam Petty – The Rover
Alberto Iglesias – Quien te Cantara
Johann Johannsson – Arrival
Youth – Various Artists
Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Revenant
Mica Levi – Under The Skin
Brian Reitzell – Hannibal (All Seasons)
Michael Abels – Get Out
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Social Network
Kathryn Kluge & Kim Allen Kluge – Silence
Cliff Martinez – Only God Forgives
Disasterpeace – It Follows
Timar-Kali – Mudbound
Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Wind River
Alexandre Desplat – The Tree Of Life
Christobal Tapia De Veer – The Girl With All The Gifts
Grizzly Bear – Blue Valentine
Andy Hull & Robert McDowell- Swiss Army Man
Antonio Sanchez – Birdman
Ludwig Gorransson – Black Panther
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Li*La, Leki & Partyman, Slay The Mic, Saturday, 5-7pm
favorite best interview guests of 2019:
Santii the Goat
M E
Joe Trufant
Monica Mcdaniel
Musashi Xero
Untamed Urban Wear
Eaze Dogg
Peter the Poet
Cousin TL
Saché
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Donovan Quixote, By Any Means Necessary, Saturday, 10pm-midnight
new sounds:
empath – active listening: a night on earth (get better/fat possum)
kim gordon – no home record (matador)
yugen blakrok – anima mysterium (iapetus)
fumaca preta – pepas (stolen body)
sunn o))) – life metal (southern lord)
freddie gibbs & madlib – bandana (madlib invazion)
felicia atkinson – the flower & the vessel (shelter press)
mauskovic dance band – s/t (soundway)
mc yallah x debmaster – kubali (hakuna kulala)
moor mother – analog fluids and sonic black holes (don giovanni)
bill orcutt – odds against tomorrow (palilalia)
reissues:
daphne oram – oramics (modern love)
melvins – the maggot & the bootlicker (ipecac)
stereolab – all of them, but especially Sound Dust and Cobra Phases
lightning bolt – wonderful rainbow (thrill jockey)
marcia griffiths – play me sweet & nice (trojan)
desmond dekker & the aces – pretty africa (trojan)
delia derbyshire – dreams (fantom phonographique)
june tyson – the saturnian queen of the sun ra arkestra (modern harmonic)
neil young – dead man: a film by jim jarmusch (sacred bones)
nahawa doumbia – la grande cantatrice malienne vol 1 (awesome tapes from africa)
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DJ Airon, My So-Called Radio Show, Saturday, 3-5pm
some Appreciated events & venues: annual Asheville Fringe Arts Festival * Asheville Vaudeville @ The Grey Eagle * annual Halloween cover band benefit for Asheville Prison Books and Tranzmission @ The Mothlight * Ten Minute Movies (movies made into 15 minute stage plays) @ The Grey Eagle, benefit for The Recyclery * Heavy Mountain fest @ The Orange Peel & The Mothlight * Harvest Records’ basement dollar album sale * Comedy Freakshow, GGR & Risque Burlesque, yardsales, etc. @ The Odditorium * Pansy Fest @ Sly Grog Lounge, home of Mike Andersen’s Open Mic * events @ Fleetwood’s * Asheville Synth Club @ Local 604 Bottle Shop * Toybox’s Wham Bam Puppet Slam @ The Mothlight * Freak and Follies @ Sly Grog Lounge * RADfest @ The Grey Eagle * Static Age * Asheville FM’s first record fair @ New Belgium * AFM Music Matters presentations @ Revolve Studio ###
Enjoyed releases by: A Fragile Tomorrow, Acid Tongue, Ada Lea, Amanda Palmer, An Horse, Andy Human & the Reptoids, Anemone, The Astounds, AUSMUTEANTS, B Boys, Baby Bulldog, Bad Bad Hats, Belle and Sebastian, Bellows, The Bevis Frond, Bethlehem Steel, Big Bliss, Big Lazy, The Bird and The Bee, Black Midi, Bleach Garden, Blessed, Bloodshot Bill, Bob Mould, BODEGA, Booji Boys, Bootlicker, Brain Bagz, Brass Box, Breakout, Buck Gooter, Buzzcocks, Cate Le Bon, Cave Curse, Cereal Killer, Ceremony, CHAI, Chain Wallet, Chain Whip, Charlie Abbot, Cherubs, The Chills, Chuck Foster, Church Girls, The C.I.A., Clang, Clinic, The Coathangers, Colleen Green, Corridor, The Cowboys, Crumb, D7Y, The Dates, The Dandy Warhols, Daniel Norgren, Das Drip, David Kilgour And The Heavy Eights, Deep State, Dehd, Der Blutharsch and the Infinite Church of the Leading Hand, Detainees, Drahla, Drawing Boards, Dressy Bessy, Droids Blood, The 1865, Eerie Wanda, Electric Funeral, Ellis, Extended Hell, Ezra Furman, The Faint, Fanclub, Fat White Family, Faux Ferocious, Feels, Felchers, Flat Worms, Florist, Forra, Frankie Cosmos, Freak Genes, French Vanilla, Frenzy, Froth, Gatecreeper, Gauche, Girlpool, The Gladiators, The Glow, Gonzo, The Gotobeds, Grace Ives, Great Grandpa, Green River, Greys, Guerilla Toss, Guided By Voices, Haiboku, Haircut, Haram, Hash Redactor, Hatchie, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Herzog, Horse Jumper of Love, Hyena, Ibibio Sound Machine, Idiota Civilizzato, Imperial Teen, Inepsy, Inter Arma, Irreal, ISS, J. Mascis, J. Robbins, J. Marinelli, Jeanines, Jon Spencer Band, Juliana Hatfield, Kaleidoscope, Kedr Livansky, Kiwi Jr., Knuckle Pups, La Fille, Ladytron, Lagwagon, Leroy Jodie Pierson, L’Épée, Life, Lightning Bolt, Lina Tullgren, Louis Armstrong, Los Straightjackets, Lust For Youth, Magnapop, Mal Blum, Mannequin Pussy, Mauno, Maze, Meat Puppets, Messthetics, Methyl Ethel, METZ, Michelle Blades, The Middle Ages, Middle Kids, Midnight Snaxxx, Mike Krol, MIMICO, The Mind, Minima, The Minneapolis Uranium Club, The Minus 5, The Mommyheads, Money For Rope, MUNYA, My Brightest Diamond, The Mystery Lights, Necking, Nanami Ozone, Natural Man, Necking, Negative Gears, The New Pornographers, Nick Waterhouse, No Negative, Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, Nosferatu, Nots, OBSESSIÓ, Oceans of the Moon, Oh Sees, Omni, Operator Music Band, The Paranoyds, Parsnip, Peter Laughner, Pile, Pip Blom, Piroshka, POW!, Possible Humans, Post Animal, Prettiest Eyes, Priests, Probreza Mental, Prolix Destruct, Protomartyr, Protruders, Rachel Kilgour, RAKTA, Redd Kross, Reptaliens, Ride, Rough Sounds, Royal Trux, The Safes, Sebadoh, Second Still, Secrecies, Shana Cleveland, Sh*t Coffins, The Silver Machine, Slant, Snail Mail, Snapped Ankles, Sneaks, Soga, Son Volt, Spiral Stairs, Stef Chura, Strange Ranger, Subhumans UK, Subversive Rite, Sudor, Sunny & The Sunsets, Those Pretty Wrongs, New Sailor, Nilufer Yanya, Secrecies, Tacocat, Tallies, Telekenisis, Temples, Terry, Tiny Ruins, titus andronicus, The Tough Shits, Those Pretty Wrongs, Throwaway, Trampoline Team, Truth Club, Toyota, Tunic, TWEN, Ty Segall (& Freedom Band), Under Attack, Unwed Sailor, U.R.S.A., Versus, Victims, Vivian Girls, The Wedding Present, Westkust, White Denim, William Tyler, Wintersleep, The World, Yleiset Syyt, and X …
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Best wishes for 2020 from all of us at Asheville 103.3 FM ~
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