Show #315
Time: Saturday 01 August 2009 at:
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On this week's show:

New Rock Album: The Bats, *The Guilty Office* (2009) . . . this New Zealand band is charming as hell . . . pretty music that sometimes rocks out . . . moody music that sometimes drifts in sweet sentiments . . . music that sometimes drifts further into warning, portent . . . I was unsure of how much I liked their music but I kept listening and liking them more as I did . . . they've got great jingle jangle light and dark . . .

Classic Rock Album: XTC, *The Big Express* (1984) . . . a brief story . . . I was introduced to this amazing UK band about 20 years ago, by my boss at a used bookstore I worked at in Connecticut . . . he'd put a sticker on one of their albums for sale in the LP bins which read something like: "in a fairer world, this band would have been the next Beatles" . . . yes, XTC is the kind of band one gets obsessed with, follows their music from its new wave origins in the '70s to its psychedelic apex in the early 2000s . . . this album is along the way, a bit angular still, but clearly the more lysergical days are nigh . . .

Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-five of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .

Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is the Jefferson Airplane and their great performance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 . . . 40 years later, many of us still pursue the music groove for what truths we can't find another way, and so keep the path, from the murks of creation to the hereon of hyperspace, clear and welcoming to those that would wake and walk it . . .

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Show #316
Time: Saturday 08 August 2009 at:
US Pacific: 11am-2pm | (repeat) Sunday 09 August 2009 8pm-11pm
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On this week's show:

New Rock Album: The Minus 5, *Killingworth* (2009) . . . The Minus 5 are Pacific Coaster Scott McCaughey's brother band to his Fine Young Fellows, whose new album was featured on this show about a month ago . . . this is a a folk-rockier album than the Fellows' new release, and features as a bonus many kinetic members of the Decemberists . . . there are some ridiculously charming songs on this album, but charm with a latent hard bite . . . be warned . . .

Classic Rock Album: Blur, *Blur* (1997) . . . UK-britpopsters Blur were superstars by when this, their fifth album, was released . . . what makes it stand out is its propulsive ambition, confidence to rock in a dozen and more different directions . . . this is the sound of a band meeting the challenge of making challenging, exciting rock music for a huge and hungry audience . . .

Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-five of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .

Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's featured artist is Sly & the Family Stone, on stage & funking down the house at 3 a.m. at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 . . . moving into August, and my thoughts turn to the desert, its week-long imaginary city, its endless art and horizon, its perennial burn . . . coming soon . . .

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Show #317
Time: Saturday 15 August 2009 at:
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On this week's show:

New Rock Album: Sloan, *Parallel Play* (2008) . . . this Canadian band has been around some years now, but I did not pick up on their bright, jangling sound until very recently . . . what differentiates bands and albums like this from many others is a set of uniformly good songs well sequenced to flow like one experience . . . the simple and hard truth that flow is all . . .

Classic Rock Album: The Clean, *Modern Rock* (1995) . . . The Clean helped to created a rock scene in New Zealand where there had been none before . . . this album finds them noisily channeling the Velvet Underground, one of their obvious touchstones, but in ways that eschew imitation for new turns, steps far into other lands . . .

Storybook Time: Chapter Thirty-six of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .

Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's feature artist is a variety of lovely and obscure British acid rock bands featured on the *Psychedelic Scene* (1967-1969) anthology . . . the call of the desert is greater as the month passes along . . . the dream art, phantom smiles, eventual immolation . . . and yet the many beautiful hours to live until then too . . .

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Show #318
Time: Saturday 22 August 2009 at:
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On this week's show:

New Rock Album: The Dodos, *Visiter* (2008) . . . this California band makes moody, noisy, beautiful music that shifts from sun to shadow to storm and back again . . . imagine a cavernous club . . . a hookah at every table . . . a band on stage that will play till sunrise if let to . . . a music that insists on being heard, and no other place you would rather be than in that place, listening to every note and word . . .

Classic Rock Album: The Hollies, *Evolution* (1967) . . . Graham Nash's more pop-rock-oriented band before he joined Crosby, Stills, and sometimes Young . . . like just about every other band of the time, however, this UK group was turning on and making music more warbley than a few years previously . . . one can best say this is soaring, harmonious pop-rock arriving at your turntable via the courtesies of a special sugar cube . . .

Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Thirty-six of *Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism* by Daniel Pinchbeck . . .

Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion & *Many Musics* poems . . . & this week's feature artist is The Unfolding, a project of David Dalton, which recorded in 1967 one album, both memorable and self-describing in title, *How to Blow York Mind and Have a Freak-out Party* . . . every notice how dull & dumb things get toward the end of August? The summer sun seems to whip the brain out of most people . . . this show will be off for two weekends while its DJ and his beloved choose to go deeper into the summer sun, where is shines unfiltered on the desert . . . and a 21st century freak-out party, er, unfolds . . .

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