a list of favorites from 2017

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Top 2017 releases

Thurston Moore – Rock N Roll Consciousness EP

Dangermuffin – Heritage

Jr. James and the Late Guitar - Optismet

Joey Farr’s Figgins Wheat Band – Looking out for dry land EP

Bodies of Water – Spear in the City

Ty Segall - Ty Segall

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana

Anomie Bell -Flux

Primus -  The De-saturating Seven

Antifer’s Revenge - 01110010 01101111

Los Straightjackets – What’s so Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straight Jackets

12-19-17 Aurora Borealis

8:00pm

Prime Ministers “Roots”
from Asymmetric (Space 52 2017)

8:04pm

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard “Searching…”
from Polygondwanaland (recordJet 2017) N 

8:07pm

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard “The Fourth Colour”
from Polygondwanaland (recordJet 2017) N 

8:16pm

Nai Palm “Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)”
from Needle Paw Album (Masterworks 2017) N 

8:22pm

You Me & Apollo “December Sun”
from Sweet Honey Album (You Me & Apollo 2014)

8:23pm

The Devil Makes Three “There'll Be a Jubilee”
from Redemption & Ruin Album (New West Records 2016)

8:28pm

Dangermuffin “Ancient Family”
from Heritage Album (Dangermuffin Music/Caroline/Hostess 2017)

8:31pm

Glass Elevator “946-B (Memo from Management)” Album (Psychic Battleship 2010) L

8:34pm

Cloud Cult “Buried Poetry”
from Aurora Borealis Album (Earthology 2004)

8:36pm

Bill Nelson “Cowboy Christmas”
from Whimsy Two Album (Fabled Quixote 2003)

8:38pm

Bill Frisell “The Shortest Day”
from Guitar in the Space Age! Album (OKeh 2014) L

8:43pm

Cloud Cult “Lights Inside My Head”
from Aurora Borealis Album (Earthology 2004)

8:47pm

Bjork “Pagan Poetry”
from Songs of the Volta Tour (Nonesuch 2012)

8:50pm

Pressurehead “Let There Be More Light”
from A Saucerful of Pink Comp (Cleopatra 1995)

9:01pm

Meredith Monk w/Robert Een “Northern Lights 1”
from Facing North (ECM 2000)

9:04pm

Meredith Monk w/Robert Een “Chinook”
from Facing North (ECM 2000)

9:07pm

Pelican “Aurora Borealis (Live in Poland 11/23/07)”
from City of Echoes (Deluxe Edition) (Hydra Head Records 2016)

9:12pm

Underdose “Aurora Borealis”
from Another World EP (636827 Records DK 2017)

9:24pm

Jessica Engelbrekt “Aurora Borealis”
from Här Och Nu (Skivtryck, DiscRepublic 2015)

9:28pm

Jukka Tolonen “Northern Lights”
from Crossection (Janus 1976)

9:33pm

OOIOO “Northern Lights”
from Kila Kila Kila Album (Thrill Jockey 2004)

9:42pm

Cloud Cult “Grappling Hook/Northern Lights”
from Aurora Borealis Album (Earthology 2004)

9:46pm

Bruce Cockburn “Northern Lights”
from Dancing In the Dragon's Jaws (True North 1979)

9:51pm

Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory “Particle”
from Elements of Light Album (Rough Trade 2012)

12-12-17 Hanukkah and Climate Changes

7:59pm

Erev Rav “The Funk Tash”
from Klezmorphic Album (Erev Rav 2012) L

8:04pm

Klingon Klez “Mojo Shabbos”
from Blue Suede Jews (Klingon Klez 2006)

8:13pm

Matisyahu “Happy Hannukah” Single (fallin sparks 2012)

8:20pm

Balanceman “klezville to balanceland”
from the KJlez-x remixed Comp (Nutmeats Recordings 2007)

8:28pm

VoicePlay “Left to right”
from Peppermint Winter Album (VoicePlay 2012)

8:31pm

Klingon Klez “Escape from Reality”
from Blue Suede Jews (Klingon Klez 2006)

8:44pm

Erev Rav “rejoice”
from Klezmorphic Album (Erev Rav 2012) L

8:49pm

Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band “December Suite”
from Transported Album (Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band 2013)

8:56pm

Kenny Ellis “Sevivon Sov, Sov, Sov”
from Hanukkah Swings Album (Favored Nations 2005)

9:02pm

Escape Mechanism “change”
from Emphasis Added Album (Recombinations 2008)

9:08pm

Hungry Beast “I'm a Climate Scientist (Clean Version)”
from I'm a Climate Scientist Single (ABC Music)

9:12pm

Eno and the Winkies “fever”
from peel sessions (bbc radio 1 1974)

9:18pm

Vermillion Lies “Global warming”
from What's In the Box Album (Vermillion Lies 2008)

9:22pm

Depeche Mode “The Landscape Is Changing”
from Construction Time Again Album (Mute Records 1983)

9:30pm

DJ Dolores “Danger Global Warmimg”
from 1 Real Album (Crammed Discs 2008)

9:34pm

Godmoney & Ptah “Climate Change We Must Change”
from Climate Change We Must Change - Single (4Lightizzound)

9:41pm

Sleepwalk, a Robot “Love In the Time of Global Warming” (Sleepwalk, a Robot)

9:45pm

Alvinho L Noise “Climate Chaos” EP (Conteudo 2007)

9:51pm

El Vez “Walk a Mile in my Shoes”
from Boxing With God Album (Sympathy for the Record Industry 2001)

9:56pm

Enter Shikari “Live Outside”
from The Spark Album (Play It Again Sam/PIAS/Hostess 2017) N

12-5-17 Photos

8:00pm

Groundtruther “Arctic Circle”
from Latitude Album (Thirsty Ear Recordings 2004)

8:05pm

Glen Ackerman “Blue Rondo a La Raad”
from Glenious Inner Planet (Blue Bamboo Music)

8:14pm

Gerry Gibbs & Thrasher People “St. Marteen”
from Weather or Not Album (Whaling City Sound 2017)

8:14pm

The Ed Palermo Big Band “Echidna's Arf (Of You)”
from Eddy Loves Frank Album (Cuneiform 2009)

8:24pm

Gerry Gibbs & Thrasher People “Just Glad to Be Anywhere”
from Weather or Not Album (Whaling City Sound 2017)

8:28pm

Trey Gunn & Pat Mastelotto “Jamoohra”
from Tu Album (TG & PM 2003)

8:32pm

Electropolis “Blue Omni”
from Electropolis Album (Innova 2005)

8:35pm

Shakti with John McLaughlin “Happiness is Being Together”
from Natural Elements Album (Columbia 1977)

8:43pm

Bruford Levin Upper Extremities “Etude Revisited”
from Bruford Levin Upper Extremities Album (Papa Bear)

8:49pm

Spectre Folk “Gyspy Grammar”
from The Ancient Storm (Vampire Blues)

8:53pm

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Polygondwanaland” (Flightless Records 2017) N 

8:56pm

Dangermuffin “Waves”
from Heritage Album (Dangermuffin Music/Caroline/Hostess 2017)

9:03pm

Tomo Nakayama “Fog On the Lens” Album (Porchlight Records 2014)

9:07pm

Robbie Robertson “Somewhere Down The Crazy River”
from Robbie Robertson Album (Geffen 1987)

9:12pm

Camera Obscura “Your Picture”
from Underachievers Please Try Harder Album (Merge Records 2004)

9:15pm

Laurie Anderson “Excellent Birds”
from Mister Heartbreak Album (General Music Co. Ltd. 1984)

9:18pm

Oingo Boingo “Pictures of You”
from Good for Your Soul Album (A&M 1983)

9:22pm

The Age of Rockets “Pictures of Space”
from The Drive Home (Astronaut/Dinosaur)

9:30pm

Godley & Creme “Mugshots”
from Freeze Frame (Polydor 1979)

9:33pm

Ringo Starr “Photograph”
from Ringo (Apple 1973)

9:37pm

Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) “Photos of Ghosts” Album (Esoteric Recordings 2010)

9:47pm

Elizabeth Harper & The Manitee “Pictures of You”
from Just Like Heaven: A Tribute To The Cure Album (American Laundromat 2008)

9:51pm

Death Cab for Cutie “I Was a Kaleidoscope”
from The Photo Album Album (Barsuk Records 2001) L

9:54pm

Trey Gunn & Pat Mastelotto “Terry's Breath”
from Tu Album (TG & PM 2003)

11-28-17 Being Born

8:06pm

The 5th Dimension “Viva Tirado”
from Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes (Bell 1971)

8:04pm

Esquivel “Flower Girl from Bordeaux”
from The Genius of Esquivel (RitmoDisc S.A.)

8:06pm

Los Twist “Cleopatra, la Reina del Twist”
from El Album (Universal Music S.A.)

8:16pm

Delicate Steve “The Ballad of Speck and Pebble”
from Wondervisions Album (Moorworks 2012)

8:18pm

Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas “my head is my only house unless it rains”
from The World of Captain Beefheart Album (Knitting Factory 2017) N

8:21pm

Hoppy the frog “Safe As Milk(take3)”
from Mama Kangaroos: Philly Women Sing Captain Beefheart (Genus)

8:26pm

Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas “The Smithsonian Institute Blues(or the big dig)”
from The World of Captain Beefheart Album (Knitting Factory 2017) N

8:29pm

Voices Of Africa “Abba-Zabba”
from Mama Kangaroos: Philly Women Sing Captain Beefheart Comp (Genus 2005)

8:33pm

Nona Hendryx & Gary Lucas “sure nuff n yes I do”
from The World of Captain Beefheart Album (Knitting Factory 2017) N

8:36pm

Kaya Project “Desert Phase:hibernation mix”
from Desert Phase:remixes (Tribal Shift Records)

8:41pm

Melting Mergers “the other side”
from Melting Mergers (Melting Mergers) N L

8:46pm

The Myrrors “Tea House Music”
from Hasta la Victoria (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records) N

8:55pm

Amps for Christ “Indigo Rain”
from The Beggars Garden Album (Shrimper)

9:00pm

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Buhm “Also sprach zarathustra”
from 2001 a space odysseyMusic from the motion picture soundtrack (MGM)

9:02pm

Jefferson Airplane “Embryonic Journey”
from Surrealistic Pillow Album (RCA Victor 1967)

9:05pm

Toni Childs “Woom”
from The Woman's Boat Album (Geffen Records 1994)

9:14pm

Cloud Cult “The Birth (Journey to the Light, Pt. 2)”
from Light Chasers Album (Rebel Group 2010)

9:15pm

Cloud Cult “You Were Born (Live)”
from Unplug Album (Rebel Group 2014)

9:19pm

Leo Kottke “Embryonic Journey”
from Anthology Comp (Motown 1966)

9:12pm

David Wakeling “she's having a baby”
from She's Having a Baby(original motion picture soundtrack) (IRS 1988)

9:29pm

Drumfounded “Happy Baby Sad Baby”
from Earlyears Album (Drumfounded Productions 1997)

9:30pm

Donovan “Song of the Naturalists Wife”
from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden Album (Collectors' Choice 2000)

9:31pm

Toni Childs “Welcome to the world”
from The Woman's Boat Album (Geffen Records 1994)

9:27pm

Pink Floyd “Embryo (Alternate Version)”
from Cre/ation: The Early Years 1967-1972 Comp (Columbia 2016)

9:33pm

Delicate Steve “Welcome - Begin”
from Wondervisions Album (Moorworks 2012)

9:45pm

Delicate Steve “Tallest Heights”
from Positive Force Album (Luaka Bop 2012)