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Turning Around – April 29, 2025

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For your especial delectation: love songs from new artists including “Puddles” by UNA, “New Chain” by Two Bad Bricks, and “dirty little lovers” by Dead Oak. Dead Oak’s album waking comatose seems pretty remarkable on first listen — we’ll be playing more from that in coming weeks. We also enjoyed the single from Reds, Pinks & Purples, a cover of a Japanese band called Pervenche, as well as the entire new album Spider Dreamer Sweet Tooth by Friends of Cesar Romero. The wincingly appropriate “Royalty Loyalty” by XOXO Xopher is a real toe-tapper too…

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  • On The Edge of Town – April 23, 2025
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    Grand Union Supermarket, West Islip NY

    What happens next? No one knows. Some people find it in ambient dreamland, some in introspection, in brave and outspoken eccentricity. This week’s selection had a little of all of these and more. We enjoyed the folky charm of Gabriel Carter (with harmonica!) and (in a very different way) the controlled chaos of Lukas Valkucak. […]

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  • We Try Harder – April 16, 2025
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    Psychedelic-Post Industrial Dreamland

    After a couple off weeks, due to powerlessness and connectivity issues, even now in the most modern era ever, we did the show we had planned to do the week before. From 21st century reworks of songs from Hair to a passel of songs about doggies, there was plenty to sing your teeth into.

    Favorite new song of the week: Gregory Frost’s protest anthem “Constant Crisis” from the album of the same name. Thanks, dude. We needed that.

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  • Eurypidisco – March 26, 2025
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    Greek Theatre

    And lo, on the heels of my post to the contrary, a burst of activity from American musicians, ending the European dominance on Bandcamp since, oh, January. But this week, there were American artists and more than one, maybe as many as five, and that’s a big jump. Here at Indiedisco, we are rooting for our fellow Americans to pick it up and go with it. Perhaps we will. This week’s top vote getter for band of the week is Gold Dust, from Easthampton, MA, a quartet led by songwriter and former punk rocker Stephen Pierce.

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  • Twixt and Tween – March 19, 2025
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    Leaves on the Water-Nosie Rock

    This week, we were able to come up with three new tracks from American artists, a bit of a rarity these days as Americans seem to have been laying low. Since there are only three of them, we will introduce them here as:

    The Needmores, a thoroughly engaging rock band from Detroit, Michigan whose new song “Lookin'” is in the Cars tradition or thereabouts.

    Leaves Floating On The Water is a jam rock project…

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  • Waves of Confusion – March 12, 2025
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    Stefan Bollmann, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons

    If you were to judge the spirit of America by the number of new releases showing up on Bandcamp right now, you would have to assume that something has happened. But what? What could have happened to so thoroughly crush Americans’ creative spirit. Other than the perennial electronic and death metal releases, there just doesn’t seem to be much going on out there in Tune-land. I attribute it…

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  • Wishful Blinking – January 15, 2025
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    Swedish Trees

    Our favorite band of the week turned out to be my favorite band of last year, despite the fact that I only just discovered them — The Breaks Inc. and their amazing album Hotel Earth.  Also, belatedly, a couple of tracks from the Chillhop Winter Essentials disc and new music from Mogwai.  Not to mention […]

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  • The Breaks Inc. – Hotel Earth
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    The Breaks Inc-Hotel Earth

    The Breaks Inc. are a band from Queens, NY. Their new album, Hotel Earth, is a concept album about the end of the world. Cutting to the chase, yes, it’s kind of depressing, but it’s also really beautiful, tuneful, and wise — in short, it’s one of the best albums of last year that you […]

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  • Dark Descant – October 23, 2024
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    Hedge animals

    Here in the northeast, we’re in that peak/past peak moment with foliage. We balance precariously at this point for quite a few days before one day the weatherman pronounces decisively, “we’re past peak,” and you know it’s true. It’s also a time when we balance precariously between two radically different views of the future — […]

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  • Summer’s End – September 11, 2024
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    We took the summer off. It didn’t start out that way but somewhere around mid July we got the idea that we needed a vacation, and then our return date sailed by and next thing you know, it was September and here we are. Since the indie world seems to more or less revolve around […]

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  • Imperial Designs – June 26, 2024
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    Thomas Cole The Consummation Course Empire 1836

    Summer slowdown is already underway. This week’s playlist had to make room for summer songs, war songs, death songs, and even a handful of love songs.

    Now that Max Blansjaar’s new album is out, we were finally able to play our favorite track, “Pieces of the Sun.” We fell easily into the low key slackdom of Max’s world, a world that will come crashing down one day as flowers turn to dust, our hero now expendable, nervously “waiting for someone.”

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