Have an Ice Day
Happy #snovember! We landed a spaceship on an icy comet and some icy weather landed on us.
This week we've got new jams from Mark Mcguire, Parkay Quarts, Nature Thief, Sama Dams, Hookworms, Yacht, and Land Lines. Plus, a bevy of voicemails from friends from near (including Coma Serfs, Modern Kin, Big Haunt) and from afar (The Bots and Golden Drugs). There will be pop, funk, hip hop, rock, country, and of course some psych with a healthy assortment of local sounds, classic hits, and rare gems.
We kick the whole thing off with "Terminal Beach" from YACHT's brand new ep "Where Does This Disco" which you can download for free over at Stereogum!
Oakland's Golden Drugs dropped a rad new video this week for "Ghost Song". It's on Vimeo and for some reason I can't post it here, but the video's director (and band's leader) Drew Pearson, left a voicemail commentary about the song that'll land in the second hour of the show. You can check out the video and an interview with Pearson over at at Noisey.
VIDEO ROUNDUP
Flying Lotus are touring with collaborator/bass virtuoso Thundercat in tow, in support of the rad new album "You're Dead". Catch them Monday, November 17 at the Roseland Theater. [tickets]
Rock and roll hobbyists, Hookworms dropped "The Hum" this week. Here's a live version of "On Leaving" from the album.
Former Portlander Mark Mcguire released "Noctilucence" this week. Noctilucence is the phenomenon of clouds glowing at night, which is pretty beautiful. Here's an extended version of the title track which explores the ambiance of nocturnal lights.
Portland rock veterans, Eyelids, dropped a gem of a new record "854" last month and they'll be supporting legendary LA band The Rain Parade this Friday and Saturday at Mississippi Studios. [tickets]
If you don't know Sturgill Simpson, I invite you to start getting to know him so you can be as hyped as I am for his upcoming show on Tuesday, November 25 at Mississippi Studios. [tickets]
And, a head's up Jeremiah Hayden from Modern Kin is joining me on the radio next Thursday to share some music, before headlining a hometown show at Mississippi Studios with The Ghost Ease. Here's a track from their recent Banana Stand performance. [tickets]
That's it for this week. Thanks for supporting XRAY (if you haven't yet, you can become a member and support the station via the Willamette Week Give!Guide ... it's safe, tax-deductible, and it'll help us continue to grow and be the station that you've been waiting for all these years) and for spreading the good news about a station that is original and distinctive as you.
Cheers,
Theo
- 4:02pm Where Does This Disco by Yacht on Where Does This Disco (Downtown Records)
- 4:06pm All I Really Want by The Bots on Pink Palms (Fader Label)
- 4:08pm Francis by Houndstooth on Ride out the dark (No Quarter)
- 4:13pm Friction by Television on Marquee Moon (Elektra / Rhino)
- 4:18pm Mirrors by Dam Funk on Toeachizown (Stones Throw Records)
- 4:20pm Oh Sheit It's X by Thundercat on Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)
- 4:24pm Ice Palace by Onuinu on Mirror Gazer (Bladen County Records)
- 4:29pm Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar) by Flying Lotus on You're Dead! (Warp)
- 4:33pm All For You by Tope on Chicken Wings & Ice Cream Cones (Self-released)
- 4:36pm The Northface (feat. Vinnie DeWayne) by Glenn Waco on Northbound (Self-released)
- 4:39pm Frozen by Roane Namuh / Reva DeVito on Cloudshine (Liquid Beat)
- 4:44pm Psych #1 by Eyelids on 854 (Jealous Butcher)
- 4:47pm This Can't Be Today by The Rain Parade on Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (Enigma)
- 4:51pm Waiting Around For Grace by Pond on Man It Feels Like Space Again (Spinning Top Music)
- 4:56pm Big Enough To Cook by Modern Kin on Modern Kin (Amigo/Amiga)
- 5:00pm Aynotche Terabu by Tezeta Band on - (-)
- 5:02pm On Leaving by Hookworms on The Hum (Domino)
- 5:07pm Sugar Lane by Coma Serfs on Goodbye Mr. Napkin EP (Self-released)
- 5:11pm Pretty Machines by Parkay Quarts on Content Nausea (What's Your Rupture?)
- 5:16pm Green Onions by Booker T & The MG's on Green Onions (Stax)
- 5:17pm Turtles All The Way Down by Sturgill Simpson on Metamodern Sounds In Country Music (High Top Modern)
- 5:20pm Roll The Bones by Shakey Graves on Roll The Bones (Self-released)
- 5:24pm Seeds of Night by The Cave Singers on Invitation Sounds (Matador)
- 5:29pm Bitter Water by Big Haunt on Devotionals (Self-released)
- 5:34pm Ghost Song by Golden Drugs on In The Midnight Sun Or The Stubbornly Persistent Illusion (Porch Party Records)
- 5:41pm Gold Silver Diamond by Generationals on Alix (Polyvinyl)
- 5:45pm On the Grid (our love is) by Land Lines on Log Out, Tune Up, Drop Dead (Self-released)
- 5:48pm Ocean Sounds by Nature Thief on Moon EP (Self-released)
- 5:52pm My Ears are Ringing by Sama Dams on Comfort in Doubt (Self-released)
- 5:57pm Noctilucence by Mark McGuire on Noctilucence (Dead Oceans)