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#271: Azita, “Glen Echo”

Post author By bolachas
Post date March 17, 2021

We haven’t heard of AZITA Youssefi for a while, until one day we get the news that the Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist has collaborated with Drag City labelmates Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy on a cover of “Blackness of the Night”. There, she played all the instruments and did all the arrangements, just like on her first album in nine years, “Glen Echo”, which also serves as a great introduction to her world of song. Enjoy it, and make sure you dig deeper into her discography later.

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#193: Fruit Bats, “Gold Past Life”

Post author By bolachas
Post date July 2, 2019

We had to. In a week full of great releases, we had to feature Fruit Bats’ first collection of new songs in three years, “Gold Past Life”, released on the 21st. Eric D. Johnson cements its place as one of the songwriters of his generation with a better ratio of “great” to “barely decent” songs – almost half of the record’s songs have already been featured in this playlist, so you know it’s true.

Plus: new tracks by black midi, Pip Blom, Super Doppler, Night Moves, Alex Cameron, The Raconteurs, Lucy Dacus, Purling Hiss, Andrew Combs, Nev Cottee Band, Jesse Malin, Tyler Childers, Divino Niño, Steve Gunn, Willie Nelson, Horse Jumper of Love, I am Oak, Mega Bog, Wilder Maker, Native Harrow, and Daughter of Swords.

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NOS Primavera Sound 2019: printable timetables, our preview and playlist

Post author By bolachas
Post date May 31, 2019

It doesn’t matter how conservative or liberal you are: people are naturally resistant to change, especially if the previous form of what’s changing was so dear to them. We get it: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Judging by the tone and content of most comments we can find online about this year’s Primavera lineup, both in Porto and Barcelona, folks ain’t happy about “the new normal”. Yes, some of the biggest pop artists in the planet have claimed most of the spots with the big font in it. Yes, there’s a shortage of loud, extreme music we often found at the long gone ATP stage, and every year there are less and less historical, cult indie rock bands reforming for a Primavera performance. But, other than that – tiny specks on a lineup of over 120 bands in Barcelona and over 60 in Porto – has it really changed that much? Is the Primavera DNA gone? (Was there really a “Primavera DNA” to begin with?)

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#186: Craig Finn, “I Need a New War”

Post author By bolachas
Post date April 30, 2019

I need a new playlist. The fourth solo LP by the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, “I Need a New War”, has won the race to spearhead our playlist, following one of the year’s strongest Release Friday. Ten more sublime songs by one of the greatest songwriters of the century century. Plus: new tracks by Bedouine, Aldous Harding, Honey Harper, Olden Yolk, Lucy Dacus, Kevin Morby, Dylan LeBlanc, Starflyer 59, Josh Ritter, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Wand, Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Kyle Craft, Marika Hackman, Jackie Cohen, Better Oblivion Community Center, Esther Rose, I am Oak, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willie Nelson, and the Mountain Goats.

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164: Becky Warren, “Undesirable”

Post author By bolachas
Post date October 30, 2018

Bolachas Now Playing, a new music Spotify playlist updated every Tuesday.

Back to normal 🤠this week as we focus on “Undesirable”, the captivating second album by ‘genuine American rock n roller’ Becky Warren. A great week all around as we showcase new and recent songs by Jessica Pratt, Laura Gibson, Eliza Shaddad, Miya Folick, The Furrow Collective, Blonde Redhead, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Moonface, Geir Sundstøl, Beach House, Protomartyr, Ryley Walker, Bob Mould, Mountain Movers, Ben Dickey, Steve Gunn, Dean Wareham and Cheval Sombre, boygenius (the collaboration between singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus), and David Crosby.

Bolachas Now Playing, 37/2018 (#164):

Jessica Pratt – This Time Around

Laura Gibson – Goners

Becky Warren – Dabbs Avenue

Becky Warren – Carmen

Eliza Shaddad – My Body

Miya Folick – Thingamajig

The Furrow Collective – False True Love

Blonde Redhead – We Should Be Holding Hands

The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Merrie Land

Moonface – Minotaur Forgiving Knossos

Geir Sundstøl – Warszaw / Alabama

Beach House – Alien

Protomartyr – Forbidden

Ryley Walker – Diggin’ a Ditch

Bob Mould – Sunshine Rock

The Mountain Movers – Bridge to This World

Ben Dickey – I Think It’s All Different

Steve Gunn – New Moon

Dean Wareham and Cheval Sombre – Grand Canyon

Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus – Ketchum, ID

David Crosby – Janet