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#206: Matana Roberts, “Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis”

The fourth volume of Matana Roberts’ “Coin Coin” series on Constellation Records, “Memphis”, is our album of the week. It finds the American composer and saxophonist developing her ethnographic work through spoken word traditionals and blues, punctuated by free jazz bursts that make it an essential listen. Plus: new tracks by Dead Combo, Jaimie Breezy Branch, Yazz Ahmed, Vive la Void, Warmduscher, Comet Gain, Wolf Parade, Peggy Sue, Allah-Las, Jennah Barry, Julien Baker, The National’s Matt Berninger & Phoebe Bridgers, Gus Seyffert, Cass McCombs, John Moreland, Christopher Paul Stelling, Richard Dawson, Lankum, Daniel Martin Moore, and Andre Ethier.

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164: Becky Warren, “Undesirable”

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 CollectiveBlonde Redhead, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Moonface, Geir SundstølBeach House, Protomartyr, Ryley Walker, Bob Mould, Mountain Movers, Ben Dickey, Steve GunnDean 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

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#118: Protomartyr, “Relatives in Descent”

Bolachas Now Playing, 33/2017 (#118):

Protomartyr – Windsor Hum

Protomartyr – Half Sister

Wolf Parade – Flies on the Sun

Josh Ritter – Friendamine

The Weather Station – You and I (On the Other Side of the World)

Slaughter Beach, Dog – Gold and Green

First Aid Kit – It’s a Shame

Haley Heynderickx – Oom Sha La La

Angel Olsen – Fly On Your Wall

Aldous Harding – Elation

Susanne Sundfør – Mantra

Phoebe Bridgers – Scott Street

Kamasi Washington – Integrity

Plastic Flowers – Dalliance

Gun Outfit – Landscape Painter

JD McPherson – Jubilee

Billy Bragg – Saffiyah Smiles

Ed Askew – Art and Life

Willie Watson – Always Lift Him Up and Never Knock Him Down

Simon Joyner – Hail Mary

Gill Landry – The Real Deal Died

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#116: Deer Tick, “Vol. 1/Vol. 2”

Bolachas Now Playing, 31/2017 (#116):

Deer Tick – Cocktail

Deer Tick – S.M.F.

Alex Cameron – Marlon Brando

Morrissey – Spent the Day in Bed

Destroyer – Tinseltown Swimming in Blood

Plastic Flowers – How Can I

Hammock – When the Body Breaks

Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black

The Weather Station – Kept It All to Myself

Julia Jacklin – Cold Caller

Jen Cloher – Regional Echo

San Fermin – Asleep on the Train

Jesse Woods – Buckle Bunny

Gill Landry – Denver Girls

Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real – Just Outside of Austin

David Crosby – Sky Trails

Sumie – Leave Me

Florist – Understanding Light

Phoebe Bridgers – Funeral

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#110: Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters, “Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters”

Bolachas Now Playing, 25/2017 (#110):

Benjamin Gibbard – The Concept

Wolf Parade – Valley Boy

Superchunk – I Got Cut

Josh Ritter – Showboat

The War On Drugs – Strangest Thing

Grizzly Bear – Neighbors

Mac McCaughan – Mystery

The Lemon Twigs – Night Song

Lilly Hiatt – The Night David Bowie Died

Kacy & Clayton – Just Like A Summer Cloud

Phoebe Bridgers – Motion Sickness

Margo Price – Just Like Love

Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters – The Guitar Case

Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters – The Road

Offa Rex – To Make You Stay

The Weather Station – Thirty

Iron & Wine – Thomas County Law

Waxahatchee – A Little More