Blank Range’s second album, “In Unison”, is our record of the week. If you’re into rocky americana with plenty of pop hooks a la Blitzen Trapper or Deer Tick, they’re your new guys. Plus: new tracks by Beirut, Avey Tare, Eriksson Delcroix, Ozuna, Jards Macalé & Tim Bernardes, Nilüfer Yanya, Harlem, Guided By Voices, FIDLAR, Robert Forster, Craig Finn, Josh Ritter, Motel Mirrors, Hayes Carll, Nils Frahm, Cass McCombs, Orville Peck, Andrew Bird, Soccer Mommy, and Stella Donnelly.
Bolachas Now Playing, 02/2018 (#129)
Frankie Cosmos – Jesse
Loma – Relay Runner
Alela Diane – Ether & Wood
H.C. McEntire – Quartz in the Valley
Aurora Birch – Lark
Juanita Stein – I’ll Cry
Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
Josh Ritter – Miles Away
Khruangbin – Friday Morning
Camila Cabello – Havana
Camila Cabello – Real Friends
U.S. Girls – Pearly Gates
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – You Worry Me
Anderson East – King for a Day
Marlon Williams – What’s Chasing You
Nap Eyes – Every Time the Feeling
Car Seat Headrest – Nervous Young Inhumans
Ron Gallo – Happy Kid
Joe Purdy & Amber Rubarth – Moonlight
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
Bolachas Now Playing, 30/2017 (#115):
Neil Young – Pocahontas
Lomelda – Interstate Vision
Lomelda – Out There
Joana Serrat – Trapped in the Fog
Courtney Marie Andrews – Sea Town
Weyes Blood – A Certain Kind
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions – Sleep
St. Vincent – Los Ageless
John Maus – The Combine
Beck – Up All Night
Shilpa Ray – Morning Terrors Nights of Dread
Margo Price – A Little Pain
Karl Blau – Slow Children
Donivan Berube – Love is a Dog from Hell
Moses Sumney – Indulge Me
Van Morrison – Goin’ to Chicago
Josh Ritter, Bob Weir – When Will I Be Changed
Chad VanGaalen – Pine and Clover
Jolie Holland, Samantha Parton – Biding My Time
Matt Paxton – Hunter Street Station Blues
Bolachas Now Playing, 27/2017 (#112):
Son Little – Demon to the Dark
Hand Habits – yr heart
Destroyer – Sky’s Grey
Randall Bramblett – Mali Katra
Protomartyr – My Children
Jacob Faurholt – A Lake of Distortion
Gill Landry – Berlin
Lilly Hiatt – Everything I Had
Kacy & Clayton – The Light of Day
Kacy & Clayton – This World Has Seven Wonders
Lucinda Williams – Six Blocks Away
Courtney Marie Andrews – Near You
Julien Baker – Appointments
Jen Cloher – Waiting in the Wings
The Dodos – Mirror Fake
The National – Carin at the Liquor Store
Josh Ritter – Thunderbolt’s Goodnight
Richard Thompson – Bathsheba Smiles
Noah Gundersen – Bad Desire