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2018

pinnacles of human achievement:

January 24, 2019 by hyperadmin

  • Lala Lala – “Copycat” – The Lamb (Hardly Art)
  • Ovlov – “The Best of You” – Tru (Exploding in Sound)
  • Stove – “Animortal” – ‘s Favorite Friend (Exploding in Sound)

like fistfuls of medicine shoved down your throat:

  • awakebutstillinbed – “Life” – What People Call Low Self​-Esteem Is Really Just Seeing Yourself The Way That Other People See You (Tiny Engines)
  • Wimps – “Giant Brain” – Garbage People (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Idles – “Colossus” – Joy as an Act of Resistance (Partisan)
  • Frankie Cosmos – “Apathy” – Vessel (Sub Pop)
  • Anmlplnet – “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” – Fall Asleep (Ba Da Bing)
  • Bernice – “Passenger Plane” – Puff: In the Air Without a Shape (Arts & Crafts)
  • Moaning – “Close” – Moaning (Sub Pop)
  • Deeper – “Pavement” – Deeper (Fire Talk)
  • Ross From Friends – “Thank God I’m A Lizard” (Brainfeeder)
  • Fit of Body – “Eighty One” – Black Box No Cops (2MR)
  • Peggy Gou – “It Makes You Forget” – Once (Ninja Tune)
  • Underworld & Iggy Pop – “Bells & Circles” – Teatime Dub Encounters (Caroline)

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January 24, 2019 by hyperadmin

Songs That Made Radio Great Again in 2018

January 24, 2019 by hyperadmin

  1. Beach Day – “Runaway With You” – Run Away With You – (Chocolate Covered)
  2. Jesse Daniel – “Soft Spot For The Hard Stuff” – Jesse Daniel – (Die True)
  3. Josh T Pearson – “A Love Song (Set Me Straight)” – The Straight Hits! – (Mute)
  4. Whateverglades – “I Do I Did I Don’t” – Knock Knock – (No Egrets Records)
  5. Kacey Musgraves – “Kansas City Star” – King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller – (BMG)
  6. The Muddy Roses – “Long Black Veil” – KALX Live! – (KALX)
  7. Illuminati Hotties – “Paying Off The Happiness” – Kiss Yr Frenemies – (Tiny Engines)
  8. Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas – “Sorry I Stole Your Man” – Secret Evil – (Instant)
  9. Bon Bon Vivant – “Gone Gone Gone” – Live At The New Orleans Jazz Museum – (Gallatin Street)
  10. Belly – “Human Child” – Dove – (Belly Inc)
  11. Lindi Ortega – “You Ain’t Fooling Me” – Liberty – (Shadowbox)
  12. Mike Beck and The Bohemian Saints – “I Wanna Find Out” – Alta California – (Reata)
  13. Secret Emchy Society – “Bears” – Mark’s Yard (The Campfire Covers) – (S/R)
  14. Underworld and Iggy Pop – “Bells and Circles” – Teatime Dub Encounters – (Caroline)
  15. I See Hawks In L.A. – “Poour Me” – Live and Never Learn  – (S/R)
  16. Amy Rigby – “One Off” – The Old Guys – (S/R)
  17. Eleanor Friedberger – “Make Me A Song” – Rebound – (Frenchkiss)
  18. Bettye Lavette – “Things Have Changed” – Things Have Changed – (Verve)
  19. Lump – “Curse of the Contemporary” – Lump – (Dead Oceans)
  20. Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore – “Downey to Lubbock” – Downey to Lubbock – (Yep Rock)
  21. Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis – “I Just Lived a Country Song” –  Wild! Wild! Wild! – (Bloodshot)
  22. Fast Heart Mart – “So Many Problems” –  KALX Live! – (KALX)
  23. Hollie Cook – “Stay Alive” – Vessel of Love – (Merge)
  24. Neil Young and the Promise of the Real – “Carnival” – The Visitor – (Reprise)
  25. Reverend Beat-Man – “I’ll Do It For You” – Blues Trash – (Voodoo Rhythm)
  26. Gayle Lynn and the Hired Hands – “Twirl” – KALX Live! – (KALX)
  27. Moonshine Maybeline – “Champaign and Cocaine” – End Of The Road  – (Spitfire)
  28. Hillstomp – “I’ll Be Around” –  Monster Receiver – (Fluff & Gravy)
  29. Trouble In The Wind – “Orion” – Hammer On – (S/R)
  30. We Banjo 3 – “Good Time Old Time” – String Theory – (Sonas)
  31. Bay Station – “Baja Blues” – Other Desert Cities – (S/R)
  32. Laura Benitez and Heartache – “The Fool I Am Right Now ” – With All Its Thorns – (Copperhead)
  33. Crying Time – “You’re Still Gone” – Last Saturday Night – (S/R)
  34. Crooked Jades – “Ryland and Spencer” –  Empathy Moves the Water  – (Jade Note)
  35. Guts Club – “Bad Aim” – Trench Foot – (S/R)
  36. Lucero – “For The Lonely Ones” – Among The Ghosts – (Liberty and Lament Records)
  37. John Prine – “Knockin’ On Your Screen Door” – The Tree of Forgiveness – (Oh Boy)
  38. Zoe Speaks – “There’s A Hole Where Your Soul’s Supposed To Be” – Wings – (Redbird)
  39. Tina and Her Pony – “Good Man” – Champion – (S/R)
  40. Victoria Vox – “Out On The Rails” – Colorful Heart – (Obus)
  41. Calexico – “Music Box” – The Thread That Keeps Us – (Anti-)
  42. H.C. McEntire – “Baby’s Got The Blues” – Lionheart – (Merge)
  43. Charlie Parr – “HoBo” – Dog – (Red House)
  44. Caroline Rose – “More Of The Same” – Loner – (New West)
  45. Jenn Champion – “O.M.G. (I’m All Over It)” – Single Rider – (Hardly Art)
  46. Grimskunk – “Sick Bastards” – Unreason In The Age of Madness – (Indica)
  47. Killer Kaya – “Gypsy” – KALX Live! – (KALX)
  48. Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio – “Something Smells Funky Round Here” – Big Fun Trio – (Alligator)
  49. Todd Novak And The Benny Hillbillez – “Sons Of Beaches” – Goats Head Surf – (S/R)
  50. Country Joe McDonald – “Era Of Guns” – 50 – (Rag Baby)
  51. Alanis Obomsawin – “Bush Lady” – Bush Lady – (Constellation)

Compilations that made the GREAT state of Berkeley proud!

  • Dr. Demento Covered In Punk – (Demented Punk)
  • Gunsmoke Volume 1 & 2 – (Stag-O-Lee)
  • King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller – (BMG)
  • Something Weird: Greatest Hits!  – (Modern Harmonic)

Special Thanks to all the artists who appeared LIVE on the air with me, here on the Left Coast

  • Brian Belknap and Erma
  • Patsy Cline Tribute Show (with Margaret Belton)
  • Collisionville
  • Crying Time
  • Fast Heart Mart
  • Nate Jones and the Sloe Sippers
  • Lavender Country
  • Gayle Lynn and the Hired Hands (and Maurice Tani)
  • Loretta Lynn Tribute Show (with Margaret Belton, Laura Benitez, Lisa Marie Johnson and Michelle Kappel)
  • Moonshine Jelly
  • The Muddy Roses
  • Penny Opry
  • Secret Emchy Society
  • Trouble In The Wind
  • Whateverglades
  • Wormfarmer

Favorite Albums of 2018

January 18, 2019 by hyperadmin

  • A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned (Dead Oceans)
  • Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra – Lageos (Ninja Tune)
  • Bart & The Bedazzled – Blue Motel (Lovemonk)
  • Beak> – >>> (Invada)
  • Cut Worms – Hollow Ground (Jagjaguwar)
  • Earth Girl Helen Brown – Four Satellites Vol. 1 (In The Red)
  • Exit Group – Adverse Habitat (Castle Face)
  • Exploded View – Obey (Sacred Bones)
  • Gabe Gurnsey – Physical (Phantasy)
  • Holy Wave – Adult Fear (The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  • IE – Pome (Moon Glyph)
  • Instant Music – S/T (Dark Entries)
  • Julien Boulier – A Film Not Yet Made (Time Released Sound)
  • Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples (Guruguru Brain)
  • Klaus Johann Grobe – Du Bist So Symmetrisch (Trouble In Mind)
  • Leon Vynehall – Nothing Still (Ninja Tune)
  • Les Halles – Zephyr (Not Not Fun)
  • Lithics – Mating Surfaces (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Lotic – Power (Tri Angle)
  • Maarja Nuut & Ruum – Muunduja (Fat Cat)
  • Martial Canterel – Lost At Sea (Dais)
  • Motoko & Myers – Basis Keys (Open Hand Real Flames)
  • Nonpareils – Scented Pictures (Mute)
  • Paint – S/T (Mexican Summer)
  • Papercuts – Parallel Universe Blues (Slumberland)
  • Peel Dream Magazine – Modern Meta Physic (Slumberland)
  • Skee Mask – Compro (Ilian Tape)
  • Smerz – Have Fun (XL)
  • Suuns – Felt (Secretly Canadian)
  • Various Artists – The Bedroom Tapes (Minimal Wave)
  • Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On (Matador)

Velvet Einstein – Best Albums/EPs of 2018

January 13, 2019 by hyperadmin

  • Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet – Landfall (Nonesuch)
  • Big Freedia – 3rd Ward Bounce (Asylum)
  • 카코포니(cacophony) – 和(Harmony) (Fluxus)
  • Camille – OUÏ (Balulalo)
  • Coeur De Pirate – en cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé. (Dare to Care)
  • Philip Glass – Distant Figure (performed by Anton Batagov) (Orange Mountain)
  • Damien Jurado – The Horizon Just Laughed (Secretly Canadian)
  • New Music Detroit – Smoke (Innova)
  • Les Poules A Colin – Morose (Famgroup)
  • Saintseneca – Pillar of Na (Anti)
  • Shannon and the Clams – Onion (Easy Eye Sound)
  • Shannon Shaw – Shannon in Nashville (Easy Eye Sound)

FILM CLOSE-UPS’ FAVORITE FILMS OF 2018 (alphabetical)

January 9, 2019 by hyperadmin

Esme’s picks:

  • At Eternity’s Gate
  • Annihilation
  • Avengers: Infinity War
  • BlacKKKlansman
  • Black Panther
  • Blindspotting
  • Burning
  • Destroyer
  • Eighth Grade
  • The Favourite
  • Hereditary
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Madeline’s Madeline
  • Mandy
  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  • Paddington 2
  • The Rider
  • Roma
  • Shirkers
  • Shoplifters
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • A Star is Born
  • Support the Girls
  • Suspiria
  • Three Identical Strangers
  • To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
  • Widows
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor
  • You Were Never Really Here

Geralyn’s picks:

  • American Animals, USA, Bart Layton
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, USA, Joel Coen
  • Bohemian Rhapsody, USA, Bryan Singer
  • A Fantastic Woman (Una Mujer Fantastica), USA, Sebastian Lelio
  • Green Book, USA, Peter Farrelly
  • Hostiles, USA, Scott Cooper
  • The Insult, Lebanon, Ziad Doveiri
  • Rodents of Unusual Size, (Documentary), USA, Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler, Jeff Springer
  • Shoplifters, Japan, Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • You Were Never Really Here, USA, Lynne Ramsay

Greg’s picks:

  • American Animals
  • Annihilation
  • Beast
  • Blindspotting
  • Death Of Stalin
  • The Favourite
  • First Reformed
  • Ghost Stories
  • Hereditary
  • Sorry To Bother You
  • Three Identical Strangers

Sonia’s picks:

  • Ben is Back
  • Blindspotting
  • Eighth Grade
  • A Fantastic Woman
  • The Favourite
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Isle of Dogs
  • McQueen
  • Roma
  • Shoplifters
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
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