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I'm Jim D. Wurgatis and I'm Greg Kot. We're also sharing a new batch of buried treasures,

great music flying under the mainstream radar, and our production staff will also contribute

some of their picks. Greg, we do love the buried treasures. We do these episodes four times a year or so.

We're always collecting new music that I hadn't heard about before that you weren't aware of,

that we thought, man, this is great, we need to highlight this and share it with our listeners.

Yeah, let's face it, there's just not enough time to get to everything that we love,

so it's a great opportunity to catch up on stuff that there's just so much music out there right now

that is worth listening to and we're hopefully need to introduce people to a whole lot of it in this

episode. Where do we get it? Sometimes it's indie publicists, sometimes it's a word of mouth on social media

or I run into somebody and they say, hey, you gotta hear X, and these are our X's.

The first one came from a buddy of mine who still does some research, help for me, Kate Weizel,

originally a Boston girl, fine, fine writer, driving in cars with homeless men, her debut

fiction collection. She said, you gotta hear Sloth Rust, Jim, and I said, well, I'm intrigued by

the name right away. A Boston group with a brain trust of Leah Welbaum on vocals and guitar

and Will Goren on drums. First began collaborating as students at Sarah Lawrence College

and what a voice Leah has, what a sound they developed working together. This is a new single

that I'm gonna play. Their last album was Parallel Timeline, their fifth since 2012. So they've

been around for a while and it's one of those bands where I heard the newest single as the first

thing and I'm like, where have you been all my life? Where has this group been? There is this kind of

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