New Music Friday: The best albums out May 31
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
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Featured albums:
• Arooj Aftab, 'Night Reign'
• Shaboozey, 'Where I've Been, isn't Where I'm Going'
• Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg & Tyler Trotter, 'Hear the Children Sing The Evidence'
Other notable albums out May 31:
• Richard Thompson, 'Ship To Shore'
• Dos Monos, 'Dos Atomos'
• Anna Tivel, 'Living Thing'
• Beak>, '>>>>'
• Swamp Dogg, 'Blackgrass'
• Thou, 'Umbilical'
• Chris Housman, 'Blueneck'
• Psychic Temple, 'Doggie Paddlin' Thru the Cosmic Consciousness'
• John Muq, 'Flying Away'
• Robin Holcomb, 'One Way or Another, Vol. 2'
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| 0:18.0 | The history behind words causing a lot of debate that's on the TED Radio Hour from NPR. |
| 0:25.0 | Just a note for everybody out there. |
| 0:27.0 | This program contains explicit language. |
| 0:30.0 | So, long... So Lars, I guess it's summer. Is it summer where you're at? Are you feeling it? |
| 0:40.0 | It is, it is hot and powers. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, we've been having the Cakeda invasion |
| 0:45.0 | and the tornado invasion. |
| 0:47.0 | So pretty typical Nashville summer. |
| 0:49.0 | But what is sound tracking your summer so far? |
| 0:51.0 | You've been going out? You've been seeing music? I've been |
| 0:53.8 | seeing music I recently went to go see Claire Rusey. Oh nice. We just put out that |
| 0:58.9 | really great record on a thrill jockey. I saw her here in Washington DC at Rhizome which is a great little venue and |
| 1:08.0 | She's been touring with a version of her bedroom. Oh yeah I heard about this. Yeah so she she like folds out this like fake wall and she puts posters and stickers on it that people contribute. |
| 1:22.0 | There was one segment where Claire said |
| 1:24.7 | all right now this is the audience participation portion of the show and |
| 1:29.3 | did anybody have anything bad happen to them this week. |
| 1:33.1 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:34.2 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:35.0 | And so like two people sheepishly kind of like raised their hands and then |
| 1:39.4 | Claire came up to them. |
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