Tag: Vic Chesnutt
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RC 375: Home for Christmas
Only one Christmas podcast this year – blame the strikes (and having a lockdown Xmas #3 at home for financial reasons) with a weird combination of merry metal mashup mayhem vs epic festive sadbangers. Bittersweet happy/sad music for the holidays partly made for those folk who have to survive or endure this time of year…I…
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Gaelynn Lea
Many people came across Gaelynn Lea via her NPR Tiny Desk submission and concert (below) but I stumbled across her looking up Alan Sparhawk side projects and then found A Murder of Crows. They’ve never released ‘A Moment of Bliss’ I think, one extended EP/album called Imperfecta after the condition that Gaelynn has. Her own…
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Kids, Lawns and Unhappy Campers
I must say this is a strange one – a NPR intern writes that she’s not owned many albums in her life but has 11,000 songs – fairly typical for that generation, as much as you might deplore it. Then Oscar the Grouch, sorry David Lowery comes along and his long toilet-roll rant about how…
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RIP Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse
(Hundreds of Sparrows) Sad news I heard via the radio today about the suicide of Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse. Maybe not a name/band you know of, but Good Morning Spider and later Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot were an important part of my life in the late 90’s. It’s a cliche to say ‘got me through some bad times’…
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R.I.P. Vic Chesnutt
(pic via NYCDailyNews, no photo credit) Very sad to hear of the death of Vic Chesnutt, who died of an overdose on Christmas Day. A wonderful artist and singer who has been played on Radio Clash in the past. I hope you’ve found peace at last, Vic. Here’s his wonderful cover of ‘Like a Monkey…
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Radio Clash 56: Cats, Cults and Cutups
timbearcub: uploading now timbearcub: it has marching bands with punk covers timbearcub: covers of sweet songs by mad people timbearcub: cat related mashups timbearcub: cult recordings used in modern dance tracks bristolians1971: last of the canada pics en route to you timbearcub: and some green day and supremes mashed up timbearcub:oh and Beautiful South covering…