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Show #360
Time: Saturday 06 November 2010 at:
US East Coast: 11am-2pm | (repeat) Sunday 07 November 2010 8pm-11pm
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On this week's show:
 
New Rock Album: Bad Books, *Bad Books* (2010) . . . Turns out this band is a collaboration between Brooklyn folk/indie artist Kevin Devine & Atlanta indie rock band Manchester Orchestra (whose great 2009 *Means Everything to Nothing* album was heard on this show's 5/30/2009 broadcast) . . . I liked the album a lot before I knew who had made it, & then knowing explained this liking further . . . moody, jangly, oddly poetical, an autumnal aural treat for those who love acoustic guitars (& sometimes electric) on grey, grey days . . .
 
Classic Rock Album: Harry Chapin, *Short Stories* (1974) . . . I discovered Harry Chapin on the day he died, in 1981, I was 17 . . . a friend on the phone mentioned his death, & I broke down crying, strange since I'd only known of him from a few songs on the radio . . . yet I began to collect his LPs, nearly a dozen of them, & discovered a full grown man still carrying the hopes & ideals & vulnerabilities of youth . . . trying to figure how to put his work, his music, to the task of understanding the world & trying to better it . . . the years pass, the power passes from hand to hand, yet the change of name from Caesar to Hitler to Nixon to Bush means little in how one man will stomp another in reaching past him . . . romance & sex still twist in ways mysterious, excruciating, sublime . . . every living soul still struggles for how to live, how to live, how to live, & why . . . Chapin's music shines a light on life's hidden & not-so-hidden chambers of ferment, & he sings of what is revealed . . .
 
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Nine of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
 
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion  . . . & this week's featured artist is obscure trippy rockers Crazy Elephant & cuts from their sole album from 1969 . . . November is dreaded by many, loved by a few, summer long gone, winter still at a distance . . . the fall leaves are nearly all down . . . but not any year without a few perfect colorous days of still, cool air, & moments when the human world is rendered the much & mere thing it is, indeed, amongst the world as a whole . . .

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Show #361
Time: Saturday 13 November 2010 at:
US East Coast: 11am-2pm | (repeat) Sunday 14 November 2010 8pm-11pm
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On this week's show:
 
New Rock Album: James, *The Morning After, The Night Before* (2010) . . . I'd not picked up on this long-lived Manchester UK band until the release of its newest work, a double EP set . . . James is an idiosyncratic band, their music is a weirdly pretty rock, their lyrics a kind of tangled poetry, their sound in sum addicting & fine . . .
 
Classic Rock Album: The Merry-Go-Round, *The Merry-Go-Round* (1967) . . . This Los Angeles band put out one brilliant acid pop record before disintegrating . . . some compare their sound to that of fellow LA rockers Love, but I think it's less dark & more of the lovely melancholic folk-rock of the time . . . another lysergic treat from a year with seemingly endless treasures . . .
 
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Nine of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
 
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion  . . . & this week's featured artist is great '70s British glam rockers T. Rex . . . some weeks trip up early & hardly find a balance all the way through . . . but life keeps luring with its good things, its music, its trees, those who smiling offer their love . . . why resist?

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Show #362
Time: Saturday 20 November 2010 at:
US East Coast: 11am-2pm | (repeat) Sunday 21 November 2010 8pm-11pm
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On this week's show:
 
New Rock Album: A Sunny Day in Glasgow, *Autumn, Again* (2010) . . . This Philadelphia band's dream pop fuzzes your mind but good, a warm & weird sound . . . sometimes sounds like a rock band with '80s leanings (they recently did an excellent cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere"), but more often not . . . a well-named record leading one to think of walking strange paths at dusk, humming with the sounds that criss cross nearby . . .
 
Classic Rock Album: Fastball, *The Harsh Light of Day* (2000) . . . This Austin, Texas band hit it big in the late '90s with the delicious slacker epic, "The Way" . . . on this follow-up album the band chose to challenge themselves & make more complex, often darker, songs . . . the results are fantastic, showing a band following its inspiration & best ideas . . . an album for frequent listenings, newly rewarding each time . . .
 
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Nine of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
 
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion  . . . & this week's featured artist is American Breed, a late '60s band from Illinois that hit it big with a few trippy nuggets such as "Bend Me, Shape Me" . . . some days I sit watching out the window, the trees, the patch of sky in view, the wind pushing branches around, or strangely absent . . . I watch for only a few minutes at most, but there's some mystery & wisdom in this I wish I could better cup, & carry away . . .

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Show #363
Time: Saturday 27 November 2010 at:
US East Coast: 11am-2pm | (repeat) Sunday 28 November 2010 8pm-11pm
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On this week's show:
 
New Rock Album: Wolf Parade, *Expo 86* (2010) . . . This Montreal band makes frenetic, driving, darkly fun music, and is yet another example of the fertile ground that Montreal continues to be for indie rock . . . they do indeed rock and roll, but with a pretty, pretty heart buried in each song, nearer or not so near to the surface of the sounds . . .
 
Classic Rock Album: Family, *A Song for Me* (1970) . . . This UK band, featured once previously  on this show (their excellent 1968 debut *Music in a Doll's House* was heard on the 1/6/2007 broadcast), makes a kind of weird pretty British folk-rock . . . often the sounds of a deep, half-remembered dream, that cries hoarsely to be born as it fades . . .
 
Storybook Time: Continuing Chapter Nine of *The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture* by Stewart Tendler & David May . . .
 
Readings from *Labyrinthine* fixtion  . . . & this week's featured artist is Blues Traveler, a New Jersey jam band that has traveled its many roads on the strength of long jaunty songs, and John Popper's ability to wring many worlds from a harmonica . . . winter is creepin' & crawling' into New England, the leaves have done their dance & scatter the ground, trees are bare, the wind is raising ever stronger, more cold, less light . . . fine times indeed!

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