Daily Loaf

This month’s podcast has a good chunk of unreleased material on it. We’ve got tracks from upcoming releases by Lucero, Strawfoot and Micah Schnabel (Two Cow Garage) as well as new material from brand new albums by Drivin’ & Cryin’ and Chuck Ragan. The new Lucero album is duo out October 6 and if you live in the Tampa/St. Pete area, there’ll be a listening party at Vinyl Fever with pizza courtesy of yours truly — but more on that later. I dunno why, but for some reason in the middle of this podcast, I got a hair up my ass and decided to feature nothing but female-fronted bands. Why I did it aside, there is some awesome material included on the back half of the podcast, like a track from Betty-Soo, an artist I was introduced to via the excellent blog, A Truer Sound.

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Look out for this week’s very special “Vinyl Saturday” releases, exclusive to indie music retailers.

VINYL:

Avett Brothers – “Slight Figure of Speech” 7″
Special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) 7″ release with pic sleeve.

Big Star – “Feel” b/w “Mod Lang“ 7″
Special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) 7″ release with pic sleeve.

The Black Crowes – Before the Frost… Until The Freeze
Before The Frost features 11 new unreleased Black Crowes studio songs. The bonus album Until the Freeze adds 8 new original Black Crowes studio songs plus a cover version of Stephen Stills’ “So Many Times”.

Mars Volta – Octahedron
Another special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) release. 2LP set.

Queen – A Kind of Magic
Queen – Flash Gordon
Queen – News of the World
Queen – Queen
HQ-180 vinyl reissues — some include bonus tracks.

Various Artists – Ze 30: Ze Records 1979-2009
Ze remains one of the great cult labels of its time. With this new compilation, Strut takes a snapshot of the many weird and wonderful fusions that surfaced on its famous taxi cab-influenced yellow and black label. Highlights include one of the earliest outings by Was (Not Was) and a Larry Levan mix of Kid Creole’s biting parable about corruption in the Caribbean.  Other featured artists include Ze label regulars Cristina and Bill Laswell’s Material.

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Hey everyone! It’s your trusty drunk from ninebullets, Autopsy IV, checking in with another podcast chock full of alt.country/Americana/rock ‘n’ roll goodness. Give it a listen and have a drink on me.

The moment I sat down and started mapping out what songs I wanted to play this month I started getting excited. It quickly became obvious that this month’s song selection was gonna be the bomb. We got unreleased tracks from The Fox Hunt, Left Lane Cruiser, Carolyn Mark, Malcolm Holcombe, Pete Bernhard (Devil Makes Three) and Chuck Ragan, as well as newborn songs from Chad Price (Drag The River), Mat d. and the Profane Saints, The Builders and The Butchers, The Takers and Lonesome Wyatt (Those Poor Bastards) w/Rachel Brooke.

In the middle of the show I decided to do a set featuring bands who will be performing at Suburban Home’s 14th Anniversary Weekend Party, which I’ll be attending in 15 days. Hopefully I’ll come back from it with some good stories, good pictures and a few interviews.

And that does it. I’m really happy with this month’s podcast and I think y’all will like it. Do me a favor, though. If you listen and you enjoy the show, please tell other people about it!

Thanks, everyone. Autopsy IV (twitter: @autopsy4)

TRACKLISTING AND PODCAST AFTER THE JUMP
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This week’s recommended releases as well as a breakdown of other worthy albums available now.

Vinyl:

Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
The band’s third album is a set of songs both heavier and lush than in previous efforts but still full of the Monkeys’ punch and vitality.

Jeff Beck – Beck-Ola
Jeff Beck – Truth
Exact replicas now available on pristine HQ-180 vinyl. Taken from the original analog master tapes.

Chocolate Watch Band – No Way Out
Chocolate Watch Band – Inner Mystique
Hailing from San Jose, Calif., the Watch Band — featuring the pouting, Mick Jagger-influenced lead vocals of Dave Aguilar, the thrilling guitars of Sean Tolby and Mark Loomis, the solid bass of Bill Flores and the thumping drums of Gary Andrijasevich — made all the right scenes in San Jose, including appearances with the Syndicate of Sound and Count Five.

John Fogerty – Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
Among the special guests are Bruce Springsteen.

Fugazi – 3 Songs 7″
Remastered.

Woody Guthrie – Woody, Cisco And Sonny
Woody Guthrie – Woody The Agitator
Woody Guthrie – Woody’s Roots
Woody Guthrie – Woody’s Greatest Hits
Classic Guthrie vinyl reissues — now available.

Jet – Shaka Rock
bass, drums, guitars and vocals.

Willie Nelson – American Classic

Pearl Jam – The Fixer 7″
Two new tracks from their upcoming album on white vinyl with glow-in-the-dark ink on the label!

Chuck Ragan/Brian Fallon split 7″
They of Hot Water Music and Gaslight Anthem fame, respectively.

Reigning Sound – Love and Curses
New release — now available on vinyl.

The Smiths – The Smiths
The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
The Smiths – Queen is Dead
The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
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