David Mcwade Archives

Biography:  I lived in Pittsburgh for 28 years (my entire adult life) and did radio for the last 10 years of that. Then, I picked up and left for Colorado, without chasing a job here, 4 years ago, all because of relocation astrology, which is my chosen career. I am also an activist for Democratic causes and am a contra dancer (never thought I'd do that.)

During my shows, I play many genres of music. I try to play what I think is the best of each genre. I also try to play less well-known things (indie). Most of what I play has a pop flavor and I also believe in playing synths and things without guitars. Power pop, singer-songwriter, alt-country, celestial, art pop, post-rock, etc.

Shows I host: Sleepless Nights / Smash It Back! / The Afternoon Sound Alternative

Archive:  http://www.afterfm.com/DavidMcwade

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May 20, 2020 3:01 AM (MT)

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Restless Mornings   with    David Mcwade

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• Arco Flute Foundation - You Look Like A Beat Poet With Those Glasses On - The Third Lesson In New Era Time
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• Brian Eno - Fullness Of Wind - Discreet Music
• Ahvak - Vivisektzia - Ahvak
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• Oren Ambarchi - Hubris, Pt. 3 - Hubris
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• Diamanda Galás - Vena Cava 3 - Vena Cava (Live)
• Massive Attack - Antistar - 100th Window
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• Esmerine - Histories Repeating As One Thousand Hearts Mend - Aurora
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• Spain - World Of Blue - The Blue Moods Of Spain
• Paatos - Quits - Timeloss - EP
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• Mark Snow - Suite From The X-File - The Snow Files

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May 20, 2020 12:01 AM (MT)

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Sleepless Nights   with    David Mcwade

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• Lush - Desire Lines - Split
• His Name Is Alive - There's Something Between Us And He's Changing My Words - Firefly Dragonfly - EP
• The Horrors - Gathering - V
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• Roxanne Turcotte - DMXNebula - Libellune
• The Legendary Pink Dots - Legacy - Kleine Krieg
• The Legendary Pink Dots - One For The Pearl Moon - Kleine Krieg
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• Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity - Travelling Without Moving
• Destroyer - Song For America - Kaputt
• Prefuse 73 - Ty Versus DetChibe - Surrounded By Silence
• Anagram - UN - Songs From Far Away
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• Joanna Newsom - Inflammatory Writ - The Milk-Eyed Mender
• M83 - Skin Of The Night - Saturdays = Youth
• Tearwave - Nothing’s Wrong - Different Shade Of Beauty
• Current 93 - The Dissolution Of The Boat "Millions Of Years" - Black Ships Ate The Sky
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• Low - Laugh - The Curtain Hits The Cast
• Eleni Mandell - Christine - Snakebite
• Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss - InnerSpeaker
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• The Fall - The Wright Stuff - Reformation Post T.L.C.
• The Magnetic Fields - Sweet-Lovin' Man - 69 Love Songs
• TOY - You Won't Be The Same - Join The Dots
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• The Beatles - I Will - The Beatles (The White Album)
• Vehicle Flips - Expendable You - The Premise Unraveled
• Paula Frazer - Leave The Sad Things Behind - Leave The Sad Things Behind
• Eleanor Friedberger - I Don't Want To Bother You - Personal Record
• Regina Spektor - Carbon Monoxide - Soviet Kitsch
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• Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach - Metro Music
• New Order - 5-8-6 - The Peel Sessions
• My Dad Is Dead - Meep-Meep - The Taller You Are The Shorter You Get
• Nitzer Ebb - Warsaw Ghetto - That Total Age
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• Die Form - CloseUp - Some Experiences With Shock Original Mix
• Blonde Redhead - In Particular - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons
• Lisa Germano - Candy - Lullaby For Liquid Pig
• Johanna Kunin - Soul Secrets - Clouds Electric
• Liz Phair - Nashville - Whip-Smart
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May 6, 2020 12:01 AM (MT)

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Sleepless Nights   with    David Mcwade

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• Evolution Control Committee - I Want A Cookie - Plagiarythm Nation
• The Tape-Beatles - Mind Problems - The Grand Delusion
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• Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies
• Robert Pollard - The Numbered Head - From A Compound Eye
• Codeine - 3 Angels - Frigid Stars
• Denali - French Mistake - Denali
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• Love And Rockets - Holiday On The Moon - Express
• The Smiths - Paint A Vulgar Picture - Strangeways, Here We Come
• The Smiths - Sweet And Tender Hooligan (John Peel Session, 12/2/86) - Louder Than Bombs
• Angel Olsen - Hi-Five - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
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• Dreissk - Emergence - The Finding
• Die Form - Purple Pain - Archives & Documents III
• Crime And The City Solution - The Bride Ship - The Bride Ship
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• Slint - Good Morning, Captain - Spiderland
• The New Pornographers - These Are The Fables - Twin Cinema
• Kurt Vile - Girl Called Alex - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
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• The Stranglers - Golden Brown - Feline
• Fucked Up - Days Of Last - The Chemistry Of Common Life
• Drive-By Truckers - Where The Devil Don't Stay - The Dirty South
• Throwing Muses - Night Driving - Limbo
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• Radiohead - Let Down - Ok Computer
• Robyn Hitchcock - Acid Bird - I Wanna Go Backwards
• Fuck-Off Machete - Gone - My First Machete
• Winterpills - Found Weekend - Winterpills
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• Calexico/Iron And Wine - He Lays In The Reins - In The Reins
• The Fall - Ladybird - The Infotainment Scan
• Parquet Courts - Pretty Machines - Content Nausea
• The Ex - Evolution(?) - Aural Guerrilla
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• Test Dept. - Shockwork - Shoulder To Shoulder
• Disappears - OUD - Irreal
• Disappears - Halcyon Days - Irreal
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• Edward Ka-Spel - Hotel Blanc - Eyes! China Doll

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Apr 30, 2020 12:07 PM (MT)

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The Afternoon Sound Alternative   with    David Mcwade

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• Cocteau Twins - Ivo - Treasure
• Stereolab - Brigitte - ABC Music
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• Azure Ray - Wake Up, Sleepyhead - Drawing Down The Moon (Bonus Track Version)
• Paula Frazer - Watercolor Lines - Leave The Sad Things Behind
• Bat For Lashes - Glass - Two Suns
• Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl - Mezzanine
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• Rilo Kiley - It's A Hit - More Adventurous
• The Flying Lizards - Money - The Flying Lizards
• St. Vincent - Prince Johnny - St. Vincent
• Dressy Bessy - Blinktwice - Dressy Bessy
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• Cocteau Twins - Melonella - Echoes In A Shallow Bay - EP
• Dirty Projectors - Two Doves - Bitte Orca
• Tegan Northwood - Thinking About You - Last Days Of Home
• Siouxsie & The Banshees - Ornaments Of Gold - Peepshow (Remastered And Expanded)
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• Kate Bush - Babooshka - Never For Ever
• ABBA - Take A Chance On Me - ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits
• Eleni Mandell - Dangerous - Afternoon
• Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You - Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Sound Track)
• The Owls - Isaac Bashevis Singer - Daughters And Suns
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• Bettie Serveert - Something So Wild - Lamprey
• Aimee Mann - I Can't Get My Head Around It - The Forgotten Arm
• The Sundays - My Finest Hour - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
• The Red Krayola - The Milkmaid - Singles
• Lisa Germano - No Color Here - Slide
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• Cocteau Twins - Summerhead - Four-Calendar Café (Remastered)
• Amy X Neuburg - Every Little Stain - Residue
• Xymox - Blind Hearts - Twist Of Shadows
• Portishead - Wandering Star - Dummy
• Julia Holter - Horns Surrounding Me - Loud City Song
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• The Parachute Men - Tell Everyone - The Innocents
• Elliott Smith - Can't Make A Sound - Figure 8
• Pale Saints - Fine Friend - Slow Buildings
• Depeche Mode - See You - A Broken Frame (Deluxe Version)
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• Wrekmeister Harmonies - Night Of Your Ascension (Part 1) - Night Of Your Ascension

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Apr 24, 2020 11:01 PM (MT)

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Smash It Back!   with    David Mcwade

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• Foetus - Ramrod (feat. Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel) - Sink
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• Volcano Suns - Barricade - Thing Of Beauty
• Cherry Glazerr - Haxel Princess - Haxel Princess
• Hüsker Dü - Find Me - Flip Your Wig
• Bad Religion - Progress - No Control
• Beastie Boys - Riot Fight - Some Old Bullshit
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• Bauhaus - In The Night - The Sky's Gone Out
• The Stranglers - Rok It To The Moon (1996 Remastered Version) - No More Heroes
• Theoretical Girls - No More Sex - Theoretical Record
• Wire - Practice Makes Perfect - Chairs Missing
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• Kleenex - Split - Liliput
• Boyskout - Secrets - School Of Etiquette
• The New Pornographers - Centre For Holy Wars - Mass Romantic (Remastered)
• Mitski - Townie - Bury Me At Makeout Creek
• Protomartyr - Tarpeian Rock - Under Color Of Official Right
• Fastbacks - What It's Like - The Question Is No
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• Crass - BLOODY REVOLUTIONS: - Best Before

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Apr 15, 2020 12:01 AM (MT)

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Sleepless Nights   with    David Mcwade

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• The The - Giant - Soul Mining
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• Nicolas Collins - It Was A Dark And Stormy Night - It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
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• Janice Pendarvis, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Reisman, Michael Riesman, Jack Kripl, Richard Peck & Jon Gibson - Lightning - Glass: Songs From Liquid Days
• Lisa Germano - Tomorrowing - Slide
• The Tear Garden - Empathy With The Devil - The Last Man To Fly
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• Thollem McDonas - For All Those Who Have Gone Before - Gone Beyond Reason To Find One
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• Nels Cline Trio - The Luxury Of Silk - Sad
• Mother Tongue - Chapter And Verse - A Bead To A Small Mouth
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• Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna - Early
• Tarwater - The Watersample - Silur
• Efterklang - Monopolist - Tripper
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• Tara Jane O'Neil - A Partridge Song - In Circles
• The Legendary Pink Dots - I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty - The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
• Delerium - Fallen - Chimera
• The Beatles - Golden Slumbers - Abbey Road
• The Beatles - Carry That Weight - Abbey Road
• The Beatles - The End - Abbey Road
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• The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words - 69 Love Songs
• The Stranglers - School Mam (1996 Remastered Version) - No More Heroes
• Yaz - State Farm - You And Me Both
• The Fall - DKTR. Faustus - Bend Sinister
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• Alex Cline/Kaoru/Miya Masaoka/G.E. Stinson - Robot Mudra - Cloud Plate
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• Swans - Thug - Filth / Body To Body, Job To Job

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Apr 1, 2020 12:01 AM (MT)

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Sleepless Nights   with    David Mcwade

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• The Legendary Pink Dots - The Red And The Black - Island Of Jewels
• The Legendary Pink Dots - Premonition 12 - Stained Glass Soma Fountain [Disc 1]
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• Cibo Matto - The Candy Man - Viva! La Woman
• Bjork - Where Is The Line - Medulla
• Faust - Party 1 - 71 Minutes Of Faust
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• Nobukazu Takemura - Tuirirukabinbon (Fr Ver) - Songbook
• Cat Power - You May Know Him - Moon Pix
• Lisa Germano - Victoria’s Secret “Just A Bad Dream" By Miamo-tutti - Excerpts From A Love Circus
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• Paatos - Stream - Kallocain
• Saxon Shore - June 23 - Luck Will Not Save Us From A Jackpot Of Nothing - EP
• Kinski - All Your Kids Have Turned To Static - Alpine Static
• Lady & Bird - Walk Real Slow - Lady & Bird
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• Battles - Atlas - Mirrored
• Mogwai - Christmas Steps - Come On Die Young
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• New Order - Everything's Gone Green (12" Version) - Movement (Collector's Edition)
• Hercules & Love Affair - Athene - Hercules & Love Affair
• Clark - Ted - Body Riddle
• Cold Cave - Confetti - Cherish The Light Years (Bonus Track Edition)
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• Polvo - Blues Is Loss - Siberia (Bonus Track Version)
• Lowlife - The Betting & Gaming Act 1964 - Permanent Sleep / Rain
• Arcade Fire - Joan Of Arc - Reflektor
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• Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - I'm A Ghost - Hearts Of Oak
• Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love Is Blind - The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
• Suzanne Vega - As Girls Go - 99.9 F
• Girl In A Coma - Si Una Vez - Adventures In Coverland
• The New Pornographers - The Mary Martin Show - Mass Romantic (Remastered)
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• Snow Patrol - Starfighter Pilot - Songs For Polarbears (Bonus Track Version)
• Dressy Bessy - Ringalingaling - Electrified
• Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat - The Big Heat
• Swell Maps - New York - International Rescue
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• Fastbacks - 3 Boxes - The Question Is No
• Of Montreal - Your Magic Is Working - Satanic Panic In The Attic
• Kristin Hersh - Wild Vanilla - Learn To Sing Like A Star
• Joy Division - Walked In Line - Still (Collector's Edition)
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• Amon Tobin - Slowly - Supermodified

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Mar 18, 2020 12:01 AM (MT)

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Sleepless Nights   with    David Mcwade

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• Jim Orourke - Women Of The World - Eureka
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• And Also The Trees - The Critical Distance - The Critical Distance
• Stereolab - Sadistic - Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On, Vol. 2)
• The New Pornographers - Star Bodies - Twin Cinema
• Eleni Mandell - 1970 Red Chevelle - Thrill
• Eleni Mandell - Moment That You Had - Thrill
• Flunk - Waiting All My Life To Leave You - Morning Star
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• Son Volt - Holocaust - A Retrospective: 1995-2000
• Sufjan Stevens - The Seer's Tower - Illinois
• Jenny Dalton - Cadence - Fleur De Lily
• Robert Gomez - All We Got - Brand New Towns
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• Hannah Marcus - Hairdresser In Taos - Desert Farmers
• Jarboe - Honey - Anhedoniac
• Enya - Exile - Watermark
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• M. Kourie - The River - Dreams Of M. Kourie
• Pita - 3 - Get Out
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• Die Form - Heart Of The Monster - Some Experiences With Shock Original Mix
• Tara Jane O'Neil - Prick - Tjo Tko
• Thomas Dimuzio - Sallow - Headlock
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• Julia Holter - World - Loud City Song
• Drowning Pool - What Of Singing Birds - Drowning Pool
• Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - She - Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars
• Marshall Holland - Radio Style - And The Etceteras (Remastered)
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• Urge Overkill - The Kids Are Insane - The Supersonic Storybook
• Urge Overkill - The Candidate - The Supersonic Storybook
• Superchunk - Swallow That - On The Mouth (Remastered)
• Damon & Naomi - E.T.A. - More Sad Hits
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• A.C. Newman - Better Than Most - The Slow Wonder
• Jeniferever - Concrete And Glass - Spring Tides
• Peter Murphy - Time Has Got Nothing To Do With It - Love Hysteria
• Throwing Muses - Walking In The Dark - House Tornado
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• Cocteau Twins - Itss All But An Ark Lark - Lullabies To Violaine, Vol. One

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Mar 4, 2020 12:01 AM (MT)

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Sleepless Nights   with    David Mcwade

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• Paul Lansky - The Joy Of F# Minor - Music Box
• Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke - The Human Game - Duality
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• F/i - Aum - Out Of Space And Out Of Time
• Shipping News - Non-Volant - Three-Four
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• The Hidden Cameras - Afterparty - AGE
• Severed Heads - Hot With Fleas (Extended Remix) - DeadTIME's Exploding Dream: A Nettwerk Compilation
• The Spinanes - Manos - Manos
• The Wolfgang Press - Dig A Hole - Standing Up Straight
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• Leonard Cohen - Democracy - The Future
• Frankie Rose - Requiem - Herein Wild
• Flora Reed - Joga - Settle Down
• Pieter Nooten And Michael Brook - Suddenly II - Sleeps With The Fishes
• Pieter Nooten And Michael Brook - Suddenly I - Sleeps With The Fishes
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• Massive Attack - Live With Me (feat. Terry Callier) - Collected: The Best Of Massive Attack
• Stereolab - Suggestion Diabolique - Sound Dust
• Peter Gabriel - I Have The Touch - Peter Gabriel 4: Security (Remastered)
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• Deception Bay - Getting Scared - My Color Flag
• Savage Republic - Mobilization - Tragic Figures
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe - Experience Hendrix - The Best Of Jimi Hendrix
• Midnight Oil - Outside World - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 (Remastered)
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• The Body - Denial Of The Species (Remixed By Mark Solotroff) - Remixed
• The Sisters Of Mercy - Some Kind Of Stranger - First And Last And Always Collection
• Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic - Ferment
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• The Legendary Pink Dots - Break Day - The Tower
• The Legendary Pink Dots - Sleezo - Faces In The Fire - EP
• Fiona Apple - Tymps (The Sick In The Head Song) - Extraordinary Machine
• The Grabs - This Life - Sex, Fashion And Money
• Peggy Sue - Boxes - Acrobats (Bonus Version)
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• Yo La Tengo - Nowhere Near - Painful
• Petra Haden And Bill Frisell - Floaty - CD
• Mark Lanegan - Borracho - Whiskey For The Holy Ghost
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• The She's - Dream Girl - Dreamers - EP

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Feb 24, 2020 12:01 AM (MT)

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• Ordo Equitum Solis - Le Crépuscule De La Vie - Solstitii Temporis Sensus
• Portishead - Roads - Dummy
• The New Pornographers - Unguided - Challengers
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• Dressy Bessy - Some Better Days - The California - EP
• Belle & Sebastian - We Are The Sleepyheads - The Life Pursuit
• Linda Smith - Looking At The Scenery Alone - Preference: Selected Songs 1987-1991
• Algebra Suicide - In Bed With Boys - The Secret Like Crazy
• Mirah - Nobody Has To Stay - C'mon Miracle
• Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost - Hips And Makers
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• The Beatles - The Fool On The Hill - Magical Mystery Tour
• Massive Attack - Girl I Love You - Heligoland
• Stereolab - Nous Vous Demandons Pardon - Chemical Chords
• Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Dystopian Shopping Mall - Blood Drums
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• The Legendary Pink Dots - Nine Shades To The Circle - 9 Lives To Wonder
• Elton John - Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) - Jump Up
• SAM PHILLIPS - Reflecting Light - A Boot And A Shoe
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• Ikue Mori - Ice Palace - Myrninerest
• The Tear Garden - My Thorny Thorny Crown - Tired Eyes Slowly Burning
• Otto Von Schirach - La Sangre Del Dedo Intelecto - Global Speaker Fisting
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• Linda Ronstadt, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, Michael Reisman & Michael Riesman - Freezing - Glass: Songs From Liquid Days
• Nils Frahm - Says - Spaces
• Pale Saints - Hair Shoes - In Ribbons
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• Legendary Shack Shakers - Old Spur Line - Swampblood
• Tanya Donelly - Kundalini Slide - This Hungry Life
• Whiskey & Co - How I Wish - Whiskey & Co
• Nikki Sudden/Jacobites - Big Store - The Ragged School
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• The Wedding Present - Brassneck - Bizarro
• Beastie Boys - Hold It Now, Hit It - Licensed To Ill
• Blonde Redhead - Kazuality - Fake Can Be Just As Good
• Skinny Puppy - Fritter (Stella's Home) - VIVI Sect VI
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• Growing - Green Pasture - Color Wheel
• Marissa Nadler - Mexican Summer - Songs III: Bird On The Water
• Caitlin Rose - Spare Me - Own Side Now
• This Mortal Coil - Not Me - It'll End In Tears (Remastered)
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• Meridiem - Carlotta - A Scattering Time

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