Tag: Residency Records
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R.E.M., Chronic Town, 1982 on I.R.S. Records
R.E.M., Chronic Town, 1982 on I.R.S. Records In honor of delayed tax day, a little REM from the early 80s heyday of I.R.S. Records R.E.M. remain one of my favorite bands of all time and this is the EP that started it all. (There was a single for Radio Free Europe in ’81). Via Residency…
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Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice, 2017 on Matador Records
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Lotta Sea Lice, 2017 on Matador Records. Barnett may just be my favorite new artist of the decade, and Vile has been making consistently great music since the early aughts. Via Residency Records, Salem MA
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Billy Bragg, Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC, 2019 on Cooking Vinyl
So many great tunes and lyrics here “In the end it took me a dictionary / to find out the meaning of unrequited” “I saw two shooting stars last night / I wished on them but they were only satellites / it’s wrong to wish on space hardware / I wish, I wish, I wish…
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Townes Van Zandt, Our Mother the Mountain, 1969 on Poppy / Tomato records.
My copy is a 2007 Fat Possum pressing. Some folks don’t like the production here by Jack Clement, but I love this record. Via Residency Records, Salem MA
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Finds from yesterday at Residency Records
Nice haul yesterday at Residency Records