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One of my favorite things about diving into genres that I don’t know well is the discovery of artists and sub-genres that I didn’t know existed. The world of hip-hop is one of these, where I am constantly learning about how little I know.

Back to one of my old go-to album selection routes: the Relix Daily 7 email. It always provides a nice mix of news about artists that I care about and some introductions to some that I very often come to care about.

I’m not gonna lie, these guys are not exactly my cup of tea, but even with that caveat, this is still a pretty entertaining album.

I was listening to the metal opus that is Slayer’s Seasons in the Abyss and realized that it had been a while since I selected a good heavy album. I’ve heard of these guys before and always assumed that they were Japanese because of their name. Nope, French. Metal is one of the few genresContinue reading “#968 – Magma by Gojira”

This artist really embodies the spirit of garage rock, with much of his catalog being self-produced in a modest home studio and able to be performed in a solo acoustic setting.

I’ve been getting lazy recently about the variety of genres that I’ve been selecting, so I’m going to be picking a lot more from other parts of the world that have been underrepresented. Today’s is from an Indian pop-rock artist.

These guys are a fixture of the jam band scene at this point, and have been recommended to me repeatedly by some of my more hippie-ish friends. Seems like it’s about time to dip my toe in.

As we get further into the legendary Phish New Years run at Madison Square Garden, it’s always fun to hear people’a reports about what the scene around that area is like. Every place they play is different and lends themselves to a variety of local amenities. Being that this is in NYC, there is theContinue reading “#964 – With Gusto by Eggy”

One of the regions that I keep going back to for new music is in various places in Africa. I’ve always had good luck finding cool stuff in the Afro Psych scene, which is not too much different from their western counterparts of the time when this was released (1973).

The Grouplove album that I listened to the other day came about because of their excellent cover of Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own.” And after reading a bit about her catalog, I had to take a closer look at some of her material once I realized I really only knew that one song.