Here in the northeast, we’re in that peak/past peak moment with foliage. We balance precariously at this point for quite a few days before one day the weatherman pronounces decisively, “we’re past peak,” and you know it’s true. It’s also a time when we balance precariously between two radically different views of the future — the one we’re used to and the one we had four years ago. Which one do we want? A classic nail-biter is what we got here. So we play music, with no special connection to what is going on, whatever what is.
We play a lot of oldies because we need grounding and we wonder if you do too. Sarah Vaughan and Ella and Louie meet The Little Willies and Brittany Howard. Bill LePage and The Beths. And of course Pinkshinyultrablast and Billlie. Not to mention! Odyssey, Mel Blanc, and Prince, among many others.
There’s not much more to be said. It’s the season of the witch, and resistance is futile.
For this week’s tunes, read on.
October 23, 2024
Dusky Descant
Space Ghost – What Day Is It?
Joe Glazer – Joe McCarthy’s Band
Chris Stamey and Yo La Tengo – Votes PSA
Lionel Barrymore – “Halloween”
Elvis Costello – The Imposter
Sarah Vaughan – Moonlight in Vermont
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong – Autumn in New York
The blue herons – Autumn Leaves
Odyssey – Native New Yorker
Mel Blanc – Money
Bill LePage – At Poe’s Statue
Broadcast – Black Cat
Donovan – Season of the Witch
Mary Jane Girls – Candyman
Gemini Club – Ghost (hey champ remix)
The Little Willies – Best of All Possible Worlds
Brittany Howard – History Repeats
The Lovely Sparrow – The Department of Foreseeable Outcomes
Funkadelic – You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
Prince – Rearrange
The Beths – Silence Is Golden
Jets to Brazil – Resistance Is Futile
Bernie Worrell – Time Was (Events in the Elsewhere)
Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Secondary Modern
Kid Creole & the Coconuts – Yolanda
Pinkshinyultrablast – The Cherry Pit
Billllie – Eunoia
Bel Auburn – Metropolitan (Watercolor)
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