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THE NEXT TO LAST WALTZ As one might expect from a blog named W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, the Band and The Last Waltz are near and dear to my musical heart. I shared this little playlist last year but it deserves to be a yearly thing. So with little to no further adieu, here is…
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I was a 16 year old senior in high school when Patti Smith’s Horses came out. I’m sure I’ve told this story 100 times already but the head of my high school religion department turned me onto the album back then. His office was adjacent to the senior lounge and during free periods, hanging out…
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Gladie – “Car Alarm” There’s nothing like waking up on a Tuesday morning and being surprised by a new release which was totally unexpected. This is exactly what transpired this morning as Philadelphia stalwarts, Gladie dropped “Car Alarm”, a noisey guitar driven banger. Produced by none other than Jeff Rosentsock, “Car Alarm” finds lead singer,…
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Lydia Loveless, John Calvin Abney & Loose Cattle Live at Mercury Lounge (20215-11-16) Going out to a show on a cold, windy Sunday night is never an easy choice to make. But you make the effort when the show in question is Lydia Loveless and John Calvin Abney joined by New Orleans’ very own Loose…
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I Hate New Music – October 2025 I’m not sure if I was just lazy this month or if there was a frop off in new music which caught my eyes and ears. Probably its some kind of combination of each. Anyways here’s a mcuh smaller than usual monthly collection of new music for this…
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Snocaps – Snocaps Social media has been teasing something happening in the Waxahatchee, Allison Crutchfield and MJ Lenderman sphere for a couple of weeks now. We woke up this morning to find out what the rumblings were alluding to. With virtually little fanfare (besides the cryptic social media teases) the Crutchfield sisters along with MJ…
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House of Dead Memories – Sugar The internet has been bubbling with curiosity for a week now ever since Bob Mould’s old band Sugar created an Instagram account last week. Were they re-releasing Copper Blue? Was it going to be some kind of retrospective box set? Were they getting back together again? The answer came…
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I have to admit that I did not wake up this morning thinking, “Gee, you know what I need? I need a funky, groovy samba/jazz version of Notoroius B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa””. But low and behold, little did I know, yes indeed I did. There has been a bit of a resurgence in the jazz idiom…
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