DJ Bearclaw - Ursine Waves on KHUH-LP 104.9 FM

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A jam-packed episode this week, with post-punk from North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia; avant rap and pop sounds; a couple of key reissues; and ending with some Chinese post-hardcore:

Chef Mike - So It Goes - Record Time Souk - (Don't) bother me - Souk Demo Silverbacks - Rolodex City - Archive Material Corker - Waste Of Life - A Bell That Seems To Mourn Go Lamborghini Go - I'm Exhausted - LOW Carambolage - Rampenlicht - Carambolage Loose Fit - Exhale Onan Servo - Say Hi to the Robot Dog - Visit Funnytown Tacita Trjj - Non-Human Year - Meeting On Purpose My Dad Is Dead - The Entrepreneur - .....And He's Not Gonna Take It Anymore Unlettered - Scrambling - Selinsgrove The Shifters - Shifting - Open Vault SOURSOB - Shoegaze - Soursob s/t debut LP Kicking - Catacombs - Goodbye Party SOLVENT COBALT - EMPTY - PRIVATE GLOAM E - Any Information PSYCHE NAH - BAR WARS (co-produced by Pat Cain) - PSYCHE NAH 4 NAPPYNAPPA - Mercurial [prod. NELSON BANDELA] - ALL YEAR LONG pedazo de carne con ojo - All I Know Eyes of the Amaryllis - Every Year - Sift Slow June - my favorite color - dog run park Vladimirs - Adventure

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On the show tonight: Australian hip hop, Polish post-punk, a 4 song set from Japan, & American sounds from Long Beach to Brooklyn.

THREX - signals from the void - Groop Effort Solilians - Klezmische - In the Running 2: Solilians - American Klezmische Defcee & Messiah Musik - Rabbi and the Golem (feat. Henry Canyons) - Trapdoor Noveliss & Dixon Hill - Scheminonameanin - Book Of Changes Teether & Kuya Neil - Carafe - GLYPH Nappy Nina, JWords - Is Me A Star - Double Down Worthy Life - Detail Oriented Billiam - Discogs Master - Live in [your city] Carvento Felana - Esta ventana me mira - Carvento Felana Geo Rip - Nah Press Fake Text - Geo Rip EP Liiek - Constructed - Deep Pore LP Clear History - morsels - bad advice good people Le Jonathan Reilly - Lifting La Milicia - 7", Demos & Other Rarities Meal - Jimmy - Jimmy SELF IMPROVEMENT - Fear & Power - Visible Damage Free Live Sports - Faraday's Fuck Room - Stay Grounded Bzdet - Na Naszych Oczach - Nie Ma Nic Dim Garden - Dread Grotesque - Dread Grotesque NicFit - Unleash - Fuse Pess - You Can Make Hamburger Yourself - You Can Make Hamburger Yourself LeakLeek - China Doll - Leak GOTOU - WET背 - GOTOU Ceramicist - Going To Therapy To Talk About An Optional Boss Fight - Telegraphed Moves

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Y'know how I sometimes play ambient/drone/beats behind my air breaks? Well I collected enough of that type of music to make a whole show, and I didn't talk over any of it!

foot - Foot Resource 2 - Why foot? MANURE MOVERS OF OF AMERICA - Solid Waste - Solid Waste matt jencik - Cmello Ayello - Matt & Lyra Mikey Young - Blues - Curtains Mark Tester - Jet Like Silver - Oblivion Rhythms Revisited SPECSWIZARD - JUST A BIT - JUST A BIT Kuartz - We Gon Make It - 658 Gilmour Street Chef Mike - Congestion - Summer in Algiers ROADHOUSE - J-Boy Fooling - Aladdin Sales Equipment Pointed Ankh - Without Human Permission - Blue Folding Room Telephone Exchange - -​-​. .​-​. .- .​.​.​- .. - .- - Telégrafos de México Calathea - Drip City - Program 3: Sonic Communications from the Circle City, Midwest & Other Far Off Places Zach Burba - Room Window Open - ROOM WINDOW ABJECTIVE - Ethacore - Mana-Algoryethm HunoHuno - Free Moon Transit - Pleasant Valley Sun Picture - Snow-Rat Finds A Mirror - The Snow​-​Rat Audio Tape mars kumari - i dreamt about this place - MARS KUMARI TYPE BEAT Lake Mary - Halfless - Once It's All On The Ground

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Back from hiatus with a fresh batch of new releases! Punk aplenty, and other underground sounds, from Edmonton, Nairobi, Eau Claire, Chattanooga, all over Europe, etc.:

Jaws That Bite - Alien Code (First Contact) - Glacial Medicine Equipto & Brycon - Wilderness featuring Phesto Dee (Album) - Spliff Part 2 / Wilderness featuring Phesto Dee Slikback - SLIKBACK X SHAPEDNOISE - XOYSIME - DRS X Pays P. - Solaire à l'œil - Solaire à l'œil Home Front - Flaw In The Design - Think Of The Lie Los Microwaves - Thin Ice - The Birth of Techno Theoreme - Les Artisans - Les Artisans DIE SCHIEFE BAHN - Atmungsaktiv - 6 Song Demo Les Belmondo - Rue St. Honoré - Rue St. Honoré Catisfaction - Cat Eat Dog - Kill 'em All Thistle - Meanwhile There Is A Real World - Teleopsia Jonathan Richman - Want To Visit My Inner House? - Want To Visit My Inner House? Deerhoof - Polly Bee (Bonus Song) - Devil Kids Exercise - Of Dogs and Dogma Pt​.​2 - Of Dogs and Dogma (Demos 5) gash - clout is all i think about Poison Ruïn - Phalanx - Live​/​Tour Tape '22 Slow Blink - Warmth - Circling Above A Parking Lot STOMP TALK MODSTONE - I'll Believe

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A bunch of recent underground rap, ranging from experimental to classic boom-bap; plus newly released underground rock sounds from the US and Europe, ranging from harsh to subdued:

Injury Reserve - Wild Wild West - By the Time I Get to Phoenix Lungs//LoneSword - ThunderBall - The Birth of LoneSword Solemn Brigham - Vice North - South Sinner Street Hiero - Pen - Soil Pink Navel - TIGUAN - EPIC Blvck Achilles ft. D​.​Bledsoe - Melanated & Feeling Great (prod. OG Jarin) - Justice4Sean Compilation Curly Castro - F stands for Hampton ft. Defcee, Jyroscope, Alex Ludovico + SKECH185 - Little Robert Hutton Centennial Gardens - Losing Touch With My Mind - SPLIT 2 Full Body 2 - ador//ation - EPCOT They Are Gutting A Body Of Water - diamond dallas page (feat Hooky) - EPCOT älägator - ei tarvinnut kuin katsoa (Bonus) - unen syvyydessä April Magazine - Undone - If The Ceiling Were A Kite: Vol. 1 Die Frisur - Gefühle - Aua Chafouin - Dire Ouf - Toufoulcan Gustaf - Best Behavior - Audio Drag For Ego Slobs COCHONNE - KGB - EMERGENCY Kohti Tuhoa - Häpeä - Väkivaltaa The Antelopes - Hour of Light - Prisoners / Hour of Light

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New & notables, recent raves, you know the drill. Underground rock & pop sandwiched between underground rap sounds:

Moor Mother - Temporal Control Of Light Echoes - Black Encyclopedia of the Air The Big Nest - ѧROSEˤ⚮PETALːˤ˿PINK¤ϡ - ˦⚈MADE˞ ҉ ҆ ˦⚈IN˦ͱ҉ ҆HEA˿ ҈ ˦⚈˞VENː˭ ҃ ҃ Barlow - Arm of Gold (for Denise June Thurman) - Walls of Future Dead Finks - My Life In Three Memes - The Death and Resurrection of Johnathan Cowboy Blammo - pavewave - 𝕆ℕ𝕆𝕄𝔸𝕋𝕆ℙ𝕆𝔼𝕀𝔸 TV Dust - Out Of Control - Beep Pays P. - Olatunji - Ça v aller Oi Boys - Déjà reine - Oi Boys Magic Roundabout - Carol In Your Eyes - Up Solo Career - The Sentimentalist - The Sentimentalist DARK MTNS - Monarch - Headsnakes / Monarch Grimm - Utopian Fiction - Electro Folklore John, Paul, George, Ringo & Richard - Hängengeblieben - Das ist die Zukunft, aber nicht Deine! Smirk - Staring At Screens - EP Hits - Flat Horizon - Cielo Nublado Habibi - Try (Delta 5) - Stars Rock Kill (Rock Stars) Cherry Cheeks - Boxes - S/T LP La Jvnta - ¿Qué Se Creéi? - Tres Carmelitas EP P.SO the EarthTone King & 2 Hungry Bros. - American Apartheid - Manga Americana

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Flash back to the heady days of 2020 with some Detroit x NZ hip hop, Portland new age, Eastern-flavored alt rock out of Tempe, math rock from western Mass., lo-fi psych rock from Beaverton, and post-punk from all over the place:

The Leonard Simpson Duo (Guilty Simpson x Leonard Charles) - Friends - LSD Olof Melander aka iller the abstract giraffe - Mirror - Crumbs Loopsel - Det som blir - Loopsel EP Omni Gardens - Hallway Rug - Moss King The Dictaphone - Inconsistent Clause - ISH Data - Still Skatin' - Data 2020 loulou - It Spills Out - It Spills Out NOVA ONE - feeling ugly - lovable Chaand Sequence - I'll Wait Wombo - Sad World - Blossomlooksdownuponus Tripaw'd - flection - post tense help EIEIEIO - Agathist Arm Meat - Gentle Spaniels The Scissor Girls - Riveted - The Scissor Girls Pylon Reenactment Society - Compression Parlor Walls - Pinafore > Ignite - Heavy Tongue Nape Neck - Paperweight - Nape Neck Modessa - Aaah the Bats - Modessa The Midnight Steppers - Back From the Grave Again - Isolation Drives Just Mustard - Curtains - Live Session

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Recent raves and a couple of new & notable reissues:

Turner Williams Jr. - Relentless Obliterating Warp - Let It Warp Lexagon - Sifting Storms - Feminine Care David Chesworth & Bill McDonald - Arrival - Drive Time The Stick Figures - Crayola Bowling - Archeology Cured Pink - The New Public - Current Climate Smoke Bellow - Fuzzy Computer 2 - Open for Business Mal Devisa - Dominatrick-xxx - Orange Julius P.E. - The Reason for My Love (Edit) - The Reason for My Love EP Central Heat Exchange, Varsity - Directly Down - Central Heat Exchange RN WHITE - Delivered - Cerebral Split Naohai - Fireworks Lightfoils - supervene - supervene​/​this time is up single The Besnard Lakes - Superego Exercise - Spiral - Exercise Mini Trees - Carrying On - Always in Motion Mike Quigley - Strange Gain - Strange Gain

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This installment of new releases includes artists from (among other places) Haifa, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Guadalajara, Dublin, Duluth, Oslo, RVA, and the year 1992:

Reality - bitter - PROMO Ostseetraum - Du Versinkst - Das Gute Leben Ist Schlecht Shop Regulars - Mischief - Shop Regulars Slow June - Lemon Seeds Porridge Fist - Skulleton Lives - California Resort Astrophysics - Fingertips (feat. DJ Kuroneko) - Cute Tragedies Channels 3x4 - No Eyelids (UK Single Mix) - Broken Guitars Dorotheo - Caetanave - Como Es Outer World - Grapefruit Psalm - Chapter 2 Brad Laner - Trivial Cabin - Tintinnabulum Low - More - HEY WHAT Silverbacks - Wear My Medals Motorists - Natural Targets - Surrounded Seam - Sky City - Headsparks TONER - Tar - White Buffalo Roam Spirits Having Fun - The Leaf Is A Chorus - Two VEPS - Colorblind - Open The Door American Friend - Back to Reality - Sound Under Rock L'Orange - I Miss My Friend Scraps - The World Is Still Chaos, But I Feel Better

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Clearing out more of the grade-A backlog from '21 so far, encompassing harsh noise from Nairobi, C86-style pop from Brazil, vintage new wave from the Isle of Wight, and some home-grown Seattle post-punk:

EXEK - Several Souvenirs - Good Thing They Ripped Up The Carpet Mandy, Indiana - Alien 3 Backxwash feat. Sad13 and Ada Rook - SONGS OF SINNERS​(​PRODUCED BY BACKXWASH) - I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES Duma - Mbukinya - Cannis NEUPINK - Seventh Flight of Maidbot Ruin (feat. Kaizo Slumber & Avenade) - SEAWEED JESUS Wombo - Dreamsickle - Keesh Mountain Casual Hex - Like A Product Nag - The Colour from Outer Space - Observer Holyhead - Losing Light THIN VEIL - ANIMAL - DEMO Cassie - School Talk - The Light Shines On Pancake - Sundays - Pancake Corner amigos imaginarios - pillow - Pick Flowers Retreaters - I Follow - Retreaters The Spires - Actor in a Plot - Era Was Idle Ray - New Weird Thing - Idle Ray THE GABYS - Emotional Range - S/T

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Fresh tunes from the last couple of weeks, ranging from China to Canada to the Congo, from Buffalo to Tucson, and points elsewhere:

Vic Bang - Poonchi - Amethyst: New Sounds from Moon Glyph Records Blonde Revolver - Red Ruby - Blonde Revolver EP Spit Kink - Get It - Get It Skydeck - Uptight - Coupon GERM HOUSE - HEADS ON THE WALL - PAID BY ROCK Heavy Metal - Crap Wave - V: Live at the Gas Station Fighting the Devil BRNDA - Service Loser - Do You Like Salt? Roxy Girls - Like a Buoy - Roxy Girls Are In The Drink melrose - yards beyond my window - ordinary things Dogbreth - How You Did That - How You Did That / Morning Moon Flowertown - Metal Mind - Time Trials Kris & Tavi - So, That Happened - Chiral From Nursery To Misery - Cry Me - Tree Spirits Oyisse - Dark Side - Elembo Dua Saleh - dashery Opinion - Fur - Muddlepiglottis E.P. S.P.U.D - You Did It Again - Dumb Show Kenja Time - Sealed Container BPEOPLE - You At Eight (alternate mix) - Source: The Independent Project Records Collection Iceblink - Molecules - Amethyst: New Sounds from Moon Glyph Records Alien Boy - The Way I Feel - Don't Know What I Am

Aired 8/25/21 on Hollow Earth Radio, KHUH-LP Seattle, 104.9 FM & https://hollowearthradio.org.

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With Mississippi in COVID crisis, I turn to the deep South to raise up sounds from the city of Jackson. Hip hop, lo-fi pop, and other adventurous and exciting sounds (plus a roots music bonus track!).

Fluseph - Amazon River (Flex Up = 10hrs) - nuKlowds Mr. Fluid - Air to the Throne - Makeup of a Mascot, Vol. 4: Air GIOS4MA - intheface (feat. Supa Bwe, King $ly & Kim Shadey) (edit) - Go Live 5th Child - FOR THE RECORD - Untitled Metaphive - Shadow Boxin (prod. by NoEL) - Nemesis Skipp Coon - binary thinking - Miles Garvey Marmalade Design - Never babysit the Hippopatomus - deahl electronics jillalope - Dirty Beats - Lepus Cornutus The Vitamin Cea - GoldFromMud - CEA SICK SATURDAY SIKA - Dessert: Protect Yo Aura - The Meal Plan EP Kenny Pahina - My Friends Are Trying To Kill Me - My Friends Are Trying To Kill Me (Maxi​-​Single) [Bandcamp Exclusive] Blanket Swimming - Under Mountains - Rope Swing Baby Creative Stars - Foxhole Love Letter - Plaything RCF - INCANDESCENT HEIRLOOMS HOLY VISION - interest - vacant Even Steven - Amanda's Eyes - Acting British Unwed Teenage Mothers - Forever Until You Are Bones - Unwed Teenage Mothers 7" The Steve Deaton Three - Duke of High School - The Steve Deaton Three Peter Venus - Flashback on Blue Carpet (Part 3) - Flashback on Blue Carpet Kicking - Underfed - Modern Witch Sonny Boy Williamson II - Do It If You Wanna - King Biscuit Time

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Spain, Greece, India, Sweden, New Jersey, and other locales (including close to home here in Seattle) provide the latest in notable sounds, all released over the past couple of weeks:

Homeboy Sandman - Go Hard - Anjelitu Guardian Singles - Tea Lights Exploding - Guardian Singles Lassie - QT Enhancer - The Golden Age Of​.​.​. Beige Banquet - Construction - S/T Stuck - Playpen of Dissent - Content That Makes You Feel Good The Lipschitz - ventilator - Chevron Joe Sampson & Friends - Consideration - Unfinished I Thee Hearses - Test Subject - EP II Chain Cult - We're Not Alone - We're Not Alone giselle gabrielle - Preamble - Buchla 200 at the Evergreen State College supernowhere - In the Field - Gestalt Lo! Peninsula - Kintsugi (single) Eve's Peach - October '04 - S/T alexalone - Unpacking my Feelings - ALEXALONEWORLD Coral Grief - Out of the Way - Coral Grief Damon & Naomi with Kurihara - Midnight - A Sky Record Mamalarky - Moss - Meadow / Moss Friendly Boyfriend - Gone For A Time - Pick Up! Cyanide Tooth - Banishment Park - Tentative Identity The Tubs - Illusion - Names EP

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Catching up with some notable releases that I didn't find in time to include in a Cub Club episode so far this year. Blistering punk rock out of Morocco, 1960s teen pop from Whittier, CA, math rock from Eau Claire, WI, and sundry indie rock and pop sounds from big cities in the US, Canada, and the UK.

Poison Ruïn - Fog of War - Poison Ruïn The Armed - AVERAGE DEATH - ULTRAPOP Taqbir - Sma3 - Taqbir gash - Life of Dan - Leftern The Declining Winter - Housing Tract Blues - Recordings of Weird Air VACANT GARDENS - UNTOMBED - OBSCENE Ibex Clone - Song About War - FROM NOWHERE Wu-Lu - Times - Times Century Egg - Little Piece of Hair - Little Piece of Hair Feeling Figures - Never In Time - Feeling Figures Hoorsees - Overdry - Hoorsees Female Species - You Need Me - Tale Of My Lost Love Girl Ray - Give Me Your Love (edit) - Give Me Your Love Lily Konigsberg - I Said - The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now Jolee Gordon - Mother - The Good Parts Jesuslesfilles - Vigntièmement - L'heure idéale

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A heaping helping of notable tunes from late July 2021, with sounds from Bowling Green, OH; Holyoke, MA; Baton Rouge, LA; Finspång, Sweden; and the expected major metropolitan areas.

STRAW MAN ARMY - Galapagos - Her Majesty's Ship OST TEKE::TEKE - Corpse Pose (Unwound) - Stars Rock Kill (Rock Stars) ResoNate x Chef Mike - Hangman - Every Villain Is Lemons (Liv).e - Winter Songs - CWTTY+ teamonade - impulse - borderline Anika - Wait for Something - Change Dry Cleaning - Bug Eggs - Bug Eggs/Tony Speaks! Landowner - Heater - Impressive Almanac FEELS - Night Walker - Subversive Reaction SPLLIT - Amite River - Spllit Sides Torres - Hug From a Dinosaur - Thirstier Upper Wilds - Love Song #3 - Venus Sweet Teeth - Acid rain - Acid Rain Psychic Flowers - Crashes and Crows - For The Undertow Golden Apples - Tangerine II - Shadowland Lightfoils - 306 - 306/summer nights single

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Notable new releases from mid-July 2021, with strong representation from Massachusetts & NYC, and Atlanta and Australia making respectable showings as well:

Diamond Lung - What's The Plan Now? - Jeweler's Loop synthpapi, freespottie - Martians Garden - Whatever Happened to Spottie Jones? Shrag - Punk Grammar - Punk Grammar Moderate Rebels - Stay Frosty - If You See Something That Doesn't Look Right II 如梦 - 开场曲 The Goon Sax - Psychic - Mirror II The Vovos - Honey - Jana rose, water, fountain - infinite (out of time) - rose, water, fountain Western Edges - The Wall You First Kissed Her Against - Dependency Olivia W-B - half - minis EIEIEIO - okokOK - Gorgeous / EIEIEIO Split Gorgeous - Sweet Tooth - Gorgeous / EIEIEIO Split Smile Machine - Pretty Today - Bye For Now Small Reactions - Speak and Dress - New Age Soul Havania Whaal - Proud Larry madam data - Flowers grew along the paths where the bodies of the fallen had sprouted vines to tear apart their enemies - The Gospel of the Devourer Le Pain - Troisième Groupe

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Marking the 52nd anniversary of "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" with some moonish songs selected from my library:

Pharmies - To Whitey On The Moon - Gil Scott Heron - Interlude - Home For The Holidaze - Volume 1 - 2019 Flesh World - Destination Moon - Into the Shroud Public Practice - Moon - Gentle Grip Golden Graves - Moon Man - Be Safe NE-HI - Buried On The Moon - Offers Magnum Opus - Whities on the Moon - The Royal Canadian Mint Vol. 1 the spirit of the beehive - snow on the moon - pleasure suck Miners - Moon - Pala EP Black Twig - Moon Song - Was Not Looking For Magic Kestrels - The Moon Is Shining Our Way - The Moon Is Shining Our Way EP Swirlies - Give Us Moon Rocks! - Cats of the Wild: Volume 2 Bonzo - moon - The Dwelling Katrina Stonehart - The Moon Cannot Be Stolen - Here Is Everywhere Squill - All This Moonlight - Moon Sessions Hairband - Sassy Moon - Hairband Lame Drivers - Throw It To The Moon - Chosen Era Kane Strang - Full Moon, Hungry Sun - Blue Cheese Males - Two Moons - None the Wiser

Aired 7/21/21 on Hollow Earth Radio, KHUH-LP Seattle, 104.9 FM & hollowearthradio.org.