Friday Playlist - 6/27

Tracklist:

Save Ends - Same Old Dice / The Evening Rig - Right Where She Wants Me / Banner Pilot - Overwinter / Courtesy Drop - Appleseeds from Ash Night / The Color and Sound - The Van Song / Lauderdale - Wasted Life / Posture & The Grizzly - Sister Charles Marie / Tiny Empires - Air Conditioning, Full Blast / Muncie Girls - Sleepless / The Thermals - Now We Can See / Lifetime - 25 Cent Giraffes / The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You / Roomrunner - Wojtek / Big Kids - Pier 14 Locals / Hoover - Private / The Hotelier - In Framing / Promise Ring - Red & Blue Jeans / Red City Radio - Spinning in Circles is a Gateway Drug / Wood Ear - Pack of Cards / Donovan Wolfington - Hey Alex / Lemuria - Paint the Youth / Signals Midwest - Family Crest / Laura Stevenson - Master of Art / Flatliners - Tail Feathers / John Moreland - Gospel

DPDC Friday Playlist - 6/27/14

Friday Playlist - 6/20

Tracklist:
Into It. Over It. - Midnight: Carroll Street / Dillinger Four - "I Was Born on a Pirate Ship!" (holdyourtongue) / Apologies, I Have None - Sat in Vicky Park / Muscle and Bone - Song for the Broken Road / Arliss Nancy - Both Got Old / PUP - Mabu / Jawbreaker - Seekthruskin / Football, Etc. - Forfeit / The Riot Before - What I've Missed / Flashlights - Choking / Weakerthans - This is a Fire Door Never Leave Open / Dikembe - Librarians Kill for that Kind of Quiet / Lucero - The Only One / Against Me! - Paralytic States / Captain We're Sinking - Here's to Forever / Cory Branan - The No-Hit Wonder / Blacklist Royals - Skeleton Crew / Kite Party - Nest / Gameface - Frames / Sour Boy, Bitter Girl - Yellow Ribbon / Band of Horses - The First Song / Guided by Voices - Vote for Me Dummy / Tigers Jaw - Frame You / State Champion - Basement / Mount Moriah - The Only Way Out 

DPDC Friday Playlist 6/20/14

Friday Playlist - 6/13

Tracklist:

Centro-Matic - Cross Path / Sundials - Brain Waves / Restorations - New Old / Cheatahs - Get Tight / Sorority Noise - Mediocre at Best / New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers / Brave Bird - I Don't Wanna Know / Bedford Falls - Paperbacks / Placeholder - Stay Here / Joyce Manor - Catalina Fight Song / Sad and French - Shorter Days and Longer Nights / Typefighter - Split Intent / Archers of Loaf - Wrong / Red Collar - American Me / Iron Chic - Spooky Action at a Distance / The Westward Spirit - Thanks Freddy Foreshadowing / Damien Jurado - Go First / Pedro the Lion - I Am Always the One Who Calls / Osker - Animal / Andrew Jackson Jihad - Kokopelli Face Tattoo / Joe Pug - I Do My Father's Drugs / Dinosaur Jr. - Pieces / Banner Pilot - Skeleton Key / Witches - Grey / Joshua Black Wilkins - Church on the Hill 

DPDC Friday Playlist 6/13/14

Friday Playlist - 5/30

Tracklist:
The Sidekicks - Incandescent Days / Worship This! - Indifferent / Direct Hit! - Getting What He Asked For / Constantines - On to You / Menzingers - Obituaries / Archie Powell & The Exports - Lean / The Henry Clay People - Working Part Time / Creepoid - Baptism / The Bronx - Torches / Allison Weiss - Wait for Me / Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - The Kudzu and the Concrete / Beat Noir - Ancienne Gloire / The Holy Mess - A Song for Tim Browne to Sing / Elway - Song for Eric Solomon to sing / Tiny Empires - Wide Open Spaces / Jason Anderson - July 4, 2004 / Hostage Calm - Don't Die on Me Now / Eternal Summers - A Burial / Alkaline Trio - Cooking Wine / Speedy Ortiz - American Horror / Wye Oak - Civilian / Alone at 3am - Burn the Town / The Cut Ups - Building Bridges / Broadcaster - I Don't Wanna Talk / Water Liars - Let it Breath

DPDC Friday Playlist 5/30/14

Friday Playlist - 5/23

Tracklist:
Uncle Tupelo - That Year / Heartsounds - The Song Inside Me / The Hold Steady - Slapped Actress / Crow Bait - 83 / The Creeps - You're Better Off / Beach Slang - Filthy Luck / Cub Country - High Uinta High / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Teenage DMZ / Weatherbox - Drag Out / Parkas - You & What Army?  / Unifier - Bitter? Better. / Cheap Girls - Knock Me Over / Timeshares - Woke Up in Grappler School / The Evens - Architects Sleep / The Weaks - Dunce Pageant / Heart to Heart - Recollection / Cuff the Duke - Where Did We Go Wrong / Todd Farrell Jr. & The Dirty Birds - Year in Review / Unrest - Cath Carroll / PUP - Resevoir / Maritime - For Science Fiction / Austin Lucas - So Much More than Lonely / Red City Radio - We Know Who We Are / Gaslight Anthem - Drive / Bro. Stephen - Patron of the Arts 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 5/23/14

Friday Playlist - 5/16

Tracklist:
The Weakerthans - Our Retired Explorer / Honah Lee - Sobered, So Bored! / Johnny Foreigner - Eyes Wide Terrified / The Lawrence Arms - Lose Your Illusion 1 / Typefighter - 1991 / Sunny Day Real Estate - Lipton Witch / Cheatahs - Northern Exposure / The Sky We Scrape - Nocturnal Americans / Titus Andronicus - Ecce Homo / White Wives - Hungry Ghosts / Gameday Regulars - Split the City / Courtesy Drop - Stranger Than Friction / Ma, Jolie - Upward, Not Forward / The Hotelier - The Scope of All This Rebuilding / Paint it Black - Little Fists / Gameface - Picture Day / Signals Midwest - January & Seven / Matt Woods - Lucero Song / Gunner's Daughter - Grindstone / Weezer - The World Has Turned and Left Me Here / Karl Hendricks Trio - Coming in September / Ladyhawk - S.T.H.D / John Moreland & The Dust Bowl Souls - Christmas Lights / Slingshot Dakota - Living/Dreaming / Richard Buckner - Slept 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 5/16/14

Friday Playlist - 5/9

Tracklist:
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Stamp / Luther - Two Anglers / The Smith Street Band - What's Changed / I Love Your Lifestyle - Poetry Issues / Lydia Loveless - Head / Beach Slang - Get Lost / Glossary - Devil's in the Details / Superchunk - Punch Me Harder / Nightmares for a Week - We're All Going to Hell / Dead to Me - Never Relief / Rust Belt Lights - If Nothing Ever Changes / Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves - No Exception / Lucero - Tears Don't Matter Much / Smoke or Fire - I'll Be Gone / Somos - Lifeline / Japandroids - Continuous Thunder / Superdrag - Destination Ursa Major / Banner Pilot - Matchstick / Lemuria - Paint the Youth / Posture & the Grizzly - You Know I Know What You Did Last Summer / Cheap Girls - Pure Hate/ Jawbox - U-Trau / Downtown Struts - Rogues / The Dopamines - Paid in Full / Slobberbone - Get Gone Again 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 5/9/2014

Friday Playlist - 5/2

Tracklist:
Restorations - D / Typefighter - Much / The Westward Spirit - Chemical Imbalance / Little Big League - Dark Matter / Fake Problems - Song for Teenagers / Civil War Rust - Legalized Romance / Arliss Nancy - Both Got Old / Bud Bronson & The Good Timers - Summer of Sass / Iron Chic - A Serious House on Serious Earth / Modern Baseball - Broken Cash Machine / AA Bondy - I Can See the Pines are Dancing / Old Flings - Postcards / Leagues Apart - Kat Dennings; You are My Everest / Weatherbox - Bring Us the Head of Weatherbox / Chuck Ragan - Non Typical / Two Cow Garage - Little Prince and Johnny Toxic / Among Giants - Cats and Ferrets / Limbeck - The Sun Woke the Whole State / Donovan Wolfington - Hey Alex / Save Ends - Kurzweil / Nothing - Dig / Tony Molina - Don't Come Back / The Front Bottoms - Twin Size Mattress / Dinosaur Jr. - On the Way / Scorpios - Moonshiner 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 5/2/14

Friday Playlist - 4/25

Tracklist:
Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles / Red Collar - Choices / Samiam - Storm Clouds / Kite Party - Welcome to Miami / You Blew It! - Award of the Year Award / Sam Russo - Tinned Peaches / Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy / Avail - Simple Song / White Lung - Take the Mirror / Constantines - Soon Enough / Menzingers - I Can't Seem to Tell / Big Eyes - Nothing You Could Say / Deer Tick - Main Street /  Bob Mould - Briefest Moment / Captain We're Sinking - Brother / Braid - Killing a Camera / Title Fight - Where am I? / Apologies, I Have None - The Clarity of Morning / Tiny Empires - Air Conditioning, Full Blast / Grand Champeen - Miss Out / Arms Aloft - This Bag is Not a Toy / Habits - Sunrise, FL / Leatherface - Evo Pop / Weakerthans - Psalm for the Elks Lodge Last Call / American Football - Never Meant 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 4/25/14

Friday Playlist - 4/18

Tracklist:
All Eyes West - One Less Arrow / BUZZorHOWL - Fuel / Have Gun Will Travel - To the Victor Go the Spoils / Somos - Domestic / Dear Landlord - Park Bench / The Weaks - How to Put an Audience to Sleep in Under Two Minutes / Banner Pilot - Heat Rash / Jawbreaker - The Boat Dreams from the Hill / Paws - Homecoming / Jon Snodgrass - Wild One / Band of Horses - Our Swords / Gateway District - When I Fall / Lucero - And We Fell / Cat Power - He War / Flatliners - Brilliant Resilience / The Sky We Scrape - Sweet Vermouth / The Hotelier - Discomfort Revisited / Lower Dens - Tea Lights / Tin Horn Prayer - 1939 / Vulture Whale - Rita /  Annabel - Parade Rest / Above Them - Something to Keep You Positive / Unwelcome Guests - Flood / Adam Faucett - Rock Ain't Gold / Restorations - Adventure Tortoise 

DPDC Friday Playlist 4/18/14

Friday Playlist - 4/11

Tracklist:
Red City Radio - Two Notes Shy of an Octave / Cloud Nothings - I'm Not a Part of Me / Bedford Falls - Today I'm Going to Live / Tiny Empires - Just Imagine / Teen Getaway - God Save the Spleen /  Now, Now - Dead Oaks / Donovan Wolfington - Quitting / Rust Belt Lights - Just Words / Sebadoh - Can't Depend / Richard Buckner - (A Year Ahead) ... and A Light / Chumped - Something About Lemons / The Loved Ones - I Swear / Pentimento - Unless / The Bootheel - Kickin' Dust / Hot Water Music - No Division / Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil - Victims, Enemies & Old Friends / Signals Midwest - Saint Anselmo / Gameface - Frames / Jessica Lea Mayfield - I Wanna Love You / Courtesy Drop - Goodbye, Fairlane Drive / Off With Their Heads - The Eyes of Death / Bohannons - In the End / All Dogs - Buddy / JKutchma & The Five Fifths - Something Got in the Way / The Snips - Better Part of Never

DPDC Friday Playlist 4/11/14

Friday Playlist - 4/4

Tracklist:
Superchunk - Hyper Enough / Somos - Familiar Theme / Banner Pilot - Calling Station / Tegan & Sara - Walking with a Ghost / Jr. Juggernaut - Another Two Weeks / Seagulls - Darryl Strawberry Fields Forever / The Riot Before - The Oregon Trail / Austin Lucas - Sleep Well / Swearin' - Shrinking Violet / Northcote - Drive Me Home / Pity Sex - Drown Me Out / Texas is the Reason - Johnny on the Spot / Angel Olsen - Lights Out / Pet Symmetry - A Detailed and Poetic Physical Threat . . . / Sundials - Snowballs at Cops / Marked Men - Fix My Brain / Those Crosstown Rivals - Look at Me / PUP - Dark Days / Josh Nolan - Waitin' on the Night / Paint Branch - I Wanna Live / Arliss Nancy - Hold it Together / Elway - Tapout Endorsement: The Musical / Vietnam Werewolf - In Case You Were Wondering / Hold Steady - The Only Thing / Todd Farrell Jr. - Pawnshops 

DPDC Friday Playlist 4/4/14

Friday Playlist - 3/28

Tracklist:
Restorations - A / Heartsounds - Drifter / Drive-by Truckers - Women Without Whiskey / Cheatahs - The Swan / Save Ends - Kurzweil / Johnny Foreigner - Le Sigh / Great Apes - Vial of Life / Andrew Jackson Jihad - Hate, Rain on Me / Jawbox - Spit-Bite / The Exquisites - Something Usual / 500 Miles to Memphis - The Regret / Worship This! - Space Orphan / The Menzingers - I Don't Wanna be an Asshole Anymore / Son Volt - Out of the Picture / Failures' Union - Busted Open / Like Bats - 3814 Wirth Road / Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else / Husker Du - Chartered Trips / Tim Vantol - Broken Mirror / American Steel - I Don't Mind / Latterman - King Tough is my New Idol / Slobberbone - Placemat Blues / Cayetana - Ella / Ghost Shirt - Zanne / Truckstop Darlin' - South Carolina 

DPDC Friday Playlist 3/28/14  

Friday Playlist - 3/21

Tracklist: 
Smith Street Band - Ducks Fly Together / Lemuria - Sophomore / Luther - The Concrete Sound / I Love Your Lifestyle - Christopher Robin / Fistful of Beard - White Bluff / Attack in Black - Broken Things / Get Up Kids - I'm a Loner Dottie, A Rebel / Posture & the Grizzly - Sister Charles Marie / Lucero - Sixteen / Dear Landlord - High Fives / Against Me! - True Trans Soul Rebel / Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings / Nightmares for a Week - Canadian Tuxedo / Banquets - Two Feet / Gameday Regulars - Smoke Jumpers / Pentimento - No One Lets You Know / Criteria - Good Luck / Handsome Furs - Cannot Get, Started / Frank Turner - If I Ever Stray / Seam - Bunch / Jawbreaker - Jinx Removing / Broadcaster - Snow Party / The Heelers - The Good Things Always Go Away / Paper Arms - Choke / The New Lows - Ghost / Jason Isbell - Elephant 

DPDC Friday Playlist 3/21/14

Friday Playlist - 3/14

Tracklist:
Iron Chic - (Castle) Numbskull / Old Flings - Postcards / Water Liars - Ray Charles Dream / Habits - Indestructible / Captain We're Sinking - Annina, We Will Miss You / The Hotelier - In Framing / Timeshares - From an Admirer Not Darryl / Gaslight Anthem - High Lonesome / Samiam - September Holiday / Doc Feldman & The LD50 - Bless this Mess / Laura Stevenson - Eleonora / The Mighty Fine - To Indiana / Dave Hause - Heavy Heart / Broadway Calls - Zombie World / The Weaks - Dunce Pageant / Luther - The Concrete Sound / Red City Radio - Nathaniel Martinez / Flatliners - Eulogy / Radiator Hospital - Great Escape / Wilco - Dash 7

DPDC Friday Playlist - 3/14/14

Friday Playlist 3/7

Tracklist:
Fierce Brosnan - All We Have / Nightmares for a Week - Bloodshot Monday / Sparklehorse - It's Not So Hard / The Holy Mess - Within the Range of a Raven / Arliss Nancy - Little Steve / 13ghosts - Gimme Back / Sundowner - Life in Embers / Rust Belt Lights - If Nothing Ever Changes / The Riot Before - Back Stage Room / Drag the River - Like Longfellows / Small Brown Bike - Sleeping Weather / The Heat Tape - Oh Camilla / Wood Ear - Wasteland / The National - Abel / The Evening Rig - So Far Gone / Hop Along - Sister Cities / Elway - Kristina's Last Song / Matthew Ryan - Killing the Ghost / Chumped - Eleanor / Cloud Nothings - Fall In / Modern Baseball - Fine, Great / Aspiga - Welcome to the Sympathy Party / AC Newman - Miracle Drug / Planes Mistaken for Stars - Copper and Stars / Signals Midwest - St. Vincent Charity / The Jazz June - The Scars to Prove It / Limbeck - In Ohio on Some Steps

DPDC Friday Playlist 3/7/14

Like Being There: Elawgrrl @ Off With Their Heads / Campaign - 529 (Atlanta) 2.26.14

You likely know, or at least know of, Nicole and may also remember her year end favorites list here. Well, lucky for all of us, she's graciously agreed to let me share her work on occasion.

Anyhow, Nicole went to see Off With Their Heads and Campaign (along with I am Heresy & Spray Tan) at 529 in East Atlanta this past Wednesday. She of course, took some perfect photographs.

Go here to admire the full sets . . .

Off With Their Heads - 529 - 2.26.14
Campaign - 529 - 2.26.14

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Nicole Kibert is a freelance photographer based in Atlanta, GA (formerly of Tampa, FL) working under the moniker of elawgrrl. Nicole specializes in live music photography and enjoys capturing the essence and movement of performances. http://elawgrrl.com/ 

Friday Playlist - 2/28

Tracklist:
Glossary - Devil's in the Details / The Hotelier - The Scope of All of This Rebuilding / Against Me! - Fuckmylife666 / Cheap Girls - I Had a Motorcycle / Captain We're Sinking - Here's to Forever / The Mountain Goats - This Year / The Menzingers - In Remission / The Whigs - Need You Need You / Save Ends - Don't Panic / Dead Confederate - Bleed Through / Two Cow Garage - Brass Ring /  Restorations - The Plan / The Get Up Kids - Coming Clean / Broadcaster - Comfortable / Connections - 1980 Called / California X - Mummy / Jimmy Islip (w/ Jon Snodgrass) - It Tastes Bitter / Off With Their Heads - Drive / The Bronx - Torches / Those Crosstown Rivals - Blood Sweat and Tears / State Lines - Cave In / Two Gallants - You Losin' Out / Lock and Key - 2nd Quarter Broken / Titus Andronicus - In a Big City / Some Dark Holler - Pills and Kerosene 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 2/28/14

Friday Playlist - 2/21

Tracklist:
Banner Pilot - Overwinter / Swearin' - Movie Star / Pretty Boy Thorson & The Falling Angels - New #3 / Nothington - If You Say So / Spider Bags - Friday Night / Ma Jolie - Passive Active / Kite Party - Runner / Make Do and Mend - St. Anne / You Blew It! - You & Me & Me / Great Cynics - Younger Than Everyone / The Sky We Scrape - Invisible Hands / The Hold Steady - Spinners / The Riot Before - Tinnitus / Polvo - Light, Raking / The Pollies - Rebel Man / Worship This! - Jen with 2 N's / Surfer Blood - Catholic Pagans / Dillinger Four - Who Didn't Kill Bambi? / Austin Lucas - Alone in Memphis / All Eyes West - Help is on the Way / Have Mercy - Level Head / Lydia Loveless - Head / Garden Variety - Hedge / Run, Forever - Forget / Plants and Animals - That's the End of That 

DPDC Friday Playlist 2/21/14

Friday Playlist 2/14

Been snowed in so it's a long one . . .

Tracklist:
Archers of Loaf - Might / Cayetana - Hot Dad Calendar / Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks / John K. Samson - When I Write My Master's Thesis / Courtesy Drop - Goodbye, Fairlane Drive / Sundowners - Right Down Broadway / Rocky Votolato - Tennessee Train Tracks / Jessica Lea Mayfield - Blue Skies Again / Lifetime - Can't Think About It Now / Glocca Morra - Ya'll Boots Hats? (Die Angry) / Mount Moriah - Rosemary / American Aquarium - Savannah Almost Killed Me / Banquets - Daggers / Centro-Matic - Magic Cyclops / Waters - For the One / The Slow Death - Hang Up the Phone / I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House - Postcards and Apologies / Roomrunner - Duno / White Lung - Take the Mirror / Great Lakes USA - No Boyfriends / Weatherbox - My Head / Placeholder - Above / The Weaks - Nietzsche's Harvest Song / Party Dolls - Indigo / The Flatliners - Bury Me / Superchunk - Breaking Down / Modern Baseball - Rock Bottom / Have Gun Will Travel - Thirteen Miles to Empty / Dikembe - Librarians Kill for That Kind of Quiet / Todd Snider - Sunshine 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 2/14/14

Friday Playlist - 2/7

Tracklist:
Save Ends - Punkorama 30 / Rural Alberta Advantage - Stamp / Red City Radio - Don't Be a Hero, Find a Friend / Restorations - New Old / Timeshares - Damn Near By Beer / Alkaline Trio - Snake Oil Tanker / Jawbreaker - Do You Still Hate Me? / Unifier - Halos / The Front Bottoms - Twin Size Mattress / Gameday Regulars - Smoke Jumpers / Sundials - Drag Me to the Core / Interpol - Evil / The Weight - Sanchez! / Speedy Ortiz - Curling / AA Bondy - The Twist / Against Me! - Black Me Out / Arliss Nancy - Wild American Runners / Dan Padilla - Hey Sylvia / Tokyo Police Club - La Ferrassie / Joyce Manor - If I Needed You There / At the Drive-In - 198d / Joey Kneiser - Bruised Ribs 

DPDC Friday Playlist 2/7/14

Friday Playlist - 1/31

Tracklist:
Lucero - Bikeriders / Red Collar - Rust Belt Heart / Lawrence Arms - October Blood / Old Flings - Studded Jackets / Arms Aloft - Skinny Love / Slingshot Dakota - Gossip / Downtown Struts - Back to N.Y. / Alone at 3am - Factory / Pentimento - For Winter / Donovan Wolfington - Zero / Grabass Charlestons - Wild Animals / Drag The River - Me & Joe Drove Out to California . . . / Smith Street Band - Tom Busby / State Champion - Thanks Given / Dinosaur Jr. - On the Way / The Wild - New Houses / Banquets - Daggers / The Loved Ones - The Inquirer / Paper Arms - Colfax Road / Football, Etc. - Goal / Great Apes - Everything is Everything / American Steel - Every New Morning / Grandaddy - El Caminos in the West / Defiance, Ohio - Her Majesty's Midwestern Islands / Centro-matic - Flashes and Cables 

DPDC Friday Playlist - 1/31/14

Friday Playlist - 1/24

Tracklist:
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues / Placeholder - Stay Here / Superchunk - Driveway to Driveway / Ma Jolie - Ghost / Fistful of Beard - 5th Ave / Water Liars - Sucker / Make Do and Mend - Unknowingly Strong / Bangers - A New Raymondo / Prawn - Grass and Bones / The Pollies - Something New / PJ Bond - Savannah / Telekinesis - Country Lane / Johnny Foreigner - Yes! You Talk to Fast / Menzingers - I Can't Seem to Tell / Waxahatchee - Be Good / Little Big League - Dark Matter / Knapsack - Shape of the Fear / Those Crosstown Rivals - Nashville / Mountain Goats - Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1 / Mittenfields - My Mind is an Avalanche / Doc Feldman & The LD50 - Battle Hymn

DPDC Friday Playlist 1/24/14

Friday Playlist - 1/17

Tracklist:

You Blew It! - Award of the Year Award / Face to Face - Disconnected / The Wrens - Everyone Chooses Sides / Red City Radio - Joy Comes With the Morning / Hot Water Music - Jet Set Ready / Teen Agers - Punches / Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - Centreville / Criteria - Me on Your Front Porch / Title Tracks - Light Sleepers / Hostage Calm - Impossible! / Hoquiam - Ocean Shores / Chumped - Someday / Worship This! - Jen, With 2 N's / Title Fight - Frown / Against Me! - Russian Spies / American Aquarium - Burn.Flicker.Die / All Dogs - Snow Fences / The Living Daylights - Our Yesterdays / Japandroids - Evil's Sway / Pedro the Lion - Rapture / The Young Leaves - Alive and Well / Sons of Bill - This Losing Fight / The Gamits - Delusional / Bedford Falls - A Brand New Way to Drown / Richard Bucker - Lil' Wallet Picture

DPDC Friday Playlist 1/17/14

Guest List: Derek "Doc" Feldman - 2013 Favorites

Doc Feldman is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, hailing from Lexington, Kentucky.

If you've been perusing "Best of 2013" album lists there's a very good chance that "Sundowning at the Station," the debut album from Doc and collaborators; James Jackson Toth (aka Wooden Wand), David Chapman, and Jeremiah Floyd, has popped up on multiple occasions.   The album, released on This Is American Music (you know the guys who brought us District Attorney's, the Pollies, another certain doc and associates, the new Have Gun Will Travel album, and countless other fantastic bands and records), really is an exquisite and balanced blend of melancholy, traditional folk sounds, raw soul and beautiful ambient noise.

It's completely captivating and I'd like to think I'd be hard pressed to find someone with whom is doesn't leave an indelible impression.  That is to say, no matter your general preferences, chances are damn good you are going to love this thing.

You can listen to and buy the album via Doc's bandcamp page here or get it over at the This Is American Music shop.

Additionally and thankfully, there's a lot on the immediate horizon for Doc and these guys,  including several shows coming up over the next few months, sharing the stage with Austin Lucas, Peter Walker, John Moreland, and Those Crosstown Rivals (with Ned Van Go) for their record release.

He also played some guitar on a vinyl split of James Toth (Wooden Wand) / Jenks Miller (Mount Moriah and Horseback) that will be released for Record Store Day (April 19) as well as on the next Wooden Wand album due out in the summer. So watch for those.

So with that, you know the drill with these lists by now, I'm so grateful and excited that Doc agreed to share his favorite albums from 2013 we me/you all.  In all candor, a few of these albums are completely new to me so i'm anxious to dig into them. Thanks so much Doc!

Derek "Doc" Feldman - Best of 2013

1. Steve Gunn – Time Off
Totally blown away is really the only way to describe what it was like listening to this album the first time. I was only sort of familiar with Steve as an artist before this album, but I've been hooked on this thing all year. My personal pick for best album of 2013. I've seen it listed on shamefully few "best of 2013" lists and I can only assume it's because people just were never exposed to it somehow. So if you haven't heard it, stop what you're doing, and listen. 

2. Richard Buckner – Surrounded
Well, what can I say?... One of my absolute favorite artists out today, and this album was a particularly strong effort in my opinion. It's fucking fantastic... start to finish.

3. John Moreland – In the Throes
This album was at the top of nearly everyone's favorites and completely deserving of that. Without a doubt. Absolutely an amazing and heartfelt songwriter. I'm also just personally excited to get to play a show with him in March here in Lexington when he tours through.

4. Wooden Wand – Blood Oaths of the New Blues / World War IV
I can't say enough about Wooden Wand. He's a motherfucking force of nature, and I'm in complete awe of him as an artist and songwriter. I've somewhat arbitrarily placed him batting cleanup here at #4 because as difficult as it is to "rank" any art/music to begin with, it's impossible for me to do so with someone I consider one of my best friends. I've also had the distinct honor of being able to co-write a couple of songs and collaborate on other projects with him on a fairly regular basis. Oh, and did I mention he put out TWO phenomenal albums in 2013? One album is for lazy asses. Try doing two. And guess what... the fucker has to hold back. I'm serious. If given sufficient financial support and backing the guy could quite literally churn out three, four, maybe even five GREAT albums every year. Don't believe me? I dare someone to give him those types and resources and see what happens. I know that sounds like hyperbole, but it's not.  

5. Arliss Nancy – Wild American Runners
Really fucking great record. The whole thing is fantastic. It's rocking and heavy and beautiful and delivers lyrically like a lot of rock bands just don't or can't. "Both Got Old" will hit you like a ton of bricks and leave you slack jawed in admiration at its depth and raw beauty. Brilliant in my opinion!

6. Scout Niblett – It’s Up to Emma
Scout is just so awesome, and this is a fantastic album. I also had the privilege of seeing her live in September and while I had been a fan for a while, seeing her live was a revelation. Amazing artist and great album.

7. Jason Isbell – Southeastern
Deserving to be at the top of everyone's best of lists. He was awesome with the Drive-by Truckers and awesome solo. This is a really great album. Not much else can really be said about it honestly. It looks like he's destined to truly enter into the mainstream with this recent success, and if he leads people away from the mindless crap that passes for Country Music, it can't possibly be soon enough. He's got "it" and it's unmistakeable. 

8. William Tyler – Impossible Truth
Mesmerizing and transcendent album full of guitar movements that seem to tell some sort of cosmic story without ever saying a word. The album was made all the more present in my mind due to my being lucky enough to have actually recorded a few songs with him (us both playing guitar) on the next Wooden Wand album that will come out sometime this summer. It was an honor.

9. Bardo Pond – Peace on Venus
I just love Bardo Pond. Psychedelic heavy noise was exactly what I needed this year and Peace on Venus delivered beautifully.

10. MV & EE – Fuzzweed
Fuzzed out weirdness good for my soul. They also happen to be two of the coolest and nicest people you'd ever want to meet. 

Other albums I really enjoyed this year:   Kurt Vile – Walking on a Pretty Daze, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away, Bill Calahan – Dream River, Cass McCombs – Big Wheel and Others, Phosphorescent – Muchacho, Water Liars – Wyoming, and on and on and on.

Doc also wanted to give everyone some insight into the goings-on in Lexington and thereabouts, so as a bonus . . .

I live in Lexington, Kentucky and I just want to give you and your readers a heads up on some truly fantastic local artists that are coming out with new albums in 2014 that you should keep an eye out for: Those Crosstown Rivals have a rockin new album coming out in March. Everyone in Lexington knows Coralee and the Townies, but I'm excited for her new album so the rest of the world can see for themselves just how fantastic this honky tonk soulstress is. A personal favorite of mine, psychedelic folk band Bear Medicine will release their debut album in the spring. I think they are going to blow some people away. I'm hoping another personal favorite, Warren Byrom & Fabled Canelands, will release an album this year. I've heard a sneak peek of some of it in the works, and there's some spectacular stuff there.