DAVID NANCE - "Actor's Diary" LPDavid Kenneth Nance Actor's Diary LP (Grapefruit Record Club, 2013) NOTE: The song below is not on this record, but it's a great one from the same era "Goldilocked hero and Unread Records cassette veteran, Nance recently stepped out of his burned out basement in Omaha, Nebraska and steeped himself in the city of angels, provoking collective grief and inciting small riots in the hearts of the house show universe here. Rocker and singer songwriter from

The overall effect recalls the nuanced yet balls-out sound of Moby Grape on 20 Granite Creek

Highly limited reissue pressing (350 copies) of Warmer Milks' under-loved avant-alt-country masterpiece "Soft Walks" (originally released on CD only by Animal Disguise in 2008)

To my surprise

Perhaps Ra's best known book of poetry

Porter Ricks - Biokinetics 2xLP (Mille Plateaux

worth noting -- the time of this record's release marks a welcomed "second wave" / return-to-throne for Philly's legendary Siltbreeze label (see also: Pink Reason

There’s plenty of feedback and chunky riffing in the red here

There's the occasional pop-leaning hook

and all-encompassing solitude

Joining their Tennessee contemporaries in the Cherry Blossoms as two of the greatest (and most morbidly underloved) working-class "folk-rock" bands to hail from the Volunteer state

Here he’s joined by Jake Merrick on bass

Cherry Blossoms