First Listen: The War On Drugs, 'Lost In The Dream'
Highly emotional rock that reads as low-stakes at first, Lost in the Dream is evocative and pleasant if you let it float by in the background. But it's made with hooks that sink in deep.
On "The Group Harmony Review" at midnight, the entire show is devoted to the music of 1954. It is Volume Two of a special I did early in February, focusing on R&B songs from 60 years ago and tracing the roots of R&B and rock 'n' roll with songs from The Cadillacs, The Five Keys, The Clovers, The Flamingos (pictured) and many others.
Tonight at 11 on UKNY, a SXSW preview of some of the British bands and artists headed to Austin, Texas next week for festival chaos, overpriced burritos and five showcases in one exhausting day—like Damon Albarn, Bipolar Sunshine (pictured), Battle Lines and Pins. Also, with new releases from Elbow and Metronomy on the immediate horizon, songs from those fine albums too.
This week's "The Bottomless Pit" is what I'm calling a "Rerun Anthology." I've been on the road and in the studio so much lately that I'm resorting to a rerun this week, but not exactly a straight-up rerun. I decided to go into the archive and grab three different chapters from different points in the show's chronology, with artists like Erykah Badu (pictured), Marc Ribot, Marvin Gaye and Mickey and Sylvia.
On Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight"® tonight at 8, the new Hamell On Trial song, "Artist In America," serves as a jumping off point for a musical meditation on aspects of art and artists of various types. The show also includes a rare play of all 16-plus minutes of Bob Dylan's "Highlands" and Vin catches up to a couple recent albums by one of his favorite Italian artists, Vinicio Capossela (pictured).
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