The Lacking Permanence

Beak> welcome you into their world of strangely organic robots.

Leyla McCalla’s music opens up a portal into a universe of previously impossible musical geometries.

The Jesus Lizard are back, like a delicious headache you thought was gone but is now raging.

I’ve been noticing a dry spell on covers making it onto the show, but that was busted tonight with an inordinate (and quite varied) set of songs, starting with Robyn Hitchcock’s take on the Small Faces’ “Itchycoo Park.” He’s got an album of mostly covers, specifically from the year 1967, on the way, and this single is blazing the way. Also covered tonight: David Bowie, Dire Straits, Duke Ellington, Daniel Johnston, and the Bar-Kays.

Arab Strap return with their particularly caustic sense of delicacy.

Guppy will make you feel like a million bucks, wreck your car, and make you lose your security deposit.

It was a night for mazzy music, starting with a startlingly woozy track from Maya Hawke and following up with entries from many other exemplary female vocalists with a unique sense of melody and delivery. Also, it’s now light when I leave for the radio station, and midnight when I return, which adds a sense of interdimensional time travel to the broadcasting ritual, I’m going to enjoy that for a few more shows before it’s back to operating under the cover of darkness.

Disappearer sit right on the edge of scratching that itch too little and too much.

Cover the ears of the delicate and tender-hearted, for this collection is full of adult language and topics.

Shannon and the Clams are far more new-fangled than their name might lead you to think.