The Lacking Permanence

Like light glinting off a distant wave, La Luz bring you a realm of possibilities.

If you don’t like what Being Dead is playing at the moment, just wait five seconds.

We’re starting out with new music from Beatsteaks, who are taking on the Fun Boy Three’s “The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)” for our opener. Tonight’s show featured both Molecular Steve and Delicate Steve, both of whom have new albums out, so I expect another couple of Steve-heavy shows in the future.

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.