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Maniac

KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am

Some bands are obscure, others are sporadic, but The Mabuses are downright enigmatic. Their music is hard to describe, and while the word "psychedelic" has become a commonplace and devalued label to put on something these days, in this case it would apply as a feeling of existing in a disjointed but entirely fascinating musical reality rather than a genre.

Some bands are obscure, others are sporadic, but The Mabuses are downright enigmatic. Their music is hard to describe, and while the word "psychedelic" has become a commonplace and devalued label to put on something these days, in this case it would apply as a feeling of existing in a disjointed but entirely fascinating musical reality rather than a genre.
Kim Fahy / The Mabuses
SongArtistNotes
Maniac
Atom™
Para el flashdans
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Secret Plan
Drug Store Romeos
An escalator to the clouds
Fast Enough For You
The Mommyheads
Definitely fast enough
Stewardess
Self
The swirling harmonic madness
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The Boy
Shannon + The Clams
It’s not that old-fashioned
Havana
The Mabuses
A dark cumbia
Caterpillars
The Goon Sax
Hit the pavement
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Ride
Ty Segall
Under the speed limit
Get Down
Rocket From The Crypt
White hot
Something Elephants
Downtown Harvest
A pachydermic discotheque
Running With A Fork In My Mouth
The New Duncan Imperials
Down a very really hill, blindfolded
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Soul Fire
Tom Tom Club
Originally from the Upsetters
Salmon
Applied Communications
A tale of cross-species romance
So We Won't Forget (Mang Dynasty Version)
Khruangbin
Fit for a sunset
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One For The Other
Hearty Har
Rolling and crushing
Love in Extra Innings
Swarming Branch
Having some baseball
Do What You Wanna
Ramsey Lewis
Basement party time
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Face On The Rail Line
The Catenary Wires
Rain streaking on a train window
My Love
Mariachi El Bronx
Nothing like a mariachi waltz
La machine
The Llamps
French grit
No Culture
Mother Mother
Feeling phillistine
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Crying
Pom Pom Squad
Taking a measured approach
It's Alright, Baby
Komeda
Checking it out
96 Tears
The Wicked Farleys
Fuzzed out
Caviar
Wavves
Fish eggs for everyone
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Butterfly 3000
King Gizzard + the Lizard Wizard
Fluttering groove
Roots Train (previously unreleased dub plate mix)
Junior Murvin
Very the special
Behold a Pale Rider
Woody + Jeremy
Vaguely apocalyptic
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In Again
Palberta
Shattered the vase
Sex Bomb
Flipper
The gentle sound of rain
Dissonance
Scientists
Dancing like Sprockets
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Guilty as Charged
Moderator
Some strange mixture
Printer-Painter
Coyle & Sharpe
It's all confused
B for Boredoms
Boredoms
Spelling it out
The Bar Is Too Low To Fail
Boat
A convenient situation
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Farmer John
Los Lobos
Boogie down deep
Chokecherry
Pony
Bitterness abounds
Break My Body
Pixies
Compound fractures
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You Can't Fight Corruption with Corruption
Femi Kuti
Femi should know
Desert Storm
Afrodesia
Don’t stray from the caravan
Gipsy Threat
Ratatat
It's a short threat
5-9-78
Boards of Canada
Heavenly thrumming
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Black Lipstick
Audiobooks
Very goth
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