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Red Right Hand

KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am

The story of Nell Smith & The Flaming Lips is as improbable and unexpected as their album full of Nick Cave covers. Existing in a triangular universe of mutual admiration, Where the Viaduct Looms gave us the opening track tonight, the menacing “Red Right Hand”.

The story of Nell Smith &amp; The Flaming Lips is as improbable and unexpected as their album full of Nick Cave covers. Existing in a triangular universe of mutual admiration, <em>Where the Viaduct Looms</em> gave us the opening track tonight, the menacing “Red Right Hand”.
Nell Smith + the Flaming Lips
SongArtistNotes
Red Right Hand
Nell Smith & The Flaming Lips
Originally from Nick Cave + the Bad Seeds
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Trouble with My Lover
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
The power is squared
Turning Green
Courtney Barnett
Eating up the miles
Softcore War
hollAnd
Unending resonance
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Penny For Your Thoughts
My Morning Jacket
Traveling in time
Everybody Knows
Concrete Blonde
Just common knowledge
I'd Love To Change The World
Ten Years After
Has not aged at all
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Change
Big Thief
Slow and smoldering
It's Love
Chris Knox
1,000% Knox energy
I Won't Hesitate
La Luz
Holding no regrets
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Bajo las Sombras
Santiago Motorizado, Anabella Cartolano
With a Scottish bounce
The State That I Am In
Belle + Sebastian
A pastoral benchmark
General Hugging Center
Ray Wonder
Meandering melody
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Welcome to Paradise Lost
Taraka
Single string riffing
(She Sings Like) Joey Ramone
The Pulsebeats
Sign her up
Kool Thing
Sonic Youth
Apathy and ignorance
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Ultraviolet Stone
Goodbye Honolulu
Hot and heavy
Lipstick Vogue (feat. Morat)
Elvis Costello + The Attractions
Muy enojado
Ma And Pa
Fishbone
Malfunctioning parental units
Decision At Midnight
The Toasters
Time is running out
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Artvertisement
Darrin Bradbury
You are the product
Coco
Stewart Copeland
Race you to the Gong Rock
Spanish Coin
Guided By Voices
With a flamenco feel
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing)
Chester & Lester
Aka Chet and Les
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Something Ain’t Right
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
An ambling feel, almost a mosey
There Must Be a Song Like You
Helado Negro
Music for fading light
Riddled With Ticks
This Is The Kit
Delicate pluckings
Jigsaw
That 1 Guy
Thumps and plucks
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New Thing
The Allergies
Implacable bassline
Green Onions
Booker T. + the MG's
A classy excursion
Give It Up
Jo Bisso
African horn wails
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Armageddon Days (Are Here Again) (Live)
The The
Not quite a ballroom blitz
Outside Chance (Acoustic)
Melvins
Somewhere off the timeline
Quiet Voices
The Dodos
Fragments and shadows
The Black Angel’s Death Song
Fontaines D.C.
Background screeching for completeness
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The Evidence
Snapped Ankles
Intensely aerobic
White Trash Raga
The Mermen
As heard in the trailer park
One World (Not Three)
The Police
Count them out
Pulsating Dub
Mungo's Hi Fi
Heavy cycles
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Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps)
Medeski, Martin + Wood
Rattling the bones
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