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Listening to the Higsons

KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am

I meant to write the notes for this show sooner than a month after the fact, but travel plans got in the way and here I am struggling for an intro. I can tell you that hearing Sparklehorse take on Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians’ “Listening to the Higsons” for the first time, mere weeks ago, felt like someone became obsessed with the same cassette as I did thirty years ago, but actually got around to letting the hen out.

I meant to write the notes for this show sooner than a month after the fact, but travel plans got in the way and here I am struggling for an intro. I can tell you that hearing <strong>Sparklehorse</strong> take on Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians’ “Listening to the Higsons” for the first time, mere weeks ago, felt like someone became obsessed with the same cassette as I did thirty years ago, but actually got around to letting the hen out.
Sparklehorse
SongArtistNotes
Listening to the Higsons
Sparklehorse
Originally from Robyn Hitchcock + the Egyptians
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Act Natural
Margaret Glaspy
Wobbling guitars
My Own City
Bethany Cosentino
An end of summer sound
Blue Over Blue
The Clientele
Subdued insinuation
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Haunted Mountain
Buck Meek
A spooky place to live
Total Entertainment Forever
Father John Misty
It’s neverending
Broken Bones
House of Freaks
Low-key desperation
Sister
Pale Blue Eyes
The shoegaze is back
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Bite My Tongue
Islands
Draw some blood
And She Was
Talking Heads
Floating into space
Band On The Run
Paul McCartney & Wings
The original extended mix
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Last Stretch of the Road
Graham Parker & the Goldtops
Still an original
Levitate Me
Pixies
Elevator lady
Extinction
Parquet Courts
Ending it all
Japanese Buffalo
Cage The Elephant
Manic energy
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Derek Spears
Grandaddy
Your conscience is singing at you
E.S.P.
Sonny + the Sunsets
Having a vision
Rain Dogs
Tom Waits
It's a state of mind
Super Afro-Beat
The Daktaris
Truth in advertising
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Numb
Beach Fossils
Crashing out
Agastopia
Draag
Spooling out chords
Questions And Answers
The Apples In Stereo
Getting Socratic
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People Are Toys To You
Joanna Sternberg
We all know one
Fresh Blood
Eels
Sulking in style
Six Months in a Leaky Boat
Split Enz
Circumnavigate the globe
Gouge Away
The Promise Ring
Making it fit better
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St. Charles Square
Blur
Where it happened
Hippie Soldier
The Orwells
A juxtapositional person
She's Weird
Ascensions
Everybody said so
Now I'm Freaking Out
Ween
Here comes the madness
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HEAD
Jeff Rosenstock
Trying to keep up
Waile
W.I.T.C.H.
Mighty mighty Zamrock
Trouble Is My Beeswax
Cigarbox Planetarium
And beeswax is good
Subaru Crosstrek XV
Hobo Johnson
Not quite there yet
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Black Earth, WI
Ratboys
Undulating
Renaissance of Reconnaissance
Kid Koala
Interlude
This Purple Child
Howe Gelb + Grandaddy
Waiting in the dust
It's You
Cassandra Jenkins
Harps a plenty
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Hot Dub Party
Spacewalk
Turn on the jets
Lazy Bones
Wooden Shjips
Eating up the miles
Bleeding Heart Tetra
North Americans
Yonder horizon
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Virgo 3
Meshell Ndegeocello
Return to orbit
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