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The Charmer

Tue. May 19, 2026 9pm - 12am (KAFM Grand Junction)

It’s the first night of the year where I arrive at the station in daylight. Also, it’s been unseasonably cool. But neither of those things is as notable as a new album from Toadies which brings up more of that brutal precision fuzz pop that made my ears perk up the first time I heard them over 30 years ago. Elsewhere tonight: a phone call from PJ, on the road, and middle-cased keyboards.

It’s the first night of the year where I arrive at the station in daylight. Also, it’s been unseasonably cool. But neither of those things is as notable as a new album from <strong>Toadies</strong> which brings up more of that brutal precision fuzz pop that made my ears perk up the first time I heard them over 30 years ago. Elsewhere tonight: a phone call from PJ, on the road, and middle-cased keyboards.
Toadies
SongArtistNotes
50 Ft.
The Bobby Lees
Originally from PJ Harvey
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The Charmer
Toadies
Slow menace galore
Black Eye
Eat Sugar
Told you once
Love Crushing
Fetchin’ Bones
Absolutely crushing it
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Fainting Spells
Cola
Barely maintaining their balance
What's The Rhythm
Mike Krol
Big buildups, slow teardown
Hey Amanda
Broken Social Scene
Bring in the horns
In a Young Man's Mind
The Mooney Suzuki
It’s a jungle in there
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Valerian Tea
Magic Fig
Tripping elvish
The Punks Are Writing Love Songs
Tullycraft
Finally!
Taste of Cherry
The Creem
Old-fashioned grandeur
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Jerk
Shibboleth
A stroll down the Avenida
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Chew Nails (feat. Kosta G & Loud Forest)
White Denim
Tiptoe through the orchids
Wildfire
The Olympians
That manic depression
Responsible Friend
Elizabeth & The Catapult
Are you the one?
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Bring You Down
The Lemon Twigs
Tell us about the man
Till The Wheels Fall Off
The Aggrolites
The bitterest of ends
as a dad
Mclusky
Recursive piranhas
(it’s interference) (feat. Mike Watt)
The Library Is On Fire
Degenerate shoegaze
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New Vista
Doug Gillard
Up and down the staircase
Crown the Clown
Eugene McGuinness
A spooky bossanova
Venus in the Zinnia
Aldous Harding
New Zealand inquisition
Eye in the Sky
The Alan Parsons Project
No kidding around
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Victim Of Luck
Metric
Ringing through
Ripple
The Dandy Warhols
Originally from the Grateful Dead
Now The Ash
Jesca Hoop
Hold still for the summoning
Mirror Mirror
Angelo De Augustine
With that highlands feeling
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Sugar Town
Los Frankies
Originally from Shitkid
T.K.
Clinic
Distant howls
Telephone And Rubber Band
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
What a bounce
Se Cae
Swing Original Monks
Things fall all the time
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You Against You
El Ten Eleven
Self-aggression is in order
Asking for You
Spacemoth
A signal from the satellite
Middle-Case Keyboards
Sir Millard Mulch
Can you help professor?
Copy of a (Nine Inch Noize Version)
Nine Inch Noize
Someone’s been cloned
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Ruins
Wooden Shjips
Engage the lock groove
Moving To Florida
Butthole Surfers
100% correct
Buzzsaw (feat. Andy Cooper)
The Allergies
Vocal hijinks
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Pigeon
Counts for something
Pais Nublado
Helado Negro
The visibility is low
Soleil lourd
Société Étrange
Journey through the space swamp
Out of the Shadows
Andy Summers
Emerging drones
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Heat
Station Model Violence
The time tunnel runs deep
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