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    Alternate Routes

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    Episodes (7)

    Alternate Routes: Within the Great Divide

    Alternate Routes: Within the Great Divide

    Alternate Routes

    with Jesse Jarnow

    1. "Trip Slug" - Bilders

    Bilders USA recordings (unreleased)

    2. "The Fading of An Old World" - Jonathan Richman

    featuring Jonathan's former Modern Lovers bandmate (& ex-Talking Head) Jerry Harrison

    from SA (Blue Arrow Records)

    3. "Faint Smell of Moss" - Dark Meat

    from Teal Clods From Tim's House (Free Music Archive)

    coming soon on LP via Sunwatcher Records

    4. "Telluride Speed" - Ryley Walker

    Ryley Walker (guitar)/Bill McKay (guitar)/Ryan Jewell (drums)/Scott Colberg (bass)

    NYCTaper recording made at Bowery Ballroom, New York City, NY, April 29, 2018.

    studio version on Deafman Glance (Dead Oceans)

    5. live at Union Pool - Chuck Johnson

    NYCTaper recording made at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY, April 12, 2018.

    see also: Balsams (VDSQ)

    all tracks posted with permission of artists/labels

    DJ bed music by Paul Blanding

    Alternate Routes: Up, Up, & Out

    Alternate Routes: Up, Up, & Out

    Alternate Routes

    with Jesse Jarnow

    1. "He Sold His Soul" - Willie Klein with Two-Mule Team

    recorded at Wonders of Nature, Brooklyn, NY, September 15, 2018

    originally on Tape #1 & Mofungo's Out of Line

    2. "Even Now" - Sue Garner with 75 Dollar Bill & Talice Lee

    recorded at Union Pool Front Room, Brooklyn, NY, July 16, 2017

    originally on Shadyside (Thrill Jockey)

    3. "WZN #4" - 75 Dollar Bill

    recorded at Monty Hall, WFMU, Jersey City, NJ, October 7, 2017 (Free Music Archive)

    4. "Sycamore" - Antenna

    from You Don't Have To Be Fashionable, vol. 6 (With A Messy Head)

    5. "Hablo Picasso" - Carton Sonore

    from You Don't Have To Be Fashionable, vol. 6 (With A Messy Head)

    6. "Out & In" - Sonic Youth

    from Not The Spaces You Know, But Between Them (Three-Lobed)

    7. "Za-Zen" - The Pen Test

    from Interstate (Moniker)

    all tracks posted with permission of artists/labels

    DJ bed music by Paul Blanding

    Alternate Routes: Guitars & Roses

    Alternate Routes: Guitars & Roses

    Alternate Routes

    with Jesse Jarnow

    1. "Bread and Roses" - Marisa Anderson

    PhilaTaper recording made at Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art, July 5, 2018

    recorded on Traditional and Public Domain Songs

    new album Cloud Corner (Thrill Jockey)

    PhilaTaper GoFundMe for Katie Wescott

    2. "Deep Sea Diver" - Gwenifer Raymond

    from Deep Sea Diver 7-inch (Tompkins Square)

    new album You Never Were Much of a Dancer (Tompkins Square)

    3. "Current" - Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir

    from VDSQ Solo Acoustic, vol. 14 (VDSQ)

    4. "The Two Worlds" - Brigid Mae Power

    from Live at WFMU on This is the Modern World With Trouble, July 5, 2018 (Free Music Archive)

    new album The Two Worlds (Tompkins Square)

    5. "I'd Rather Be Hayin'" > "Space Drums" > "Route 5" - Wet Tuna

    from Livin' The Die (CD: Child of Microtones, LP: Feeding Tube, cassette: Baked Tapes)

    all tracks posted with permission of artists/labels

    DJ bed music by Paul Blanding

    Alternate Routes: September Sounds

    Alternate Routes: September Sounds

    Alternate Routes

    with Jesse Jarnow

    1. Sarah Louise - “Hellbender”

    from VDSQ Acoustic Series, vol. 12 (VDSQ)

    2. Itasca - “No Consequence”

    with Dave McMaster on pedal steel

    from Live at WFMU on the Avant Ghetto with Jeff Conklin, May 30, 2016 (Free Music Archive)

    3. Paul Blanding - “Sketch #4 (Predator)”

    from Krampusnacht (Music For An Unwritten Puppet Opera) (Bandcamp)

    4. Thumbscrew - “Unconditional”

    Michael Formanek (bass) / Tomas Fujiwara (drums) / Mary Halvorson (guitar)

    from Ours (Cuneiform)

    5. Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motal Band - “Dreaming in the Non-Dream”

    with Peter Kerlin (bass), Jason Robira (drums), and Ryan Jewell (drums)

    NYCTaper recording made at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY, July 28, 2018

    all tracks posted with permission of artists/labels

    Alternate Routes: The Subversive Nature of Kindness & Other Delights

    Alternate Routes: The Subversive Nature of Kindness & Other Delights

    Alternate Routes

    with Jesse Jarnow

    1. Thor and Friends - “Carpet Creeps”

    from The Subversive Nature of Kindness (L-M Duplication)

    2. The Ex - “Soon All Cities”

    from 27 Passports (The Ex)

    3. One Eleven Heavy - “Species Blues”

    from Everything’s Better (Kith & Kin)
    exclusive, to be released in September

    4. Man Forever - “You Were Never Here”

    live release recorded at Cafe Oto, London, UK, May 22, 2017

    5. Sunwatchers - “Nose Beers”

    NYCTaper recording made at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY, June 24, 2017

    6. Alexander - “iv”

    recorded reel-to-reel (& released) by Southern Jukebox, Minneapolis, MN, August 15, 2017

    all tracks posted with permission of artists/labels

    Alternate Routes: Night Dance of the Sun Cats

    Alternate Routes: Night Dance of the Sun Cats

    Alternate Routes

    with Jesse Jarnow

    1. Oneida (with Lee Ranaldo & James McNew) - “Cedars”

    from Live at Secret Project Robot (Safety Meeting)

    2. Secret Drum Band - “DaDaDa”

    from Dynamics (XRAY)

    3. Mary Lattimore - “Let’s Talk About Your Dead Friends”

    from Live at WFMU on Surface Noise With Joe McGasko, October 7, 2016 (Free Music Archive)

    4. Ned Lagin - “Sun Cats”

    from Cat Dreams (self-released)

    5. Elkhorn - “Lion”

    from Lionfish (Eiderdown Sounds)

    all tracks posted with permission of artists/labels

    Alternate Routes: In the Sugar Rain

    Alternate Routes: In the Sugar Rain

    Alternate Routes

    with Jesse Jarnow

    1. Gunn/Truscinski Duo - “Sugar”

    from Live at WFMU on Surface Noise with Joe McGasko, April 16, 2018 (Free Music Archive)

    2. John Andrews & the Yawns - “Double-Sided Coin”

    from Freedom of the Press benefit compilation (Kith & Kin)

    3. Jeremy Barnes - “Rain Flows Down Like a River”

    from Summer ’16 (L-M Duplication)

    4. Drunken Foreigner Band - “Akha 1”

    from White Guy Disease (Electric Cowbell)

    5. Garcia Peoples - “One Step Behind > Hangin’ On”

    NYCTaper recording made at Wonders of Nature, Brooklyn, NY, June 10, 2018

    all tracks posted with permission of artists/labels