Antigone

October

Temna Noch Dushi

Luna

Sweet Rebels - The Golden Era of Algerian Pop-Raï

Cheb Zahouani - Zinek Bekani

Mutante

Adapting // Crawling (LUNGS-300)

Lifeless Life

On And On

Sixes And Sevens

Flare

Irritation on Demand

The Last Days of May

Rift

Doubled Over

Flickering Resonance

Cascading Crescent

A Collection of Slow Airs by Some Very Fine Fiddlers

Danny Diamond - A Dream of Home

Gangster Music Vol.3

Shinto

Estrella Por Estrella

Eternero

Carezza Violenta

Meglomaniaxe

the world is still here and so are we

way of the exploding dickhead

Lovers. Loners. Losers.

Father's Deeds

Days of Smoke and Ash / روزای دود و خاکستر

Evin Fire / آتیش اوین

Mil orquídeas en medio del desierto

Mercury Goes Direct

Wonder

Under The Blade Of A Zionist Nightmare - (A) Benefit Compilation For The Victims Of The Gaza War

Unsanitary Napkin - Big Freedom

Dying of Thirst

Pray 4 Me

Riccardo La Foresta - ZERO,999...

Drawdown

Prodigal Son

Insult to Injury

When the world is unkind, my dreams tend to compensate with wholesome whimsy. Musicians whom I happen to know in real life often enter my dreamscape: There was the one where Sadie Dupuis from Speedy Ortiz cracked a joke in her typical dry wit and Hayley Williams (a frequent figure of my sleepytime subconscious!) from Paramore busted a move. Many years ago, Michelle Zauner created an ambient room-tone version of the Japanese Breakfast album Soft Sounds from Another Planet — in the dream, I swear it was brilliant.&nbsp; Just this past week, I had a dream that I've come to title "Pylon Big Band." Several versions of the Athens post-punk band are performing on a small stage, original members mixed in with the Reenactment Society lineup. There's a trombone trio and a rag-tag punk choir that just keeps growing in size, including Adam Bewley, the son of the late guitarist Randy Bewley. The stage overflows and the backdrop falls to reveal a basketball court, which everyone makes a run for. My dad, who does not like this kind of music at all, is snapping photos with his old camera. My friend Tracy Wilson (Courtesy Desk, Outer World, Dahlia Seed) grabs me to get a closer look. It's all very chaotic and happy and huge — I didn't want to wake up.&nbsp; How nice of my brain, really, to offer some respite from real-world things out of my control. —Lars Gotrich, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.vikingschoice.org/">vikingschoice.org</a>

Habak's emotional crust-punk, Pelican's burly post-hardcore, New Jazz Underground's Kendrick Lamar groove, mclusky's weightlifting noise-rock.

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Desatornillándonos

Blind Willie (for Sonny Sharrock)

Peck Glamour

All That Heaven Allows

Part 1: The Last Shit

Chester Drawers

Ouroboric Deity - Calleth The Void

Trepidation Flux

From Now to OK

Moving Van

Disposer

Frequent Flier

Animaru

Dumb Feeling

Collapsing

A Continuation

We'll Try b/w Get Me Off

We'll Try

Rare Birds

When The Night

Noor-e Vojood

Bâyeh Bâyeh

BLACK’!ANTIQUE

ALIVE & DIRECT’!

Gonna Need A Vacation

New World, Lonely Ride

Speaker Rotations

Night Horses

Gift Songs

The Milky Sea

Spring Grove

Cumulonimbus

Power Corrupts

Ball N Chain

Skull Sessions

No We Don’t Have Any T-Shirts

Felicity

The Return Of Magik

The Return of Magik

Weirdo

Wanna Die

When the Distance is Blue

Spring Becomes You, Spring Becomes New

Peace and Pleasure

Taking the First Step (At Dawn)

Enseada perdida

Se você pensasse

FATHM

A seed sucked between your teeth

Reservoir of Love

Weight of the Sun

This is a weekly-ish mix made by me, Lars Gotrich, a producer and editor at NPR Music. It's mostly new or new-to-me music across punk, ambient, experimental, jazz, metal and whatever weirdness/loudness excites me. Get updates via&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.vikingschoice.org/">Viking's Choice newsletter</a>!&nbsp;

A mixtape featuring Bar-B-Q Killers' swaggering punk, Emma-Jean Thackray's big mood, Rwake's Southern sludge and The Ophelias' intricate indie-pop.

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