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Sijal Nasralla is a diaspora Palestinian who makes music and maqluba in Durham, North Carolina. Dunums is a project that describes itself as "Arty, noisey, post-rock, bedroom fake-jazz for a free Palestine. Blending memory and homeland heartache into feelings, full sonic moments on family, love, rage, and how "God" will always be greater". SIjal also plays drums in The Muslims, a "crunchy, kickass punk band of Black + brown queer muzzies."
 
Sijal and I set out on a deeply personal and liberatory rabbit hole where we pass the aux cord back and forth at the Free Palestine party. This mixtape is quintessentially diasporic; reflecting the experience of having our feet in two cultures that are in constant and intense flux with one another. We abhor the empire but adore Dolly Parton. Free Palestine // End the Genocide // Zionist Punks, Fuck Off


Listen to the episode's mixtape @ https://spoti.fi/3SOBiDe
Listen to Dunums on Bandcamp @ dunums.bandcamp.com/music
Listen to The Muslims on Bandcamp @ themuslims.bandcamp.com
Support Medical Aid for Palestine and pick up a digital copy of Dunums & Manas @ radiokhiyaban.bandcamp.com/album/dunums-manas
United Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) Resources for Palestine @ weareumaw.org/news/bds

As a year, 2023 was an abomination. Thankfully, the music makers made some great music for us. New friend and fellow Flenser enthusiast, Wes, hopped on the show to discuss a bunch of 2023 albums we thought were overlooked in the usual music fandom spaces. We each chose four AOTY and then another five runner ups so strap in because this one went long…fuck else you got to do? 
Ceasefire Now // Save Gaza // End the Occupation // Free Palestine
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Wes’s Albums of the Year:Sluice - Radial GateFire! Orchestra - EchoesSpirit Possession - Of the Sign…John Bence - Archangels
 
Wes’s Runner Ups:Tujiko Noriko - Cr​é​puscule I & IIVictory Over the Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song!Agriculture - AgricultureBIG|BRAVE - nature morteThe Hirsch Effekt - Urian
 
Jamil’s Runner Ups:Lankum - False LankumCool-Aid - Leather Blvd.Powers / Pulice / Rolin - PrismTrhä - §​º​an​Ω​ë aglivajsamë cá n​ë​lh​¶​iha i eddana pi​¶​eGreg Mendez - Greg Mendez
 
Jamil’s Albums of the Year:Sprain - The Lamb as EffigyDefcee & Messiah Musik - The Golem of BrooklynNightosphere / Abandoncy / Flooding - 3 Way SplitBríi - Último Ancestral Comum
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I am joined by early metal blogosphere music writer and black metal enthusiast, Jon Rosenthal (Invisible Oranges, Decibel Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan). Jon leads us down a rabbit hole of eight fantastically bizarro black metal tracks. We’re talking operatic vocals, proggy breakdowns, Matrix-style club beats, dreamy lo-fi dirges, bebop covers, and other crimes against black metal orthodoxy.   
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Read Invisible Oranges, one of the oldest and still the best metal blog in the whole damn world
Here is a list of excellent interviews and album spotlights to accompany Jon’s tracklist:
Ved Buens Ende: Written in Waters
Deep Into the Brousse: Lugubrum's "Albino de Congo" Ten Years Later
Records of the Week With Jon and Ted: Solefald’s The Linear Scaffold
Haunted By Horror: A Conversation With Diabolical Masquerade
The Inarguable: Interview with Mamaleek
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Comments, questions, and b******t can be sent to thesoniccloth@gmail.com

I am joined by Mega and Jet, two-thirds of Secret House Against (@SecretHouseTokyo), a Tokyo based, Leftist heavy, Hip-hop, Art, and Culture discussion channel, to dive deep into a partial discography rundown of the idiosyncratic rapper and artist, Billy Woods.
This exemplary run of albums spans six years and includes both Billy Woods and Armand Hammer (Billy Woods & Elucid) releases. In this episode, we dive into each album and examine themes, moods, lyricism, bars, and good old fashioned dopeness. 
Releases Discussed:
Known Unknowns (2017)
Paraffin (2018)
Hiding Places (2019)
Terror Management (2019)
Shrines (2020)
Brass (2020)
Haram (2021)
Aethiopes (2022)
Church (2022)
We ran out of time so had to leave 2023's Maps release off the episode :(
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You can snatch up music and swag direct from Backwoodz Studioz.
Check out the Caltrops Press blog and give em a follow on Twitter and IG
Follow Krofle160’s Billy Woods Features & Non Album Tracks playlist on Spotify 
Read Political Art As Critical Theory In Armand Hammer’s “Haram”
Listen to The Rap Music Plug Podcast interview with woods
Correction: In this episode, we stated that Ashes57 was an alias for Geng PTP, however they are not the same person, despite having collaborated on the visual design. Apologies! 
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Hardcore music is shit hot right now and more than ever, a lot of decidedly non-hardcore music has snuck past the pit and onto show flyers. Who let all this adjacent b******t through the gates and is any of it even good?
To help answer these dire questions, I enlisted writer and supreme music nerd, Jay Papandreas (Listen Up, Nerds) to help with the task of picking out some of the most notable, bizarre, and interesting releases of hardcore-adjacent belligerence.
We explore thirteen albums from the Ray & Porcell 7’’ and Die Kreuzen to Rival Schools and Self Defense Family. See ya at Adjacent Fest 2024. 
Subscribe to the excellent Listen Up, Nerds column on Substack
Read Jay’s Stereogum piece, “Sunbather Turns 10”
Read “Self Defense Family: A Discography Partially Ranked”
In the music world? Hire/Collab with Jay Papandreas
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We call back to episode TSC03: Ambient Americana but this time, we’re zooming out on this rich musical subgenre to examine the deeper roots of ambient country music, a subgenre that has evolved into a flourishing scene of diverse artists in recent years. I’m joined by music guru, Bob Holmes, of the superb ambient country group, SUSS, to examine the roots of the “high and lonesome sound”.
Bob conferred with the other SUSS members and takes us through a musical lineage that carves itself through soundtracks, classical music, 70’s rock, krautrock, jazz, country & bluegrass, and modern guitar music to arrive at the current wave of artists who lay down in the bed of cosmic ambient country music. 
Find SUSS on bandcamp
Pick up the Self-Titled album on Northern Spy Records
Subscribe to Bob’s Ambient Country Podcast on Spotify
Bob’s Modern Ambient Country Picks:
Andrew Tuttle
Chuck Johnson
William Tyler
Luke Scheider
Droneroom
Royal Arctic Institute
Seawind of Battery
Chip Kinman
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