Notices by neddyo (neddyo@shakedown.social), page 2

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2026.19

Cordovas: Back to Life

This Nashville band continues to do the big things right, straddling the country-rock divide with great songs and an easy-to-dig sound. But on their latest they really sharpen up on the small things as well. The right dosage of pedal steel and mandolin here and there and laying on their stoner bonafides at the appropriate moments. And they take things one step further with a surprising and excellent guest appearance from Kamasi Washington, who elevates his appearance into a cool psychjazz space. A little bit for everyone. Enjoy!

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2026.18

Luke Marantz & Simon Jermyn: Echoes

There's a whole class of if-you-know-you-know NYC musicians who are under the radar, even locally, but if they're on a live bill you just know it's gonna be good. It's always a pleasure to spread the word about music those guys are making. That makes this release doubly sweet as it features two of those artists working together to bring their individual talent up a notch. The two mix piano and guitar (with same-category Josh Dion on drums!) to create sparkling pieces, loosely traipsing between jazz and rock, composition and improv. It's got the magical energy of a random midweek set in a small club in Brooklyn. The good stuff. Enjoy!

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2026.21

Lo Greco Bros: Latin Bilbao

I'd love to tell you something about this album, but the who/what/how is surprisingly tough to find online. What I *can* tell you is that this is pure Latin funk perfection. If you heard any track on here at the proverbial club, you'd be checking your phone to find the source and if you play it at any social gathering of your own, your guests will be doing the same. Absolute groovy heat to get you through the cold months of winter. Enjoy!

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2026.20

Muriel Grossmann: Plays the music of McCoy Tyner and Grateful Dead

This is not Grossman's first appearance here, her brand of organ groove is almost always rec-worthy. But here, as the title implies, she takes some very cool source material and forces it through her stylistic colander. It's 4 tracks of extended, funkiness that loves the originals, but not enough to prevent a full topsy-turve. Mostly, it's just fun as hell, with equally great alternate versions. Hopefully this one has already been in your rotation, but if the weird end-of-year release date got it lost in the shuffle, now's your chance. Enjoy!

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2026.24

Leroy From the North: My Favorite Gun

In some ways, it's kind of hard to believe this is brand new music. The songs have a lived-in familiarity to them, like a leather coat pulled off the vintage rack that fits just right. This is southern rock at its best, a music that feels like it's been covered in whiskey bars and honky tonks for 5 decades, not 5 weeks. Great songs and a timeless sound, occasionally leaning more country or folky, but mostly just rockin'. Enjoy!

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2026.23

Forever Pavot: Melchior, Vol 1

If I'm translating correctly, Emile Sornin, the French musician who performs as Forever Pavot, feels like he's working too hard making music and so he built a robot to do it for him. That's the conceit of this kind of concept album. Like most of his stuff, it's delightfully cartoonish and deeply interesting. A mash-up of styles and various levels of fun, never dull. Give it a whirl! Enjoy!

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2026.22

Yin Yin: Yatta!

This quartet is from the Netherlands, but their latest is a combination of Asian motifs and American disco, with a few other excursions thrown in. All in all, it's a delight of funkiness, culling groove from all sorts of far flung inspiration. Enjoy!

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2026.26

Lyke Rayne: The Time Will Sort Ye Out

Sean Conrad's music was made in the Pacific Northwest, but it has the sounds of some mythical Britain. To my ears, it's a mix of woozy London psychedelic, lush UK prog, and pastoral Britfolk. Perhaps just grey skies from a slightly different point of view. There's a homemade unevenness that's endearing, but when it gets there, it really shines. A promising debut. Enjoy!

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2026.25

Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere: Theta Seven

On their seventh (and apparently finally) album, the UK collective covers a lot of ground. It's a wild diversity of instruments, sounds, and genres. Even on the micro-scale: at any given moment in the album there are impressive sonic layers, such that two people might be hearing completely different music listening to the same thing. It's a total brain-tickler, occasionally going unhinged. Each track flows one into the other, even as the pace of musical change seems disconnected from those boundaries. Interlocking pieces of a larger puzzle. Enjoy!

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2026.27

Various Artists: Don't Forget Your Guitar

Don't do a lot of compilation records here, but this one's definitely worth pointing your ears towards. Joel Harrison runs the Alternate Guitar Summit which does guitar-centric shows and workshops and more. For this album he's gathered a host of one-off guitar duos, many (but not all!) from the NYC music universe. The music runs the gamut: genres, moods, adventurousness; familiar names and some you won't know. You might not love it all, but guarantee there's enough that you'll absolutely *love*. Enjoy!

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2026.28

Seven Teller: What Are The Chances?

Been sick for a few days this absolute banger out of Baltimore is a perfect way to clear out the cobwebs and head into the weekend feeling good. Densely layered rhythms, irresistible bass ripples, and catchy-as-heck synth melodies, Sam Cochran's band sounds like they've listened to a crapton of LCD Soundsystem and taken all the right lessons from it. I betcha dig it. Enjoy!

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Tonight: well, MMJ crushed it again. Maybe the best complete show of the weekend. Another A+ sit-in from Ms Rykman taboot. Tears for Fears in the encore? Sweet!

Would be great to see a three-nighter at the Paramount become a tradition.

#nycfreaks #livemusic #brooklyn #mymorningjacket #mmj

Out-of-body-experience set from Arun Ramamurthy Trio. Perhaps the best set of music I've ever seen (performed in the 1:45-2:45am slot).#livemusic #ragaslivefest #ragaslive

After a short break and a CitiBike to Red Hook, I'm in for the long haul at the best kept non-secret in NYC livemusic'n. Ragas Live. Started at 7 and will go 24 hours. More thoughts later from Pioneer Works.

I mean, can you really say you've livemusic'd in NYC if you haven't struggled to stay awake at 4:30 in the morning with a couple hundred half-asleep weirdos while some dude is in the midst of a 30-minute raga on an instrument you've never heard of?

Massive protest in Manhattan today. Can't wait to hear how many there were. Felt Manhattan-sized. Great scene! Ready to do it again.

#nokings #nyc #8647

Tonight: the Air Moon Safari show might be the livemusic platonic ideal. A perfect brain/body balance, amazing visuals that are an exact fit for the band aesthetic and sound, the right undercurrent of nostalgia as they play a no-skips album that is 25+ years old but feels incredibly relevant, and then a second set of hits. Definitely one of the best shows I've seen this year. And literally a block from my apartment at the pretty sweet Brooklyn Paramount. Happy Friday to me!

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Just got interviewed for a piece on a livemusic topic supposed to run next monthish in a major publication. My 20+ minutes of entertaining and deep insights will likely be reduced to something you'll have to squint to see, but I will humblebragly post if/when it is published.

And for the freelancers out there, I am available as an expert witness on all things livemusic. I love to expound!

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Yo NYC/BK folk: next Freaks Day Out is tomorrow (Sunday!). Monster bill with the Elkhorn Trio and Cordero/Kerlin Group (w/ Jessica Pavone, Jeffrey Tobias, and Ryan Sawyer). IYKYK.

Spread the word, come hang if you're free...

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@anon_opin what about Bad Company by the band Bad Company off the album Bad Company?