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Category Archives: Old Releases
Hot New Mexicans – It’s Called Leaning Back
robins huddleabove stoned housepainterquoting stoned homeowner
The 6ths – Wasps’ Nests
I guess I’d never questioned it until now, my proximity to the path of totality
Gouge Away – , dies
Bottom-shelf sweetened condensed milk… Bottom-shelf cognac… Top-shelf thermos… Shake!!!
Cat Power – You are Free
Riverbank. Beach.Rest and let the water dothe running.
The Beautiful South – Superbi
Of course everything will be just fine– you started a new notebook and bought another bin.
A Mighty Wind – The Album
the d-beat singer at the outdoor show has to know
Fingers Cut Megamachine – Fingers Cut Megamachine
The disease passes As if it were nothing more major than hunger And your sweeter self returns
The Smiths – Ask
I’m a bar without a ledge to lean on, a splash of vodka on your lemon
One Hundred Dollars – Forest of Tears
I had been so lucky, and, I thought, as grateful as I could possibly be; But what is gratitude to The Bottomless Mystery?
The Band – Islands
You may not share my dream of a government-issued editor for each citizen, but your wrong.
T*Shirt – The Convincer
Craving burgers and alone time. Just me. And the burgermaker.
Frank Sinatra – Conducts Tone Poems of Color
heat advisory once more, my hair a shade of brown called Wookie Restored
Jungle Brothers – Straight Out the Jungle
Like a bouquet, I’m dead in the drag of the living.
Madeline – Kissing and Dancing
closed my eyes and lost all my unsaved changes
The Meters – Cabbage Alley
I’m a table in a kung Fu movie and you’re the 50th take. Can a spiderweb of splinters even break?
Little Anthony and the Imperials – I’m on the Outside (Looking In)
rain sure sounds invincible when it’s hitting on that tin but give it a couple hours and that roof’ll win again
Electrelane – No Shouts, No Calls
We leave you to the farm and will meet again when the blueberries return.
Honeyblood – Honeyblood
Did I reenact the teenage years of some schmuck from whatever town is the Coral Springs of San Marino?
Derroll Adams – Feelin’ Fine
Use the roasted russet to mop up the mess of sweet potato duo.
Madeline – The Slow Bang
Low toilet, loud fan. Why was there a red lightbulb in the bathroom of my grandma’s townhouse?
The Evaporators – I’m Going to France
The takeout noodles travel better than me. Small sneaker, worried toe.
The Cure – Disintegration
It’s starting to sink in that not everyone has the temperament of my honors student friends and I finishing a group project so we could play basketball in the driveway.
Joel Plaskett – In Need of Medical Attention
The external hard drive full of MP3s Taking up an entire drawer May not be the jewel for posterity I’d hoped it would be
Stephen Steinbrink – Arranged Waves
Your first trip to the beach You fell asleep in the car on the way there And woke up to a blustery parfait of gale, sand, and surf And it must’ve seemed familiar only to birth
All Dogs – Kicking Every Day
Unlike me, you could relax with the stolen wine.
Dyke Drama – Tender Resignation
The landfills of love are overflowing, and my heart ain’t decomposing.
Lijadu Sisters – Horizon Unlimited
the fog out-blooms the azaleas on our way to school
The Staples Singers / Curtis Mayfield – Let’s Do It Again
Every time I remember you Specks of resentment settle Like the thinnest snow, though thickly wet, At the fact that it’s only a memory
Ashley Park – Nobody Broke Your Heart
All books should have a mirror on the inside back cover, as many baby books do, so you can glimpse yourself get lonelier.
John Convertino – Ragland
It doesn’t seem to be working out for you — using a violin to bow a cello — but I wasn’t around to see what else you tried
Aaron Copland – He Got Game Motion Picture Soundtrack
you squeezed by me in the kitchen, beer imposing via your belly and your breath
Lalo Schifrin – Mannix: Themes from the Original Score of the Paramount Television Show
you’d like to think it would take more than one punch to knock you out
Donald Fagan – The Nightfly
Does numbness often arrive with guilt — like two new parents you never asked for?
Sea Level – Cats on the Coast
Clutching the water bottle you didn’t get to finish, hoping it was over before you had a chance to be scared
Marlena Shaw – The Spice of Life
The night we realized our cat was dying, We made a stir-fry of zucchini, tomatoes, corn, and lima beans. It was a suffering succotash.
Paul Baribeau – Grand Ledge
Reading in bed, weCrack our knuckles simultaneously —A jinx that earns one of us a soft punch to the gut
Siren Songs – demo 2011
I only ever found Lone Star beer in New England / I was lonely and paying double rent for the privilege
Stanley Turrentine – Salt Song
White noise, blinds drawn, rocked to sleep to a Leonard Cohen song
Fake Problems – How Far Our Bodies Go
In hell, phone screens never dim
Levek – Look a Little Closer
like Ponce de Leon searching for lifelong coffee
Faces – A Nod’s As Good As a Wink… to a Blind Horse
racecar with a short muffler, handgun with a long silencer: a menu of American kindnesses
Fuzzy – Fuzzy
Leave the office and walk from street food vendor to street food vendor throwing in an errand now and then
Palomar – Palomar III: Revenge of Palomar
To avoid plagiarism, you changed all your essay’s references to Lady Macbeth to Woman Macbeth.
Dikembe – Chicago Bowls
Most of the 90s actually happened in the 80s or the 2000s, like the New York you see in movies now mostly being Atlanta or Toronto.
Ghost Shirt – Ghost Shirt
What’s the longest 2 fish in an fish tank will pretend to not notice each other?
The Karl Hendricks Trio – For a While, It was Funny
I want to live long enough to seeThe president read a speech off their phoneLike an open mic poet without a printer
Sleepy Vikings – They Will Find You Here
Rolling the credits on your life, unsure if this has been the cold open or the whole feature.
Ahmad Jamal – Jamal at the Penthouse
I nickname you pupik,which the internet says means bellybutton.But the internet is no Bubbie.
Phillip Glass – Mishima
At least this year our magnolia fought back a fungus, blossoms intermittent like patient fireworks
The Blow – Brand New Abyss
You were wearing that grease all over town, I guess, and my shoulder was, for your slick brow, just the latest stop.
All Girl Summer Fun Band – Looking Into It
vacation was over before it began, schedule is short one long weekend
The Shirley Scott Trio – Skylark
Never felt more neckless than under threat of your necklace.
The Softies – It’s Love
Dead frog, tiara of flies, this heat will make crackers of us all
Gaze – Shake the Pounce
Oyster cracker. Clams casino. Every moment is a handshake between us coming in and us going out.
Luke Doucet & the White Falcon – Blood’s Too Rich
Left alone so long that I’m the city’s problem — an invasive tree, some shade, no personality.
Algernon Cadwallader – Parrot Files
Take your turkey sandwich to the only room where the dog is outlawed.
Roy Orbison – Memphis
Not the songs, but the giftshop; the memorabilia I want displayed at my funeral.
Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves – Salt and Pepper
Things are still coming ashore, staining the sands of your lake-sized tummy.
Van Morrison – Avalon Sunset
I remember waiting to pick you up from tennis camp, but I would’ve been in tennis camp myself
Slang – Slang
Soul stays with body, not like moving out of your childhood home or relocating the bar from midtown to downtown
Brainworms/Tubers – Split Record(ing)
hit the campaign hard with a wife hot enough to turn Florida blue
Thin Lizzy – Nightlife
What’s now a lullaby I memorized by screaming along in my first car at an age you’re closer to than me.
None More Black – This is Satire
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Melanie – Phonogenic Not Just Another Pretty Face
Blueberry bush presents the palette to which sea and sky aspire
Dave Grusin – The Fabulous Baker Boys Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
I learned no shelf space was safe, growing up in in the age of the CD box set
American Steel – Destroy Their Future
Probably, that layer of paint deep in the walls of that apartment dining room still clenches that strand of your hair
Luna – Penthouse
I didn’t drive to visit my relatives In Montauk just to hear them wonder How I could possibly live in Boca
Antarctica – 23:03
No sleep, again Blame it on your irritable diaphragm
Elizabeth Mitchell – Blue Clouds
Midwinter, and your first summer storm cuts our walk short before the house with the cat we like
Lucinda Williams – Lucinda Williams
Finger-feed up to the wrist Until you learn to return a kiss
Hard Girls – Floating Now
Set the record for rabbits spotted, twenty-two point five
Neil Young – Hawks & Doves
Glass on glass chimes when I take out the trash. The past is not the past.
Harry Belafonte – Homeward Bound
Do we smell as good to death when he strikes us down as a chard stem split?
Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special
I’m a few barons shy of an industry, so no one minds my blight.
Elvis Costello & the Imposters – The Delivery Man
No clue about C.O.D., just that it wasn’t good enough to order Elastic Plastic from the TV.
Bobby Gentry – Patchwork
bent over the tub until the Mr. Bubbles washcloth renders us sore and immaculate
The Roches – We Three Kings
The ash tray, an heirloom, draws half the aunts to the porch, leaving the others with dishes.
Terre Roche – The Sound of a Tree Falling
it’s gotten away from us / I dust the baseboard with a socked foot
Maggie & Terre Roche – Seductive Reasoning
I try to read your face, but it’s just a map of unattended neighborhood citrus
The Roches – Another World
By my child’s third birthday, I’ll be able to tell them with certainty whether daylights savings makes it darker earlier or later at least at first.
Helen Merril – You’ve Got a Date with the Blues
German shepherd guards the persimmon tree whose fruit the owners seem oblivious of
Jeri Southern – You Better Go Now
We met in my Khaki Adonis phase, and by Bootcut Botticelli, you were gone.
The Wireless Stores – Historic Sites of Scenic Beauty #1
No rest when you’re both horse and rider, straw and breeze. At least the new neighborhood mural is shaping up to be less lame than the one across town.
Joel R.L. Phelps & the Downer Trio – Customs
a gust of swallows swirls above the plaza of muhly and scrub, part thundercloud, part lung
Joe Bataan – Saint Latin’s Day Massacre
bike past what was once a punk house, a living room rumored to be hosting a Lifetime reunion every weekend
Phranc – Folksinger
forty soldiers trapped in a cave and only Phlavius Josephus knows how he silenced their colic
Slinkombas – … Og Bas Igjen
the fear that I spent more hours making your mixtape than you’ll spend listening is fucking with our parity
Béla Fleck – Drive
Rummy and ham hock; bowed over picnic table spooning sides of each other’s breath
Toby Foster – On Moving and Standing Still
Envelop me, autumn, and Suck the ants through my floorboards Back to the underworld
Shaquille O’Neal – Shaq Diesel
I didn’t crawl my way out the gulf just to blow my knee standing up
Lucio Dalla – Storie Di Casa Mia
my mother tongue reduced to “mangia” sunlight to sugar to syrup
Richard Thompson – Mock Tudor
mom juices carrots singing the same half of a cowboy junkies chorus
wavelets – friends followed by actions
Shell of a second Beer at the fray of my jorts Nodding and swaying
Maurice Jarre – The Mosquito Coast (Original Soundtrack Recording)
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Bent Outta Shape – Stray Dog Town
dude flirting at the vape shop has his own standards he thinks he’s nailing
Blackstreet – Blackstreet
jumpshot hits front rim must have forgotten my legs now I have to fetch
Indigo Girls – Swamp Ophelia
Hornet at the stone table, more angry at my ears than worried about its nest.
Enrique Iglesias – Enrique
What’s so threatening to God about me wanting to live forever? I just have more love to give.
Joe Higgs – Life of Contradiction
No stains on the sports page, I take my coffee hoping for updates to the blogs of my idols‘ middle age
Shania Twain – Shania Twain
At what point did I start dreaming in decimals
The Wallflowers – Exit Wounds
Nobody can think like me. Not even my phone’s auto-fill, that dumb duck.
Jayne Cortez – Unsubmissive Blues
Gulls about the cliff casting shadows I thought were darker birds. Gone on the same gust.
The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work
the only note of my dad’s fashion I want to play is grabbing an unassuming cap on my way to get bagels
Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes – Wake Up Everybody
You know Alexa is racist when she won’t even dig deep enough to play Hendrix on her 60s rock channel
Verlaines – Bird-Dog
Relieved Proust never knew the rufous sfumato at the heart of the first U.S.-edition Rapidash card
Ricardo Cocciante – Anima
so far between — like a squirrel descending a tree to burrow into a mountain
The Van Pelt – Sultans of Sentiment
Beetle over blade Crow under cloud How did I once spend my afternoons?
The Caroline Know – Light Flow Days
I’ve been in fewer hands than this used CD in this harbor town
North Country: Pickin’ on Bob Dylan
with the courage of a room; traveled west breaking flowers; mending laurel swords| *words from “Bob Dylan’s Dream” and “Changing of the Guard” by Bob Dylan
Sticks & Stones – Theme Song for Nothing
we poured out of high school into cars into homes back into cars like sharks with only fungus to hunt
Shook Ones – Sixteen
Kim Shattuck died tonight and you want your trophic integrity tested?
Linda Thompson – One Clear Moment
The old suspense of ruler bent away from young wrist spared not my mom
Joe Tex – He Who Is Without Funk Cast The First Stone
I’m a delicacy; may God drown me in Armagnac ‘fore He barbecues me.
Imamu Amiri Baraka – It’s Nation Time
Co-pain. HR protect th’company from you. Ache are from you.
Lovers – Dark Light
our film’s two settings: shore of my backyard canal driveway, you reverse
Kim Weston – This is America
alright make it quick the mayor is breathing down my ass on this one
The Orchids – Unholy Soul
On the walk back the sky re-hues from salmon to whale belly
Sarah Dougher – The Bluff
you’re the smell of fresh yogurt cake I want to fold warm into ice cream
Dan Seals – Rage On
The fleas stormed our yard and got caught in our leg hair. Baby, peace is coming.
The House that Trax Built
You arrived first at double-digit sneaker size and testified to us the grace of T-Macs.
Ike Quebec – It Might as Well Be Spring
though in Providence the pond was still frozen, and I tread it ’til sunrise when the train returned to Boston
Great Neck – Esoterexorcism
dead giveaway proves tips from omaha legend probably prettiest woman in the world
Glenn Jones – My Garden State
Too hot for corduroy but I must dress like a 70s boy
Richie Havens – Connections
Place is in boxes, so I ash in the wok that scrambled my eggs.
Van Morrison – Magic Time
Back when Lucy, enduring that first dark night of predatorsound, cursed her ears
Lifter Puller – Lifter Puller
your stoned face framed by my foggy rear windshield the cop asks me what’s up with you
Joy Harjo – Winding Through the Milky Way
Something discouraged the heron and shielded the clam in the current.
The Boston Pops Orchestra – America, the Beautiful
Stuffed in a Burdines dressing room, distresssed that my pants never seemed to fall effortlessly, like a cartoon’s.
The Roches – Can We Go Home Now
On balance, are more voids closed than left open? I hope we hug again.
Chris Farren – Like a Gift from God or Whatever
sand pine lacks the aroma of Fraser fir, plus it’s got that trash accent.
Suzzy & Maggie Roche – Why the Long Face
the cat’s now suspicious of folds in the blanket it’s slept on since breakfast
Terre Roche – Imprint
Our love has been blessed by the magic that tore the Dakotas apart.
St. Dad – St. Dad
I’m chewing on serviettes. I, the landlord who can evict death.
Chris Wollard & the Ship Thieves – Chris Wollard & the Ship Thieves
incoming, cleats up not so much a boy as a cassowary
Flaco Jimenez – entre humo y botellas
Reunion at the mall we ditched high school for. Enter any sweepstakes lately?
The Ocean Party – Soft Focus
do you really want this man with his finger on the button of the Keurig?
Paul Pena – Paul Pena
your voice echoed with the thwack of a tarot card turn
This is My Fist – A History of Rats
pinesoot to ink wheatpaste to bind you ate our acres to shit that yard sign
Martha & the Muffins – This is the Ice Age
I sold those records to afford a haircut for a job interview
Kathy Acker & the Mekons – Pussy, King of the Pirates
Was there even sex before the ’96 Ford Taurus queered our windshields?
Amy Ray – Stag
I was a born capitalist. My mom went into debt just having me.
David Ruffin – David Ruffin
You done me wrong. Like prose on a Scantron.
Swales – What’s His Name
Oh, steady life. Plum pits cairn’d atop a cypress knee.
The Style Council – Introducing the Style Council
Your eyes Vince Carter in powder blue. The knee-socked looks I’d serve to you.
Pernice Brothers – The World Won’t End
Dance studio at dusk. Masked ballerinas waiting For masked moms.
Andrew Hill – Judgment!
Yonder fallen branch appears a lizard or cat. I’m not holding your gun.
Arrested Development – Zingalamaduni
ants at the threshold heat lightning decides it needs what the clouds have
Bits of Shit – Cut Sleeves
Pretending I had anyone to text. Smokers’ patio.
Karl Blau – Introducing Karl Blau
I left you with your shoulders stiff like the shelf of a crepe myrtle pruned.