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Visual artist and founder and editor-in-chief of The Editorial Magazine Claire Milbrath joins us for an hour of ambient, classical, and italian library music.

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Amila, the founder of Altered Soul Experiment brings monthly transmissions of soul, boogie, disco and his Search For Peace series, covering soothing and cerebral ambient jazz and fourth world selections.

Bassholes

Bassholes

Bassholes has been played on NTS in shows including Got Kinda Lost Records Presents Planet Fever, featured first on 13 May 2016. Songs played include Jack At Night and Hey O.J..

Rising from the ashes of the defunct Gibson Bros. in 1992, The Bassholes emerged to kick up an extremely stripped-down, raw, blues-infected racket. Their debut single, "98 Degrees In The Shade", and their debut album, "Blue Roots", (both released on ITR in ’92) set a new standard for rank sounding recordings. Recorded in their basement and mastered from crappy cassette tapes, these guys single handedly started the whole lo-fi-two-man-blues-band genre. Basically a solo vehicle for the twisted vision of Don Howland, the Bassholes output has been unpredictable. Don's influences run the gambit: Skip James, The Germs, 70's Disco, Hip-Hop - it's all in there. Albums such as "Deaf Mix" and "Long Way Blues" (released on the Matador label) are avante-blues-folk records where as 1998’s "When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again" is blistering garage-punk. Country blues has always been at the heart of the Bassholes music and sexual and social frustration has always been at the heart of Don's songwriting.

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Bassholes

Bassholes has been played on NTS in shows including Got Kinda Lost Records Presents Planet Fever, featured first on 13 May 2016. Songs played include Jack At Night and Hey O.J..

Rising from the ashes of the defunct Gibson Bros. in 1992, The Bassholes emerged to kick up an extremely stripped-down, raw, blues-infected racket. Their debut single, "98 Degrees In The Shade", and their debut album, "Blue Roots", (both released on ITR in ’92) set a new standard for rank sounding recordings. Recorded in their basement and mastered from crappy cassette tapes, these guys single handedly started the whole lo-fi-two-man-blues-band genre. Basically a solo vehicle for the twisted vision of Don Howland, the Bassholes output has been unpredictable. Don's influences run the gambit: Skip James, The Germs, 70's Disco, Hip-Hop - it's all in there. Albums such as "Deaf Mix" and "Long Way Blues" (released on the Matador label) are avante-blues-folk records where as 1998’s "When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again" is blistering garage-punk. Country blues has always been at the heart of the Bassholes music and sexual and social frustration has always been at the heart of Don's songwriting.

Original source Last.fm

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Most played tracks

Jack At Night
The Bassholes
Solid Sex Lovie Doll Records2006
Hey O.J.
The Bassholes
In The Red Recordings1995