The Next Round - Episode 49: Cris Jacobs

Two Maryland dudes hanging out.  This episode would've been longer, but the recorder stopped for some unknown reason.  I turned it back on in time to capture most of this conversation with Cris Jacobs.  While you may remember Cris from Baltimore jamband The Bridge, he's been solo since 2012, releasing his fantastic second record, Dust to Gold, a few weeks ago.  Already an accomplished guitarist, Jacobs explains how songwriting has become his main focus, taking inspiration from everything from Cormac McCarthy novels to becoming a father.

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Click here for Cris Jacobs' tour dates/tickets.
Get tickets to the Bridge's reunion show.
Buy Dust to Gold on iTunes.
Hear "Jack the Whistle & the Hammer" on The Next Round Companion Playlist.

The Next Round - Episode 48: Emily King

The Next Round returns with a new episode featuring Grammy-nominated R&B artist, Emily King.  Emily was double-booked, so the interview is on the short side, but it's still a good chat.  Find out how she celebrated her birthday on the road, why she chose to release a deluxe edition of last year's The Switch, and her recipe for the perfect PB&J.

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Buy The Switch (Deluxe Edition) on iTunes.
Visit Emily's website.
Listen to "Sleepwalker" on The Next Round Companion Playlist.

Mike Doughty Rough Trade Setlist

Review soon.

MIKE DOUGHTY - 10.25.16 - ROUGH TRADE NYC (29 minutes)

SET -

Busting Up a Starbucks / Janine / Wait! You'll Find a Better Way / Lazybones / I Can't Believe I Found You in That Town / Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating in the Future / Making Me Lay Down

Cris Jacobs American Beauty Setlist

Recap to come.

CRIS JACOBS - 10.19.16 - AMERICAN BEAUTY (1 hour, 16 minutes)

SET -

Delivery Man / Jack the Whistle & the Hammer / Hallelujah Hustler / Kind Woman / Samson & Delilah / Bone Digger / The Devil or Jesse James / Be My Stars / Bad Locomotive / Cold Carolina / Good to You / Shine Your Weary Light

Matthew Logan Vasquez Bowery Ballroom Setlist

Review to come.

MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ - 10.18.16 - BOWERY BALLROOM (40 minutes)

SET -

Stand Up / Fires Down in Mexico / Personal / Maria / Halfcolt / Crippler King > Land of 1000 Dances (tease) > Crippler King / Blue Eyes / Theater / Everything I Do is Out

Rx Bandits 10th Anniversary of And the Battle Begun Irving Plaza Setlist

Review to come.

RX BANDITS - 10.10.16 - IRVING PLAZA (1 hour, 33 minutes)

SET -

ntro / ...And the Battle Begun / In Her Drawer / Only for the Night / On a Lonely Screen > 1980 > One Million Miles an Hour, Fast Asleep / Apparition / A Mouth Full of Hollow Threats? / Mirror in the Bathroom > Epoxi-Lips > Tainted Wheat > To Our Unborn Daughters / Crushing Destroyer

ENCORE -

Overcome (the Recapitulation) / Ruby Cumulous / Unknown* > Stargazer / Taking Chase as the Serpent Slithers > Spottieottiedopaliscious (tease) > Taking Chase as the Serpent Slithers / Decrescendo

Kishi Bashi Webster Hall Setlist

Review to come.

KISHI BASHI - 10.02.16 - WEBSTER HALL (1 hour, 51 minutes)

SET -
Statues in a Gallery / Hey Big Star / M'Lover / Carry on Phenomenon / Atticus, In the Desert (feat. Philip Mayer) / Improvisation > Bright Whites / Who'd You Kill > Can't Let Go, Juno / Say Yeah / Ode to My Next Life / I Am the Antichrist to You / Bittersweet Genesis for Him & Her / The Ballad of Mr. Steak / Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! / It All Began with a Burst

ENCORE -

Honeybody / Q&A / Manchester

Monthly Mix #19: September 2016

September 2016:
It's been a weird, scattered month.  I think the playlist reflects that.



1. Kishi Bashi - "Honeybody"
The closing track from K's new album, Sonderlust.  It exemplifies each stage of his solo career from modified violin loops to string quartets to electro-pop.

2. Kush Mody feat. Anderson Paak - "Freight Train"
Your monthly dose of Paak.

3. Terra Lightfoot - "No Hurry"
Just a really solid rock song.

4. Booker T. feat. Mayer Hawthorne - "Sound the Alarm"
I was generally let down by Hawthorne's latest LP, so I turned to this one from Booker T.'s 2013 record of the same name.

5. Amos Lee - "Lightly"
Amos makes a pretty compelling case for being alone.

6. Miniature Tigers - "Crying in the Sunshine"
I like hearing acoustic guitar in my Miniature Tigers songs.

7. Dawes - "One of Us"
I appreciate that Dawes are always expanding their sound.  This makes a bold statement as the opener on We're All Gonna Die.

8. UB40 - "The Way You Do the Things You Do"
The Temptations version was stuck in my head, but with the sax part from this cover.

9. Roosevelt - "Night Moves"
This will tide you over until the next Daft Punk or Phoenix album.

10. Radiohead - "True Love Waits"
I almost cried the first time I heard the studio version back in May.  It almost made it onto each monthly mix since, but it was never the right time.  It had to wait.