Tonight’s edition –> a Special AKA salute to Nelson Mandela, NEW music from DOTT, Xiu Xiu covering Nina Simone, live Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Niger’s Tal National + Michele K-Tel celebrates the 80th anniversary of REPEAL DAY with a bunch of songs about booze.

Playlist 12.5.13

Bruno Blum/Nelson Mandela “Amandla Dub” Human Race (Patch Work)
Special AKA “Free Nelson Mandela” 12″ (Chrysalis)
Sam Fan Thomas “Zimo (To Nelson Mandela)” Makassa Again (Musiki Cameroun)

DOTT “Leave Tonight” Swoon (Graveface)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down “You Can Have It All” The Feeling Kind – EP (Ribbon Music)
Xiu Xiu “See Line Woman”  Nina (Graveface)
Nina Simone “Don’t Take All Night” Gold (Verve)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Mermaid”  Live from KCRW (Bad Seed Ltd)
Sharkmuffin “Mermaid Sex Slave” CMJ Mixtape – Best of 2013
Death Grips “Feels like a Wheel” Government Plates (Harvest)
Jagwar Ma “Exercise” Howlin (Mom+Pop)
Dirty Three “Sometimes I Forget You’ve Gone” Toward The Low Sun (Drag City)

94 East “If You See Me” Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound Sampler (Numero Uno)
Mariachi El Bronx “I Would Die 4 U” SPIN Presents Purplish Rain
Batata Y Su Rumba Palenquera “Macaco Mata El Toro (Reaganomics Remix)” Geko Jones & Atropolis present: Palenque Records Remixed (Palenque)
Tal National “Zigda” Kaani (Fat Cat)

…a spotlight on the 80th Anniversary of Repeal Day…12/5/1933
Ivor Cutler “An American Drink” A Wet Handle
Tito Puente “The Drinking Mambo” The Complete 78s Vol.1 (1949-55)  (Fania)
Catherine Irwin “Piss to Gin” Little Heater (Thrill Jockey)
Tom Waits “Jockey Full Of Bourbon” Rain Dogs (Island)
Gil Scott-Heron “The Bottle” Tales Of Gil Scott Heron and his Amnesia Express (Castle)
Meridian Brothers “Fiesta (Con El Whiskey Del Folclore)” Desesperanza (Soundway)