On this week’s edition –> Michele K-Tel blares new music from Mogwai, Stephen Malkmus, French hurdy-gurdy maestro Valentin Clastrier + Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, PLUS hops a freight train with The Cramps, Laura Veirs and Bonnie “Prince” Billy and gets HAPPY in the new year with múm, The Buzzcocks, Willem Brueker and Lee “Scratch” Perry. ¡Feliz año nuevo!

Playlist 1.9.2014

The Cramps “Drug Train” Off The Bone (A&M)
Railroad Jerk “The Ballad Of Railroad Jerk” One Track Mind (Matador)
Billy Bragg “Train Train” Talking to the Taxman About Poetry (Elektra)
Laura Veirs “Say Darlin’ Say” Warp and Weft (Nonesuch)
Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Milk Train” What The Brothers Sang (Palace Records)

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra “Take Away These Early Grave” Blues Fuck Off We Pour Free Light On Everything (Constellation)
Cat Power “Human Being” Sun (Matador)
Julie Ruin “Girls Like Us” Run Fast (The Julie Ruin)
Blow “I Tell Myself Everything” The Blow (Kanine)

Mogwai “Simon Ferocious” Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)
Alasdair Roberts “Join Our Lusty Chorus” Farewell Sorrow (Drag City)
Valentin Clastrier “Au fond des temps, pt. 1” Valentin Clastrier (Innacor)
Julianna Barwick “Forever” Nepenthe (Dead Oceans)

Stephen  Malkmus + The Jicks “Rumble at the Rainbo” Wig Out at Jig Bags (Matador)
Boogarins “Erre” As Plantas Que Curam (Other Music)
Nikki Sudden “Kitchen Blues” Treasure Island (Secretly Canadian)
John Fahey “Worried Blues” Return Of The Repressed: Anthology (Rhino)
Roosevelt Sykes “Boot That Thing” 1929-41 (Phantom Sound & Vision)
Thee Oh Sees “What You Need” Singles Vol 3 (Castleface)

múm “One Smile” Smile Wound (Morr Music)
The Buzzcocks “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays” Singles Going Steady (Parlophone)
Willem Breuker Kollektief • Mondriaan Strings • Toby Rix “I Want to be Happy” Metropolis (BVHaast)
Little Frankie “Happy, That’s Me” Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found: One Kiss Can Lead To Another (Rhino)
The Memories “Squeeze Me” Love is the Law (Burger)
Country Rockers “My Happiness” Free Range Chicken (Telstar)
The Kinks Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy The Singles Collection
Lee “Scratch” Perry “I am Happiness” Who Put The Voodoo `Pon Reggae? (Ariwa Sounds)

Burial “Come Down To Us” Rival Dealer EP (Hyperdub)