On tonight’s edition –> Michele K-Tel celebrates the Year of the HORSE along with new Yellow Ostrich, African nomads Tinarawen, German pianist Hauschka and Aussie slacker singer-songwriter — Courtney Barnett.

Playlist 2.6.14

The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience “I Like Rain” s/t (Flying Nun)
Get the Blessing “Hope (forthemoment)” Lope and Antilope (Naim Jazz)
Neneh Cherry “Everything” Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
Yellow Ostrich “Neon Fists” Cosmos (Barsuk)

Noise Pop showcase @The Rickshaw in SF on 2/24:
Courtney Barnett “Avant Gardener” The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (Milk! Records)
Kin “Absblurd” Kins (East City)
Fever The Ghost “A Parliament of Owls Determine the Fates of Greater Men No less Than 5 Stories Above Us in a Dream” Crab in Honey (Complicated Game)
Rich Girls “Stink Like Stones” The One I Want (Tricycle)

Tinariwen “Emajer (The Heart on the Breeze)” Emmarr (ANTI)
Mochipet “Ride On” Microphonepet -Instrumentals and Acapellas (Daly City Records)
The Funkees “Break Through” Dancing Time, the Best of Eastern Nigeria’s Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77 (Soundway Records)
Roberto Fonseca “Bibisa (count remix)” Yo (Concord Jazz)

马快乐的一年
DJ Dolores “Flying Horse” 1 Real (Ziriguiboom)
The Vaselines “The Day I Was A Horse” The Way Of The Vaselines (Sub Pop)
Hanggai “Beautfiful Mongolian Horse” He Who Travels Far (FOUR QUARTERS)
Perez Prado and His Orchestra “Caballo Negro (Black Horse)” Mondo Mambo! (Rhino)
Ry Cooder and Manuel Galbán “Caballo Viejo” Mambo Sinuendo (Nonesuch)
John Vanderslice “Behold A Pale Horse” MGM Endings: Cellar Door Remixes (Barsuk)
Silver Jews “Sometimes A Pony Gets Depressed” Tanglewood Numbers (Drag City)
The Ponys “I’m With You” Celebration Castle (In the Red)

Cibo Matto “Emerald Tuesday” Hotel Valentine (Virtual)
Vic Chesnutt “Super Tuesday” Drunk (New West)
Elvis Costello and The Attractions “Wednesday Week” Armed Forces (Hip-O)
Prefuse 73 “Beaten Thursdays” Preparations (WARP)
Nouvelle Vague “Friday Night, Saturday Morning” Nouvelle Vague (Luaka Bop)
Ray Charles and The Count Basie Orchestra “Every Saturday Night” Ray Sings, Basie Swings (Concord)
The Velvet Underground “Sunday Morning” Peel Slowly And See (Polydor)

Hauschka “Elizabeth Bay” Abandoned City (Temporary Residence Ltd.)