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You’re getting older. And you don’t know why. And you don’t know what to do…

RIP Hamish Kilgour. 1957-2022.

Hamish Kilgour – The last beatnik
by Roger Shepherd (Flying Nun)

Life story: Musician Hamish Kilgour ’emanated generosity, possibility’ 
by Philip Matthews (The Press)

‘An understated power’: Hamish Kilgour of the Clean remembered as a restless innovator
by Matthew Goody (The Guardian)

“He was the yin and the yang, the sturm and the drang, the bucket, the glue, the whole shebang.” – Robert Scott

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 10 December 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • THE CLEAN – Getting Older *
  • JUST ANOTHER JUNE – Driving
  • ANNUAL LEAF – Racing Heart
  • HISS EXPLOSION – Blue wave
  • THE CHATS – THE PRICE OF SMOKES
  • DR HITCHCOCK – Disco Brutus (F.L.O.)
  • WILLEM WOLFE – Tobiko Bubblebath (Tour De Tokyo)
  • AKIO NAGASE – Mongol 303
  • HELENA HAUFF – Your Turn To Fly
  • DAVID SHRIGLEY – Rock Festival
  • ERNY BELLE – Nuclear Bombs
  • SHIT AND SHINE – Miami
  • R.A.P. FERREIRA – sittlichkeit (prod. Basico & ZOCHI)
  • ROME STREETZ – Ugly Balenciagas
  • PAUL HUMPHREY & HIS COOL AID CHEMISTS – Baby Rice
  • EBB & ILL FIGS – C Beams
  • PAIGE JULIA – Ease Your Mind
  • YOUNG GHO$T – JUNGLE HOLIDAY
  • PRIZEFIGHT – Maintenance (nickname & No Name Nath’s Old Skool Mix)
  • FRIKARDO – When Up Is Down
  • KATE BOLLINGER – Running
  • WEYES BLOOD – It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody
  • BREANNA BARBARA – You Got Me High
  • KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH – Is it Me or is it You?
  • GRAND RIVER – Human
  • MITRA MITRA – Gappy Spheres
  • ASTROLOOP – Drape
  • KHOTIN – Fountain, Growth (feat. Tess Roby)

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: And, baby, where you hidin’ my tobacco?

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 3 December 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

    • ah! – God Save September
    • UTO – Row Paddle
    • CONFLICT AT SERENTIY POOLS – where you are i am
    • RUN THE JEWELS – Run The Jewels
    • CHRISSI – Lipo*
    • DEAN BLUNT – LONDON TONIGHT FREESTYLE (featuring Skepta, Novelist, A$AP Rocky)
    • RAMP – Daylight
    • JENNY HVAL – Buffy
    • BLIND CARBON COPY – Galaxy Defender
    • ICE SPICE – Bikini Bottom
    • BIBI CLUB – Parasite
    • katie dey – the kraken
    • MICHAEL J. BLOOD & RAT HEART – Ant Works
    • MABSZ – Destination
    • PYROPHORIA – Botan Doro
    • NILÜFER YANYA – The Dealer (Live at Glastonbury 2022)
    • NANCY – ENGLISH LEATHER
    • HALO MAUD – Pesnopoïka
    • ELA MINUS & DJ PYTHON – Kiss U
    • PAYFONE – Put Your Face Away
    • H. HAWKLINE – Milk For Flowers
    • METAL PREYERS – Escape – The Sunrise
    • THE MOD 4 – A Puppet
    • BLACK HARMONY – Don’t Let It Go To Your Head
    • OCTOPIZZO – No Signal (featuring Buruklyn Boyz)
    • STEVE MASON – No More (featuring Javed Bashir)
    • rROXYMORE – Fragmented Dreams
    • T5UMUT5UMU – Bottomless Valley
    • AUGENWASSER – Keep It Together
    • SAINT JUDE – Halfway (featuring Low Loudly)

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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You wouldn’t listen to any of us…

XXXX is Australian for PUNK, obvs.

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 26 November 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • THOMAS L. BIGELOW – Walking Meditation
  • ZANE 2000 – Get Me Off This Sphere
  • ZANE 2000 – There Is A Better Way
  • ZANE 2000 – Boom
  • CURSES – Ghost Of Arms (feat. Terr)
  • HATCHIE – Til We Run Out Of Air
  • CRUUSH – Sombre By The Weekend
  • MEDAL – Night Falls
  • MAD FRANK – My Love
  • TENNIS – One Night with The Valet
  • SOFIE ROYER – Feeling Bad Forsyth Street
  • NAJA NAJA – Sunset Shopping Center
  • WAR CLUB – Fluffy Clouds
  • THE CHATS – OUT ON THE STREET
  • SUDAN ARCHIVES – NBPQ (Topless)
  • RHYS LANGSTON – DJ Khaled Muff Diving (feat. Big Flowers, Pink Navel, Old Grape God) [prod. spinitch]
  • ANDREW MBARUK – So… You’ve Become a Surrealist
  • MALI-I – This Place feat. Natty Wylah
  • KERBSIDE COLLECTION – Ortigas
  • DON GLORI – Commodore
  • 2XM – Love Unbound
  • SOUND SIGNALS – Stevie´s Groove
  • CLIVE FROM ACCOUNTS – Pearls feat. Jessica Roch
  • RED AXES – 20 Min
  • ROSETOWN – Aeternum Vale
  • BILL CALLAHAN – Coyotes
  • SUPERSWAN – Teknospell
  • SOCIAL SPORT – Living With

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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The Show: I’ll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror

Rest in peace Keith Levene. We celebrate his memory with a couple of live versions of PIL‘s “Poptones”.

One aural, recorded in Paris in 1980 (today’s lucky last track). One visual, from American Bandstand later that same year. The latter must surely be one of the oddest performances ever to grace US network television.

Even before the news of his passing reached us the playlist already had a post-punk flavour from the old (Killing Joke, Kitchen & The Spoons) to the new (Iceage, Spooner).

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 19 November 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • LADY LYKEZ – Woza (featuring Toya Delazy)
  • MARIA UZOR – Over This
  • CARLA DAL FORNO – Mind You’re On
  • DENNIS HARTE – Summer’s Over
  • KILL YOUR BOYFRIEND – Buster
  • PYROPHORIA – People Are Strange
  • BROCKHAMPTON – Big Pu**y
  • TAYLOR SWIFT – Anti-Hero (Girl Talk Remix) *
  • katie dey – few hours later
  • MICHAEL J. BLOOD & RAT HEART – T.R.O.U.B.L.E
  • JJUUJJUU – Daisy Chain
  • RHYS LANGSTON – Obscenely Poetic
  • CANIBUS – Lift Up The Block (Dirty)
  • KILLING JOKE – Requiem
  • YOU’RE THE BEST – Fuck You Ted
  • GERARD PALAPRAT – Un Homme A Disparu Dans Le Ciel
  • SEVYN STREETER – 23
  • ICE SPICE – Munch (Feelin’ U)
  • CONFLICT AT SERENTIY POOLS – am i me
  • RANKING ANN – Immigration Plan
  • MISS GRIT – Follow The Cyborg
  • PVA – Bad Dad
  • YARD ACT VS MAD PROFESSOR – Pour More
  • ICEAGE – Shake The Feeling
  • KITCHEN AND THE PLASTIC SPOONS – Ice Cream To God
  • SNOOPER – Subdivision
  • PARIAH – Frogspawn
  • NAPPYNAPPA WIFIGAWD – N💫N★ S💫M🌑NE
  • CONFLICT AT SERENTIY POOLS – don’t feed bear
  • carpetgarden – da da song
  • TOUCHY – Tout Petit La Planète
  • JUZER – Layer of Moleman
  • IMAGE PUBLIQUE S.A. – Timbres De Pop

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.

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Through your first story window I see my favourite record store…

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Rest in peace Mimi Parker. Hard to pick one track to celebrate her voice, percussion and songwriting. Instead, one track from each of Low’s albums so that we slow down time and immerse ourselves in beautiful and unsettling dreams.

The Guardian: Low’s Mimi Parker was a voice of hope and healing in indie rock

The Guardian: ‘She was so casual about her genius’: musicians on Low’s Mimi Parker

And on with the show…

Direct download: The Joint – 12 November 2022

Notebooks out completists, here’s the playlist in full…

  • LOW – Condescend
  • LOW – Two-Step
  • LOW – Laser Beam
  • LOW – Point Of Disgust
  • LOW – Broadway (So Many People) *
  • LOW – Pretty People
  • LOW – Holy Ghost
  • LOW – Landslide
  • LOW – All Night
  • NO BRA – The Cult of Hierarchy
  • MAD FRANK/VIOLET FRENCH – Break My Neck
  • T. G. SHAND – WAWO
  • HATCHIE – Don’t Leave Me In The Rain
  • 100% – Second Chances
  • THE TACKS – Someone Else
  • KERBSIDE COLLECTION – New Day, New Year
  • DON GLORI – The Wire
  • SOUND SIGNALS – Stevie’s Groove (Soul Renegades Remix)
  • ZANE 2000 – Rain Dream
  • TUPPERWAVE – Jane Fonda
  • ORBITAL & SLEAFORD MODS – Dirty Rat
  • RHYS LANGSTON – Progressive House, Conservative Ligature (feat. Fatboi Sharif) [prod. Opal-Kenobi]
  • ANDREW MBARUK – Who’s That Man on the Mic?
  • BILL CALLAHAN – Natural Information
  • BREANNA BARBARA – Diamond Light
  • MARGOT ET MAX – Monte La Musique
  • FLOATING POINTS – Someone Close

* The inspiration for this week’s lyrical heading.