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Storytime for Deadheads: My Grateful Dead Stories - March 2, 1966 "60 Years Ago Today" blog posts here all this year, the year I first lived with the Dead. TODAY'S POST - March 2, 2026: The continuing narrative on living in L.A. with Phil, the Dead, and Owsley.

dead freaks: rosie mcgee launched a newsletter & is posting 60th anniversary stories. around this time in 1966, she moved in with the band in los angeles, where they'd relocated with owsley. therealrosiemcgee.substack.com/p/storytime-...

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I can’t believe this is already 2 years old. It still sounds so fresh to these ears. Get it online, if you haven’t already!

@wfmu.bsky.social’s Marathon starts March 2nd. Help keep their airwaves strong and independent forever. Pledge!! wfmu.org/swag/

Check out the latest episode of The Record Crates United Mixtape in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/03/01/t...

@wfmu.bsky.social’s Marathon starts March 2nd. Help keep their airwaves strong and independent forever. Pledge!! wfmu.org/swag/

I’m happy to find one of my pieces was featured in the new issue of LCD by @wfmu.bsky.social! Definitely get yourself a copy if you don’t have it yet. I think it’s one of their absolute best.

"If Les Rallizes Dénudés, Taj Mahal Travelers and Bardo Pond albums exist in your record collection, then this is a set that deserves to be on the same shelf."

oh HELL YEAH
more Heavy Lidders coming your way soon - YOU BETCHA

Happy release day to Shane Parish's Autechre Guitar!

shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Check out my article about the latest two live records by Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders, Live at Tubby’s and British Lidderin’ - May 2025. Fans of all things kosmische and psychedelic should not sleep on these albums! recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/26/l... @lidders.bsky.social

Tune in tonight 7-9 to catch me live on the air with some great new tracks from the eclectic underground: www.em-radio.com

Abronia – Shapes Unravel Portland’s desert kosmische legends, Abronia, has returned with a record that finds the band in perhaps their deepest surrealist Spaghetti Western mode yet, and we couldn’t be more tran…

Abronia’s new album is a slice of kosmische desert rock set to a cinematic scale. Check out my review for this truly unique record recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/24/a...

Check out my latest playlist: recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/21/t...

🔊: “Taqsim for Guitar,” by Marisa Anderson

Drew Gardner – Wave Field Elkhorn’s Drew Gardner is the kind of musician who instinctively locks into his collaborators’ dynamics and sound, elevating their collective strengths into bold, uncharted musical territory. On hi…

Drew Gardner is in absolutely top, vibey form on his latest solo LP, Wave Field, playing in a tight supergroup with Garcia Peoples’ Tom Malach and Andy Cush and drummer Ryan Jewell. Check it out: recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/20/d...

Tune in and hang with me live on the air 7-9 tonight only on www.em-radio.com

Steve Palmer always delivers the goods. Give his new album a listen.

Check out this week’s episode of The Record Crates United Mixtape in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/15/t...

Tacoma Park Announces New Album, Baltimore Being one of today’s groups that can blend Americana music with synthy kosmische electronics in a way that is wholly unique and peerless, it’s always especially exciting when we get wor…

For a gleaming mix of kosmische electronics and rustic Americana sounds, you can’t miss the upcoming LP by Tacoma Park, due out on Centripetal Force on 4/24. Check it out recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/13/t...

The Perilous Fight - Vol. 2: We the People, by Seawind of Battery 24 track album

Get it: seawindofbattery.bandcamp.com/album/the-pe...

Steve Palmer – Supertramp Preset Psychedelic guitarist Steve Palmer’s first full-length solo venture in five years picks up right where his classic Useful Histories LP left off, and it was certainly worth the wait. Available…

Minneapolis-based psych guitar wizard, Steve Palmer, dazzles with his unique blend of avant-boogies and acid post punk guitar workouts. recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/13/s...

Tune in tonight for two hours of choice cuts and insatiable jams from all across the eclectic underground on www.em-radio.com (or find Electromagnetic Radio on the Radio Cult App).

The Record Crates United Mixtape 195 & 196 Keith Speaks! Plankton Wat – Tentacles – The Vanishing World Full Usual – Watching TV – Full Usual-Free Grass Setting – Heard a Bubble – s/t Steve Palmer –…

Check out the last two episodes of my show in the archives: recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/07/t...

Ebo Taylor: Influential highlife and afrobeat musician dies at 90 The guitarist, composer and band leader fused Ghanaian music and funk to create tracks sampled around the world.

Influential Ghanaian highlife musician Ebo Taylor dies at 90

Centripetal Force and Seawind of Battery Announce The Perilous Fight – Vol. 1: Justice for All, a Three-Volume Benefit Compilation in Support of Immigrant Justice In response to the ever worsening fascist climate our nation has slumped its way into, Seawind of Battery and Centripetal Force, one of today’s best esoteric underground labels, put out the c…

Centripetal Force and Seawind of Battery have worked together to create a 3-volume benefit album in support of Immigrant Justice, with the first installment being released today. All proceeds will be donated directly to the National Immigrant Justice Center. recordcratesunited.com/2026/02/06/c...

Tune in to www.em-radio.con tonight for some fresh eclectic morsels from the esoteric underground. Come hang and enjoy the tunes.

Benefit Concert to help the great Jennifer Kelly in her fight against pancreatic cancer. With Lee Renaldo & Michael Vallera, Myriam Gendron, Sunburned Hand of the Man & Gift Horse.
March 21st @ Union Pool, Brooklyn.

Tune in to The Record Crates United Mixtape on www.em-radio.com tonight for a new episode full of fresh and exciting sounds from the underground, like “Tentacles,” the new single by Plankton Wat, of which you are hearing right now.

The Early – I Want to Be Ready (+ and an Island House Recordings Primer) On their latest LP, experimental rockers The Early create drifty, minimalist jazz fusion soundscapes that hum, drone and rumble like the atmosphere of a clockwork city. Initially formed in northern…

On their latest LP, experimental rockers The Early create drifty, minimalist jazz fusion soundscapes that hum, drone and rumble like the atmosphere of a clockwork city. Read more about this and several other recent Island House releases. recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/28/t...

James Waudby – The Last Days Of Mirror Life On James Waudby’s third solo record, he continues to prove himself to be one of England’s finest fingerpickers, as he uses his dexterous skills to effectively weave a dire warning of th…

With lyrical fingerpicking and softly stoic vocals, on his new LP, James Waudby warns of a bleak, dead future if England continues unchecked bioengineering and spirals further down an authoritative populist path. Everyone should listen closely. recordcratesunited.com/2026/01/27/j...