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Jockos And Homos All Love Devo

I discovered Devo as a child, like I had with Talking Heads and The Specials, on Saturday Night Live during my musical awakening period in the late '70s and the dawn of the '80s.
Devo performed a herky-jerky cover of The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" while wearing yellow radiation suits on the 1978 show hosted by Fred Willard. The band members then peeled off the suits…
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Rural Alberta Advantage Become Hometown Heroes

The opening lyrics on The Rural Alberta Advantage's debut full-length, Hometowns, are looking more portentous by the day: "We invariably left the prairies."
"The Ballad Of The RAA," the track that line is taken from, is the trio's unofficial theme song, and it aptly sums up the their current trajectory. It feels like The RAA's success is inevitable.
Hometowns was generally overlooked when it was released…

The opening lyrics on The Rural Alberta Advantage's debut…



| 1 | Flaming Lips Embryonic |
| 2 | We Are Wolves * Invisible Violence |
| 3 | You Say Party! We Say Die! * XXXX |
| 4 | Tegan And Sara * Sainthood |
| 5 | The King Khan & BBQ Show * Invisible Girl |

| 1 | Converge Axe To Fall |
| 2 | Slayer World Painted Blood |
| 3 | Priestess * Prior To The Fire |
| 4 | Megadeth Endgame |
| 5 | Sacrifice The Ones I Condemn |

| 1 | Antipop Consortium Fluorescent Black |
| 2 | Brother Ali Us |
| 3 | Swollen Members * Armed To The Teeth |
| 4 | Del The Funky Homosapien And Tame One Parallel Uni-Verse |
| 5 | Lytics * Lytics |

| 1 | Boys Noize Power |
| 2 | Junk Culture West Coast |
| 3 | Chromeo * DJ Kicks |
| 4 | Vitalic Flashmob |
| 5 | Vitaminsforyou * He Closed His Eyes So He Could Dance With You |

| 1 | Various Artists Ghana Special - Modern Highlife Afro-sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 |
| 2 | Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Volume 2: Echoes Hypnotiques |
| 3 | Alex Cuba * Alex Cuba |
| 4 | Various Artists Tumbele! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds From The French Caribbean 1963-1973 |
| 5 | Mulatu Astatke New York - Addis - London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975 |

| 1 | Henry Threadgill Zooid This Brings Us To, Vol. 1 |
| 2 | Tony Foster * In Between Moods |
| 3 | Wadada Leo Smith Spiritual Dimensions |
| 4 | Harris Eisenstadt * Canada Day |
| 5 | Various Artists Putumayo Presents: Jazz Around The World |
