Episode 5 of Secretly Weekly - a bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi.

Track listing

1. Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys
2. Lusine - Pendulum
3. Bullion - Francis Ford
4. Early Day Miners - Placer Found
5. Superchunk - I Don't Want You Anyway
6. Dinosaur Jr. - Several Got Away
7. Scowl - Not Hell Not Heaven
8. David Vandervelde - Nothin' No
9. Jens Lekman - Still In Love With You

Credit music provided by Richard Swift.

There's no way we could fit Superchunk's discography into a sole episode of Secretly Frequencies, and today debuts the first half of our trip through the indie stalwarts' ouevre. Started by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1989, Superchunk have released thirteen studio albums, four singles collections, and founded and operate their own resolutely independent label Merge Records.

Mac McCaughan and guitarist Jim Wilbur tag-team with co-hosts Tom Davies and Eric Osmon (Run For Cover Records, Lame-o Records) to cover a couple decades' worth of music, including unexpected moments of vulnerability with Steve Albini, the evolution of the band's sound, and friendly ribbing via studio talkback. Tune in, Part 2 coming soon.

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Episode 4 of Secretly Weekly - a bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing 1. Baby Rose - Let Me Go 2. Elujay - Wushua 3. Danielle Ponder - Power 4. Bon Iver - Heavenly Father 5. HTRK - Eat Yr Heart 6. Jordan Patterson - Cinderella 7. Fruit Bats - Perhaps We're a Storm 8. Way Dynamic - Miffed It 9. Wednesday - Reality TV Argument Bleeds 10. Mitski - Your Best American Girl Credit music by Richard Swift.

Episode 3 of Secretly Weekly - a new bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing 1. Eaves Wilder - The Great Plains 2. Bizhiki - Gigawaabamin (Come Through) 3. Chanel Beads - Dust in the Wind 4. Gigi Masin - Golden 5. Sharon Van Etten - Our Love 6. Japanese Breakfast - Orlando in Love 7. Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life 8. Whitney - Golden Days (Alt Video) 9. Greg Mendez - So Mean 10. Bill Fay - Just a Moon

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Episode 2 of Secretly Weekly - a new bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks; hosted by WFHB's Music Director, Abby Noroozi. Track listing: 1. Jordan Patterson - Just My Friend 2. Dua Saleh - Firestorm 3. aja monet - working class musicians 4. Kevin Morby - 100,000 5. Drunk - Hand on Deck 6. Jensen McRae - Taboo 7. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies - Lord of the Underground 8. Closure - servant to silence 9. They Hate Change - Run the Road 10. Studio - Life's A Beach! (Todd Terje Beach House Mix)

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Introducing Secretly Weekly - a new bi-weekly podcast show highlighting the most recent tracks released in the Secretly ecosystem. Everything from Secretly Group, All Flowers Group, Merge and Numero Group. A radio show delivered to your podcast feed, once every two weeks. This week's episode features WFHB's Music Director Abby Noroozi, hosting a selection of songs from the wider Secretly ecosystem and select cuts from the Secretly catalog.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of 'Mel.' The beloved and long out-of-print East River Pipe album — F.M. Cornog's second on Merge Records — was announced late last year as Merge's first entry in Secretly Distribution's Secretly Society Record Club, the first time 'Mel' would be made available on the format since its original issue in 1996. The reissue, which features new liner notes by Barbara Powers and serves as the definitive edition of 'Mel,' uniting the album with songs that were once exclusive to US and UK versions of the CD, sold out immediately. Today, that edition of the album is available for digital purchase via the Merge Records webstore and East River Pipe's Bandcamp page. To further celebrate the occasion, Secretly Group has released a new episode of their Secretly Society podcast, featuring Powers' reminiscence of the time during which 'Mel' was recorded and released. Like all of East River Pipe's output, 'Mel' was written, performed, recorded, and mixed by F.M. Cornog on a Tascam 388 mini-studio at his home, which was then a small apartment in Astoria, Queens. Within that space, he conjures nothing less than the fullness of life beyond it, the characters and moods of New York, the way a city can feel limitless and isolating all at once. It's a daunting accomplishment, one which led The New York Times to call him "the Brian Wilson of home recording." 'Mel' is an intricately-textured indie pop tour de force, its layers of keyboard and reverb-drenched guitars giving flight to Cornog's voice, which observes the doomed figures of the city with the intimacy of a documentarian and the egolessness of someone who has been through despair and survived. 'Mel' is an offering like few others, its 14 peerless gems a direct channel from F.M. Cornog's heart to yours. Shelter from the storm, you might call it. Uplift for the downtrodden. A masterpiece, even among Cornog's considerable catalog, this edition of 'Mel' is perfect for both kinds of East River Pipe fans: those who've been around for years, and those who didn't know they needed these songs in their life until now.

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Every writer has a story about the assignment that got away; for music journalist Stephen Deusner, the story was that of Jason Molina and Songs: Ohia's 2002 record 'Didn't It Rain.' In 2014, on the wings of Secretly Canadian reissuing 'Didn't It Rain,' Deusner pitched an ambitious oral history featuring some of the people who knew Jason best and might be able to lend some humanity to an artist who had always been mythologized — often by himself. Sadly, the piece was not published at the time, but nearly a decade to the day after its inception, the oral history was issued via Molina-verse newsletter Static & Distance. Reviving the oratory slant of this story of a legendary album, today's episode features interviews with Secretly Canadian co-founders Ben and Chris Swanson; Darcie Schoenman Molina, Jason's widow; Edan Cohen, who produced 'Didn't It Rain' at his studio in Philadelphia; and musicians who played on the record, including Mike Brenner, Jennie Benford, and Jim Krewson of Jim & Jennie & the Pinetops.

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Back in the mid-nineties, a group emerged from St. Louis, later moving to Chicago, where they'd go on to make some of the most beguiling and unique music of the time. They were 90 Day Men. Over four albums and a few EPs, the band's sound developed into elaborate, experimental, baroque songs, influenced by the world around them and delving back into prog, sixties art rock, and beyond. Later this month Numero Group will release a new deluxe 25th anniversary edition of 90 Day Men's '(It Is It) Critical Band' LP, including a previously-unreleased album tracked at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. In this final episode, host Tim Kinsella speaks to the band about their final albums, trips to Japan, the burnout of relentless shows and being a little too ahead of the musical curve.

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Back in the mid-nineties, a group emerged from St. Louis, later moving to Chicago, where they'd go on to make some of the most beguiling and unique music of the time. They were 90 Day Men. Over four albums and a few EPs, the band's sound developed into elaborate, experimental, baroque songs, influenced by the world around them and delving back into prog, sixties art rock, and beyond. In part two of this three-part series from the Secretly Society Podcast, Tim Kinsella, a fellow Chicagoan and friend of the band, guides us through conversations about 90 Day Men's early singles, working with labels for the first time, lineup changes and how they developed their unique sound, and their first forays into touring.

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Back in the mid-nineties, a group emerged from St. Louis, later moving to Chicago, where they'd go on to make some of the most beguiling and unique music of the time. They were 90 Day Men. In this three-part series from the Secretly Society Podcast, Tim Kinsella, a fellow Chicagoan and friend of the band, guides us through conversations with the members and other folks who were involved in the scenes and movements that they operated in. Over four albums and a few EPs, the band's sound developed into elaborate, experimental, baroque songs, influenced by the world around them and delving back into prog, sixties art rock, and beyond. 90 Day Men were not ahead of their time, they were of a different world entirely; their discography, and a handful of previously unheard songs, were compiled into a five-LP set by Numero Group in 2023. In this episode, Tim speaks to the band about the musical world from which they were born, and how they came to be.

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