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Letter From Home: May
Covid daze
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Lost Songs Preservation Project: Half A Mind
Yoinked from 2002
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Annotated Songs: The Island
Heavy vibes from 2006, unpacked here
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I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song
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Other Peoples' Songs Request Line: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Happy Autism Acceptance Month
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Demonstration Tapes: At The Bus Mall
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Demonstration Tapes: The Infanta
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Tutorial: You'll Not Feel the Drowning (The Island Part 3)
Watch now (4 min) | Nylon strings and drowning things
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Other Peoples' Songs Request Line: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Safe travels, Mr. Lightfoot
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Crowd Sourced Cover?
This one’s for the paids: what song should I cover for a post this week? Pitch in the comments. NO Taylor Swift, I’m sorry
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The Listening Room, May '23
All about Acetone
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Demonstration Tapes: The Infanta
We all raise our voices to the air (sotto voce)
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The Reading Room: April '23
On Kafkaesqueties
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Tutorial: The Landlord's Daughter (The Island Part 2)
Watch now (9 min) | triplet triplet triplet triplet
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Colin Meloy's Machine Shop
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