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Everyone, here is Radio Free California Episode 2240! As per usual my ranty NSFW blog version will be up later.

A great week for new music from Scary Pockets with Rozzi, Lobate Scarp, Todd Rundgren and Thomas Dolby, Guided by Voices, Tank and the Bangas, Buddy Guy, Brocken Bells, Bush, The Smashing Pumpkins and so much more. Enjoy!

open.spotify.com/playlist/4Umn

In 2021 I released a ton of singles, including one for charity (raising money for nurses during the Pandemic), a song that got played during a string of European football matches, and another that won me some awards. In January 2022 I released them all together as an album.

"Hug Your Local Shark" by Chris Reed and the Anime Raiders - available at all the usual places.

open.spotify.com/album/1GyZFvp

My new EP will be out October 18, 2022. 4 songs that were licensed for a movie that never got made. I didn't get paid either.

"Unfilmed Movie Soundtrack from the 1990's" will be available at all the usual places.

I drink Gin, I watch Anime, I collect cartoons, and I've been an indie musician for decades.

Presave: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/chri

There will be a video available October 17th for the single, "Razor's Edge"

All proceeds to be donated to Planned Parenthood. Available at all the usual places. If this means anything to you, please purchase.

VOTE.

youtube.com/watch?v=EUm20MhAFH

Out October 18th, but available for Pre-save now.

There will be a lyric video for the lead song "Razor's Edge", and a blog post spilling all the details about the movie that never happened.

distrokid.com/hyperfollow/chri

The Tedeschi Trucks Band released 4 albums this year, each a part of 4 a suite of music collectively called "I Am The Moon". The tale of Layla (yes, as in THAT song) comes from the same book they based these songs on.

I have collected all 4 albums into a single playlist, and listening to it all together is wondrous.

Enjoy!

open.spotify.com/playlist/3MtG

Peachy Dukes is a band from The Philippines who have released only one song. But oh man, it's a great song.

Enjoy!

youtube.com/watch?v=Gq1aJejGwC

In April of this year I recorded an album in secret on a borrowed piano over the course of a couple of hours. I told no one I was recording it.

Everything was improvised. This video is one of two versions of a song created on the spot for the guest of honor at the party I was invited to as someone's "plus one".

The room acoustics were fantastic, the piano well tuned, and if you listen closely you can hear people talking and setting up in the background.

youtube.com/watch?v=u806D--jkO

So as a musician I'm all over the map in terms of style. For videos though I always farm it out. I don't appear in videos - it's not my thing. I just go on fivver and hire someone I think can do what I want.

That said, sometimes the results a pretty amazing. Here is an example. "Kauro-chan" by Chris Reed and the Anime Raiders.

youtube.com/watch?v=OShuODUAVI

Chris Reed - ex-pat@home

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