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Viking's Choice: Japanese Free Jazz, Psychedelic Hardcore, Doomy Drone

Our Viking's Choice column has been a safe space (or a festering wound, depending on whom you ask) for metal, punk, drone and all sorts of "weird" and/or "loud" music. Check out the latest playlist.
Masayuki Takayanagi on the cover of <em>April is the cruellest month</em>, a blasted 1975 session now available on vinyl for the first time.

For more than a decade, the has been a safe space (or a festering wound, depending on whom you ask) for metal, punk, drone and all sorts of "weird" and/or "loud" music on NPR. You've heard me on the , and gotten irregular

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