Blood Sucking Maniacs, the self-titled debut from Terry Allen’s multigenerational family band, is out now on Paradise of Bachelors. Spanning five generations and 121 years across twenty-two tracks, it folds in Jo Harvey Allen, sons, grandsons, Panhandle Mystery Band stalwarts and a barrelhouse-piano-playing matriarch captured on seventies cassette. Free, wild, tender, and gloriously unruly — Americana cross-pollinated across the ages.

Monday Morning Brew #152 is open to everyone this week. The playlist opens in Tucson with Howe Gelb’s expanded Giant Sand, lingers with Vetiver, Micah P. Hinson and Bill Callahan, then dives into the Swiss underground via Les Disques Bongo Joe — Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Cyril Cyril, Meril Wubslin — alongside The Black Angels’ Alex Maas and French improviser Romain Baudoin.

KLOF No. 81 opens with Hannah Peel and Beibei Wang’s rhythmic duet from The Endless Dance, moving through Cocanha’s radical French trad, Leenalchi’s pansori allegory for their Luaka Bop debut, and the first album of Himba music ever released from Northwest Namibia. Plus Shye Ben Tzur and Jonny Greenwood, Marisa Anderson, Mama’s Broke, Jim Moray, BCMC, Zoh Amba, Emily Portman, Anna McLuckie, Myer U Clark and more.

The Dublin-based duo Lemoncello, Laura Quirke and Claire Kinsella, open up their homes and pick ten objects — a borrowed fiddle, a hand-painted notebook from Mexico, a wood-carved swan, a Simpsons fridge sticker — that tell small stories of places returned to, gifts received, and the things that sustain a creative life between records.

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