WE'RE NOT DEAD! However, some new gear purchases did necessitate a complete teardown and rebuild of our recording studio, and getting this episode edited and posted did just got lost in the shuffle of cables and hardware.

We start this long awaited (?) episode by taking on Jane's Addiction's beloved Ritual de lo Habitual, a very '90s clash of transcendent music and troubling lyrics about doing heroin with your high school girlfriend. Then we venture into the no less troubling or smack-filled world of the Tiger Lillies and their more cartoonish, if no less disturbing, take on the world's gutters.

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