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Today we catch up with singer-songwriter / author / cat daddy Mishka Shubaly about what he’s been doing during the pandemic and his excellent new releases I’ll Be Gone and I Thought More People Would Be Here – both available on Bandcamp here.
Today’s tip-off is Self Help, the solo project of Mock Orange and Heypenny member Zach Grace.
We’re doing a cool little thing with The Atlas, our local whiskey and skeeball joint. Once a month we’re slipping a mix into their jukebox with a series we’re calling An Atlas Themed Mix (For An Atlas Themed Bar).
Volume 5 is themed around America, and we planned on posting this on the 4th of July for complete synchronicity, but we were partying and forgot. Check out our American Music below.
It was this day in 1961 that Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the first American to go into space, aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule. The suborbital flight lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, and was by all accounts – pretty damn sweet. We pay tribute to this accomplishment with some equally sweet space themed videos!
