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The Popes and the Lost Album

thepopesband.com ↗ · Weird Finds · score 78.0
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A Chapel Hill band’s homepage revisits its critically praised 1988 EP and announces the release of a second album recorded in 1991–92 but never previously issued.

Why it surfaced

The site pairs a real musical backstory—including a claim that the first EP briefly ranked above R.E.M. on a college-radio chart—with a forthcoming two-CD release and a Kickstarter for high-tech tape restoration. It is part band archive, part resurrection notice, and part invitation to witness an unusually long-delayed album finally emerge.

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Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-10 Domain Arrivals issue.

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