Every week, a different FADER editor compiles a playlist of songs by an artist or group of artists they've had on repeat lately. These Staff Selects live in our Spotify app, alongside GEN Fs from ... read more

*MP3: The Poison Control Center - “Start The Revolution” The Poison Control Center’s new album, Sad Sour Future , comes out tomorrow on Afternoon Records (woot!) and it is amazing. In honor of the release, the PCC boys put together a great mix of sad and sour songs for MFR and sent me this statement: “To celebrate the release of Sad Sour Future on Afternoon Records this week, we came up with [...]
Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what [...]
Hace un tiempo les estuve hablando de Beck y los covers de Leonard Cohen que hizo junto a otros artistas como MGMT, Devendra Banhart en su Record Club. Pero el artista todavía no terminó y como el proyecto anterior que hizo parece haberle gustado muchísimo ahora citó a otros amigos y tocaron, todos juntos, temas de Alexander Skip Spence. Esta vez lo acompañaron nada menos que Wilco, Feist y Jamie Lidell . Verdaderamente que Beck tenga este tipo de proyectos alternativos es algo genial no sólo porque la diversidad [...]
Nov 11, 2009, 2:17am
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Thanks for everyone who tuned in this week to Public Education. We had a heck of a time with Moses Campbell busting out the live jams. Check out the playlist and grab some! Hiking - Radding the Flesh Alexander "Skip" Spence - All My Life (I Love You) Brad P and The Celebrities - The Ghost of Our Love Toro Y Moi - Blessa Turtle Ambulance - Tamaulipas Plates Onipa Nua - Anuanum Adofo Baths - Mecha Joy [...]

Filed under: Twisted Tales According to legend, Skip Spence once sat up in a morgue, a tag on his toe, and asked for a glass of water. By then, he'd already been dead to the San Francisco rock scene for years. One of the brightest flames and quickest burnouts of the psychedelic era, Alexander "Skip" Spence drifted into decades of hard-core drug addiction after recording his only solo album, 'Oar,' in 1969. An early member of three key Bay Area groups -- Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and [...]

Download From: Oar (Columbia, 1969) Review: Crawdaddy Buy: Amazon | iTunes Learn: AllMusic | Wikipedia Socialize: [...]

Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre at the Peoples Temple community in Guyana, the second largest death en masse of American civilians from non-natural disaster origins (the first being niner eleven), claiming 909 very loyal lives. Jonestown wasn't just a bizarre and significant historical event, but also was a direct influence or tangential muse to lots of delightfully psychotic music. As with anything that could be filed under the hard-to-explain, I, too, am extremely fascinated by cults. Heaven's Gate and the Manson family unequivocally have compelling histories themselves, but [...]

If mental-illness induced psychedelic rock is your thing ala Sid Barrett, or Daniel Johnston you need to know about Skip Spence. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, Spence first appeared on the radar as a guitarist in the Quicksilver Messenger Service, then as a drummer in Jefferson Airplane, only to leave the band after one album to co-found Moby Grape. Schizophrenia plagued Spence his entire life until his untimely death in 1999, but the legacy left by Oar, his only solo release, will tell his story for decades. Made in 1969, [...]

From "Alight Trio" by Betsy Popp "Listen, Listen" by THE MERRY-GO-ROUND: Thanks to an anonymous response to my previous post on Emitt Rhodes, I now have a few extra Rhodes song in my digital collection, including a handful of songs from Rhodes pre-solo career band, The Merry-Go-Round. "Listen, Listen" is one of those new (to me) songs, and it's a rocking nugget of California pop via filtered through the Beatles (Rhodes never denied his love for the Beatles in interviews). "I Am Not Willing" by MOBY GRAPE [...]