Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 232: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl ++ Frankie Rose - Know Me ++ Crystal Stilts - Shake The Shackles ++ White [...]
Just like last time, today's Videodrome is a clip from a German TV show. Specifically, the show Beat! Beat! Beat! No, not the Beat Club… but the show did have a Shindig/Bandstand style "variety" format where mostly U.K. and American rock bands would play a few songs to smiling, bopping teenagers. I caught this video [...]
It's Mardi Gras season. Saturday night Aquarium Drunkard Presents Rebirth Brass Band at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. We're giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also purchase tickets here). To enter for a pair, leave a comment below with your name and favorite artist to come out of [...]
Josh Tillman has been writing, recording and releasing albums for a decade now. Like Captain Beefheart and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy before him, it was announced last month that future Tillman output would be released under the guise of Father John Misty. A new beginning? Indeed. If past Tillman releases mined the intricacies of greys and [...]
A bunch of us drove from L.A. to Long Beach last month for night two of Reigning Sound's two night run at Alex's Bar. To say it was exactly the kind of sonic punch in gut we were looking for would be an understatement. I've since been revisiting Dangerous Game - the Reigning Sound-backed Mary [...]
Looped a capella track (reportedly) culled from a 1968 studio session known in fan circles as "Unknown Harmony." I copped this five or so years ago via the fan-made compilation You're Welcome: A Beach Boys Sequel to SMiLE. From what I gather, the source material is thought to be clipped from the isolated vocal track [...]
Born Marc Feld in 1947, this hour long BBC documentary traces Marc Bolan's life and career from his London mod beginnings to his death in 1977, two weeks shy of his 30th birthday. Have a watch, then go listen to Unicorn.
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 231: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Bosques - Heya ++ Screaming Lord Sutch - Flashing Lights ++ The Girls - Chico's Girl ++ Eddie Beram - Riot [...]
What do we expect from our beloved musical acts who are so deeply rooted with a singular, albeit explosive, sound? At this point in their career A Place to Bury Strangers are unbeatable at creating the most devastating psychedelic rock out there. I mean, who really wants these guys to transition into a lighter version [...]
Delaney & Bonnie had a lot of friends. So there's no surprise that an early D&B album cut entered the repertoire of both The Staple Singers and The Flying Burrito Brothers before the duo commercially released their own recording. "Get Ourselves Together" was never anyone's single, but there was something about this song that transcends [...]
We're heading back to Austin in March for SXSW. Our (unofficial) fiesta is happening Thursday March 15th at 504 Trinity Street. Stay tuned for more details. Artist lineup, below. See you in Texas. Lineup: Lee Fields & The Expressions ++ Bleached ++ Alabama Shakes ++ Youth Lagoon ++ Bass Drum of Death ++ Nick Waterhouse [...]
It was somewhere in New Mexico, while out in the desert on a road trip listening the old Nuggets compilation, that a bunch of us got to listing our favorite Dylan homages/ripoffs. Specifically the track "A Public Execution," by the sixties garage rock band Mouse, from Tyler, TX. Of course Stealers Wheel came up - [...]
(Volume nine of Clifton's Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyond. – AD) What's commonly considered to be "blues" tends to be pretty cliche'd. Unfortunately, the forces of commerce and [...]
Twenty-three track radio session Randy Newman cut while in New York City in August of 1971 for WPLJ FM. Stripped down, solo piano. The session serves to both highlight material culled from Newman's first two albums (19682s s/t and 19702s 12 Songs) as well as to showcase tracks from his next full-length, 19722s Sail Away. [...]
Found this on Dangerous Minds. Fifty minute concert film of an August 8, 1970 performance at the Saint Tropez Music Festival, originally done for broadcast on the French TV program Pop 2. Another example of the magic pre-Dark Side era of Floyd.
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 230: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Destroyer - Leave Me Alone (New Order) ++ Trailer Trash Tracys - Candy Girl ++ White Hinterland - Requiem Pour [...]
Before Wit's End, before Catacombs and before the near universal 'year-end list' acclaim, Cass McCombs quietly released A in 2004 via the Monitor label. I've been reintroducing the album piecemeal into my radio show over the past few months. Revisit the pair of A's opening tracks, below, or check them out for the first time. [...]
Bill Fay is a name that has crept back into the underground consciousness in recent years due to some unexpected word-of-mouth publicity culminating in a series of commendable reissues of the artist's work. Going into Time of the Last Persecution, however, I was unaware of such recent windfalls. Initially I was a bit uncertain as [...]
As I mentioned earlier in the month, the Dirty Three have a new LP dropping in February. My copy has been on repeat, but revisiting the Melbourne trio's last output - 20052s Cinder - I was reminded how I used to imagine what the album's cornerstone track, "Great Waves," would sound like with Will Oldham [...]
Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas, his 12th studio album, will be released a week from today. If I might I offer a suggestion, listen to the album cold - sans any outside editorial critique. You'll be glad you did...it's worth it. You can stream to the record, in its entirety, here.
An Aquarium Drunkard
The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”)
St. Vincent - 'Cheerleader'
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as In Paris (Explicit)
OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
M.I.A. - Bad Girls (Official Video)
Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
