Recorded at the BBC Studios London, for the “Tonight In Person” show in July of 1979, this vinyl bootleg finds Waits working up material from his Asylum years. This particular performance hit the spot recently as I’d been spending a lot of time with Waits’ transitional Heartattack And Vine LP—which ultimately reinvigorated an interest in [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Download this week's Lagniappe Session with Night Beds, here. SIRIUS 288: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Mission of Burma - New Disco ++ The Exploding Hearts - You're [...]
Raised Omara Moctar in Agadez, Niger, Bombino has quickly matured into a young master of the desert-blues. The singer and guitarist got his start as the protégé of Saharan guitar legend Haja Bebe, and eventually Bombino developed his own robust take on the Tuareg style which pushed him onto the international stage. Bombino's latest recording, [...]
Lagniappe (la·gniappe) noun ˈlan-ˌyap,’ – 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. The Lagniappe Sessions return with Night Beds, the nom de tune of achingly golden-voiced Nashville transplant Winston Yellen. Touring behind his debut LP, 20132s Country Sleep, Night Beds (in full band mode) [...]
One on my favorite Elvis records, even though it’s a bootleg, is Cut Me & I Bleed released on Double G Records in 1999. The album is a collection of alternate studio, home, and live rehearsal recordings that present “another side” of Elvis. Pedestal removed, Cut Me & I Bleed presents "The King” in a [...]
Produced by Gladstone Anderson - 1968, Blue Cat Records. 73 A-Side (flip "Jump And Shout"). MP3: Andersons All Stars :: Intensified Girls
Throughout their various lineups, The Byrds certainly saw some huge talents pass through their ranks, from David Crosby to Gram Parsons, from Chris Hillman to Clarence White (not to mention, of course, the group's one mainstay Roger McGuinn). The best songwriter of the bunch, however, was Gene Clark. Under the spell of Another Side Of [...]
“Some songs deserve to fall off the radar,” wrote Richard Thompson curtly in response to a question on his website about a handful of “lost” tunes he and his then-wife Linda Thompson debuted back in 1977. The songs in question: “The Madness of Love,” “King of Love,” “Bird In God’s Garden,” “Rescue Me,” and “The [...]
I love an album that knows how to make an entrance, an album that makes its presence known. Scout Niblett's upcoming LP, It's Up To Emma, very much obliges. Setting the tone with album-opener "Gun", a caustic fuck you from the vantage point of jilted lover, Niblett douses the track in gasoline, and then proceeds [...]
I rediscovered the 1999 Jem Cohen Fugazi documentary, Instrument, while going through an old box of DVDs over the weekend. Watching it for the first time in a decade, and unlike most things nostalgia related, I came away thinking 'yeah, I'm glad I was there for that in the 90s.' This clip of "Shut The Door", [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Sam James Velde guest DJs during hour two. SIRIUS 287: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Mac DeMarco - Baby's Wearing Blue Jeans ++ Twin Peaks - Ocean Blue [...]
Some corners still wrestle with what exactly The Men are up to; what to make of the slow march of Americana with a capital Tom Petty creeping into their tracklistings. Live, their plans feel tacked to a different path. The Men deal in a brash form of art - there's no apologies in their short [...]
Gut punch intro with proper soul-moan grunts, the title track to The People's Temple 2012 joint is a swift kick to wake everyone the fuck up. While the debut was good, Masses does it one better. Howling psych-rock still riffing on all our favorite sixties touchstones, it's a headier, funkier, brew this time around. It [...]
With little fanfare, Neil Michael Hagerty moved to Denver early last year, and began playing out at various Mile High City clubs with a drummer and bassist in tow. While I've only kept limited tabs on Hagerty's post-Royal Trux activities, I was definitely curious to see what the guy was up to. And it was [...]
This shit is so nasty. Just spittin'. Egon and the Now Again Records crew are indeed doing yeoman's work bringing us a platter full of this mess on the Apple & Three Oranges compilation, Free And Easy. Give the drummer some. MP3: Apple & The Three Oranges :: Curse Upon The World
Dur Dur Band was one of Somalia's last great party bands, a group that, at its peak powers, was 12 members strong and performed a high energy tincture of cross-cultural funk. The Horn of Africa's sound filtered through the spritely, synthy pop music of the '80s, Dur Dur's dance music was made to bump in [...]
Like seemingly all Glaswegians of the past twenty years, Golden Grrrls pen cloudy, painfully melodic peacoat pop. Sure, the name’s unfortunate (it started as a joke, as these things often do), but it’s also a fairly tidy summary of the way the trio sandblast their melodies on their endlessly playful and playable self-titled debut. Bedroom [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 286: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Twin Peaks - Stand In The Sand ++ The Peoples Temple - More For The Masses ++ Phosphorescent - Song For [...]
Still touring under the guise of Songs: Ohia, Jason Molina recorded the following live session on April 20, 2003 for the "Duyster" radio show on Studio Brussel, FM 94.5 Belgium. Woodshedding material that would later appear on record (plus an interview), the set is raw and stripped down. We lost another great one this week. [...]
Believe that album cover for three minutes and twelve seconds. That’s how long it takes for Matthew Houck, the Alabama native better known as Phosphorescent, to finish the high-harmonic tilt of “Sun, Arise! (An Invocation, An Introduction)” and drain it into the aching, pained, sublime “Song for Zula.” If you’ve been following Houck’s exploits for [...]
An Aquarium Drunkard
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
Holy Ghost! "Dumb Disco Ideas"
Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action - Album Trailer
Action Bronson - "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" (Official Video)
Kanye West - New Slaves
MP3: Daft Punk – “Horizons” (RAM Japanese Bonus Track)
Daft Punk – “Doin’ It Right” ft. Panda Bear
