Brace yourself for our second gushing Light in the Attic post of the week: the label has announced the first vinyl reissue of our favorite hip-hop record ever , Digable Planets ' still somewhat under-appreciated, ahead-of-its-time 1994 classic, Blowout Comb . The limited edition first pressing of the reissue comes with an embossed cover and 183 × 243 fold-out poster, with the first 150 pre-orders pressed on white wax . If you're at all into the stuff Ish is doing now with Shabazz Palaces , or you [...]
Light in The Attic Records is the bar none the best re-issue label out today. Their latest reissue is a little treasure known as Honey Ltd . Lee Hazlewood‘s Detroit based 1960s girl group music has been remastered for our listen pleasures. The album's standout track, Silk N' Honey is a smooth listening track, that will transport you back to the 60s. Make sure you have this blasting from your speakers when you are heading to your local burger joint and drive-in movie. Check Silk N' Honey below, and read up on Honey Ltd.'s interesting story [ here [...]
Tweet El Sonido de La Carretera is the much anticipated latest installment from record label Masstropicas , slated to be released on May 28 th . Carretera Central is a compilation featuring 12 tracks from several bands that created music alongside Teo Laura Amao, dubbed “the guitar king of carterra central”. From 1973 to 1985 these bands composed songs that were mainstays in the neighborhood known as NaNa as well as other working class barrios in Lima and have all become synonymous with Peru’s chicha music. [...]
The world's greatest reissue label continues to unearth unreal lost gems, this time in the form of the first ever reissue of the amazing complete recordings from Lee Hazlewood 's '60s girl group, Detroit's Honey Ltd. , remastered from the original mono tapes. The perfect Sunday AM soundtrack; listen to one of the record's highlights (and Chairlift's favorite Honey Ltd. song ) below, read the group's backstory here , and pre-order the record on limited, 180 gram blue vinyl (out July 23 ) here .
Cette révolution ne prend pas la forme d'un trip sous acide. C'est vrai, nous sommes en 1970, mais Marcos Valle est beaucoup trop apollinien pour ça. Il ne se laisse pas non plus gagner par la morosité que lui inspire le régime d'Arthur da Costa e Silva. La plage, les corps, le plaisir et la musique sont aussi pour lui des moyens de résister. La pochette de Marcos Valle , l’album qu’il enregistre cette année-là, le montre assis sur son lit, suggérant la nudité sous le drap blanc qui le recouvre, la chevelure léonine, le [...]
Funny how Austin's Big Boys were considered by many to be hardcore and/or skate punk. Sure, they were skaters and they were punks but their music isn't so easily put into either of those categories. Back in the early 802s, if you were doing something out of the ordinary or mainstream you were considered a punk. Punk was not just Sex Pistols, Clash and Ramones. In those days punk was what you made it, and Big Boys were one of the originals who made it up as they were doing it. Don't [...]
Rodriguez at KEXP's VIP Club show at Triple Door in 2009 photo by Kyle Johnson Congratulations to Searching for Sugar Man for winning Best Documentary Feature at the 85th annual Academy Awards tonight! Directed by Malik Bendjelloul, the musical biopic uncovers the mystery behind the Detroit-based musician Rodriguez, and most interestingly how he became a legend for decades in South Africa while remaining unknown here in the States (the "why" is still only speculation). In 2008, the Seattle's Light in the Attic Records rereleased his debut, Cold [...]
In 2012, The Orchard’s large catalog grew way larger, thanks to mergers with IODA and IRIS. To manage the influx, we put all of the new tunes onto a 50TB external hard drive, stuck the USBs into our left ears, and swallowed 168 hours-worth of “5 Hour Energy.” When we ...
Last Friday my friend Dottie and I had a lady date-night: drinks at Manhattan, and a movie at Cine. We watched Searching For Sugar Man, and I hope all my Athens friends get a chance to see it before it leaves. Cine will have it until at least November 29, but after that, another film might take its place. I knew very little about Sixto Rodriguez before seeing the film, and the story was the sort of real life happy ending that makes this music publicist and human being's heart warm. [...]
Lisa Strouss V/A Country Funk 1969 - 1975 Light in the Attic Records The self-perpetuated myth about country is that somehow it is roots music, when in reality, country has always been on the cusp of the new, about trying combinations just to see what would sell, be it Hawaiian steel guitars, or creating western swing out of jazz elements, or Les Paul and Mary Ford making radical strides [...]
If he wasn't busy enough with his many gigs, ?uestlove is going to now have to find time to grade papers, as The Roots drummer has revealed that he will be teaming up with Universal Music Enterprises vice president Harry Weinger to teach a course titled Classic Albums, next semester at the Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. According to Billboard , the two credit course, "will focus on the concept of what it means for something to be called classic or seminal, as well as take a close look at the [...]
Say what you will about my musical knowledge (limited and hampered by a constant case of musical ADD) but I'm still on the discovery end of English folk rock. Oh sure, Light In The Attic's Michael Chapman releases are gangbusters, but that's where my toe dip ended ... until now. Drag City just put out [...]
Bowery Presents continue to stretch their reach outside of their home base in New York City, as next month the concert promoters will open their second venue in Boston - The Sinclair . The 525-person venue, located in Harvard Square in the Cambridge area of Beantown, will take a page from their sister venue Brooklyn Bowl by also featuring a 104-seat restaurant "helmed by one of the country’s top chefs, James Beard Award–winner Michael Schlow ." The club will officially open on Tuesday, October 30, with a gig from The Meter Men with Page McConnell, [...]
This video gives me goosebumps. Seeing such an awesome, gentle man like Rodriguez finally getting the recognition he deserves is really really great. I had the pleasure of meeting this man a few years ago when he came to visit my place of employment after playing a show at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. After already having been familiar with his Cold Fact LP for a few years, I was extremely nervous to meet him. He was already a celebrity to me. I remember shaking his hand and telling him how much I loved his music, and he [...]
The fine folks at Light In the Attic have given us yet another compilation we didn’t know we needed another genre we didn’t know needed excavating…but as usual, the effort is worth it. Country Funk 1969-1975 serves up 16 slices of “studio slick and barroom raw”. The stabilizing root of all these tracks is truly funky arrangements. Think Muscle Shoals, Stax, these kinds of sonic palettes. This particular style wound up a wee bit exploited by the late 70′s. It became “ cornpone “. While I [...]
"A remarkable tale of artistic resilience and rebirth." - Rolling Stone The story of enigmatic singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez is one that virtually beggars belief. In the early '70s, the Detroit-born musician, the sixth child of Mexican immigrants, recorded two albums for Sussex Records, a label that would very soon after ...
"A remarkable tale of artistic resilience and rebirth." - Rolling Stone The story of enigmatic singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez is one that virtually beggars belief. In the early '70s, the Detroit-born musician, the sixth child of Mexican immigrants, recorded two albums for Sussex Records, a label that would very soon after ...
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