No Depression magazine, an alt.country/americana staple, announced yesterday that it will – after 74 issues, and 13 years in existence – be ceasing operations this Spring. June will see the final issue of the magazine and existing […]
Month: February 2008
Elvis Costello :: Green Shirt/Party Girl – 1979
Let’s first address the 800 lb gorilla in the room: Elvis Costello’s catalog has notoriously, in the last decade, been reissued, repackaged, re-reissued, re-repackaged, and then some…if you’re keeping score the latest “reissues” came out less than […]
The Grand Archives :: Via Seattle
We’ve been keeping loose tabs on the progress of this album since the news broke that Band of Horses co-founder, Mat Brooke, was leaving the band in the hands of Ben Bridwell (following BOH’s 2006 debut Everything All The Time ) […]
Liz Durrett/Vic Chesnutt :: Somewhere (Cover)
Check, check…any Italian readers in the house today? If so, heads up, Liz Durrett is presently touring Italy — possibly in a town near you. I’ve seen Durrett, live, twice now, once solo and once with her […]
Sister Nancy :: One Two Bam Bam
One of the more fulfilling aspects of DJ’ing a house party or event, and to a different extent, radio, is the immediate response to the track selection. There is no lag time – you can […]
The Replacements :: Twin/Tone Catalog Reissued
Nigeria Special :: Nigerian Blues 1970-76
As our good friend, and fellow afro-beat enthusiast, Gorilla vs Bear , mentioned last week, Soundway Records has just released the compilation Nigeria Special featuring funk, r&b, afrobeat, soul, highlife, psych, and other subgenres from the region. I have many a collection […]
Japancakes :: Loveless (My Bloody Valentine) 2007
The other night following the Drive-By Truckers show , here in LA, I had two things on my mind; 1st, how much fun, no matter how many times I’ve seen them, the Truckers are in a live setting, and […]
SIRIUS Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS , channel 26 Left Of Center , can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 36: […]
Megafaun :: Find Your Mark/Lazy Suicide
Alright, I can almost guarantee that regular AD readers will be into the following tunes; and hey, now that we’ve installed the streaming media player, you may as well stream a track…you know, save yourself […]
Townes Van Zandt :: Waitin’ Around To Die
I’m presently doing a bit of music supervision for an independent film, set in west Texas, and have been looking for the right mood for certain scenes. Not so much the exact song that will […]
Waylon Jennings :: Honky Tonk Heroes (1973)
The great Texas singer-songwriter, Holden Rushing, first turned me on to this album in his Venice beach abode during his three year stint out here in Los Angeles. Much obliged, Holden. Upon the receipt of […]
The Magnetic Fields :: Distortion
The news last year that Stephen Merritt’s next Magnetic Fields LP was to be coated in a thick slather of distortion, a la Jesus & The Mary Chain’s Psychocandy , seemed to elicit two immediate and disparate responses: […]
Throw Me The Statue :: Moonbeams
Throw Me A Statues’s upcoming LP, Moonbeams, was the only album I listened to over the course of the weekend, and it’s now carrying me into the new week. A good album will do that. If you like American lo-fi […]
Jeff Mangum :: XFM Radio Session – May 1998
We posted this XFM set a year ago, today, while reflecting on the fact Neutral Milk Hotel’s Aeroplane Over The Sea was nearly a decade old — and now, in February 2008, it is. Pitchfork has just re-posted two of their interviews with Jeff Mangum , from 1997, up […]