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 204: Jean-Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane […]
Month: July 2011
Sonny & the Sunsets :: The Aquarium Drunkard Session
For those of you sans satellite radio, below is the Aquarium Drunkard session we cut with Sonny & The Sunsets earlier this month in Los Angeles. It debuts on my SIRIUS/XMU show tomorrow. No stranger to the AD show […]
Alain Goraguer :: La Planéte Sauvage
Alain Goraguer first made a name for himself as a sideman and arranger for Serge Gainsbourg, including the arrangement for Gainsbourg’s 1966 Eurovision grand prize winning song “Poupée de cire, poupée de son.” In 1972 he scored […]
Plastic Ono Band :: Sometime In New York City–Live Jam 1972
I recently picked up a used copy of the 2010 reissue of John Lennon’s Sometime in New York City on the cheap at Amoeba Records in Hollywood. While by no mean Lennon’s crowning solo achievement, […]
Richard Swift :: Broken Finger Blues
Richard Swift dropped this number on his blog earlier today, a track he recorded in response to having a cast removed from a broken finger. A man of many musical hats, we find Swift donning his soul […]
The Blue Echoes :: It’s Witchcraft
The above still, taken from 1955’s Rebel Without A Cause , was expertly used as the cover art to the woefully out-of-print, left of the dial rockabilly compilation, Teenage Repression. One of the (many) highlights of the set […]
The Lagniappe Sessions: Roadside Graves (Mickey Newbury)
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ – 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Welcome to the second installment of the Lagniappe Sessions in which we invite some […]
The Shakes :: You Ain’t Alone
In reference to my posting ‘new music’ on the blog, I’m often asked what it is I’m looking for. It’s simple, I’m hunting for ‘the real’ — the stuff that can’t be faked…the happy accidents, […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
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 203: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ […]
Peggy Sue :: Long Division Blues
Sometime around the reissue of the Raincoats debut LP some friends and I were nerding about, discussing what emerging artists could be considered 21st century heirs to the group’s legacy. I recall London’s Peggy Sue at the top of […]
Letting Up Despite Great Faults :: Paper Crush EP
L.A.’s Letting Up Despite Great Faults spent a great deal of effort on their self-titled debut album reminding listeners that it’s possible to translate the moody highs and lows of New Order and The Radio Dept. into something fresh and […]
Phosphorescent :: South (Of America)
Phosphorescent’s sophomore LP, 2005’s Aw Come Aw Wry , is at its heart a folk record; albeit a folk record alternately made up of dirges, brass, waltzes, and choirs—a heady, if low-key, bouillabaisse of sound. It also remains one of […]
Roadside Graves :: We Can Take Care Of Ourselves
There are two broad views you can take of Roadside Graves latest, We Can’t Take Care of Ourselves : As the concept album that it is, inspired by the S.E. Hinton classic The Outsiders
Turf War :: Cheers To The Years
A raucous two and half minutes of sweaty tomfoolery, I debuted this Turf War track on the radio show a couple weeks back after catching the fellas in Athens last month. “Cheers To The Years” is the […]
John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis :: Bank Robbery
A high point on the soundtrack to director Dennis Hopper’s 1990 film The Hot Spot , “Bank Robbery” finds John Lee Hooker collaborating with Miles Davis alongside Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers, Earl Palmer, and Tim Drummond. Scored by […]