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, I’ve always felt the […]
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 , or as a mark of maturation in the band’s work, musical styling […]
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 […]