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Month: March 2013
The Men :: Live At WFMU
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 […]
The Peoples Temple :: More For The Masses
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 […]
The Howling Hex :: The Best Of The Howling Hex
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 […]
Apple And The Three Oranges :: Curse Upon The World
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 […]
Dur Dur Band :: Volume 5 (1987)
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 […]
Golden Grrrls :: S/T
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 […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
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 […]
Phosphorescent :: Muchacho
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 […]
Lee Hazlewood :: Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
For years, one of my rituals when hitting up record stores was a quick visit to the Lee Hazlewood section — alternately located, depending on the shop, in ‘country’, ‘rock’, […]
Swamp Dogg Speaks :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Jerry Williams Jr. didn’t adopt the handle “Swamp Dogg” in the early ‘70s in order to confuse, obfuscate, or mislead anyone. To hear the man tell it, he took on the name because […]
Chris Forsyth :: “The First Ten Minutes of Cocksucker Blues”
Even though Cocksucker Blues , Robert Frank’s legendary film of the Rolling Stones circa 1972, is routinely referred to as a “documentary,” that’s not quite accurate. Frank himself tips his hand right […]
Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers :: Manchester, 1973
If we’ve learned anything from the music of Joy Division and The Smiths, it’s that the good people of Manchester, England, can handle bleak, uncompromising music. They were certainly given […]
Scratch The Surface :: The Last Of The True Believers
(Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface takes a look at particularly interesting and/or exceptional cover art choices.) I got into Nanci Griffith in […]
Joseph Hein :: Blinded / Holy Hive EP
“We can do that one more time” someone faintly says in final third of “Blinded.” So is the imprecise nature of the entire Holy Hive EP. They’d be demos if there were […]