Following a brief orchestral swell, Glasgow-based pop band Camera Obscura wastes no time getting assertive with Desire Lines , the band’s fifth album since debuting more than a decade ago with Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi. “When I found your girlfriend […]
Month: June 2013
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 297: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Honeyboy […]
Alan Lomax :: Cultural Equity’s Video Archives
From the Mississippi Delta to Cuba and beyond, Alan Lomax documented a vast array of distinct and disparate varieties of regional music for over sixty years, creating a vast and priceless collection of audio, video, and photographic […]
Titi :: Rainmaker (Harry Nilsson Cover)
Jelly Roll Morton may have penned “Whinin’ By Blues”, but no one nailed the whine quite like Harry Nilsson. What would have likely devolved into caterwaul in the hands of lesser vocalists, Nilsson employed as […]
Blaze Foley :: Cold Cold World
“Blaze is one of the most spiritual cats I’ve ever met; an ace finger picker; a writer who never shirks the truth.” -Townes Van Zandt Blaze Foley was a bright shining star in the world of dark […]
The Byrds :: The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, CA – August 22, 1970
“The more you drink, the better you’re gonna like us,” Roger McGuinn tells the crowd of Angelenos early on during this set. “And the more we drink, the better we’re gonna like you…” And indeed, […]
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Ola Podrida
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. I first heard Ola Podrida (née David Wingo) via David Gordon Green’s […]
Sorrow Come Pass Me Around
Sometimes it’s not about the belief so much as the believing. That’s the primary takeaway regarding Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Black Religious Music . Originally issued in 1975 on Advent Records, this fine collection is bona fide classic. Long out of […]
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. Download: Hour One: Mondo Boys – Beyond The Audiodrome (A Mixtape) SIRIUS 296: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The […]
Steve Gunn :: Time Off
As one of Kurt Vile’s deputized Violators, Steve Gunn has already had an eventful 2013, appearing on various late night TV shows and playing to the assembled hordes at major music festivals. But his crowning […]
Wooden Wand Interviews Steve Gunn
Among certain critics and cultural trainspotters, there exists a colloquialism — ‘gamechanger’ — to denote a brazen, unexpected creative leap by an already respected and established artist. The risk of potentially alienating a listenership that […]
The Dutch Rhythm, Steel & Showband :: Down By The River
King Khan :: It’s A Lie
King Khan’s next release, with the Shrines, Idle No More , is tee’d up for a September release – this time via Merge Records. Says Khan of the new project: “The Shrines was my pirate ship and we […]
The Non Travellin’ Band :: Two Hands Full Of Fingers
Madison, Wisconsin. Recorded live to tape, Moon Glyph just released Never Prayed Once , The Non Travellin’ Band’s debut — a fleshed out rendering of the group’s faded psych-folk beginnings from last year. Tuned up and turned on. MP3:
Chuck Berry On The Rocks – A Mixtape
Chuck Berry On The Rocks: A choice selection of sixties garage rock. Our long-time-coming collaboration with Gothenburg, Sweden DJ/record collector Peer Schouten . 1 We All Love Peanut Butter – The One Way Streets2 Tiki Twist – […]