Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band’s new double album, The Rarity of Experience , is out Friday via the increasingly trustworthy No Quarter Records. No surprise from Forsyth at this point: it’s […]
Month: February 2016
Ornette Coleman :: To Whom Who Keeps A Record (Reissue)
Ornette Coleman assembled To Whom Who Keeps A Record in 1975 for release in Japan only. He sequenced this batch of unused compositions and alternate takes to spell out a message via track list: “music always […]
WNEW FM – New York (1982) :: How To Kill A Radio Station
A slice of 1982. A vignette courtesy of the late WNEW FM – New York, NY. NEW YORK (AP) — For 32 years, it was the place where rock lived. […]
Nap Eyes :: Thought Rock Fish Scale
Last summer Paradise of Bachelors introduced the Nova Scotia quartet Nap Eyes to a wider audience with the US release of their debut album, Whine of the Mystic. The band has seemingly grown […]
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 424: Jean Michel Bernard […]
All Roads Lead Back To Red: A Pedal Steel Mixtape / Tribute Vol 2
This mix picks up where All Roads Lead To Red: A Pedal Steel Mixtape / Tribute left off, delving deeper into the sessionography of the Velvet Hammer, Orville “O.J” “Red” Rhodes. While perhaps best known as Michael Nesmith’s musical foil on […]
Fred Neil :: Other Side Of This Life
“Fred’s an endangered species. Like his dolphins, he’s just trying to keep from getting caught and made to perform at Sea World.” – Jerry Jeff Walker An elusive shadow of […]
Videodrome :: The Tarantino Exploitation Oeuvre
(Welcome to Videodrome . A monthly column plumbing the depths of vintage underground cinema – from cult, exploitation, trash and grindhouse to sci-fi, horror, noir and beyond.) Oscar season is a […]
Rangda :: The Heretic’s Bargain
The old rock critic reflex is to call Rangda a “supergroup” but it feels like a new term needs to be invented for the trio of Chris Corsano, Sir Richard […]
Damien Jurado :: Qachina (via Visions of Us on the Land)
Damien Jurado’s next full-length, Visions of Us on the Land , hits March 18th via longtime label home Secretly Canadian. It’s Jurado’s 13th album, and marks the artists fourth collaboration with producer Richard Swift. As partnerships […]
Bert Jansch :: Avocet
There were probably cooler things for Bert Jansch to do in the late 1970s than make an instrumental folk-jazz concept record about birds … but the late guitarist was never […]
Evie Sands :: Any Way That You Want Me
Imagine this. May, 1971. A&M Recording Studios in Hollywood. While Carole King is laying down Tapestry in Studio B, the Carpenters are simultaneously cutting their eponymous album in the larger […]
David Bowie :: Two Hour DJ Set / BBC Radio One – May 20, 1979
On May 20, 1979 – two days after the release of Lodger – David Bowie, along with a pile of his favorite records, took the reins at BBC Radio One. […]
Chris Smither :: Sunshine Lady
A song concerned with reveling in the moment, on a park bench in the sun after a rain with “pockets full of free time”. Paul MacNeil’s “Sunshine Lady” was first […]
The Velvet Underground :: The Complete Matrix Tapes
No other rock n roll band was recorded live in the ’60s as frequently as The Velvet Underground, thanks to characters such as ‘The Professor’ in Boston, and future guitar […]