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 a fantastic record, and to […]
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 brings goodness to us all, […]
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. WNEW-FM once ruled as the […]
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 by leaps and bounds between […]
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 – Generique Stephane ++ William […]
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 the former Monkee’s 1970s country […]
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 the 1960’s Greenwich Village folk […]
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 good time to appreciate the […]
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 Bishop and Ben Chasny. Mega-band? […]
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 go, theirs has been – […]
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 one to chase trends. So […]
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 Studio A (Joni Mitchell, meanwhile […]
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. For two hours Bowie ran […]
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 recorded by Chris Smither in […]
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 legend Robert Quine. The Velvets […]