Following his exit from the VU John Cale kept busy as a producer, sonically manning the helm behind Nico’s The Marble Index / Desertshore and the Stooges landmark debut LP. All this prior to embarking on […]
Month: February 2016
High Llamas :: Here Come The Rattling Trees
Sean O’Hagan and his merry band of High Llamas aren’t quite as prolific as they once were back in the 1990s, but their latest effort, the all-too-brief “musical narrative,” Here Come The Rattling Trees , is a great reminder of […]
Joni Mitchell :: The Jungle Line
‘This record is a total work conceived graphically, musically, lyrically and accidentally — as a whole. The whole unfolded like a mystery. It is not my intention to unravel that mystery for anyone, but rather […]
The Headhunters :: Survival Of The Fittest
Space funk incarnate. Last month, perusing bins to pick up a nice copy of Sextant for a pal, I was reminded of the Headhunters 1975 solo debut, Survival Of The Fittest. Sans bandleader Herbie Hancock (though […]
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers :: Fooled Again… / Live 1976
It’s kind of hard to fathom that, at one time, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were a band that a lucky punter could see in a small club. Fortunately, Shelter Records had the foresight to […]
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 421: W-X – Intro ++ BBC Radiophonic Workshop – […]
Soul Sok Sega: Séga Sounds From Mauritas / 1973-1979
Courtesy of Strut Records comes Soul Sok Sega: Séga Sounds From Mauritas , a twenty-two track collection exploring the ‘séga sounds’ that emerged from Mauritius (an island off the coast of Madagascar) between 1973-1979. The traditional music of Mauritius, dating back […]
The Skiffle Players :: Til Stone Day Comes
On the heels of last year’s A Folk Set Apart , a decade in the making compilation of Cass McCombs b-sides, rarities and other detritus, comes something altogether new: The Skiffle Players. Cass McCombs, Neal Casal, Dan Horne, “Farmer” […]
LightDreams :: Islands In Space
At the dawn of the 1980s, songwriter Paul Marcano and his band LightDreams emerged from the psychedelic haziness of the previous decade with Islands in Space, a concept album about the colonization of outer space. Recorded […]
Tindersticks :: The Waiting Room
Hey, we could put on our shoes / we can celebrate when our hearts break and go laughing to that noose…” That line, from “Slippin’ Shoes” off Tindersticks’ 2012 LP Something Rain, reads as something […]
BBC Radiophonic Workshop :: Fourth Dimension (1973)
Library music in excelsis. RIP the glorious workhorse that was the BBC Radiophonic Workshop – the outfit tasked with the creation of music and sound effects for all BBC programming between 1958 to 1998. Enter Fourth Dimension […]
The Darker Side of Diddley
One does not need to know much about Bo Diddley to understand his contribution to the musical landscape as we know it. The “Bo Diddley Rhythm” he made famous was a tremendous influence on r&b, the […]