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. Danger Mouse is the selector, sitting in with Justin, DJing the full two hours of the AD show this week. SIRIUS 450: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ Curtis […]

September 9th saw the return of Okkervil River via their first LP in three years, Away, a record principal Will Sheff has described as “me taking my life back to zero and starting to add it all back up again.” Below, we are screening the group’s performance at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust recorded this past July. […]

Kraftwerk just wrapped up their American tour earlier this month in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl. The group’s next performances begin early next month in Europe, via an eight night residency at the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain. Each evening’s performance will be dedicated to a singular album, beginning with Autobahn (1974) on October […]

As a producer, Daniel Lanois has been instrumental in crafting definitive records by U2, the Neville Brothers, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, and more. His productions have a trademark quality — swampy and percussive, psychedelic but as earthy as the dubs of his noted influence Lee “Scratch” Perry — that […]

After a few months of rumors, Sony has finally announced another massive Bob Dylan box set — The 1966 Live Recordings. Weighing in at 36 (!) discs, it collects every known recording of Dylan’s confrontational 1966 tour of Australia and the UK (along with a handful of audience tapes from the US) with the Hawks, who were soon […]

This Friday, September 30th will see the release of the eleventh studio album by the Drive-by Truckers. American Band is a tight, dark album comprised of the type of songwriting that Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley have excelled at for years – specific stories that explore and reverberate through universal ideas. While the band has […]

“High vibrations … Transformations … Let’s go higher.” These are among the opening words of Family Atlantica’s Soundways release Cosmic Unity, the second such offering from the London-based ensemble with roots in Africa and Venezuela. Such is the group’s nature: a heady and eclectic brew of latin funk, calypso, African highlife, and even Ethiopian jazz […]