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Ben Weaver and his touring cellist performed two tracks, last week during the A.D. show , off of his new LP, Paper Sky , upstairs in the Little Radio loft studio. I’ve ripped the performances into […]

The upcoming issue of the hipster music rag Fader explores something I have discussed several times on these pages in the past: the vast, popular, misconception of Jerry Garcia and the legacy of […]

“This is why people OD on pills — and jump — from the Golden Gate Bridge. Anything to feel weightless again…” — The Handsome Family The Handsome Family’s third album, 1998’s Through The Trees , is […]

This past Wednesday, prior to his gig at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, Ben Weaver and his touring cellist, Julia, were able to drop by the Little Radio studio and knock out a couple of songs before […]

Dig this track off Dungen’s upcoming album, Tio Bitar , due out May 15th. Psychedelic indie rock by way of Sweden. Download: MP3: Dungen :: Familj ——— Amazon:

The heavy duty funk and soul archeologists, Now-Again Records , return with their latest compilation Florida Funk – Funk 45s from the Alligator State, 1968-1975 . Researched & compiled by Gerald Short, Malcolm Catto & Angelo Angione, this twenty-two track collection is […]

Page France create from a whimsical musical palette that that very few can pull off, and rarely pull off so well at that. Think dreamy and surreal shades of folk-pop tied together […]

My backyard ( Griffith Park ) was ablaze last night and my neighborhood lost power for ten hours. Thankfully my laptop was powered up, and I had this collections in my iTunes. […]

A couple of months ago John Vanderslice gave away ( via his website ) a completely remixed vesion of his 2005 LP Pixel Revolt . Carefully crafted, entirely in analog, by Scott Solter , the remix constitutes Vanderslice’s vision […]

The praises of Bert Jansch have been sung numerous times on these pages in the past, but never has there been a post dedicated solely to Pentangle , the quintessential sixties English folk […]

As promised , here are two of the five jams that make up the third disc on the deluxe Layla sessions box set . It’s worth noting that on the first of these two jams (Jam […]

Ye olde Aquarium Drunkard turned two today. Despite what the archives state (I merged the May 2005 data with the June posts a year and a half ago) this is […]

I have been enthusiastically riding the Richard Swift train backwards since devouring his 2007 LP, Dressed Up For The Letdown , earlier this year, and catching his live act twice in the past few months. In a […]

The live document The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads came on (randomly) this weekend while my laptop was connected to the stereo. CNN was on the television, on mute, and David Byrne’s lyrics to “Life During […]