Monster Rally :: Volume III (A Mixtape)

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Imminent summer approaches as we check in with with Monster Rally, whose "Imaginary Palms" drops later this week -- a balmy dreamscape framed by harps, water, live drums, air and maracas.

This, our third mix collaboration [following Volume I (2012), and Volume II (2013)], finds Monster Rally's Ted Feighan pulling from an appropriately humid crate. Press play, get lifted . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Sugar Candy Mountain

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Bay area duo Sugar Candy Mountain returned late last month with the release of their fourth long-player, the 13 track psych-pop that is Impression. Recorded with Papercuts' Jason Quever, the record maintains the aesthetic touchstones of previous work, yet organically expands their sonic palette. For this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions, the group take on the nonpareil oeuvre of Serge Gainsbourg . . .

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The Weekly AD Newsletter

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It’s June. Our weekly, bullshit free, email newsletter dropped this a.m. Smash that subscribe button, sign up and peruse the archives. Always loaded with supplemental reccs + more. Get it.

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Videodrome :: To Live And Die In L.A.

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In an age of “one-click” accessibility to a plethora of media, it’s surprising that a film as salient as To Live and Die in L.A. is so difficult to find. While its current scarcity undoubtedly plays into the lore that surrounds it, To Live and Die in L.A. transcends the cult genre and revival house programming. It’s not only one of the most potent crime films ever made, but a unique time capsule of Los Angeles . . .

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On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing, 50th Anniversary Edition

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Much like Bolinas itself, the poems gathered in On the Mesa exist in an unincorporated state—apiece and apart, at home and at ease, glad to be among each other. They reflect and transcend an era ripe with love, longing, domestic life, tempestuous sociopolitical events, growing ecological concern, burgeoning spiritual consciousness, and good old-fashioned small-town gossip . . .

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Steve Cropper :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Over the last 60 years, guitarist Steve Cropper has helped defined the sound of soul, rock, R&B, and pop. That's his clipped rhythms in "Green Onions," that's him losing it onstage at Monterey Pop behind Otis Redding. He joins us for a discussion about his history and his new album, Fire It Up, and discusses the secret to fashioning a great R&B instro . . .

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CAN :: Live in Stuttgart 1975

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Over the course of Live in Stuttgart 1975's 91 unbelievable minutes, Can emerges as the ultimate jam band—forget whatever negative connotations you may have with the term. Here, jamming isn't about technical flash or aimless noodling; rather, it's about the quest for collective ecstasy, for both the musicians and the audience . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)

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Sliding off the coast of California — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm Pacific, Wednesdays. No static at all.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Jim Jarmusch :: Transmissions

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Director, musician, and artist Jim Jarmusch joins Transmissions for a wide-ranging talk about his movies, collaborators, and life in upstate New York, where he's at work on art and music nearly all the time. "I have a kind of slow rhythm to the way I talk, to the music I make, to the films I make . . .

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Maston w/ L’Eclair :: Souvenir

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Recorded over the span of 48 hours in his adopted home of Holland, this is very much a Maston record, yet one as scanned through the collective lens of the Swiss prog-jazz quintet, L'Eclair . . .

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The Evolution of Alex Chilton :: Boogie Shoes – Live on Beale Street

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On this latest archival release, Boogie Shoes: Live on Beale Street, fans of Alex Chilton get a sonically perfect snapshot of the polished side of the artist—the side that loved playing funky-ass R&B with a tight backing band . . .

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Calvin Love :: Lavender

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One walks away from Lavender wondering if Calvin Love is Svengali, shaman, or Sputnik – the album is as comfortable on the astral plane as it is on the great plains of North America . . .

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Nuits D’Été Avec Abdou El Omari

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Abdou El Omari: keyboardist, composer, bandleader, record store owner and hairdresser. Since we last wrote about the Moroccan musician back in 2016, his music has been reissued and gone out of print. But now it's back, courtesy of Belgium's Radio Martiko Records, compiled on three separate lps. Hypnotic, sinister funk. Snaking organ lines. Polyrhythms. Untethered vocals . . .

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Jimi Hendrix :: Nine To The Universe

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Still unreleased, the full, unedited “Nine To The Universe” finds Hendrix summoning forces of unnatural transcendence that nearly explode out of the speaker. The extra 10 minutes offer some of the guitarist’s most unadulterated, bluesadelic soul and stretching improvisations, with bent-nail guitar rips and wah-wah wails from here to the cosmos . . .

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The Babe Rainbow :: Changing Colours

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Riding the surf from the coastline of Byron Bay, The Babe Rainbow reach new creative heights on Changing Colours, the culmination of a recent prolific tear . . .

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