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Two hours exploring our 2018 Year In Review . . .
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Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2018. Let it blurb. – AD . . .
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Like his occasional collaborator, Alan Bishop's Sun City Girls, Egyptian composer Maurice Louca synthesizes sounds from all across the globe: the American and British rock he internationalized as a youth, electronic music, free jazz, avant-garde, and shaabi, or "of the people" Egyptian pop music . . .
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The tunes here are glorious hybrids, where swooping strings meet superbly psychedelic fuzz guitars, where new age bliss blends with impossibly funky rhythm sections . . .
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Even if bootleg hunters already know this stuff backward and forward, Songs For Judy is an essential addition to the official canon. It captures Young in brilliantly loose form, rambling but righteous, a fine companion to Neil’s other recent solo acoustic ’76 vault release, Hitchhiker. An artist at his peak. Or at least one of his peaks, anyway . . .
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With his trademark Wall of Sound, Spector's curated mix of holiday tunes pushes the limits of Christmas music—whether it’s tweaking the lyrics of “White Christmas” or writing his own in "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". Spector, a Jew born on Christmas day, did what few were, or are, capable of doing. He made the largesse—both genuine and contrived—of Christmas even bigger . . .
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Angelenos: Thursday, December 13, at Beyond Baroque in Venice, noted author, music historian, and friend of Aquarium Drunkard Pat Thomas will host a live Q&A discussion with Ronnie Schneider, manager of the Rolling Stones’ mythic 1969 tour — documented the classic film Gimme Shelter—about his new book Out Of Our Heads: Rolling Stones, Beatles and Me. Schneider’s career dispenses with the “Beatles or Stones” binary; he worked extensively with both . . .
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Last year, Skyway Man aka James Wallace doubled down on his cosmic leanings and released Seen Comin' from A Mighty Eye. Recorded primarily with the Spacebomb house band, the album presented "exquisite psychedelic pop," and was one of our favorites for 2017. Now his Skyness is back for a Lagniappe with local Nashville desperadoes, Teddy and the Rough Riders, in tow. This cover set's more Sahm than Wilson . . .
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Free-form airwave debris floating off the coast of California. New sounds from CAVE, Peaking Lights' "After Hours" dub of Kevin Morby's "Harlem River", Peel Dream Magazine, The Cosmic Range, Tim Presley's White Fence, Headroom ...
Wednesday nights at 7pm PST with encore broadcasts on-demand via the SIRIUS/XM app . . .
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Josh Tillman takes on Tonight’s The Night, Neil Young’s dark night of the soul, in its entirety…
Recorded in 2010.
“Well, late at night, when the people were gone, he used to pick up my guitar. And sing a song in a shaky voice that was real as the day was long . . .
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There’s loneliness and companionship, joy and despair, truth-seeking and blithe celebration, all during what’s marketed to be the most wonderful time of the year. Your interpretation of the season begets your holiday spirit, whatever version it may be — bah humbug and good tidings. It’s little surprise then that Charlie Brown’s soundtrack, as well as our own, is something just as introspective and shifting. Something like jazz . . .
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As the first 10 years of the new millennium crept to a close, we embarked on a series called Decade. By no means a comprehensive list, our aim was to highlight works within the zeitgeist that had left an impact. (The original master list was near quadruple in length but alas, we ran out of time.) The series concluded the morning of New Year’s Eve 2009 with what we deemed our favorite album of the decade: Radiohead’s Kid A, released October 2, 2000 . . .
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Welcome to the fourth installment of our quarterly Bandcamping roundup. As a digital institution it’s hard to beat Bandcamp. It’s ridiculously easy to use, it puts money directly into artists’ (and labels’) pockets and there’s a seemingly endless amount of music to discover there — new, old and in-between. Of course, that endlessness can be a little overwhelming. Here are 10 more recommended releases – old, new and in-between . . .
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A couple times a week, someone will come up to Lola Kirke and call her “Hai-lai,” parroting the loving mispronunciation of her Mozart in the Jungle co-star Gael García Bernal’s conductor character Rodrigo. As far as crosses to bear go, she admits it’s a fairly light one.
Speaking with Aquarium Drunkard, the actor/songwriter connected the threads between her dual disciplines . . .
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Who knows where the time goes? It's been five years since Kevin Morby released his debut lp Harlem River, and to celebrate, the singer/songwriter commissioned Aaron Coyes of Peaking Lights to create a blissful dub of the album's title track. Morby explains:
"I wanted to do something to honor the title track off of my debut album,
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