The Unofficial Bowie: The Later Years

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In the late 1970s, after getting his financial house in relative order, David Bowie had a firmer grip on his studio recordings than many of his contemporaries. While Bob Dylan’s outtakes and demos would keep trickling out on bootlegs for years, the “unofficial” Bowie releases, 1976-2016, with some exceptions (see below), are greatly confined to concert tapes . . .

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Please :: Seeing Stars

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Seeing Stars, the second salvaged Please album, is the real gem of the two—a surprise stunner of organ-driven, hyper-melodic psych-pop that would feel right at home on Jagjaguwar or Sacred Bones today . . .

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Mdou Moctar :: Ilana (The Creator)

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If you were to tell someone in the United States that you cut your teeth as a musician playing weddings, they would probably have a very specific idea of what that meant. And it wouldn’t sound anything like Mdou Moctar . . .

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

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Outré California. It’s Wednesday night. The Aquarium Drunkard Show.

34.0522° N, 118.2437° W

New music from Cate Le Bon, Yves Jarvis, Jessica Pratt, Michelle Blades, Michael Nau & more. Onwards . . .

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Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan :: New Rain Duets

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Mac McCaughan – cosmic synth master?! Those aren’t words I expected to write about the Superchunk/Portastatic frontman in 2019, but here we are. New Rain Duets, his just-released collab LP with Mary Lattimore, showcases Mac’s impressively adventurous synthesizer textures alongside the cascading shimmers of Lattimore’s effects-laden harp. Recorded live at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC, the end result is kinda like a dream team-up of Terry Riley and Alice Coltrane . . .

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Elkhorn :: Sun Cycle / Elk Jam

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Elkhorn, the powerful instrumental duo of Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner are back with two slabs of transcendent goodness. Only this time around, they’re not just a duo. On these simultaneously recorded / individually released LPs, Sheppard and Gardner have brought along two ringers: the enigmatic guitar slinger Willie Lane and the freakishly talented percussionist Ryan . . .

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DMBQ :: No Things

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Buckle up, kids - this thing takes no prisoners. Hailing from Tokyo, the Dynamite Masters Blues Quartet (DMBQ) do exactly as their name suggests: conjure up some seriously punishing wizard psych, and then blow that shit up. Dig this visually apt piece for "No Things," culled from the band's 2018 double lp, Keenly, released become a member or log in.

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Son Volt :: Union

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Farrar’s strength as a lyricist often lies in his precise way of putting words together. His work has always been similar to an abstract painter, using imagery and the sounds of words as much as the meanings themselves to create moods across the rustic rock soundscapes of Son Volt’s music . . .

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Gun Outfit: “Teardrops (Classic Hell On Earth)” Live at the Getty

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Recorded live at the Getty, "Teardrops (Classic Hell on Earth)" finds Gun Outfit reflecting on ecological destruction . . .

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Sky Girl :: A Compilation

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Originally a handmade mix CD compiled by French collectors Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae and sold at a Parisian boutique, Australia’s Efficient Space label brought Sky Girl to the masses in 2016. “A deeply . . .

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Diane Coffee :: The AD Interview

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Internet Arms, Shaun Fleming's third full-length as Diane Coffee, is his most fully realized work to date. Grappling with technology and our relation to it, the artist chose to embrace the open-ended questions that our society seems hesitant to tackle -- even at our own peril.Speaking from . . .

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Transmissions Podcast: Jason Mantzoukas/Remembering Sara Romweber/Low: On Double Negative

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Our March podcast features in-depth interviews with Jason Mantzoukas (How Did This Get Made?), Low, and a remembrance of the late Sara Romweber of Let's Active . . .

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

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Outré California. It's Wednesday night. The Aquarium Drunkard Show. No static at all.

34.0522° N, 118.2437° W

This Heat, Yoshinori Hayashi, Jah Wobble, Fugazi, OMNI, 39 Clocks, Bodega, The Raincoats, The Fall, P.I.L., Gang of Four, Eno, White Fence, Laurie Anderson, a Roland CR78 and more . . .

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Carlo Vinci, Jr. :: Piper Of Dreams

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Sometime in January a parcel appeared on our doorstep with Vingaard’s address listed as the sender. Inside was a record, sealed, yet clearly vintage. Which, it turns out, it was. Frederiksberg is bringing Carlo Vinci, Jr.’s 1979 lp, Piper Of Dreams, back into the light digitally, along with having unearthed a stash of deadstock LPs pressed upon its original release . . .

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Lambchop :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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2019 marks 25 years that Lambchop has been releasing albums. The incredible quality across that stretch is even more impressive when compared to the relative restlessness in the group's sound and size. Their latest, This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You), is one of their finest albums yet and marks another push forward - an examination of a sound started on 2016's FLOTUS . . .

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