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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Recorded live at the Getty, "Teardrops (Classic Hell on Earth)" finds Gun Outfit reflecting on ecological destruction . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Since the launch of his NeilYoungArchives.com site, fans have been tantalized by several unreleased work, many of which feature Crazy Horse in starring roles. Check out what’s (possibly) in store . . .
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"Some of these songs have this kind of ramshackle rhythm first of all, and it'll kind of get into something and then kind of fall apart a bit." This is Stephen Malkmus talking with me on the phone about the title of his latest solo album, Groove Denied. It's an accurate description of an album that opens with a song that seems to have two very different beats going on for nearly . . .
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バイブon this from 2017: the first entry of Osaka-based (French) dj & record collector, Dckne's three part series, digging 1970s Japanese jazz/funk/groove . . .
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Synesthesia for all. Denizen of the French avant-garde, Brigitte Fontaine released six collaborative lps over the course of ten years (between 1970-80) with vocalist/composer Areski Belkacem. Released in 1973, Je ne connais pas cet homme is the first entry of the pair's formal collaboration . . .
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Sui generis. Ambient journeyman, Destroyer collaborator and jazz saxophonist, Joseph Shabason has captured and held our imagination over the course of two long-players: Aytche and Anne. As noted in our become a member or log in.
Chicago guitarist Bill MacKay returns with another winningly eclectic solo LP for Drag City. Fountain Fire sneaks up on you; its songs are unassuming at first, with a loose, conversational feel to them. Ahead of the album's release, MacKay joined Aquarium Drunkard to discuss his shifting approaches, cinematic inspirations, and establishing his own musical language . . .
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Slide into this twenty track survey of the wild Afro-Caribbean vibe that originated in Trinidad and Tobago, prior to leaping to Panama, mutating and taking root in 1950s NYC. Or: a sonic carrouseaux of boozey partying peppered with humorous political commentary, along with a number of overlooked gems from the genre. Be kind and rewind. words / p schouten
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