This Tuesday night, Aquarium Drunkard presents an evening with Kevin Morby and Rodrigo Amarante at The Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles. Tickets are still available, here, and we have several pairs saved for AD readers. To enter, leave a comment below. Winners notified by Monday . . .
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Dig that leather 'jacket' up there ^. Last year we partnered with our pals Tanner Goods to release a free 7" featuring two two tracks from Foxygen's 2014 Pickathon performance, which found the group working out material from their (then) forthcoming lp, ...And Star Power. This weekend it is available.
The 45s will be available first come, first serve . . .
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Some recent, recommended archival releases of (mostly) unreleased material from some jazz giants.
It'd take a whole lot more than four discs to sum up what Miles Davis was up to onstage from 1955-1975. But the trumpeter's latest Bootleg Series manages to give a solid overview, collecting performances given under the auspices of the Newport Jazz Festival (some of which take place at the actual . . .
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.
SIRIUS 397: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Kevin Morby - Harlem River ++ Destroyer - Chinatown ++ David Bowie - Win ++ Jullian Lynch - Terra ++ Atlas Sound - Another Bedroom ++ Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom ++ David Bowie - TVC 15 ++ Talking Heads - I Get Wild/Wild Gravity ++ Blur - Blue Jeans ++ The Clash - The Call Up (AD edit) ++ Pylon . . .
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Though she retired from regular public performance decades ago, Shirley Collins' influence on today's musical landscape seems to grow with every year. That's a very good thing. Her classic LPs, either alone, or with Davy Graham, her sister Dolly, and Ashley Hutchings, among others, are master classes in traditional English folk forms (with plenty of trips into other folk forms as well). They're also just fantastic records, with Collins' unmistakeable vocals and pristine delivery bringing age-old songs to miraculous life. She's one of our great voices.
That voice and legacy is paid well-deserved tribute . . .
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The music of Tucson’s Ohioan, led by songwriter O Ryne Warner, is about many things, but chiefly, it is music about the concept of “place.”
“From Roscoe Holcomb and the ‘mountain minor’ players to the Berber banjoists of Marrakech, Tinariwen's Tuareg guitar tradition, and the electric reverberation of country music throughout the Sonoran desert: we are bringing these far-flung influences together to reconcile where we come from, where are, and where we're headed,” Warner writes of his upcoming album, Empty/Every MT, out early next year via Gold Robot Records . . .
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Dig that ominous, hypnotic, and downright menacing groove. When Sam’s vocal begins, it’s all over.
From Birmingham, AL, Sam Dees journeyed to Nashville as a young man to begin recording in the late '60s. Even though records such as this and the mighty "Lonely For You Baby" are the type of 45s that make soul collectors weak in the knees, these devastating records sold next to nothing upon their initial release. However, considering how whipped my personal copies of these records are, they were undoubtedly loved and partied with by their former owners. Fortunately, Sam Dees saw success . . .
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Elyse Weinberg is a longtime favorite of Aquarium Drunkard, whose husky voice was introduced to many via folk rockers Vetiver. In 2001, her long lost debut, 1968’s Elyse was reissued by Orange Twin Records, a swooning, mystic effort bolstered considerably by bonus track “Houses,” a laidback but insistent groover featuring searing lead guitar by Neil Young. Now, thanks to Numero Group . . .
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Time flies. Saturday night, August 1st, we're celebrating a decade of Aquarium Drunkard at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles with The Allah-Las, The Tyde and Drug Cabin. Grip your tickets, here, and join us.
We've giving away some pairs to AD readers. To . . .
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Between 1965 and '67 Seattle’s Paul Revere & The Raiders were a non-stop hit machine...but by 1970 they were viewed as passé bubblegum by the rock cognoscenti and had been relatively hitless for three years. While the group may have been overexposed (thanks to the several daily afternoon TV shows that they hosted), they had far too much substance and talent to completely fade away into obscurity. The band - effectively led by singer Mark Lindsay at this point - tried in vain to reinvent themselves as hip ’n’ heavy, going so far as to promote their 1969 . . .
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Manu Dibango will forever be known as the artist behind the 1972 worldwide smash "Soul Makossa", but his career spans much deeper than that one immortal track. This Cameroon-born sax man has released nearly 60 albums and 80 singles since 1961, and only a handful of those have seen US release. Throughout his career, Dibango has performed traditional Cameroonian music, jazz, and his own unique fusion of afro-beat and funk -- a bouillabaisse that not only . . .
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Streaming in full, and narrated by Suzi Quatro, the BBC 's 2007 documentary chronicling Marc Bolan. Born Marc Feld in 1947, the film documents the artist's life beginning in post-War East London, before diving into nascent T. Rex and the beyond. Press play -- "One and a-two, and a-buckle my shoe~ahh".
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Welcome to the eighth installment of an ongoing series with Pickathon, showcasing footage from the Galaxy Barn located at Pendarvis Farm in Oregon: Bobby Patterson — "I Got More Soul . . .
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With the official release of (most of) the Matrix Tapes last year, there is very little unheard Velvet Underground live material left in the vaults. But there is a still-unreleased tape that should be heard, capturing the band during its last stand with Lou Reed at Max's Kansas City, 45 years ago this summer.
The details: Way back in 1999, a guy named Joseph Freeman showed up on a Velvet Underground online forum and posted . . .
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.
SIRIUS 396: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Los Holy’s — Campo de Vampiros ++ Oliver Nelson & His Orchestra — Skull Session ++ Leon Ware — Tamed To Be Wild ++ Ramsey Lewis — Kufanya Mapenzi (Making Love) ++ Fela Ransome-Kuti & Africa ’70 — Let’s Start (Live) ++ Nina Simone — Funkier Than a Mosquito’s . . .
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