She begins in mid-flow. Sitting down at the piano, effectively taking the reins from her band, the first thing she says into the microphone is 'So...' One simple word, an aside to every single soul in that auditorium. It's almost a sigh, like the sound of a truth-teller getting down to business, or a teacher who is forced to go to the blackboard to spell it all out for us. It presumes that everyone is paying attention (they are) and that everyone recalls where they are in the lesson (they do). '
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
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.
The Lagniappe Session with Ought can be downloaded, here
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Prairie To Pine: A Vintage Saskatchewan Mixtape
Hypnotic valleys and loping forests. Country funk from a Ukrainian wedding band and haunted folk from a group of high school students. Loners and the lovesick. The fried and fuzzed. Welcome to another all-vinyl dispatch from the Land of Living Skies.
Prairie To Pine: A Vintage Saskatchewan Mixtape
Part one, Multis E Gentibus Vires, can be found, here. Playlist after the jump. . .
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RIP Ornette Coleman / Ornette Coleman Sextet – Free Jazz (1of 3)
RIP Ornette Coleman, the sayer of the unsayable, an artist who devoted his life to pursuing pure sound. We'll never see the likes of him again.
Germany, 1978. Ornette Coleman - sax, violin; Ben Nix - guitar; James Blood Ulmer - guitar; Fred Williams - bass; Shannon Jackson - drums; Denardo Coleman - drums words / t wilcox
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J.B. Smith :: No More Good Time In the World For Me
…King David was, in the Bible, he used to made his psalms from the stars and so forth and he wrote so many songs, you know. With a little talent and surrounding I think it’s kinda easy done.” – J.B. Smith on composition.
50 years ago, archivist Bruce Jackson first went to Ramsey State Farm in Rosharon, Texas, to record the unaccompanied songs of J.B. Smith, an inmate serving 45 years there for the murder of his wife. He returned the following June in 1966 to record more, and that year John Fahey’s Takoma Records released an . . .
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The Lagniappe Sessions: Ought cover Cyndi Lauper / Sexy Kids
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.
A year ago next month, I happened upon Ought's live show while in New York. Their performance that evening stands as one of the more memorable examples of going in to see a band cold and leaving a proselytizing fan. Shades of Talking Heads, Television, the Fall and the Feelies swirled around the room that night, though never approaching gross pastiche.
This . . .
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Mikal Cronin — Gone :: Pickathon / Galaxy Barn
Welcome to the seventh installment of an ongoing series with Pickathon, showcasing footage from the Galaxy Barn located at Pendarvis Farm in Oregon: Mikal Cronin — “Gone”. Photo / Autumn Andel . . .
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Ginny Reilly :: Wildman
Buried on side one of At Last, Reilly & Maloney’s 1976 debut album, "Wildman" is a heartbreaking journey through the subtle intrusion of newfound love. It's the story of a man relentlessly seeking the admiration of a lady, beaten and bruised by the past, guided by the warm and echoey vocals of Ginny Reilly. Reilly and Maloney joined forces in San Francisco in 1968 to compose and perform their own brand of folk music -- an amalgamation that can be described as woodsy . . .
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Wax Wonders :: Sonic Youth – Singles
Unlike many bands that sprouted out of the DIY ethos set into motion by the release of Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown 7” in 1978, Sonic Youth were a few years into their long, influential run by the time that their first 7” was released in 1984 (“Death Valley ’69”).
While both sides of the “Death Valley” single were issued the following year on the group’s incredible Bad Moon . . .
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.
SIRIUS 391: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++Intro — “Unknown to Themselves” ++ Dara Puspita — To Love Somebody ++ Van Morrison — Sweet Thing ++ Daniel Bachman — Happy One Step ++ The City — Man Without a Dream ++ Bob Carpenter — Miracle Man ++ Doris Troy — Whatcha Gunna Do About It ++ The Combinations — While You Were Gone ++ Lee Jung Hwa . . .
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Small Wigs :: Hangdog
L.A.’s Small Wigs are the brainchild of FIDLAR’s Elvis Kuehn and Mikki Itzigsohn of Isaac Rother & The Phantoms. The group’s frenetic, SST-nodding punk has won them opening gigs with Mike Watt, the Flesheaters, and the King Khan & BBQ Show, and their debut 7” completes the circuit, snipping a bit of the Gun Club’s twangy swagger and filtering it through a D. Boon guitar strut. You can cop “Hangdog”/“New Wig” on Mock Records, but check out “Hangdog” below.
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Yo La Tengo :: Stuff Like That There
Fans of Yo La Tengo's softer side received some very good news this week with the announcement of the band's latest LP, Stuff Like That There, out August 28th. It's being pitched as a "spiritual sequel" to YLT's beloved, semi-acoustic 1990 album, Fakebook, which masterfully mixed covers, re-worked originals and . . .
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Dead Notes: The Printed Word – Volume I
Dead Notes: “Where all the print is blood. Where all the pages are my days…”
Late last year we compiled all our Dead Notes columns into a print ’zine that heavily nodded to the early original issues of Relix, fan’s parking lot flyers and iconic pieces of Dead history. Also accompanying the ‘zine was the music of the columns packaged in several bootleg-esque slipcases. We made a few dozen copies and passed them out amongst friends and fans with a note encouraging them to make copies of everything and pass them along. Not only was this a success but we were able to get the entire piece into the Grateful Dead Archives at the McHenry Library at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Needless to say we were super jazzed to have Nick Meriwether and his team acknowledge our efforts to bring back some of original flare of the early Dead tape trading and fan art network. So please download, print out and burn copies of this set to share with your friends. It is our work as much as it is yours as fans of the column. And stay tuned, we've only just begun...
Download: Dead Notes: The Printed Word - Volume I (zipped folder)
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Whitney :: No Matter Where We Go
Whitney is Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich. Having cut some chops with Smith Westerns and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, they've now introduced their new project with "No Matter Where We Go." Simple, mid-fi, summer grooving, emitting sparks of Big Star as much as the bands from which they hailed. words / b kramer
Whitney :: No Matter Where We Go
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Daughn Gibson :: Daddy I Cut My Hair
Daughn Gibson returns this week with his third lp, and second for Sub Pop, entitled Carnation. Again, that voice. Gibson on the first single, and video, below. Directed by Matt Amato.
"Daddy I Cut My Hair" tracks the movements of an eleven- year-old girl as she navigates the rugged terrain of a nearly abandoned American landscape. Filmed on location in Pennsylvania’s coal region in the towns of Centralia, Jim Thorpe, Mahanoy City, Mt. Carmel, Nesquehoning . . .
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