Beyond The Audiodrome (A Mixtape . . .
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Brian Hyland :: UNI, 1970
When vocalist Brian Hyland set out to reinvent himself in the late ‘60s, he already had a couple of hit singles to his name, including "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," a novelty song he cut at the tender age of 16, and “Sealed With a Kiss,” recorded two years later. But those bubblegum gems don’t really indicate where Hyland would head with his self-titled 1970 record, a remarkable album of soft psych, blue-eyed soul, and power pop.
Del Shannon, no stranger to the pop charts sat in . . .
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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 4) — Podcast / Mixtape
Sidecar, fourth transmission: Black sand blues. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles.
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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.
Matt Sullivan from Light In The Attic Records is my guest this week. Recorded Sept 18th at the label's HQ in Hollywood, CA.
SIRIUS 263: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The High Numbers - I'm The Face ++ The Orwells - Mallrats (La La La) ++ Los . . .
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: No Jacket Required – CMJ 2012 – October 16th – Mercury Lounge
We're heading to New York, so come party with us. Aquarium Drunkard - CMJ 2012 - No Jacket Required. October 16th at Mercury Lounge. Tickets available, here. Let's do this.
Dent May ~ The Orwells ~
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The Feelies :: CBGB – NYC, December 14, 1977
Let's take a trip to the Bowery, shall we? By the time the Feelies emerged in late 1976, CBGB was already well established as the epicenter of the era’s cutting-edge rock music scene: the reputations of Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads, and the Ramones were built on its stage in a few short, but action-packed, years. While the Feelies are a part of this lineage (they certainly absorbed lessons from Verlaine and Co.), they've always remained apart from any real scene . . .
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John Lennon :: Tobias Casual Sportswear Promo Spots (1974)
John Lennon, who would have turned a cracking 72 next week, cut these five radio promotional spots for Tobias Casual Sportswear, in 1974, while living in L.A. during his 'Lost Weekend'. One wonders - was Nilsson in tow, and if so, was he lingering outside the vocal booth with a frothy pitcher of Brandy Alexanders in hand? Sardonic, mercurial and subversive, these are pure Lennon. Lost weekend, indeed.
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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 3) – Podcast / Mixtape
Ten tracks, six countries, twenty-seven minutes -- Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar, third transmission. Direct download, below; subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, HERE.
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Les Rallizes Dénudés :: Night Of The Assassins
Swathed in an impenetrable fog of mystery and extremism, the Japanese group Les Rallizes Dénudés exist more as a myth than as a real band. But what is a real band anyways? Accounts of Rallizes live shows tell of overwhelming sensory experiences fueled by excesses of volume and light — musical performance so intense that the body can’t escape. That sounds real enough, but everything else about the band pulls a blank: no proper studio albums, interviews, press photos — press . . .
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The Lagniappe Sessions: Medeski, Martin & Wood
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.
Perennial masters of avant jazz, soul and groove, Medeski, Martin & Wood returned to the fold last month with the release of Free Magic -- the trio's first LP since 2008's The Radiolarian Series. An unplugged set . . .
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Matthew E. White :: Big Inner / Levek :: Look A Little Closer
If, as our rock ‘n’ roll legends suggest, it’s true that the adult Brian Wilson intended for Smile to be a teenage symphony to God, then it must also be true that Matthew E. White, he all of twenty-nine and very much of our day, has done the same with Big Inner. But where Wilson sought the sublime in cooed harmonies and American history, White, who was born in the Philippines and . . .
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AD Presents :: Patterson Hood @ The Masonic Lodge, Oct. 6th
Saturday night, October 6th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Patterson Hood at The Masonic Lodge in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Hood is presently touring behind his new solo LP, Heat . . .
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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.
Note: the first hour of today's show is made up of the first 2 transmissions from our new podcast, SIDECAR, which can be downloaded HERE and become a member or log in.
Melody’s Echo Chamber :: S/T
The fundamental texture of Melody Prochet’s voice rings clean and delicate–an anti-diva, expressive in her elegant range and unwavering accuracy. The echo applied to her voice is pillowy, a cumulus cloud damply evaporating up into a bright sun. Set in a flurry of zip zappy synth sounds, Melody’s Echo Chamber sounds dreamy, but it’s more atmospheric than psychedelic: The feeling is like being lost in an overwhelmingly vivid daydream, not like you're tripping balls.
Melody’s Echo Chamber is the French singer-songwriter’s . . .
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Canailles :: Bien-être
Montreal’s Canailles first got together in the summer of 2010, working out traditional québécois and Cajun songs among the green shadows of Parc LaFontaine. Two years later, they’re one of the city’s greatest francophone groups, and one of the few to cross over into anglophone territory: In addition to this year’s SXSW, the group played four raucous shows at notorious Lafayette, LA, nightspot the Blue Moon Saloon this spring, and they regularly prime crowds across anglophone eastern Canada.
Though they sing in French, their charm . . .
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