(Catching Up With ) Foxygen :: The AD Interview

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When we first wrote about Foxygen, the band was on the verge of inking a label deal with Jagjaguwar (who recently re-released the Take The Kids Off Broadway EP). Now labeled up, the band is, for the first time, seriously touring behind their work — all while maintaining their frenetic pace of writing and recording. Walking around before their first headlining show in San Francisco, Sam France and Jonathan Rado acted goofy, nervous, deferential and awestruck.

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Ralph Stanley :: Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes I Do (Captain Beefheart)

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The Doctor meets the Captain: Ralph Stanley's 85 year-old voice is unmistakable; sung a capella, it's undeniable. "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" is the catcall blues opener to Captain Beefheart's debut LP, Safe As Milk.  Stanley's interpretation skews far from his typically reverent, trad-bluegrass. His  wizened delivery of "Hey hey young girls/ Where you at?" throws a twisted shadow on "high and lonesome." He leans on certain syllables and lingers on others, never sounding hurried. Beefheart's gruff, bombastic hustler is re-imagined as something subtle and devilish . . .

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Shin Joong Hyun :: í•  말도 없지만 (I’ve Got Nothing To Say)

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Those of you residing on the west coast have an opportunity to catch Korean sixties/seventies psychedelic guitar guru, Shin Joong Hyun, at the Los Angeles date (9/28) celebrating Light In The Attic Records' 10 year anniversary. Last year the reissue label released the Joong Hyun compilation Beautiful Rivers . . .

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Niela Miller :: Baby Don’t Go To Town

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In terms of Numero Group output, this one seemed to have slid in under the radar last year - the label's inaugural release on their Numerophone imprint, Niela Miller's Songs For Leaving. Culled from a "warped acetate cut at Variety Recording Service in 1962", Songs Of Leaving is the complete songbook of New York folkie Niela Miller. Miller's "Baby Don't Go To Town" would later be co . . .

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Roadside Graves :: Downbound Train (Bruce Springsteen)

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Roadside Graves cover "Downbound Train" on the upcoming  Springsteen tribute compilation, Long Distance Salvation. Below, I asked the Graves' John Gleason to shed some light on the track selection, the band's reimagination of it and his relationship with the Springsteen's music. Gleason, in his own words, below. - AD

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Cisneros & Garza Group :: I’m A Man

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Funky ass vintage fuzz jammer from deep Texas -- Cisneros & Garza Group's cover of the Spencer Davis Group's "I'm A Man".

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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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.

Download the Matthew E. White Lagniappe Session, here....

SIRIUS 259: Jean Michel Bernard . . .

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East Side Story (Never Mind The Bullets 1966-1974)

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In the early 2000s I was turned on to a website that was solely devoted to providing a history of Michigan's, and more specifically, Detroit's early rocknroll and garage rock scenes from the early-mid 60s. I have the site to thank for my first taste of early Bob Seger; and by that I mean the raw primordial shit that was a far cry from the spit-shined, ready for prime-time, Silver Bullet Band of the 1970s. Which brings us to 2010's Never Mind The Bullets: 1966-74, a fan-made . . .

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The Soul Lifters :: Hot, Funky And Sweaty (1972)

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The Soul Lifters only 45; coming off like a Meters/Sly Stone hybrid. Funky Indeed.

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Willie Dickson & The Playboys :: Licking Stick (1969)

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Montego Bay's Willie Dickson & The Playboys (doing their best James Brown) covering "Licking Stick". Released one year after the godfather laid the joint down via a two-part 7" single.

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Naomi And The Boys :: As Tears Go By (Singapore ’65)

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"As Tears Go By" -- Mick and Keith penned it (their first original composition), Marianne Faithful crooned it and Singapore's Naomi And The Boys covered it, in 1965.

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Cotton Jones :: That Wheel (Porchlight Records 7″)

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B-side off Cotton Jones upcoming Porchlight Records' 7" - limited edition (500 copies), black vinyl, Out August 21st.

MP3: Cotton Jones :: That Wheel

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Benjamin Booker: Have You Seen My Son / Waiting Ones (Demos)

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Blues/garage/gospel/punk/folk...introducing  New Orleans' Benjamin Booker. Via the Waiting Ones demos (2012).

MP3: Benjamin Booker :: Have You Seen My Son?

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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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.

Download The Orwells Aquarium Drunkard Session, HERE...

SIRIUS 258:  Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Lush — Breeze ++ The Vivids — Totally Sober ++ Savages — Husbands ++ Cat Power — Ruin ++ Spiritualized — Run ++ Dungen — Festival ++ Simple Minds . . .

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