Leonard Cohen :: Old Ideas

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Old Ideas, Leonard Cohen’s first studio release since 2004’s Dear Heather, sets a new paragraph in what has been an exhilarating late chapter in a lengthy career. After breaking with his management following an ugly legal battle that left him essentially penniless, Cohen embarked on a lengthy tour, selling out arenas throughout Europe and his native Canada. Though always revered among his fellow songwriters--his work has been covered by everyone from Willie Nelson to Antony to Jonathan Richman . . .

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Howlin Rain :: Winter Tour Companion (A Compilation)

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Howlin Rain burned through L.A. a few weeks back in the midst of their Winter tour in support of their latest LP, The Russian Wilds. Visceral in execution, it was one of the best shows I've seen this year. HR's Ethan Miller put together the following compilation for us   - a seven track companion of tour highlights. Get on it after the jump, and if you're in Austin this week for SXSW, do yourself a favor and check out the new material live.

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Kindness :: Swinging Party

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I wrote about this 7" a few years back - UK artist Kindness taking on the mats' "Swinging Party." Completely reinvented, the track ditches its original lounge vibe and comes off like a lost David Byrne cover. Full-length debut, World, You Need a Change of Mind, is out later this month.

MP3: Kindness :: Swinging Party

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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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 236:  Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Yaphet Kotto - Have You Ever Seen The Blues ++ Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band - Stay Away ++ Willis Earl Beal - Take Me Away ++ JD And The Evil's Dynamite - Beer (So Nice) Right On ++ Bo Diddley - I Don't Like You ++ Alex Chilton - Jumpin . . .

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AD Presents :: Girls w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra – New Orleans

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Monday night (3/12) Aquarium Drunkard Presents Girls w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers (you can also purchase tickets here). To enter for a pair, leave a comment below with your favorite late night watering hole in . . .

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Atomic Forest :: Obsession – Collected Recordings 1973-1977

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Those of you who follow my radio show are well aware of my love of this short lived, 70s, Indian psych-rock outfit. As their sole release (the long out-of-print Obsession) was never released on CD, one had to put together, piecemeal, a sort of Atomic Forest anthology via bit-torrent, Youtube, etc. The results were hardly perfect. But here's the good news - Now Again Records have since corrected the situation with their 2012 reissue of Obession, a comprehensive retrospective of Atomic Forest's . . .

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Lee Fields :: You’re The Kind Of Girl

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Lee Fields new record, Faithful Man, is out a week from today (March 13th) on Truth & Soul Records. If you're in Austin next week, Fields (along with his band the Expressions) will be gigging at the Aquarium Drunkard party on Thursday afternoon. Details/RSVP

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Yaphet Kotto :: Have You Ever Seen The Blues (1968)

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Actor/producer/musician Yaphet Kotto laid down this dark slice of soul in 1968 via the Chisa label. Proto-rap in its delivery, "Have You Ever Seen The Blues" rides the cymbals like Max Roach, all percussive piano with Kotto spitting lines like "..and all the while visions of suicide were boogalooin' in your head and you was thinking how you might as well be dead." And then shit gets real.

Sourced from a 45 picked up for ten cents, the track was part of our 2010 . . .

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King James Version :: He’s Forever (Amen)

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Last December the Numero Group issued the three disc set Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland Ohio; a collection that at 58 tracks spans roughly 15 years of the Ohio label's output. In terms of tone, imagine a hyper-localized version of Nuggets - only one that instead of garage rock concerns itself with the secret history of 60s/70s R&B, Soul and Gospel. In other words, the kind of collection Numero Group has both . . .

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Fela Kuti :: Spotify – Twenty Tracks

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As part of my ongoing weekly contribution to Rhino's 'rhinofy' project, this week I put together a twenty track Fela playlist. You can hit it up, here. The playlist was (partly) inspired by Kuti's 1980 collaboration with Roy Ayers - Music of Many Colours

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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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 235:  Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Fela Kuti - My Lady Frustration ++ Julian Lynch - Just Enough ++ Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom ++ Jim Schoenfield - Before ++ Kurt Vile - He's Alright ++ Tashaki Miyaki - I Wonder If I'd Care As Much ++ Black Fiction - Magic Hands ++ The Liminanas - I'm Dead ++ The Art Museums - Paris . . .

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The Isley Brothers :: Ohio / Machine Gun (1971)

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Next to Buddy Miles version of "Down By The River," this is one of the stronger explorations of Neil Young's work in the vein of soul/r&b. Culled from the 1971 album Givin' It Back, the Brothers set the tone with a military drum cadence before sliding . . .

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Mazzy Star :: Black Session (La Maison de la Radio: Paris, France)

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October 1993 - La Maison de la Radio. Mazzy Star, two weeks into touring behind their second album, So Tonight That I Might See, record a Black Session at studio 105 in Paris . . .

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Spiritualized :: Hey Jane

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Sweet Heart Sweet Light is due out on Fat Possum Records April 16th, and in this instance "Huh?” may be the perfect album art. Like most Spiritualized fans, I can imagine Jason Pierce’s cold stare piercing the Internet and the legions of bedroom-pop acts that have seemingly ignored their . . .

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