Cass McCombs :: I Went To The Hospital

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Before Wit's End, before Catacombs and before the near universal 'year-end list' acclaim, Cass McCombs quietly released A in 2004 via the Monitor label. I've been reintroducing the album piecemeal into my radio show over the past few months. Revisit  A's opening pair of tracks below.

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Bill Fay :: Time of the Last Persecution

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Bill Fay is a name that has crept back into the underground consciousness in recent years due to some unexpected word-of-mouth publicity culminating in a series of commendable reissues of the artist’s work. Going into Time of the Last Persecution, however, I was unaware of such recent windfalls.

Initially I was a bit uncertain as to Fay’s . . .

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The Dirty Three w/ Chan Marshall :: Great Waves

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As I mentioned earlier in the month, the Dirty Three have a new LP dropping in February. My copy has been on repeat, but revisiting the Melbourne trio's last output - 2005's Cinder - I was reminded how I used to imagine what the album's cornerstone track, "Great Waves," would sound like with Will Oldham handling the vocals in place of Chan Marshall (yes, I think about this sort of thing). Aesthetically the fit seems perfect.

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Leonard Cohen :: Old Ideas

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Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas, his 12th studio album, will be released a week from today. If I might I offer a suggestion, listen to the album cold - sans any outside editorial critique. You'll be glad you did...it's worth it.

You can stream to the record, in its entirety, here . . .

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White Hinterland :: Requiem pour un Con (Serge Gainsbourg)

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Serge Gainsbourg cut "Requiem pour un Con" in 1968 for Jean Gabin's film Le Pacha (see clip below). Forty years later Casey Dienel, under the nom de tune, White Hinterland, released the Francophone, six song, Luniculaire ep. I've been revisiting the collection for the first time since its release - specifically Hinterland's take on "Requiem . . .

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Sandy Nassan :: Just Guitar

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This shit is intense. My friend Ryan happened upon Sandy Nassan's Just Guitar while digging at Folk Arts Records in San Diego a few weeks back. Released in 1970, the opening track, "Jam," is just that. Clocking it at over 16 minutes, Ryan described it as: "being drawn into the most tense moment of the most suspenseful movie you've ever seen - it's like Sandy Bull on steroids and it doesn't let up. It's . . .

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Destroyer :: Leave Me Alone (New Order)

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RE: Dan Bejar. The latest Mojo compilation to hit newsstands is a disc comprised of reinterpretations of New Order's second LP, 1983's Power, Corruption & Lies. The covers range from the fairly catholic to wholly re-imagined versions, with the key takeaway being Destroyer's take on the original album's eighth and final track, "become a member or log in.

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Le Blues De Memphis :: Behind The Scenes STAX & FAME, 1969

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How's your French? I watched this twice last night before going out -- 1969 footage from a French documentary on the Stax and Muscle Shoals sound. The description bills its 11 minutes as featuring "Brook Benton & Booker T. & The MGs recording session...and The The Mar-keys working out a horn arrangement" but what your really seeing is a rare view into one of the most fertile eras of 20th century American music. Hat tip to Scottie Diablo for the tip and Bedazzled for the upload . . .

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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 229: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ The Damned - New Rose ++ Bleached - Think Of You ++ Bass Drum of Death - Nerve Jamming ++ Ty Segall - Girlfriend ++ Black Keys - Thickfreakness ++ Jeff The Brotherhood - Health And Strength (Heavy Version) ++ The Soft Pack - Fences ++ Lower Dens - Brains ++ Pet Politics - The Ghost Mary And Her Friends ++ Le Loops . . .

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Merit Hemmingson :: Brudmarsch efter Florsen i Burs

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To these American ears, Merit Hemmingson's Swedish lyrics on "Brudmarsch efter Florsen i Burs" come across like an inspired - if whimsical - jazz scat vocal. Known as the "queen of Swedish Hammond folk groove," "Brudmarsch" is culled from Hemmingson's 1972 LP, Trollskog. While the Hammond organ is ever-present, it's this - the more 'folk' than 'groove' side of her work - that keeps me coming back.

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Ike & Tina Turner :: Nutbush City Limits

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I came across today's Videodrome entry last month while digging around in search of an Ike & The Rhythm Kings performance I'd previously stumbled upon (late) one night. I never did find the Ike clip, but this "live performance" did more than suffice. And yes, do note the quotes surrounding the words 'live' and 'performance'. While I haven't found the provenance of this clip (if you know, please comment), I'm assuming it's a television talk show promo the pair did, circa 1973 . . .

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Quantic & Alice Russell with The Combo Barbaro :: Look Around The Corner

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I remember the first time I heard Alice Russell's voice. Blown away doesn't even begin to describe the feeling. I can only describe it as devastating, in the best possible way, and awesome (and I say that as a supporter of the campaign to the stop the misuse of the word). My introduction to Alice Russell was through the cover of the White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" that she recorded with Nostalgia 77. After it was through, I immediately had to hear it again. My initial experience with Quantic's music (his Soul Orchestra's version . . .

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Ponderosa Twins Plus One :: Bound

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Threw this track on a mix for a friend over the holidays: Ponderosa Twins Plus One. A five-piece consisting of two sets of identical twins plus a  friend from the neighborhood, this Cleveland outfit was one of several groups positioned in the 70s as 'the next Jackson 5'. And while that obviously didn't happen, they did leave behind a handful of super-cool singles, including "Bound." I was first hipped to these kids via DJ Matthew Africa's

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Pulphead :: The Last Wailer – Let Him Go

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"There's a sound on that recording, a vocalized So! right between the ninety-ninth and one-hundredth seconds: the Wailers, have just sung, "remember he is young, and he will live long." And then someone - you can't tell who - makes this noise. Intones, rather. It doesn't seem to come from inside the studio - doesn't belong, that is, to the texture of the session; it emanates from miles away and has arrived through an open window. Somewhere in the interior of Jamaica a goat herder with a staff has leaned back and loosed this sound . . .

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