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 227: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++  Reparata & the Delrons - Boys and Girls ++  Dum Dum Girls - Pay For Me ++ Bleached - Dazed ++ Gentleman Jesse - Highland Crawler ++ The Owsley Brothers - Blood & Fire ++ Takeshi Terauchi — What Have They Done / Venice — 30Th Century ++ Beatle-Ettes — Only Seventeen ++ Arif Sag — Su Sansunun Evleri . . .

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Coeur Magique :: Mademoiselle Marie (1971)

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Culled from the BYG vaults, I've had Coeur Magique's slice of French psychedelia, "Mademoiselle Marie," on deck for awhile now slated for an upcoming DJ set. Track two off the groups 1971 LP, Wakan Tanka, the track exemplifies the substrain of heavy, guitar-driven, underground French psych blasting off at the time (see also: become a member or log in.

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The Girls / The Crystals :: Chico’s Girl

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As promised, more sixties girl-group stuff. If you keep up with this sort of thing (we do), you'll remember The Girls were rescued from collector obscurity awhile back via the mutli-volume Girls In The Garage series - and then later on the similar themed, higher profile, ACE Records compilation become a member or log in.

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Reparata & The Delrons :: Boys And Girls

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Caveat Lector: I've been on another vintage girl-group kick of late and will be featuring some lesser known faves over the next few days beginning with Reparata & The Delrons "Boys And Girls." Clocking in at an all too brief one minute and forty-six seconds, it's propulsive drums and percussive piano that drive the track. Pair the two with syncopated handclaps, attitude and elevated vocal harmonics and the song finds itself residing in that oft elusive, intangible, sweet spot.

Formed in 1962 at . . .

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Pete Drake :: Talking Steel Guitar

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Pete Drake’s performance of his hit song, “Forever,” in the film Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar is a proto-Hee-Haw flight of fancy. The assembled band members nod their heads back and forth to a hypnotic beat on a down-home, front porch set. Drake sits at a pedal steel emblazoned with his name and is dressed in a crisp suit. The scene has all the trappings of high honky-tonk decadence and country fancy. But when the verse comes around . . .

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Father John Misty & Phosphorescent :: I Would Love You

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Welcome to 2012. Here's one for the last year of our existence, Father John Misty's duet with Phosphorescent on the Misty original, "I Would Love You."

MP3: Father John Misty & Phosphorescent :: I Would Love You

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Sevens :: The Roots – Tip the Scale

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(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)

The Roots' Undun is a concept record - a man's life told in reverse, starting with the flatlining of his heartbeat and working backward through his life. But it's interesting that within that concept, the last song with lyrics, and therefore the earliest song in our protagonist's . . .

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Booker T. & The MG’s :: Booker-Loo (1968)

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As mentioned in the inaugural Videodrome post last month, the recurring series is an effort to highlight some of the more exceptional videos and/or performances we stumble upon out there in the ether. This week we're looking at some footage from 1968 -- an intimate live performance of Booker T. & The MG . . .

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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 226: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne ++ Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me A Tale ++ Bill Withers - Better Off Dead ++ Ify Jerry Krusade — Everybody Likes Something Good ++ Amanaz - Khala My Friend ++ Wendell Stuart & The Downbeaters - Hey Jude ++ Santa Nguessan :: Manny Nia ++ Os Mutantes - A Minha . . .

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AD Presents :: New Year’s Eve With The Black Lips, New Orleans

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Aquarium Drunkard presents Black Lips New Year's Eve at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. It's going to be nuts. We're giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also purchase tickets here). To enter for a pair, send an email to blacklipsnye AT gmail.com with your full name and favorite record of 2011. Winners . . .

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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 225: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The Walkmen - Christmas Party ++ David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging ++ Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing ++ Gary Numan - Down In The Park ++ Gardens & Villa - Black Hills ++ The Walkmen - In The New Year ++ The National - All The Wine ++ Broadcast - Echo's Answer ++ Lower Dens - Tea Lights ++ Destroyer - European Oils . . .

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The Walkmen :: Christmas Party

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The Walkmen have long employed mood and atmosphere into their sound as if they were a sixth member; as such they deftly capture the bittersweet, slightly inebriated, tone of "the holidays." The below track is their own take on the festivities, courtesy of 2004's Christmas Party ep.

MP3: The Walkmen :: Christmas Party
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Clifton’s Corner :: Volume Seven

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(Welcome to the seventh installment of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyond. — AD)

Usually I have a theme for these "Clifton's Corner" installments but for this one I wanted to . . .

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This May Be My Last Time Singing :: An Conversation With Mike McGonigal

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Earlier this month we caught up with  YETI publisher Mike McGonigal, the man behind one of our favorite compilations of the year -- the Tompkins Square release This May Be My Last Time Singing:  Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982. A continuation of sorts to McGonigal's initial collaboration with the label, 2009's Fire In My Bones, the collection is a three-disc aural journey into the various corners of African-American gospel. Among other things, the below touches on YETI's beginnings, record hunting, tracking down source material and future reissue plans.

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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.

You can find our 2011 Year In Review, here.

SIRIUS 224: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Tinariwen - Tenere Taqqim Tossam ++ Crystal Stilts - Precarious Stair ++ Disappears - Halo ++ Girls - Die ++ I Break . . .

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