This Wednesday, September 21st, Futurebirds bring their psychedelic country-rock to the Satellite in Silver Lake. Waters and Loch Lomond support. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers. Hit us up in the comments, below, with your name and an email address we can reach you at. Winners notified by Monday afternoon. (purchase tix
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Clifton’s Corner :: Volume Three / Choice Jazz Joints
(Welcome to the third installment of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, will be sharing some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyond. — AD)
JAZZ: When I was a little kid, just the word alone was enough to bore me to tears. In some respects, I probably feared jazz. The lack of rules. The . . .
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David Bowie :: Cracked Actor – Los Angeles, September 5, 1974
Live "Cracked Actor" during the "Philly" Dogs tour in Los Angeles coupled with Bowie's twisted ode to Hamlet. Dig the cape. CC: Yorick.
Video: David Bowie :: Cracked Actor (Los Angeles, September 5, 1974)
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
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 210: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Braids-Lemonade ++ Azeda Booth- In Red ++ Baths- Lovely Bloodflow ++ Kurt Vile- Freak Train ++ Tijuana Panthers- Crew Cut ++ The Babies- Wild 2 ++ The Strange Boys- MLKs ++ Shannon & the Clams- Old Man Winter ++ The Vaselines- You Think You're A Man ++ Hunx and his Punx- You . . .
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I Want My MTV :: Part One of Two
(MTV turned 30 last month. Wow. Any music lover who came of age in the 80s, and most of the 90s, certainly has a positive or negative (or both) opinion of the network and its affect on popular music. In the first of two pieces, AD's J. Neas looks back at the network, its place in pop culture, whether anything like it exists now and whether or not we should care. Part two, coming next week, will be an interview with former MTV News anchor and reporter John Norris.)
It's easy to scoff at what I'm about to say, so I won't blame you if you do. I miss my MTV.
Technically, yes, the station still exists, but with its own self-awareness reaching a peak with its decision to drop the "Music Television" wording from its logo last year, the MTV that I miss is truly a thing of the past. It's not something I'd spent a lot of time thinking about until August 1st, 2011 rolled around and there was a bunch of hullabaloo around the 30th anniversary of the channel's launch, back in the dark ages of cable television. VH1 Classic devoted an entire weekend to playing clips and videos and whole programs from classic MTV, sometimes in thematic segments. (A section of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance segued into the MTV News report announcing Kurt Cobain's suicide.) But of course, the fact that all of this celebrational look-back played on VH1 Classic while the regular MTV was just, well, its normal self, says everything about who might still care about the once domineering arbiter of musical cool that was MTV.
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The Buff Medways :: Archive From 1959
Early rock & roll fetishist, garage devotee, punk rocker, bandleader, impresario: Billy Childish has gone by about as many names and monikers as he has mustaches (and he's had some good ones on both counts) but at their core, whether recording as Thee Headcoats, The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars or The Buff Medways they all boil down to a Billy Childish album.
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Cass McCombs :: The Same Thing
Humor Risk, Cass McCombs second full-length of 2011, is set to release on November 8 via Domino Records. Here's the first taste, "The Same Thing." At this rate McCombs may land two slots on my best of 2011 list.
MP3: Cass McCombs . . .
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Nancy Sinatra :: Flowers On The Wall
A young Nancy Sinatra, seated with the ever-dapper Michael Caine, in 1965 at the Hollywood premiere party for Martin Ritt's film, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. While this photo has absolutely nothing to do with Sinatra's bubblegum rendition of the Statler Brothers "Flowers On The Wall," the two do tend to complement one another quite well.
MP3: Nancy Sinatra :: Flowers On The . . .
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Kool And Together :: Original Recordings 1970-77
Working the same vein as Black Merda and Band of Gypsys, 70s psychedelic funk outfit Kool And Together are getting the Heavy Light treatment next month. Forged in south Texas, the group merged raw, thick-grooved, soul and r&b with era-appropriate rock & . . .
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Bobbie Gentry :: The Delta Sweete
With its picture of the gorgeous Bobbie Gentry superimposed in monochrome over a fallen-down shack, The Delta Sweete promises the peculiarly Southern music that Gentry is known for. Released in 1968, it was Gentry's second album, coming on the heels of the tremendous success of one of the most memorable, if bizarre, hits of the 1960s, "become a member or log in.
AD Presents :: Jason Isbell/Justin Townes Earle – Wednesday
Wednesday night: AD presents Jason Isbell and Justin Townes Earle with Caitlin Rose at the Music Box in Hollywood. The last time I saw Earle and Isbell paired together on a bill (at Spaceland) was an inspired evenig of music. I have no doubt this will be the same. We're giving away some pairs of tickets to AD readers. Hit up the comments below . . .
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
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 209: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Howard Nishioka - Carnivourous Dogaramus ++ Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me A Tale ++ Bill Withers - Better Off Dead ++ Amanaz - Khala My Friend ++ Wendell Stuart & The Downbeaters - Hey Jude ++ Santa Nguessan :: Manny Nia ++ Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina ++ Henri Texier - Les "lî -bas" ++ Aguaturbia - Rollin' 'N' Tumblin' ++ Randy . . .
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The Olivia Tremor Control :: The AD Interview
(In 2009, with news of a long awaited Circulatory System lp follow-up, I asked Athens, GA's Lucas Jensen to catch up with and interview Will Cullen Hart. Now, two years later, The Olivia Tremor Control are once again a working unit with a variety of tours, reissue projects and an album on the horizon. Below, Lucas interviews the beloved Athens group. The OTC are set to perform in Los Angeles this Saturday at the FYF Festival. - AD)
I have lived in bucolic Athens, GA since 1998 and have enjoyed all 13 years of its incestuous, experimental, try anything once, form a band every night music scene. The first three or so years of my stay here really were something special, and not just viewed through the gauzy soft-focus of nostalgia. I’m not a spiritual or mystical guy, but there was something in the air here...an energy, if you will, that permeated those early Elephant 6 shows, a sense of coiled chaos. Onstage lineups were amorphous, with band members subbing in and out like hockey players. People bowed banjos and turned baby heads into horns. Parades broke out with surprising regularity. It was a fun time, and none of it felt forced or artsy. It was communal and celebratory. The Olivia Tremor Control, along with fellow travelers Elf Power, The Music Tapes, of Montreal, the Gerbils, and, of course, Neutral Milk Hotel, dominated my show-going docket, and I was rarely, if ever, disappointed. The Olivias always killed it, careening between pop sensibilities and more inscrutable experimental concerns and never less than transfixing. They had great press, toured with some great bands in Europe, and then it was just...over. There were rumors of fallings out and OTC founders Bill Doss and Will Hart, each had their own fantastic new projects, The Sunshine Fix and Circulatory System, respectively, and that was that. Except, thankfully, it wasn’t. In 2005, the band reunited for a series of shows that found them in top form. And they have been going at it, however slowly and behind the scenes, since. Now the band is “out” again, with new tour dates and new material. As wonderful as the different band members’ myriad projects are—it would take us years to list all of them!—it’s great to have an energized and productive Olivia Tremor Control back in our lives.
OTC members John Fernandes, Bill Doss, and newest band member Derek Almstead graciously consented to an extensive interview. Will Hart showed up a few minutes in. Unfortunately, Eric Harris and Pete Erchick could not make it. The interview got off to an...auspicious start, as yours truly accidentally turned on the metronome on his recording device, aka iPhone.
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Richard Swift :: Walt Wolfman
It must be the season for new Richard Swift. Last month we shared the troubadour's ode to a maimed hand, "Broken Finger Blues," and today Swift offers up "Whitman," the first taste from his forthcoming release, Walt Wolfman. A fine ode from one American iconoclast to another, "Whitman" -- all propulsive chugging drums and keys -- finds Swift's r&b falsetto . . .
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Elvis Presley :: Do The Clam
Ah, yes. I've always had a perverse love for some of the King's most trite work -- case in point the beach-party-ready "Do The Clam," a song that clearly belongs on any dis-respectable Labor Day soundtrack.
MP3: Elvis Presley :: Do The Clam
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