Welcome to Kurt Vile's best record yet. Perhaps your favorite song is culled from one of his earlier efforts; fair enough, but there is no denying that Smoke Ring For My Halo, his fourth LP, is the defining sum total of Vile's craft. In short, he consistently nails it on the whole as
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The Velvet Underground :: I’m Not A Young Man Anymore
One thing about doing a show on satellite radio is that you can pull shit like airing "Sister Ray" in its entirety. While not my favorite Velvets boot, the 1967 Live At The Gymnasium set (that surfaced a few years ago) is not without merit, specifically as it's the first recorded appearance of said "Sister Ray" and features the grimy "I'm Not A Young Man Anymore," an excellent
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Ron “Pigpen” McKernan :: The Apartment Demos
Sound architect and Lysergic Acid pioneer Augustus “Bear’” Owsley Stanley died this week in his adopted home of Australia. The sixties counterculture fixture (see: Ken Kesey, the Grateful Dead, the Acid Tests, Tom Wolfe, etc.) and fictional inspiration for Steely Dan's "Kid Charlemagne" reportedly produced upwards of 1.25 million doses of LSD between 1965 and 1967. While it was his doses that made . . .
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.
SIRIUS 185: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Hunx & His Punx - Lovers Lane ++ Tune-Yards - Sunlight ++ Thao & Mirah - Eleven (feat. Tune-Yards) ++ Dirty Projectors - What I See ++ The Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation ++ Conspiracy of Owls - Ancient Robots ++ White Denim - All Consolation ++ Kurt Vile . . .
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Steel Funk :: A Compilation
Serendipity, it happens. I stumbled upon this "unofficial" compilation a couple of weeks back while doing a search on the Trinidad Steel Drummers having come across their cover of the Meters "Cissy Strut." Seek this one out; you may know a few titles, but I guarantee there are some bangers on here that will be fresh to all but the most ardent 45 diggers.
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The Mighty Hannibal :: Hymn No. 5
Hymn No. 5: courtesy of The Mighty Hannibal, née James Timothy Shaw is both a highlight and stylistic outlier in the oft-turbanned soul man's lengthy career. Inspired one night by a newscast of Walter Cronkite discussing the growing amount of United States soldiers that were returning from Vietnam addicted to opium, "Hymn No. 5" excels in being an anti-war song that taps into the innate horror of war rather than delve into obvious punditry. Slowly chugging along like a . . .
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Aguaturbia :: Rollin’ ‘N’ Tumblin’
Cue this up---turn this up. Chilean psych-rock powderkeg from Aguaturbia's 1968 self-titled debut. Viva.
MP3: Aguaturbia :: Rollin' 'N' Tumblin'
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Monk Montgomery :: Fuselage (Parts I & 2)
Yeeooow. Monk Montgomery's "Fuselage (Parts I & 2)". A lost fuzzy gem from 1971, Wes Montgomery's brother, Monk, melds jazz, prog, soul and funk into some special kind of stew (a bass odyssey, indeed). The LP has been out of print forever, but you can still occasionally score a copy over at discogs and the like every once in awhile. Until then, get weird below.
For Heads, by heads. Aquarium . . .
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AD Presents :: Dengue Fever (A Khmer Music Mixtape)
Welcome to the latest installment of an ongoing mixtape series in which we highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. This week we take a trip to sixties Cambodia catching up with Dengue Fever who are set to drop their fifth LP, Cannibal Courtship, April 19th. Below, Dengue Fever's Ethan Holtzman discusses the Khmer Rouge history behind his playlist:
"These songs are important, not only because they sound great, but because the singers and songwriters were killed during the Khmer Rouge genocide for being musicians and free thinking artists. I want to raise the consciousness of our listeners so we can ultimately end this brutal cycle of violence. History has a way of repeating itself, and we must remember those who perished for the freedom of others. It was not that long ago that such atrocities occurred. They happened in Africa even more recently and we have to be aware and vigilant to prevent this from occurring again. There is one song at the end of the play list by Loak Klang which is a newer hip hop track that infused traditional Khmer musical elements mixed in a modern way. I included it to show that the influence from these great musicians is living on and is still felt today."
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David Bowie :: Cracked Actor (BBC Documentary)
Cracked Actor, the BBC produced Bowie documentary focusing on the changeling's time spent in LA post-Ziggy/pre-Station To Station, is a raw---at times unsettling---look into the artist's life and career during the mid '70s. A period often mythologized as a sort of hedonistic manifest destiny gone purgatorial limbo, the always svelte Bowie is positively skeletal here---a physical deterioration that when . . .
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.
SIRIUS 184: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Jacques Dutronc - L'augmetation ++ Julian Lynch - Just Enough ++ Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom ++ Francois Wertheimer - L'automne ++ Serge Gainsbourg - En Melody ++ The Liminanas - I'm Dead ++ The Art Museums - Paris Cafes ++ Talking Heads - Warning Sign (CBS demo) ++ William Sheller - Exitissimo ++ Arif . . .
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AD Presents :: The Strange Boys @ The Echo, Tuesday Night
AD, FYF and the Echo welcome our lone star star amigos, the Strange Boys, back to Los Angeles Tuesday night at the Echo (the first of two LA gigs this week). We have several pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Hit us up in the comments with your name and working email address we can contact you at. Winners chosen by Monday afternoon. Tix avail at become a member or log in.
The Beach Boys :: Ganz Allein (In My Room)
I caught wind of this German take on the Beach Boys "In My Room" via a collection of non-English covers over at When You Awake last year. While I wouldn't go so far as to say the version has supplanted the original, damn if I haven't reached for it time and again over the past eight months.
MP3: The Beach Boys . . .
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Beastie Boys :: Dissecting The Roots Of Shadrach
"Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God." - Daniel 3:24-25, King James Version
Hip-hop has long been one of the biggest miners of classic literary and poetic tools . . .
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Randy Holden :: Population II / Over The Edge
"A kid who rats on another kid...is a dead kid!" - Ritchie White (Matt Dillon in Over The Edge, 1979)
In terms of genre, when it comes to film, teenage rebellion/ennui is a veritable cottage industry. While it may go in and out of vogue, every decade seems to produce at least a couple of noteworthy films that capture the current zeitgeist. Rebel Without A Cause, Richard Linklater's
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