Night two of Aquarium Drunkard's New Orleans Jazz Fest shows continue Thursday with Smith Westerns at One Eyed Jacks. We have three pairs tickets for AD readers. If looking to go, leave a comment below with your name and and an email address we can reach you at. Winners notified Tuesday night; tickets held at will-call. Bass Drum Of Death and
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Jeremy Taylor :: A Reggae Interpretation Of Kind Of Blue
In 2009 Secret Stash Records dusted off this collection via a vinyl-only release. From the label: "In the spring of 1981 a group of reggae studio musicians from Jamaica gathered in New York City under the direction of Jeremy Taylor, a music professor at NYU at that time. The result was Reggae Interpretation of Kind of Blue". As fate would have it, several weeks after directing the sessions, Taylor passed away in his Paris hotel room while on a speaking tour . . .
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AD Presents :: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, New Orleans
I'm jumping on an airplane bright and early Wednesday morning to fly into New Orleans for the first of Aquarium Drunkard's three Jazz Fest shows this week. We're kicking off Wednesday night with the unfuckablewith Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at One Eyed Jacks. We have three pairs of tickets to the rock show for the Aquarium Drunkard faithful. To enter for a pair leave a comment below with your name, a valid email we can reach you and you . . .
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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 187: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ The Broadway Hush - Tonight You Belong To Me ++ Megafaun - The Fade ++ My Morning Jacket - Steam Engine ++ Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant ++ Futurebirds - Wild Heart ++ Cotton Jones - Gone The Bells (demo version) ++ Silver Jews - People ++ Jana Hunter - A Bright-Ass Light ++ Violent . . .
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AD Presents :: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart (New Orleans)
AD is back in New Orleans April 7th with The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart at One Eyed Jacks. Twin Shadow supports. We have three pairs of tickets to giveaway to AD readers. Hit us up in the comments for a pair with your name and an email address we can reach you at. First three to comment get the tickets---pick them up at will-call night of the show. Buy tickets . . .
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Eddie Ray :: You Got Me/You Got Me (Demo)
While the satisfaction of happening upon a track from a long forgotten artist, with a song barely heard through the ages, has in part been sated by various reissue labels around the globe, so seldom is a picture painted. A single track by a single artist is no more than that---no fragments of a previous composition, no full albums of sleepers and gems. These snapshots, thrilling in their uncovering and dazzling in their quality, will often lack context. They are not Motown lifers, suddenly stepping into the limelight with a charted past of backing vocals or minor hits, even . . .
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Josh T. Pearson :: Last Of The Country Gentlemen
It has been a decade since the release of Lift To Experience's The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads. Fast forward to 2011. At seven songs in sixty minutes, the long awaited solo debut of Lift's Josh T. Pearson is a welcome dark and desolate take on contemporary folk music entitled Last Of . . .
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Dillard & Clark :: Don’t Let Me Down
Here we have the short-lived, yet excellent, Dillard & Clark covering the Beatles "Don't Let Me Down." I originally had planned to run this the same week in December that I shared Charlotte Dada's Ghanese cover of the . . .
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Link Wray :: Midnight Lover (1975 UK TV Performance)
Our pal Jessica, from Rotter And Friends designs, just shared this Link Wray UK television performance clip with us from 1975. Smokin. Rotter's own Link Wray t-shirt has been on my wish list since the design came out last year (my size sold out), and it looks like they now have a commemorative Beefheart design that has been making the rounds. Great stuff, great people.
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Nancy Sinatra :: Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham
In reference to the LA Burnout comps last week, I was reminded of this Nancy Sinatra nugget found on the reissue of 1967's Country, My Way. Exercising a time tested theme in song (i.e., the whole leaving home to 'make it' in Los Angeles, thang), Sinatra's take here is a very worthy addition to the lineage. As with the best of her stuff from this era (often with Hazlewood), the idiosyncratic instrumentation really pays off . . .
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David Bowie: Fresh from Divorce: The Scary Monsters Chronicles
I've been a real freak for Bowie's Scary Monsters over the past year. Compounding this near obsession was discovering the collection Fresh from Divorce: The Scary Monsters Chronicles five or so months back. At 19 tracks the (very) grey-market bootleg is described by its compiler as a selection of "relevant documents surrounding the creation of the album including alternate versions . . .
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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 186: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Kurt Vile - He's Alright ++ Jim Schoenfeld - Before ++ Lower Dens - A Dog's Dick ++ Mazzy Star - Fade Into You ++ Deerhunter - Dr. Glass (Daytrotter Session) ++ Jana Hunter - A Bright-Ass Light ++ Akron/Family - Gone Beyond ++ Frankel - Know (Nick Drake) ++ The Love . . .
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Thurston Moore :: Benediction (Demolished Thoughts)
Earlier today Matador Records released the first taste from Thurston Moore’s upcoming (third) solo album, Demolished Thoughts. Produced by Beck, "Benediction" easily falls in line with the more subdued tone of Moore's last solo outing, 2007's Trees In The Academy. Look for it May 24th.
MP3: Thurston Moore :: Benediction
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Lower Dens :: Twin-Hand Movement
Sludging through the ever-expanding assortment of year-end lists feels like a second job by mid-December. Having said that, I've never not come away with at least a few new favorites that I either missed entirely or blew off over the previous twelve months. Case in point, last year I was rewarded with Lower Dens' LP Twin-Hand Movement; an album that has been in constant rotation since December.
Vaguely aware . . .
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Os Mutantes :: Mutantes
Any Mutantes record is a mind-blower and this one makes an unforgettable introduction. The music and voice of Os Mutantes transcends any language barrier such that even the most literary of music enthusiasts can still fall deep for these dazzling sounds. David Byrne, who reissued an anthology of the Mutants on his Luaka Bop label, seems to back this sentiment up in the fantastic liner notes to Stop Making Sense: "Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily." One phrase echoes . . .
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