Daddy Rockin’ Strong :: A Tribute to Nolan Strong & The Diablos

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A vinyl-only tribute compilation (distributed by Norton Records), Daddy Rockin' Strong rounds up thirteen Nolan Strong bangers covered by various true believers in the worlds of rock and roll, punk and garage. Players include, but not limited to, Reigning Sound, Mark Sultan, Gentleman Jesse, The Dirtbombs, Cub Koda, Andre Williams and Lenny Kaye. In short, the list of participants is a   veritable 'who's who' if you worship at the alter of this sound.

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Bill Withers :: The Old Grey Whistle Test, BBC TV 1972

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If you have yet to spend some quality time on youtube with the session Bill Withers cut live in the studio for the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test in the early 70s, might I suggest you do so immediately. I probably hit it up every six months, most recently this afternoon following a discussion centered around ace drummer James Gadson. A longtime member of Withers core crew, Gadson is featured prominently in the aforementioned session. Get started with the above clip . . .

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How Many Roads :: Black America Sings Bob Dylan (Compilation)

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Since the beginning of Bob Dylan's imprint on popular culture, his material has had the rare ability to transcend race, space and time. While you may have a number of these covers scattered throughout your collection, there is no denying Ace Records did a commendable job last year gathering up and framing twenty Dylan tracks covered by black America. The collection's focus concentrates on . . .

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Johnny Adams :: Georgia Mountain Dew

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Johnny Adams, a name familiar to most anyone who has ever purchased a southern soul compilation, worked his magic last Friday night. An inspired choice, my friend served up   Adams's Heart & Soul LP on wax while cracking into a bottle of Jameson just before dinner. The album kicks off with one of the best paeans to missing Georgia, while in Los Angeles, that I know of. Thanks Matt and Jenn.

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AD Presents :: Smith Westerns @ The Echo, February 11th

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Friday night Aquarium Drunkard welcomes Smith Westerns return to Los Angeles at the Echo. Yuck and Therapies Son support. We are giving away several pairs of tickets to AD readers. Enter for a chance to win in the comments below. Note: in the email field, leave a valid address you actually check as this is how winners are notified . . .

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The Veils :: Troubles Of The Brain EP

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It's been nearly two years since we last heard from the Veils, but 2011 already brings us the Troubles of the Brain EP, the band's first release for their new self-run Pitch Beast record label. It's an interesting move on the band's part, leaving Rough Trade records, their home for their first three albums, to head off on their own. They've also recruited Bernard Butler (ex-Suede) to produce . . .

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Fleet Foxes :: Helplessness Blues

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Today saw the first taste of new Fleet Foxes since 2008. The track "Helplessness Blues" was released this morning as an mp3 via the group's label, Sub Pop. Look for an LP of the same out May 3rd with a supporting tour down the coast with a gig at the Hollywood Palladium May 7th.

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The United States of America :: S/T

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The United States of America album is the product of Joseph Byrd, former FLUXUS member, artist and UCLA instructor who managed to combine experimental art and early synthesizer technology with psychedelic rock. Employing percussion instruments, electric violin and acoustic strings, electric bass, various keyboards, homemade oscillators and ring modulators (with Dorothy Moskowitz's confident soprano) this record shows surprising pop capability for an avant garde project.

United States of America is a pioneering record that is worth . . .

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Scratch The Surface :: Slint – Spiderland

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Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, takes a look at particularly interesting and/or exceptional cover art choices.

"To get to Utica Quarry you take Interstate 65 north out of Louisville, over the Ohio River into Indiana...In the fall the trees are rich reds, golds, browns."

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Dirty Beaches :: Lord Knows Best

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My first impression of Vancouver's Alex Zhung Hai, who records under the name Dirty Beaches, was that of a cross between Richard Hawley and Leonard Cohen if, say, collaborating with Angelo Badalamenti.   An impression that still stands. Zung Hai's upcoming LP, Badlands, is a surreal meld of 50s crooner cool coupled with blurry washes of mood and sound. The below track, "Lord Knows Best," samples and re-imagines Françoise Hardy's "Voila" as a narcoleptic fever dream.

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Sevens :: Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl

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

There's a moment in Sleater-Kinney's "Modern Girl" where the music and lyrics begin to meld in ways rarely seen in popular music. But it relies on a lyrical thread that builds from the song's opening.

The song's melodic, sing-songy structure openly embraces its simple sounding beginning. "My baby loves me / I'm so happy / happiness makes me a modern girl." Carrie Brownstein's . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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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 178: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Las Robertas - Street Feelings ++ La Sera - Devils Hearts Grow Cold ++ Frankie Rose And The Outs - Candy ++ Smith Westerns - Imagine Pt. 3 ++ Dead Gaze - This Big World ++ Disappears - Gone Completely ++ Deerhunter - Desire Lines ++ Hunx & His Punx - Lovers Lane ++ Gentleman Jesse . . .

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Willie Wright :: Telling The Truth

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As noted in our year-end wrap up, Numero Group consistently earns points for hipping a wider audience to artists and sounds they didn't yet know they were missing. And when it comes to reissue labels you really cannot ask for more. Latest case in point: Willie Wright's Telling The Truth. From Wright's label bio we learn he cut his teeth on the Harlem doo-wop scene before heading north to Boston. From . . .

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Charles Bradley :: No Time For Dreaming

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Lee Fields, Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley. All three of these names are grouped into what is collectively known in 2011 as the retro-soul movement.   Not that this style of music ever really went away, but on a commercial level it did find itself largely supplanted in the early 80s by slick production and a gloss that had little, of anything, to do with STAX, Muscle Shoals and the other seminal core scenes originally associated with the genre. But like anything, if one pulls the curtains back a bit, it's not hard to find the regional pockets . . .

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Dr. John & Etta James :: I’d Rather Go Blind

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In terms of sheer personality the above performance has it in spades (and then some). I happened upon this vintage clip a couple of days ago and have since shared it with just about every Dr. John freak I could think of. This, his pairing with Etta James on "I'd Rather Go Blind," is beyond inspired. Things start off pretty standard with James laying into a song she's surely belted out hundreds of times over the course of her career. But keep watching. Soon we witness the true power of a duet, one which takes on . . .

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