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 164: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The Gories — Hey, Hey We’re The Gories ++ Canarios — Trying So Hard ++ The Arrows — Blue’s Theme ++ Screaming Lord Sutch — Flashing Lights ++ The Kinks — You Really Got Me ++ Thee Headcoats — Diddy Wah Diddy ++ The Pebbles — We Love The Beatles ++ The . . .

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Bob McFadden And Dor :: The Mummy

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Not the first time Bob McFadden And Dor have graced these pages, but with Halloween next week this is definitely the most timely/appropriate. Like the majority of McFadden's shtick, "The Mummy," off the 1959 LP Songs Our Mummy Taught Us, is a kitschy spoof of the early horror films of the day coupled with the, then, contemporary beat culture. A doozy that deserves a space on any Halloween mixtape.

MP3: Bob . . .

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Antony and the Johnsons :: Mysteries of Love

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Over the past 25 years the collaboration between David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti has yielded many a monster---producing some of cinemas most gothic, memorable and atmospheric scores. A relationship that began with Lynch's 1986 dark masterpiece Blue Velvet, in which Badalamenti was brought on board to flesh out the aural landscape, the film also marked the first appearance of the pair's vocal muse, Julee Cruise, who came aboard as . . .

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Riley :: Grandma’s Roadhouse

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Back in 1971 a short-lived band out of Nashville, TN, by the name of Riley, pressed up 500 copies of their self-released LP, Grandma's Roadhouse. Nearly 40 years later Delmore Recordings has dusted off and reissued the album for its second wind. An exercise in the kind of "country rock" that was beginning to take hold across the country, having blazed a trail out West, Grandma's Roadhouse is like a . . .

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Antony and the Johnsons :: If It Be Your Will (live)

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Just like great athletes have career defining moments, so, too, do musicians. For Pulp, it was their last minute fill-in for an imploding Stone Roses on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival in 1995, still regarded as one of the festival's finest performances. For Nirvana, it was their seminal performance on MTV's Unplugged that served to showcase a side of the band never before seen. These performances put accomplished artists into a spotlight that they hadn't yet occupied.

For Antony Hegarty, that . . .

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Las Mosquitas :: A Sixties Girl Group, Argentinian Style

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Las Mosquitas: four girls from Buenos Aires, a guitar, bass, keys and some percussion. And of course, attitude. That is the gist of what has been spinning around the homestead the past few days since Scottie Diablo hipped me to the following post at Bubblegum Soup.

Vamping on both covers and originals, Las Mosquitas is something like a French Yé-yé experiment crossed with rogue . . .

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Antony and the Johnsons :: Swanlights

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Antony Hegarty loves themes. So, it's no surprise that the fourth album from Antony and the Johnsons, Swanlights, opens with the insistence that "everything is new" and ends by repeating this line with the added image of "your face and my face / tenderly renewed." Between these points, Swanlights is an evocative, but flawed, journey up a sonic mountain and . . .

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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 163: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Tom Waits - Goin' Out West ++ The Method Actors - Do The Method ++ Ryan Adams - City Rain, City Streets ++ The Smiths - That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore ++ Destroyer - Streethawk I ++ Lou Reed - Charley's Girl ++ The Velvet Underground - Head Held High ++ Jack . . .

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Bomboclat! Island Soak :: A Reggae/Dub Mixtape

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Welcome to the latest mixtape installment in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Today we catch up with my old friend John as he drops some choice highlights from his days spent in Kingston. Put this one on now or save it for your next epic chill.

Download: Bomboclat! Island Soak :: A Reggae/Dub Mixtape (Zipped folder 109 MB)

Big Youth :: Some Like It DreadI-Roy :: Musical PleasureHopeton Lewis :: Sound and PressureB.B. Seaton :: SummertimeThe Heptones & Lee Perry :: Why Must ISly & Robbie :: Asian Roots DubKing Iwah . . .

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Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra :: Jackson

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Penned by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler, and made famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter (their take won a Grammy), "Jackson" hearkens back to the days of classic storytelling in song. The tune is also one of my favorite duets that Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra took on during their fruitful collaborative period. Sinatra's repetitive "Jackson, Jackson, Jackson," at the end, is tops.

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Ted Lucas :: The Om Album

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Ted Lucas got his start playing in a Detroit folk revival band called The Spike-Drivers, eventually leaving to form other groups The Misty Wizards, Horny Toads, and the Boogie Disease. While he was a respected figure in Michigan's folk and rock scene, his self-titled solo album (recorded largely in his attic studio during 1974) failed to break beyond local recognition.

The promo sticker nails the sound, placing Ted Lucas next to legends John Fahey, Nick Drake, and Skip Spence. It's a . . .

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Travel by Sea :: Two States And The Blindness That Follows

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What began as a songwriting experiment spanning two states, a hi-speed Internet connection, and a shared love of dark folk music, has since morphed into a living, breathing band.   Witnessing Travel by Sea's growth over the past four years has seen the project, between co-founders Kyle Kersten and Brian Kraft, steadily take on attributes that only come from performing live.

As a duo, the 1st two albums Travel by Sea released were the streamlined, exceptionally efficient, work of Kersten and Kraft. In short, Kersten would draft . . .

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R.E.M. :: Fables of the Reconstruction (Reissue)

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As the last remnants of Summer began to burn off throughout the length of September, the stage was set for taking in the reissue of R.E.M.'s third LP, 1985's Fables of The Reconstruction, as a whole. If context is indeed everything, then Fables is woolen, wood-smoke and that unmistakable crisping of Autumn air.

Twenty five years after its initial release, Fables continues to inhabit a curious place in the R.E.M. discography, which now includes fourteen full-length releases.   Perhaps ironically, as it was recorded in . . .

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The Surf Creature :: Wild, Weird & Wet – A Compilation

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A bit more wavy-gravy than some of the more straight-forward/run of the mill surf comps out there, The Surf Creature delivers 25 instrumental benders with a nod to the bizarre. This collection is an overview of the Surf Creature vinyl series Romulan Records began issuing awhile back. Toes on the nose, indeed.

MP3: Unknown :: The Fifth Dimension
MP3: The Starfires :: Hand Full of . . .

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Deerhunter :: Halcyon Digest

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2010 can be summed up as the year of extreme musical escapism. For example, an influential and meaningful genre like “ambient” has been watered down into sub-categories like “witch-house”, “chill-wave”, “wave-gaze” and dozens more. Sigh. All of these terms represent the same basic feeling and trend that has dominated this year’s music releases, the powerful and influential blogosphere and even popular music criticism, yet none of these micro-genres feel like movements. Some of it is definitely memorable and holds promise beyond the bedroom recordings that have marked its heavy promotion and fuss. But let . . .

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