New track from Cotton Jones. "Egg On A Sea" is culled from the Maryland groups forthcoming digital EP, Sit Beside Your Vegetables, due out February 22nd via Suicide Squeeze. Vocally, Whitney McGraw takes the lead. Cotton Jones North American tour kicks off January 27th and runs through mid-March.
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Yup, that's Pollard posing on the cover of his first album of the new year, Space City Kicks. Yet another sign that the GBV reunion has in no way slowed the man down. LP drops January 25th on Guided By Voices Records.
MP3: Robert Pollard :: Touch Me In The Right Place At The Right Time
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Every couple of years or so, whenever the mood strikes, I hit up the Jonathan Richman section of the record store as he consistently releases albums I tend to miss out on. (Did you know he is now on Vapor Records, Neil Young's imprint? Neither did I.) Over the holidays, while in Athens for a a couple of nights, I did the requisite visitation and perusal of the downtown record shops. As fate would have it, this time during my irregular checking of the Richman stacks, it turned out the . . .
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Our label, Autumn Tone, is releasing the upcoming Dirty Gold EP, Roar, this spring. In the meantime, the single that initially caught our attention, "California Sunrise," is now available via iTunes, etc.
Purchase Now: Dirty Gold :: California Sunrise (Single)
iTunes: Dirty Gold :: California Sunrise (Single)
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Dan Bejar is busy. Between four (differently named) projects releasing material in the past three years, it's rare that time goes by without hearing from the prolific artist. Bejar's main project, Destroyer, is set to release its ninth album, Kaputt, January 25th on Merge Records. AD caught up with Bejar, via email, to discuss the busy creative process, the longevity of his relationship with Merge, the direction of the new album and what not to throw at the band on stage.
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Aquarium Drunkard: The past year has been busy for you in prepping Kaputt for release and also finishing up releasing and promoting the New Pornographers' Together. Since you've released work with four different groups in the past three years, do you have a process for balancing the work on all of them? Are you, for instance, working on Destroyer music while out touring for the New Pornographers? Or do you keep them exclusive?
Dan Bejar: There is no overlap between any of those things. So I need not employ any process to keep them apart. They just are apart. But schedules can get a bit mixed up, and I have had to ok Destroyer masters from the speakers of a New Pornographers bus, if that's what you mean. That shit can be stressful.
AD: You've been with your label, Merge Records, for quite some time, a rarer thing for artists in the modern age of commercial music. How has your relationship with them evolved over the years?
DB: Do people label hop a lot these days? I've never really thought about it, though I have noticed that Merge is pretty much the only label I can think of that doesn't drop bands. It's actually astounding, that! It's possible that if you actually continue to make records, they will actually continue to put them out, into infinity, regardless of how little they sell. It's really really rare, and says a lot about them. I'm not exactly sure how our relationship has evolved, but I am repeatedly shocked at what's been a lot of carte blanche support over the years.
AD: The last two records, Destroyer's Rubies and Trouble in Dreams, had you working with a consistent lineup for one of the first times in your career as Destroyer. Is the same group on board this time and how has that stability worked on these records?
DB: Actually the only two records that involve a consistent line-up are Thief and Streethawk. Trouble In Dreams had a different drummer than Rubies, but sometimes a different drummer is like having a different singer. This was one of those cases. I see very few similarities between those two records, aside from maybe "Introducing Angels." And maybe "Leopard of Honor" sounds a bit like "A Dangerous Woman Up To A Point," if you were to look at those two songs stripped of their performances...though they mean completely different things (there's the rub!). Nic Bragg is the only person from those records who plays on Kaputt (unless you're talking about the vinyl version of Kaputt, in which case Ted Bois pretty much composed, performed and recorded the entirety of Side 3!). He also played lead guitar on This Night.
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If you never had the pleasure of seeing Broadcast on tour, particularly in their early years with keyboardist Roj Stevens and guitarist Tim Felton, then this is for you. Actually, this is for everyone. It's a dark and saddening time for fans of the band since the recent and sudden passing of singer/multi-instrumentalist Trish Keenan. But I can't think of a better way to celebrate her life than to spread the group's music around to as many . . .
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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.
Today, during hour two of the show, Nick from Ghost Capital guest DJs. Grab his set, as a mixtape, here...
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Stay tuned for our interview with filmmaker John Scheinfeld per his documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?). In the meantime, check out Nilsson's cover of John Lennon's "Isolation;" a track I've has on steady repeat the past couple of months. A cover, it somehow surpasses John's, excellent, original. A rare feat, indeed.
MP3: Harry Nilsson :: Isolation (John Lennon)
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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.
"He [Daniel Corrigan; photographer] captured a moment. The one overriding thing that's always been in the back of my head: It's a great shot, and it's become iconographic and it says 'the Replacements' and everybody recognizes it. And...from the very first time I saw it . . .
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As 'live' documents go, as in the type of recording that has the power to convey some of the kinetic energy and mojo of the room, The Mixtures Stompin' At the Rainbow satisfies on all counts. The thirteen track set feels like a party, and by that I don't mean its architects just left in some ambient bar-noise, clinking drinks, and conversation, but the actual vibe. Like all nuance, it's either there or . . .
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Phosphorescent's take on Neil Young's "Are You Ready For The Country?" Culled from the companion disc accompanying the new issue of Mojo---Harvest Revisited---Matthew Houck and co. stay true to the arrangement Neil and the Stray Gators worked up on the original.
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Out of all the bands that released shoegaze-influenced material in 2010 Tamaryn’s The Waves can stand tall alongside influential peers like Slowdive and Mazzy Star. All three of these acts are anchored by mesmerizing, swampy vocals that not only float they add light to those reverberated sonic worlds. However, Tamaryn’s emotional resonance is something different. Hope Sandoval and Rachel Goswell (of Mazzy Star and Slowdive, respectively) are known . . .
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Michael Chapman, apart from being a prolific English songwriter whose revered work spans four decades, is probably the best guitar smith you have never heard. While his skills are best evidenced on this album's predecessor, Rainmaker, the original songwriting and tight production, seemingly informed by all music that came before it, steal the show here.
It's as if every style of rock music were somehow harnessed and tamed into Michael's unique folk vision. The album sounds fresh . . .
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Welcome to the latest installment of an ongoing mixtape series in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. This week we touch down in Portland, OR with Ghost Capital. Helmed by Nick Barbery, the blog served as one of my favorite online discoveries during the second half of 2010. With an ear bent toward the obscure and out-of-print, digging globally, Ghost Capital mines the secret shafts of psych, folk, blues and beyond.
Ghost Capital is my guest, this Friday, during the second hour of the AD show on SIRIUS/XMU.
After The Jump: Ghost Capital: A Mixtape
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File under: Zambia’s 70s “Zamrock.” Now-Again Records' ongoing African reissue series continued earlier this Fall with their licensing of Witch's Introduction. If you have been following the series thus far, know that there is absolutely no dip in quality with this latest entry. Guaranteed to shake those newly acquired winter blues.
MP3: Witch :: Introduction
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