Last year Aquarium Drunkard released RAM On L.A. -- a local music compilation featuring eleven Los Angeles artists each covering a track off Paul McCartney's 1971 LP, RAM. Today we're following that up with L'Aventure -- a local music compilation featuring eight Los Angeles artists paying tribute to Television's sophomore LP,
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AD Presents :: Tame Impala @ Silverlake Lounge, June 29th
This Tuesday, June 29th, AD Presents Tame Impala at the Silverlake Lounge. Buy tickets now -- early show just added. Very much expected to sell out . . .
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Television :: Adventure
I was never quite sure what to make of people's outright indifference towards, or ignorance of, Television's sophomore album Adventure. Here you have a legendary band's follow-up to an unquestionable masterpiece debut (Marquee Moon), and the most common reaction I . . .
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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 146: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ The Henry Clay People - Glory (Television) ++ Foreign Born - Days (Television) ++ The Happy Hollows - Foxhole (Television) ++ Local Natives - Careful ++ The Deadly Syndrome - Carried Away (Television) ++ Imaad Wasif w/ Lykke Li - The Fire (Television) ++ Dirt Dress - Ain't That Nothin' (Television . . .
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Happy End :: Kazemachi Roman
From 1971 Japan comes this gleaming gem of classic rock, encompassing a myriad of American styles from rural rock and country to raw garage, blues, experimental, and blazing west coast rock - but contrary to prevailing trends of the time, the lyrics are not sung in English. If this poses a problem for your ears it is a great shame, for Kazemachi Roman (Wind City Romance) is a must-listen record, and #1 on Rolling Stone's list of the
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Johnny Dowd :: Wake Up The Snakes
Since his auspicious, creepy-as-fuck, debut, Wrong Side of Memphis, at the age of 49 in 1998, Johnny Dowd has been exploring the darkest corner's of the evil that men do. Twelve years, and as many albums later, Dowd continues down his chosen path with become a member or log in.
Diversions :: The Jim Jones Revue on Hitting The Source
(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
Musically, Brits absorbing American influences and selling it right back to us is nothing new. See: the Rolling Stones, the Animals, Peter Green, Billy Childish etc. Most Americans are either a) too close to the very art that sprang up in their backyards to notice, or b) just don't care. Collectively we, as Americans, remain willfully oblivious. But . . .
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Cotton Jones :: Glorylight And Christie
"Glorylight And Christie" is the first single off Cotton Jones upcoming LP, Tall Hours In The Glowstream. While always a commendable tunesmith, under the Cotton Jones moniker Michael Nau has truly grown into his craft. Aesthetically, he's found himself. Nau's brand of dreamy Americana, while firmly rooted in the 21st century, is surrounding by ghosts, fever dreams...past lives. Look for it August 24th via Suicide Squeeze.
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Tape Deck Mountain :: Aquarium Drunkard Session/Atlas Sound
Tape Deck Mountain laid down an Aquarium Drunkard session that I will be spinning on the show Friday. AD readers get a sneak peak download, below. In addition to the Summer vibe running throughout, the group also covers Atlas Sound's "Criminals." In short, this session is what we call a win-win.
Recorded, Mixed, & Mastered at Keith Milgaten's Cabin in Golden Hill. Session begins with . . .
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion :: Now I Got Worry (Reissue)
Imagine Orange kidnapped, blindfolded, tossed in the trunk of a car---doused with gasoline, lit on fire, and set adrift at 80 miles an hour, in backwoods Mississippi, under a new moon. That is, approximately, the sound of Now I Got Worry. In the scheme of the Blues . . .
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Wayne Jackson :: It Happened In Tennessee, Pt 2 (1973)
While I surely recommended inspecting the whole of the Shangri-La mixtape, I do want to highlight one track in particular: Wayne Jackson's "It Happened In Tennessee." I first caught wind of this track (Wayne's sole vocal performance no less) through one of Oxford American's southern music samplers.
While the trials and tribulations of Sheriff Buford . . .
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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.
Sherman Wilmott, from Shangri-La Projects, is my guest today during the second hour of the show. You can grab the mixtape here.
SIRIUS 145: Jean Michel . . .
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Futurebirds :: Dirty D/Megachills
(Autumn Tone is set to release Futurebirds debut full-length, Hampton’s Lullaby, next month. The record is a monster. Below we revisit the EP. Catch it before it's (hint) taken off bandcamp.)
For whatever reason, or maybe a few specific ones, when I think of Futurebirds, I think of the Violent Femmes intro: "The Violent Femmes, they bring all their equipment on . . .
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Hacienda :: Big Red & Barbacoa
In terms of recent releases that fall under the rock & roll, the two that have most monopolized my listening habits this Spring are the Black Keys Brothers and Hacienda's, sophomore LP, Big Red & Barbacoa. Coincidentally (or not . . .
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AD Presents :: Shangri-La Projects, Memphis, TN – A Mixtape
It happened in Tennessee. I met Shangri-La Projects' Sherman Wilmott in the spring of 2008 while renting an apartment in midtown Memphis. I was in the middle of working on a book documenting Memphis and the Delta blues trail. To say that Wilmott provided a wealth of information regarding local color would be an understatement. Those that know Memphis music know Sherman. In addition to founding Shangri-La Records in the early 90s, Wilmott has written books, published Kreature Komforts: the Low-life Guide to Memphis, curated compilations and produced documentaries---all surrounding the Bluff city and her music.
Wilmott is my guest this week during the second hour of the AD show. Be sure to tune in, as riding shotgun is Doug Easley of Memphis's Easley McCain Studios. I guarantee you own more than a couple albums that were cut at his studio.
After the jump: Shangri-La Projects, Memphis - A Mixtape
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