Yeah, so the new Boston Spaceships LP is the shit. Doubters and skeptics need to seriously step up and give old uncle Bob a listen. In other GBV news we just profiled Isolation Drills, sooo this seems like as good a time as any to post a couple tracks from Don't Stop Now the new Brazilian tribute . . .
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Last week I lamented not being able to keep up with the ever expanding Daytrotter sessions. Ditto goes for Hear Ya who have been releasing some excellent stuff this past year including last week's session with Rhode Island's become a member or log in.
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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I've been consumed by Lou Reed's The Blue Mask of late and finally made time for the 1983 live document A Night With Lou Reed. The DVD finds Reed live in an intimate setting (The Bottom Line) in his native NYC, sparsely backed by guitarist Robert Quine, Fernando . . .
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Sgt Dunbar's Hobo Banned may be a collective form Albany, NY but their sound is more akin to the strange bouillabaisse that's been brewing in the New Orleans Bywater neighborhood of late: 2 parts continental gypsy, 1 part Balkan folk, a pinch of Swordfishtrombones, with a healthy dash of On Avery Island.
Over the past couple of months I've been spinning
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Not just another compilation. Tropicî¡lia, or Tropicalismo, was at once a response to military dictatorship and an attempt to expand Brazilian music by infusing ideas from all parts of the globe, even so far as an attempt to create a 'universal music.' This monumental compilation is the work of a like minded collective - radicals that would subvert and forever change the art and politics of Brazil, specifically Gilberto Gil, become a member or log in.
Heads up: Aquarium Drunkard will be in New York next week during CMJ -- we're having an informal, unofficial, day party Thursday (October 22nd) on the lower east side at Fontana's. It is free.
7 bands from both coasts and in between. I can promise you now that you won't be able to catch a few of these artists in rooms this intimate in six months. Come by, hang out, say hi and let's have some day . . .
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 114: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Caribou - Melody Day ++ The Walkmen - We've Been Had ++ The Beach Boys — Steamboat ++ The Beatles — Hey Bulldog (demo edit) ++ Panda Bear — Take Pills ++ Deerhunter — Little Kids ++ Girls - Laura ++ The Magic Kids - Hey . . .
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What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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Our friends at Daytrotter are quite the prolific bunch -- to the point I can't possibly keep up with everything they are doing in real time. But I do make a point to go back and catch up on the sessions I've missed. Most recently this included the two separate sessions the Walkmen cut while visiting the studio in 2008 -- including a set of covers. The first finds the group become a member or log in.
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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Do you watch Gossip Girl? Me neither, but apparently Sonic Youth do and made a guest appearance on the show last night (you can check out the cameo via Videogum, here). In short, the band play a wedding reception - specifically an acoustic version of "Star Power" (originally off Evol) which you can become a member or log in.
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected . . .
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On November 10th David Wingo returns with Belly of The Lion -- his second LP recording as Ola Podrida. I've been following Wingo's work since his days scoring David Gordon Green films and Belly is by far his most acomplished work to date. Returning to his native Texas from his adopted home in Brooklyn, Wingo found a new label home at
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