Next month sees the debut of Justin Vernon's (Bon Iver) collaboration with his Wisconsin brethren Collections of Colonies of Bees on their upcoming joint side-project Volcano Choir (out September 22 via Jagjaguwar). We'll be discussing the fruits of their labor, the LP Unmap, later . . .
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One has to appreciate life's small synchronicities. I've recently been binging on Fleetwood Mac's 1979 Tusk album, and today (if you haven't noticed around the world wide web) Atlas Sound posted a cover of the LP's "Walk A Thin Line" on their Deerhunter blog. Very stripped down.
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There are some really interesting comments in yesterday's Sevens post on the Mats "Can't Hardly Wait." Worth a read if you're a Replacements fan. An AD reader sent us yet another version of the track culled from the Pleased To Meet Me sessions bootleg, which, to my knowledge, has yet to be included on any of the sanctioned . . .
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(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
Multiple versions of songs are often one of the more exciting things about watching an artist at work. Getting to see a song run through its stages of development, recorded in different ways with different lyrics and different instrumentation - sometimes even with whole parts rearranged and dissected - gives listeners an insight into the creative process that isn't always available when the only thing to hear is the single . . .
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(August 18th marks the release of Farmer Dave Scher’s (founding member of Beachwood Sparks) debut solo record, Flash Forward to the Good Times. To commemorate the release I asked Duke frombecome a member or log in.
(tap, tap. ahem, this thing on?) Dear good people of New Orleans, we are again proud (and very excited) to be presenting shows in your town on the regular. First up: Bowerbirds with Megafaun at One Eyed Jacks, Saturday night, August 15th.
We are giving away tickets to NOLA based AD readers. Hit us up in the comments with your name and email address. Tickets will . . .
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High school generally gets mixed reviews. Some hated it. Some loved it. But whether you’d rather relive the memories or repress them, it’s hard to argue that adolescence is marked by ambivalence. Maybe your experience might have skewed toward the positive, but it wasn’t absent its fair share of uncertainty. High school is mostly varying degrees of circumstantial conundrum: Where do I go to college, or do I at all? Who do I hang out with? Where do I sit at lunch? How many eyes are on me when I walk through the door? If I’m . . .
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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 105: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ No Age - Boy Void ++ Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom ++ Panda Bear - Ponytail ++ Ruby Suns - Kenya Dig It ++ The Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun ++ Les Surfs - Tîº Serî¡s Mi Baby (Be My Baby) ++ Yo . . .
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What do Grace Jones, Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads and Sly Dunbar all have in common? Besides all being progenitors in their respective, then, nascent genres, they all recorded at Chris Blackwell’s Bahamanian Compass Point Studio and are part of the become a member or log in.
Download The National :: Pretty in Pink, via daytrotter . . .
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Yesterday, I received a twitter reply -- in response the the sixties garage rock set -- hailing the campy greatness that is Screaming Lord Sutch. For horror movie obsessed, kitschy, garage rock at its finest, I couldn't agree more. Alice Cooper had nothing on this guy. The lord's best known track, "Jack The Ripper," has been covered by various '00s garage enthusiasts including Black . . .
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Arthur Russell died in 1992. Myth-making being what it is, nearly two decades after his death, the artist is presently more well known than he ever was during his lifetime. Typical. Over the past few months I've noticed an upward swell of folks writing about, and discussing, Russell's music in a way I had not before (did the Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell documentary get added to on . . .
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Like the sixties French Freakbeat compilation, Scarcest Garage Records (pt. 1 & 2) is a compilation I often frequent that has little to no information to be found online. In the 21st century, this fact alone adds yet another element of genuinely non-manufactured retro-cool to its already smoldering 26 tracks. This is herky-jerky garage rock at its finest.
Like some of my favorite comps, this one was passed on to me, some time ago . . .
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One of the more interesting online novelties to pop up this summer has been the kickoff of Beck's ongoing Record Club. If you have yet to check it out: in a nutshell, Beck invites a bunch of his musician friends over to jam for a day covering an album track-by-track, then releases the results piecemeal via his website. The first foray into the series tackles one of my all-time favorite LPs of any . . .
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As I hinted at last month, if I was to really break it down, the majority of my annual 'music spend' goes towards various genre compilations; largely due to residing just a few miles from Amoeba Music. This, trust me, is both a blessing and curse as a number of the more interesting comps often seem to be imports, complete with the associated import prices. I'm making a point to feature more of these on AD as, amongst the clutter, there are some real finds. Competing with these sanctioned compilations are the unsanctioned, bootleg, variety which are often just as, if not more, interesting than their legit counterparts. The following is a bootleg compilation of vinyl rips of 1960s French Freakbeat tracks I happened upon several years ago (and originally posted in '07).
Unfortunately, that is about the extent of my knowledge of the recordings as little information is to be found scouring the net. Although, I did like Metroactive Music's apt description: "A rare bootleg collection that explores mid 1960s mod-influenced psychedelia of French bands that were paying strict attention to their British brethren, most notably The Small Faces." Anyone with an ear and appreciation for sixties garage will absolutely love this stuff. Highest recommendation. Snap, crackle and pop.
Download:
MP3: Le Bain Didonc :: 4 cheveux dans le vent
MP3: Les 5 Gentlemen :: LSD 25 Ou Les Metamorphoses De Margaret Steinway
MP3: Les Boots :: Laissez Briller Le Soleil
MP3: Les Capitals :: Nous On Chante
+ Download the rest of the compilation after the jump. Don't miss The Brummel's "Bof!"
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