Revisiting :: Transmissions From The Satellite Heart

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(September 29th sees the release of the Flaming Lips double LP, Embryonic. Between now and then we're looking back on some of the band's pre-Soft Bulletin moments)

The Flaming Lips spent most of the 80s in the wilderness of rock and roll. They put out a series of albums - beginning with 1986's Hear It Is - that were alternatingly weird art pretension . . .

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Diversions :: Portugal. The Man on Sci-Fi: Surviving Childhood in Rural Alaska

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(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)

Thus far, Diversions has featured artists discussing, amongst other things, their favorite '80s indie bands, rock 'n roll sartorial sense, the L.A. become a member or log in.

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Lotus Plaza :: Dot Gain

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The inevitability of impulse purchases. As if the physical CD/mp3s weren't enough, in an inexplicable need to own the title in all three available formats, I went whole-hog several weeks ago and picked up the vinyl issue of Deerhunter's Cryptograms (that now additionally includes the band's 2007 Fluorescent Grey EP).   During the same run I also ran across a used vinyl copy of fellow . . .

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Tonight In L.A. :: Le Switch, Roadside Graves and The World Record @ Spaceland

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Roadside Graves have been traversing the wilds of the USA the past few weeks touring behind their new LP My Son's Home, which, as I think I've mentioned, is thus far my favorite 'roots' based rock & roll album of 2009. This week they hit the west coast and are on the bill as main support for Le Switch, this Saturday night, in Los Angeles at Spaceland.  . . .

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AD Presents :: The Henry Clay People’s Rock & Roll Summer Circus @ The Echoplex, L.A. August 14th

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L.A.'s The Henry Clay People have been busy.   As I write this they are presently on the road, somewhere in the Midwest, having just wrapped up their Daytrotter session in Iowa, now en route to Chicago to play the main stage at Lollapalooza.

To commemorate their first real L.A. date since their Spaceland residency last Spring, the band is going all out Friday night at the

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SIRIUS/XM Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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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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Crime/Sonic Youth :: Hot Wire My Heart

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Switching gears entirely, and in the words of John Cleese, "and now for something completely different." With the release of Sonic Youth's The Eternal earlier this summer I've been working in tracks from Evol and Sister on ye olde aquarium drunkard radio show. Actually, that's . . .

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Sevens :: You Goin’ Miss Your Candyman

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(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)

My friend Mike may have departed L.A. for Brooklyn at the beginning of '09, but that is not impeding the work on our collaborative late summer AD mix-tape (will be out by Labor Day weekend). As much a sound collage as a traditional mix, my favorite Terry Callier track, "You Goin' Miss Your Candyman," is . . .

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Merge XX :: An Anniversary Party

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J Neas here, back from the weekend-long Merge XX anniversary party. With the exception of four months of my college career, I've spent my entire life living in the land of my birth, North Carolina. To this day it seems perverse that it took me until late high school and into college to begin to know about and truly appreciate the homegrown music within my state. It took Matt Pinfield and MTV's 120 Minutes

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Ebaahi Soundz :: The Oshit’„‡ Cassette

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Fans of highlife, afrobeats and African funk, among others, generally discover new music due to either insane passion or dumb luck (count me as the latter). Most music from the Dark Continent is short on popularity and long in obscurity, oftentimes discovered accidentally in international bins at record stores (or, as it were, on blogs). The music’s barely traceable influence is hidden even further into the folds of a tribal culture largely devoid of a cohesive, or at least well documented, historical record. Reference points and genre associations–normal and somewhat less exhausting avenues of musical exploration–are . . .

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Roadside Graves :: U.S. Summer Tour Dates

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If you somehow couldn't tell, Roadside Graves new LP, My Son's Home, is our favorite roots-based album of 2009. Period. Clocking in at an hour, in the span of 18 tracks, the record is a testament to the art of storytelling in the long-player format; something we are seeing less and less of in the '00s. Beginning tomorrow, July 28th, the band is taking their show on the road, around the U.S., beginning in Wilmington, DE and ending in September at the Monolith Festival at Red Rocks, CO.   See this band live.

Full Listing of U.S Summer Tour Dates After The Jump.........

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Off The Record :: The Minus 5 (Portland, OR)

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Off The Record is a recurring feature here on the Drunkard that marries two of my greatest interests; music and travel. Having a locals perspective when visiting a new locale is the difference between experiencing it through the lens of a tourist and of that of a native.

Off The Record gathers some of my favorite artists, asks them to reflect on their city of residence, and choose a handful of places they could not live without – be them bookstores, bars, restaurants or vistas.

Below, Scott McCaughey of

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Diana Ross & The Supremes :: Not Fade Away

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Let The Music Play: Supreme Rarities 1960-1969, part of Hip-O Select's Lost & Found series, just continues to impress.   I originally wrote about the set in March of 2008, upon its release, and have . . .

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Javelin :: Tell Me, What Will It Be?

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This post was originally set to coincinde with today's SIRIUS/XM show but I ran out of time and didn't get to spin it.   Happens.   Recently signed (appropriately) to David Byrne's Luaka Bop label, Brooklyn based duo Javelin have been making the rounds this summer both online and off (check for August tour dates outside NYC). These guys can, and do, dabble in just . . .

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