The Cellos :: Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am The Japanese Sandman)

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"Who are you?"   "I am the Japanese Sandman." And so begins the 1957 Doo Wop jam that is "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am The Japanese Sandman)." I'm working on something that I realized needed a bit of context prior to my posting it on AD, so if you have yet to discover this forgotten Apollo Records gem, there is no time like the present. Dig.

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The Love Language :: Heart To Tell

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The Love Language: "Heart To Tell" from their forthcoming Merge release, Libraries (July   13th).

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Sevens :: Paul McCartney & Wings/Arrow Through Me

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

"Arrow Through Me," off 1980's Back To The Egg, finds McCartney dipping into his Stevie Wonder bag of tricks, employing both a laid back, slightly gruff, low-end Michael McDonald coupled with a high falsetto. All good, but . . .

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Tom Waits/DJ Lee ‘Baby’ Sims :: Jim Jarmusch’s “Down by Law”

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Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits go together like, well, a shot bourbon and a glass of beer. But you already knew that. Back when I was still doing free-form radio, downtown, prior to the show on SIRIUS, I would occasionally air Tom Waits' riff (as DJ Lee "Baby" Sims) to John Lurie, from Jarmusch's Down By Law,

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The Meters :: Live 1977: The Showboat Lounge & Bottomline NYC

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As promised, continuing with the New Orleans related posts during Jazz Fest, here are two Meters shows from 1977 that I’ve posted several times since 2005. Call it tradition.

I acquired the following 1977 Meters show in 2000 (along with the Showboat Lounge show further down the page) from a friend; both on CD-R.   At the time---and this . . .

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The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark

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The Fantastic Expedition is one of the world's greatest country rock albums, ahead of its time and seriously overlooked even today. I would take it over Sweetheart of the Rodeo any day, as it's my favorite piece of magic from the Byrds' best songwriter, Gene Clark.

Doug Dillard and Gene Clark, after leaving their respective acts (Dillards and Byrds), teamed . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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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.

SIRIUS 138: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Jacuzzi Boys - Island Avenue ++ Sex Pistols - Submission ++ T. Rex - Lean Woman Blues ++ The Cramps - New Kind of Kick ++ Arthur Russell - A Little Lost ++ Thurston Moore - Ono Soul ++ The Breeders - Fortunately Gone ++ Grass Widow - Celebrate The Mundane ++ Turbo Fruits - Trouble! ++ The . . .

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Sevens :: Roky Erickson/Devotional Number One

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Roky Erickson is among the most tortured of our pop ingénues. The Austin singer-songwriter, founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators, and arguable founder of psychedelic rock, is a casualty of the sixties’ oft-ignored fallout; Erickson reportedly took LSD over 300 times in the sixties, was . . .

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Flashez :: NYC’s Punk Magazine, 1977

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Interview with John Hallstrom & Legs McNeil of New York's Punk Magazine by Stephen MacLean from Flashez, 1977. Ref. Radio Birdman, Patti Smith, Saints, Ramones, Television, anti-intellectualism et al.

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Cold Splinters, A Mixtape

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Welcome to the fourth installment of an irregular series in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Thus far we've featured sets by Raven Sings The Blues, Ponytone and, most recently, L.A.'s Turquoise Wisdom. Today we head back east, to Brooklyn, to catch up with Cold Splinters' Jeff Thrope. Cold Splinters, as all the best blogs do, excels in creating an entire world within its digital framework. Aesthetically it resides somewhere between 1974 and 2010. Riffing on everything from discontinued climbing gear and forgotten trail heads, to Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, CS is a daily read.   Consider Cold Splinters, the mixtape, its aural counterpart.

Thrope is my guest this Friday during the second hour of my SIRIUS XMU show. Grab this mix, bookmark his site and if you're in Brooklyn, do check our his new recording/performing project Ocotillo.

After the jump...Cold Splinters — A Mixtape.

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Harlan T. Bobo :: Hamster in a Cage

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Poet, lover, troubadour, heartbreaker, songsmith...Memphian. Harlan T. Bobo's third LP, Sucker, was released last week on Goner Records. We previewed the album's final track, the Franco-phile"Mlle-Chatte," in February. Courtesy . . .

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AD Presents :: Dr. Dog/Deer Tick @ The Henry Fonda April 27th

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Next Tuesday night, April 27th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Dr. Dog at the Henry Fonda Theater with special guests Deer Tick. We're giving away four pairs of tickets for the show. To enter for a pair: in the comments below leave your name (and an email address we can reach you at) along with your most listened to Dr. Dog LP (not including

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Radar Brothers :: Aquarium Drunkard Session

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Radar Bros. or Radar Brothers, the group's focal point has, and always will be, Jim Putnam. Just prior to SXSW we caught up with the re-tooled, and newly christened, "Brothers" for an Aquarium Drunkard session at bassist Be Hussey's Glendale studio. The band worked through four tracks off their new Merge Records release become a member or log in.

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Diversions :: Le Switch on Blue-Eyed Soul

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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.)

Since their inception Le Switch have been called a lot of things, from Waits-ian barroom growlers to whiskey-soaked, confessional, soul-pop.   Both fitting, but one common descriptor that always manages to find its way into the conversation is that of soul. Without question, the band has it. But what is soul exactly, and how does one articulate it to others? Below, Le Switch's Aaron Kyle ponders both questions.

Le Switch have a split 7" out at the end of the month---with LA compatriots Les Blanks (sample "How We Imagined It" below)---and a new album in the can coming out this summer.   Catch them in town before their tour: AD is presenting, and giving away a few pairs of tickets, to their April 22nd show at the Bootleg Theater. Leave your name and a valid email address to enter. Winners will be emailed/tickets available at will-call.

MP3: Le Switch :: How We Imagined It

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Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings :: I Learned the Hard Way

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It's hard to know what will work and what won't, commercially, when it comes to influences. Critics are quick to call out a band for too closely appropriating a certain sound without adding much of its own originality, and when it comes to what Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are doing, it would be an easy criticism to launch. It would also be lazy and soulless as they are one of the most invigorating acts in America, from studio to stage, and are peerless channelers of the . . .

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