Be sure to catch Wilco's 2007 Austin City Limits performance tomorrow on PBS. We were there, and it was full on, as was their gig at Voodoo Festival last weekend in New Orleans. Here is a sample clip of the band performing "Impossible Germany" from the September taping.
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 22: Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) ++ Linda Serbu - If You Rescue Me (acapella) ++ The Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun ++ Clem Snide . . .
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Oakley Hall have been building a sound rooted in disparate elements since their inception. When you're founded by a key (and founding) member of one of the more forward thinking rock acts of the '00s (Oneida), you're bound to have something interesting going on. But when you're mixing those elements with country and Southern rock, you also risk tripping a time or two along the way. Fortunately, it has so . . .
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Le Switch principal, and vocalist, Aaron Kyle teams up with various family members for a night at The Echo, here on Sunset, in Echo Park. Come on out Sunday evening, and get yer down home family-jam on.
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MP3: Le Switch :: Pristine ((live sirius session)
MP3: Le Switch :: Crazy (live sirius session . . .
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Drunkard favorite Will Oldham has been tinkering around the lo-fi and alt-country scenes for the better part of two decades. Still, you almost forget his vast contributions given his multiple incarnations (Bonnie Billy, Palace Music, Palace Brothers, Palace Songs) and roving collaborations (Jason Molina, Tortoise, to name a few). But to call his musical harvest prolific would be an understatement.
In the Southern . . .
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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.
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This week, while in New Orleans for
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The hipster fascination with French pop is no secret. Ostensibly, it's because Serge Gainsbourg, Sylvie Vartan, Jane Birkin, et al, were turning out good songs. But what we see when looking at the artists themselves is something deeper. The idea of "hip" has many definitions, but its most sought-after form is one immersed in the world of art and culture. In that context, the become a member or log in.
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 21: Pavement - Grounded ++ Galaxie 500 - Ceremony (New Order cover) ++ The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs ++ Pink Mountaintops - I (Fuck) Mountains ++ TV On The Radio - Dreams ++ Vetiver . . .
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Team Drunkard is heading out to New Orleans, our 'spiritual' musical home, to check out this year's Voodoo Fest -- if you are going, be sure to shoot us a comment and tell us who you plan on seeing; oh, and obviously we wanna hear what late-late shows you're planning on hitting up. After New Orleans, it's into the rental car to begin research in rural Mississippi on . . .
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The next time you find yourself browsing your local bookstore, be sure to hit up the music section on their magazine rack. Once there, look for the latest issue of the Oxford American; it's their 9th Annual Music Issue. It's hard to miss; just scan for a black and white photo of Thelonious Monk, sitting at an upright piano, staring back at you, and you've got it.
Self-billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," each year the quarterly . . .
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Touring in support of his second solo LP, Trees Outside The Academy, An Aquarium Drunkard presents Thurston Moore, live in Los Angeles, October 30th at The Echoplex.
We have five pairs of tickets to give away to A.D. readers. To get your hands on a pair, leave a . . .
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For a band whose record sales were so unremarkable while active, The Velvet Underground’s influence has been anything but since. At the time of its release, their 1967 debut The Velvet Underground and Nico might have proved too avant-garde for a music community just coming to terms with its own need to evolve. Down-tuned guitars, dissonant refrains, cryptic lyrics and become a member or log in.
We do our best to keep tabs on the latest Numero Group happenings, as they rarely fail to deliver. The latest news to come out of their Chicago shop is the recently launched Asterisk imprint which drops not one, but three albums on us this month.
The story goes that, apparently, while the label's resident crate diggers were searching for various, obscure soul, funk, and gospel jams to release (see: become a member or log in.
Released this week, Pride, the latest full-length from Phosphorescent, finds Matthew Houck and company improving on the recipe that first drew us in (two-plus years ago) with release of his second album Aw Come, Aw Wry. An Elephant 6 like . . .
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The following live & unreleased studio MP3s are a companion piece, of sorts, to the unreleased Chrome Dreams acetate bootleg posted here last week. The below video is of Neil with Crazyhorse, live at the Hammersmith Odeon, in London March 28, 1976, performing "Like a Hurricane," which . . .
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