Songs: Illinois' recent fIREHOSE video collection post led me to dig up my favorite tune on the band's second album, if'n. It's hard to believe this song is now twenty years old.
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MP3: fIREHOSE :: Sometimes
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Heads up, filmmaker Craig Zobel's Great World of Sound will hit theaters mid September in select cities around the country. It's great -- go see it, and find out how music really gets made, a ha ha ha. We had the opportunity to catch a screening this summer at the Los Angeles Film Festival and were as pulled in by the film's humanity as we were the humor, which is no small feat.
As an added bonus . . .
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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.
Today . . .
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Wattstax :: Additional festival videos (Bar Keys, Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Staple Singers, etc.) can be found here...
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MP3: Rufus Thomas :: Memphis Train
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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.
Today . . .
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As an absolute huge fan of Stephen Stills' late sixties and early seventies output (ever heard Mannasas!?) the news of a, recently unearthed, mass of previously unreleased demos from '68 immediately piqued my curiosity.
While his sometime bandmate/friend/arch-rival, Neil Young, gets most of the critical accolades these days . . .
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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 013: Antony & The Johnsons — Fistful of Love ++ Devandra Banhart - Seahorse ++ T. Rex - Planet Queen ++ David Bowie - Queen Bitch ++ The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (alt version) ++ Ramones - I . . .
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One of our favorite EPs of 2006 was that of the Austin, TX based lo-fi pop outfit Yellow Fever. If you were a fan of the seminal Raincoats, it's highly recommended that you investigate this female driven group. They just released some new jams via a 7" entitled The Culver City EP, in a very limited pressing of 500 copies.
Related: If . . .
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If you plan on heading to the ACL Festival in Austin, TX this year, come by the blogger curated Hot Freaks afterparty that is going down both Friday and Saturday night. Don't cost nuthin'.
Details: All doors open at 8:30pm - both days- two venues (The Mohawk & Club de Ville) side by side. The show is free! Yes free
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While its only been part of my collection the past six weeks, the Searching for Soul compilation, released a couple of years ago by the always on-point Luv 'N Haight imprint, has left its mark. And not just on my CD player, but influencing what I am grabbing off the shelf when looking for something to . . .
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An Aquarium Drunkard presents John Vanderslice, live, at The Troubadour Thursday, September 6th with special guests Bowerbirds and L.A.'s own Bodies of Water. If you're in the Dallas area, Gorilla vs. Bear will be presenting Vanderslice and the Bowerbirds September 14th at . . .
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AD guest post on the return of Shangri-La, Mary Weiss, by fellow Los Angeles blogger, Be The Boy.
Recently the Onion AV Club featured a favorite record of mine, Reigning Sound's Time Bomb High School, as . . .
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Prior to the March release of Emotionalism I counted myself a casual fan of the Avett Brothers -- this was the record that changed that.
Made up of two actual brothers (Seth Avett and Scott Avett) and a buddy (Bob Crawford), this North Carolina country/bluegrass/indie-folk outfit improve and become more versatile on every album. While I liked their last LP, Four Thieves Gone, Emotionalism is taking there sound to another level entirely.
Previously: The Avett Brothers :: Four Thieves Gone
Download:
MP3: The Avett Brothers :: Die Die Die
MP3: The Avett Brothers :: Pretty Girl From San Diego
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Amazon: The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
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Avett Brothers :: Denouncing November Blue (Uneasy Writer) off the LP Four Thieves Gone
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"I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... but they've always worked for me." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Listen, I'm not here to defend the original feature film based on the writings of Hunter S. Thompson entitled Where The Buffalo Roam (1980)...oh wait, yes I am, but I'll be brief.
The movie, typically, gets critically panned every time I hear it brought up in conversation; no matter . . .
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Any discussion regarding albums and artists who were ahead of the game in terms of influencing upcoming musical movements must include The Modern Lovers debut LP. This is the precursor to punk -- absolutely essential listening.
Recorded in 1972, and released in 1976, the album was wayyy ahead of it’s time, influencing punk, post-punk and new wave. Hell, it even sounds remarkably fresh today.
Without a doubt The Modern Lovers are the missing piece between the Lou Reed helmed Velvet Underground and The Ramones.
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