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Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico :: Le Bataclan, Paris 1972

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“This is a song about copping drugs in New York...”

Taste the whip. Captured in January 1972, a year and half following Lou Reed's hard exit from the Velvet Underground, we find ourselves at Le Bataclan theatre, Paris, France. The occasion marked a semi-impromptu reunion of the former VU bandmates. For a night, anyway. Recorded via the club's soundboard, and broadcasted on the French television program, Pop2, the fourteen track setlist finds the trio pulling from their individual solo catalogs, as well as vintage VU chestnuts ("The Black Angel's Death Song . . .

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Jerry David DeCicca: Bruce Springsteen’s “Hello Sunshine”

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Songwriter Jerry David DeCicca has never been shy when it comes to Bruce Springsteen. Whether that means discussing the artist’s work through the lens of mental health care or offering up a fine rendition of the Boss balled “If I Should Fall Behind” for Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions series, DeCicca’s Springsteen fandom runs deep . . .

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Iggy Pop :: Fire Girl (Demo)

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Despite its status being Iggy Pop’s best selling album, the 1986 David Bowie produced Blah-Blah-Blah has not fared near as well in terms of posterity. Critically speaking, anyway. Big on sleek 80’s era production, Pop has largely distanced himself from the work in subsequent years. And while some of the criticism of the now dated production is not without merit, there are some gems to be had in this largely forgotten album. Tracks such as “Isolation” and “Baby, It Can’t Fall” benefit tremendously from Bowie’s backing vocal arrangements (despite Wikipedia’s . . .

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John Coltrane :: Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings

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Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings compiles every song Coltrane cut as a bandleader in that pivotal year, and captures him at a crucial stage in his journey, his first true attempt to will his sax into new territory . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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Outré California. It’s Wednesday night. The Aquarium Drunkard Show.

34.0522° N, 118.2437° W . . .

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1970s Japanese Jazz Mixtape 3 / Jazz-funk, Soul Jazz, Fusion & Beyond

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These are not to be missed. The culmination of the Osaka based selector Dckn's three-part exploration mining the various sub-strains of Japanese jazz in the 1970s. And be sure to dig into volumes one, and two . . .

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Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society: Mandatory Reality

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Slow down. That's the message that pulses, softly, insistently, and repeatedly, through the runtime of Mandatory Reality, the new album from composer and bassist Joshua Abrams and his group Natural Information Society: "For me, it gives the musicians the opportunity to slow down, to try and take the approach of savoring what we're building together. If we can get to that space, you notice the focus broadens and zooms in at the same time . . .

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Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars: Sewele

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The record has a kind of strange outsider art beauty about it that’s welcoming and inviting in its eccentricity. Big buoyant rhythms humming about streaks of strange nocturnal neon splendor. The Stars’ spaced-out soul mingling casually with their earnest and lo-fi approach to highlife garage rock . . .

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Craig Finn’s I Need a New War: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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I Need a New War brings to end the trilogy Craig Finn started in 2015 with Faith in the Future and continued with 2017's We All Want the Same Things, a triptych sidestepping the hard rock glory of Finn's band the Hold Steady in favor of quieter, more introspective sounds and stories. Finn's always written about hard luck characters, but increasingly, his lens centers more on the aftermath of the action than the action itself . . .

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Bandcamping :: Spring 2019

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Forget the pollen count, our quarterly Bandcamping roundup is back for Spring 2019. As a digital institution it’s hard to beat Bandcamp. It’s ridiculously easy to use, it puts money directly into artists’ (and labels’) pockets and there’s a seemingly endless amount of music to discover there — new, old and in-between. Of course, that endlessness can be a little overwhelming, so here are 10 recommended releases to dig into . . .

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1970s Japanese Jazz Mixtape 2 / Jazz-funk, Soul Jazz, Hard Bop & Beyond

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These are not to be missed. If you haven’t yet, slip into volume one: the first entry of the Osaka-based (French) dj & record collector, Dckne’s three part series digging 1970s Japanese jazz/funk/groove. Then: slide into a second hour expanding on the themes of volume one, while incorporating various sub-strains of the genre throughout . . .

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Nick Cave on This Is Elvis (1981 Film)

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The motivations behind writing this are twofold. First, as a PSA for those of you who have yet to subscribe to Nick Cave's weekly email newsletter: The Red Hand Files. Second, to highlight the exceptional 1981 documentary film This Is Elvis -- a film Cave references in issue #34. The context for its inclusion is in relation to Cave's thoughts on the transformative power of music, and specifically how it relates to Presley near the end of his life . . .

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Altered State Radio / April Transmission

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Portland selector Mr. Wriff paid a visit to AD HQ last weekend, a visit that dovetailed with the weekly broadcast of his Friday night KMHD radio show, Altered State. We tuned in, and now you can too.

Click the play button as Traver and guest Allen Thayer (The Brazilian Beat), guide a late-night, spirituous journey sampling strains from Brazil, Italy, Poland and beyond . . .

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Pulp :: His ‘n’ Hers

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There are a number of stories of artists that took the long road to commercial success, but the story of Pulp is an especially curious one. This is a band that spent significant time in the artistic wilderness — nearly 15 years. And then, suddenly, one album permanently set them into the firmament of Britpop elder statesmen – Blur, Oasis, and Suede in particular. That album, His n Hers, turns 25 today, and its sharp, calculated fission of a decade and a half’s worth of preparation still sounds like a chart-topping album, albeit one from some alternate timeline where some . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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Outré California. It’s Wednesday night. The Aquarium Drunkard Show.

34.0522° N, 118.2437° W

Tonight, lots of dub, lots of reverb. Transmissions from Prince Jammy, Ranking Ann, The Lijadu Sisters, Bohannon, Don Cherry, Cochemea, Juan Pablo Tores, et beaucoup plus . . .

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