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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 393:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The Mekons - Where Were You?++ Landline - Wire ++ Carnivores - Pillow Talk ++ Deerhunter - Dot Gain ++ Tess Parks And Anton Newcombe - Friendlies ++ The Vaselines - No Hope ++ Lower Dens - A Dog’s Dick ++ Ought - Sisters Are Forever ++   Viet Cong - Static Wall ++ Kindness - Gee Up ++ Shintaro . . .

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Shaft’s Old Man: An Imaginary Soul Jazz Soundtrack – A Mixtape

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Consider Shaft's Old Man: a soul jazz soundtrack to an imaginary black 60s spy film that never was. Our third in a series of ongoing collaborations with  Copenhagen based DJ/record collector Peer Schouten. Split into seven sections, use your ears to follow our hero through all manner of classic spy thriller motifs. And then some.

Download: Shaft's Old Man: An Imaginary Soul Jazz Soundtrack - A Mixtape

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Alceu Valença :: Molhado de Suor (1974, Reissue)

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One of two new Brazilian reissues coming out this summer via Sol Re Sol Records -- Alceu Valença's Molhado de Suor. Originally released on the Brazilian label Som Livre in 1974, the lp has been out of print on vinyl for the past 40 years. A cornerstone of the Brazilian Udigrudi movement found in Recife region . . .

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Candi Staton :: He Called Me Baby

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A tale of transfiguration, Candi Staton's rendering of "He Called Me Baby" was originally penned in 1961 as "She Called Me Baby", via country and western singer/songwriter Harlan Howard. Not the song's first r&b interpretation, Staton's take was preceded in 1968 by Ella Washington, courtesy of the Nashville, TN based soul label Sound Stage 7.

Candi Staton :: He Called Me Baby

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The Gospel According To Nina Simone

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She begins in mid-flow. Sitting down at the piano, effectively taking the reins from her band, the first thing she says into the microphone is 'So...' One simple word, an aside to every single soul in that auditorium. It's almost a sigh, like the sound of a truth-teller getting down to business, or a teacher who is forced to go to the blackboard to spell it all out for us. It presumes that everyone is paying attention (they are) and that everyone recalls where they are in the lesson (they do). '

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

The Lagniappe Session with Ought can be downloaded, here

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Prairie To Pine: A Vintage Saskatchewan Mixtape

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Hypnotic valleys and loping forests. Country funk from a Ukrainian wedding band and haunted folk from a group of high school students. Loners and the lovesick. The fried and fuzzed. Welcome to another all-vinyl dispatch from the Land of Living Skies.

Prairie To Pine: A Vintage Saskatchewan Mixtape

Part one,  Multis E Gentibus Vires, can be found, here. Playlist after the jump. . .

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RIP Ornette Coleman / Ornette Coleman Sextet – Free Jazz (1of 3)

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RIP Ornette Coleman, the sayer of the unsayable, an artist who devoted his life to pursuing pure sound. We'll never see the likes of him again.

Germany, 1978. Ornette Coleman - sax, violin; Ben Nix - guitar; James Blood Ulmer - guitar; Fred Williams - bass; Shannon Jackson - drums; Denardo Coleman - drums words / t wilcox

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J.B. Smith :: No More Good Time In the World For Me

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…King David was, in the Bible, he used to made his psalms from the stars and so forth and he wrote so many songs, you know. With a little talent and surrounding I think it’s kinda easy done.” – J.B. Smith on composition.

50 years ago, archivist Bruce Jackson first went to Ramsey State Farm in Rosharon, Texas, to record the unaccompanied songs of J.B. Smith, an inmate serving 45 years there for the murder of his wife. He returned the following June in 1966 to record more, and that year John Fahey’s Takoma Records released an . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions: Ought cover Cyndi Lauper / Sexy Kids

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Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.

A year ago next month, I happened upon Ought's live show while in New York. Their performance that evening stands as one of the more memorable examples of going in to see a band cold and leaving a proselytizing fan. Shades of Talking Heads, Television, the Fall and the Feelies swirled around the room that night, though never approaching gross pastiche.

This . . .

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Mikal Cronin — Gone :: Pickathon / Galaxy Barn

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Welcome to the seventh installment of an ongoing series with Pickathon, showcasing footage from the Galaxy Barn located at Pendarvis Farm in Oregon: Mikal Cronin — “Gone”. Photo / Autumn Andel . . .

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Ginny Reilly :: Wildman

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Buried on side one of At Last, Reilly & Maloney’s 1976 debut album, "Wildman" is a heartbreaking journey through the subtle intrusion of newfound love. It's the story of a man relentlessly seeking the admiration of a lady, beaten and bruised by the past, guided by the warm and echoey vocals of Ginny Reilly. Reilly and Maloney joined forces in San Francisco in 1968 to compose and perform their own brand of folk music -- an amalgamation that can be described as woodsy . . .

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Wax Wonders :: Sonic Youth – Singles

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Unlike many bands that sprouted out of the DIY ethos set into motion by the release of Black Flag’s Nervous Breakdown 7” in 1978, Sonic Youth were a few years into their long, influential run by the time that their first 7” was released in 1984 (“Death Valley ’69”).

While both sides of the “Death Valley” single were issued the following year on the group’s incredible Bad Moon . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 391: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++Intro — “Unknown to Themselves” ++ Dara Puspita — To Love Somebody ++ Van Morrison — Sweet Thing ++ Daniel Bachman — Happy One Step ++ The City — Man Without a Dream ++ Bob Carpenter — Miracle Man ++ Doris Troy — Whatcha Gunna Do About It ++ The Combinations — While You Were Gone ++ Lee Jung Hwa . . .

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Small Wigs :: Hangdog

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L.A.’s Small Wigs are the brainchild of FIDLAR’s Elvis Kuehn and Mikki Itzigsohn of Isaac Rother & The Phantoms. The group’s frenetic, SST-nodding punk has won them opening gigs with Mike Watt, the Flesheaters, and the King Khan & BBQ Show, and their debut 7” completes the circuit, snipping a bit of the Gun Club’s twangy swagger and filtering it through a D. Boon guitar strut. You can cop “Hangdog”/“New Wig” on Mock Records, but check out “Hangdog” below.

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