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Bill Fox :: Get Your Workingman’s Things

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A good way to describe the music from Bill Fox’s under-appreciated folk-pop opus, Shelter From The Smoke, would be to say it sounds a little like Dylan in the “Blowing in the Wind” years and a lot like The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood.” But one thing to remind anyone of is the year that it was composed and released, 1997.   It's a timeless classic concerned with love, loss, freedom and rebirth, all peppered with historical allusions and fairytale-like lyrics . . .

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The Beatles :: Christmas Singles Club, 1963-1969

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From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles issued limited edition Christmas fan-club singles on 7 inch flexi-discs. All very relaxed and off the cuff, it's interesting to note how the cover art changed, along with the music, as the sixties rolled along. Details after the jump....

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Lumerians :: Transmissions From Telos Vol. III

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The new Lumerians is paced with the menace of a slow-motion fever dream. It smolders to the rhythms of experience; a tyger’s pulse biding in the nightscape. “Murder Dubbs,” the lead track from Transmissions from Telos Vol. III, sets forth with strains of Curtis Mayfield’s Hell Below within the thick, crackling bass line. Its plays like rolling thunder. Their sound here is improvised, instrumental, and raw, thoughout. It’s richly layered with cryptic analog swells and plenty of headspace. A hard-boiled surrealist score unwinding through the . . .

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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. Download Ultimate Painting's lagniappe session, here....

SIRIUS 367:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Cate Le Bon - I Can’t Help You ++ Ultimate Painting - Talking . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Jennifer Castle covers Bob Dylan / The Flatlanders

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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.

At once fragile, delicate and rugged, Jennifer Castle's Pink City  is one of the more beautifully crafted records of the year. For her contribution to the  Lagniappe Sessions, Castle takes on the melancholy country charm of become a member or log in.

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RIP :: Ian McLagan

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It's with a heavy heart that I write about the loss of a true legend; the great Ian McLagan. Born in 1945, Ian began playing in bands while still a teenager, and joined up with the already wildly popular in Europe Small Faces when he was all of 20 years old.

Ian first appeared on the Small Faces '66 UK smash hit "Sha-La-La-La-Lee"; a number that directly caused the group to rebel against . . .

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Yo La Tengo :: Nowhere Near (Black Sessions, 1993)

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At this point, it's hard to imagine a world without Yo La Tengo. The band celebrates their 30th anniversary this week with a series of east coast shows, and yesterday released a deluxe reissue of their 1993 masterpiece Painful packed to the gills with bonus material: demos, live recordings and unreleased nuggets (not to mention a new edition of the . . .

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Symarip :: These Boots Are Made For Stomping

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Picture a dance club with sweaty, young adults losing their minds in New Orleans. The scene is the Saturn Bar. It’s freezing outside and everyone wants to be inside dancing, if only to survive the winter. The perfect tune pops on the system and everyone starts shaking it like they’ve forgotten everything else. It’s a primitive response. And just when you thought it was just a cover, it became more than a cover.

Symarip hails from the UK and operated during the late 1960s. Most of . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Ultimate Painting (Cover Fugazi, Times New Viking, Sheryl Crow & More…)

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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.

Ultimate Painting is the collaborative pairing of James Hoare (of Veronica Falls) and Jack Cooper (of Mazes). A beautifully languid pairing at that. This week's installment of the Lagniappe Sessions finds . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: December — A Medley

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Traverse wet and snow-covered ground, escape the cold winds of December and dig in to this all vinyl mix of warm-blooded soul and wintry folk ballads.

Aquarium Drunkard Presents: December — A Medley

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Blaze Foley :: Clay Pigeons

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Blaze Foley did not have it easy.

An Arkansas-born, Texas-raised country artist who was revered by the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Merle Haggard, Foley lived and died in obscurity. The man had it all: a penchant for writing simple but achingly poignant songs of heartbreak and struggle and a deep, unadorned and gruff voice — the kind that exudes a reality of hard earned wisdom. Country singer “Lost John” Casner, a friend of Foley’s, said about him, “"There is an uncompromising honesty…There's . . .

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Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree: A Vintage Holiday Mixtape

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Each December, Brian Reese at Big Rock Candy Mountain deals out a month’s worth of holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. Keeping it loose, he trims his tree with Red Simpson and Mae West, then tops it off with The Sonics, Hank Snow and Champion Jack Dupree. It’s a heady brew. Go ahead, deck them halls.

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: An Evening With Laura Marling

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Thursday night, December 4th, Aquarium Drunkard Presents: An Evening With Laura Marling at Community in Los Angeles. DJ sets by Turquoise Wisdom. We will be recording an Aquarium Drunkard session.

Limited space available. RSVP at marlingadq at gmail.com. Confirmation replies with additional information will be sent to selected entrants . . .

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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 366:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Bill Callahan - Diamond Dancer ++ Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission ++ Magnolia Electric Co. - The Night Shift Lullaby ++ Phosphorescent - Can I Sleep In Your Arms ++ Yo La Tengo - Leaving Home ++ Phil Cook - The Jensons ++ Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather ++ ++ Espers - Mansfield & Cyclops ++ Harlan T. Bobo . . .

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