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

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The Cosmically Spiritual Gospel of Shirley Ann Lee And Alice Coltrane

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For those who followed Numero Group’s 2009 compilation Local Customs: Downriver Revival, it should come as no surprise that the reissue label’s 2012 Shirley Ann Lee release is brilliant, breathtaking and essential listening. Songs of Light — the “Shirley Ann Lee album that never was,” according to Numero — figured prominently on Downriver Revival, highlighted by Lee’s genre-bending “There’s a Light.” That . . .

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Jimmie Spheeris :: Isle of View (Revisited)

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Forgotten albums by mellow singer-songwriters of the early 1970s are pretty ubiquitous these days, I know. Especially when it comes to introverted and acoustic-leaning young men who floated under the radar (or too close to the sun) and whose careers took a nose dive in the wake of prog rock and the rise of the Marshall stack. But Jimmie Spheeris’s Isle of View (1970) is an entirely different kind of laid back beast. Imagine a collaboration between Bill Fay, Harry Nilsson, Cat Stevens, and . . .

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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 the SOLSTICE mixtape, here...

SIRIUS 368:  Jean Michel Bernard — Gén . . .

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D’Angelo And The Vanguard :: Black Messiah

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Michael Eugene Archer, better known as D’Angelo, states his case clearly in the liner notes of Black Messiah, his long-awaited, 14 years-in-the-making third album with the Vanguard. “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be easily misunderstood. Many will think it’s about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I’m calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It’s about the . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Dean Wareham … Does The Holidays

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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.

Over the past 20+ years, I've had Dean Wareham to thank for numerous turn-ons via his interpretation of other's work. Luna's rendering of Michel Polnareff's "La poupee qui fait non" immediately comes to mind, as does his re-appreciation of Buffy . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Solstice – A Mixtape

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Weaving its way between vintage garage, folk, soul and pop, Solstice is the first of a series of upcoming collaborations with Portland, OR based record collectors Sam Huff and Colton Tong. At two hours, digging globally, Solstice is a mercurial, psych-tinged collection of late 60s and early 70s sounds assembled to compliment those long winter nights descending upon us all. Lots of reverb. . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2014 Year In Review

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Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2014 . . .

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AD Presents: Michael Hurley – A Companion Piece

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Travel country roads from Pennsylvania to Portland with Doc Snock and listen as he and his fellow Rounders take you on a long journey defying the limits of folk, transcending all previous interpretations of Americana music. Alternately titled: Rollin' with Thorne Huber (aka Harry Hubcaps).

Michael Hurley: A Companion Piece

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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 368:  Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather   ++ Bob Dylan - The Man In Me ++ Nancy Sinatra / w Hal Blaine - Drummer Man ++ Michael Kiwanuka - I Need Your Company ++ Sandy Denny - Crazy Lady Blues ++ The Rolling Stones - Downtown Suzie ++ Harry Nilsson - Many Rivers To Cross ++ The Ansley . . .

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Songs: Ohia :: Didn’t It Rain (Expanded Reissue)

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You know, the dark didn’t hide it. But it came damn close. Didn’t It Rain, Jason Molina’s final release under the Songs: Ohia moniker, is seven tracks and forty-five minutes of long, dark blues that nevertheless carry within them a gentle light in the same way that a man carries his own blood; it’s that it’s all protected so well that you have to strike in order to see it.

Given all that came later – the depression, the alcohol, the . . .

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Bob Dylan :: Dylan (1973)

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If you spotted our Late Autumn Light mixtape, you likely noted Bob Dylan’s woolen, gospel rendition of the traditional “Mary Ann"; via the widely, yet incomprehensibly reviled 1973 album, Dylan. One of the least appreciated albums in the Dylan discography, it was released without the man’s input and is comprised solely of cover songs. Hastily assembled, the record was released by Columbia, without Dylan’s input or . . .

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Morning of The Earth :: Soundtrack, 1971 (Reissue)

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“We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art, is proportional to the beauty of ourselves, of our souls…” - morning of the earth, OST reissue

2013 marked the 40th anniversary of seminal Australian surf film, Morning of the Earth. For the occasion, the film was re-released (along with a book) and director Albert . . .

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Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree II: The Eggnog Is Spiked

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Holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. After the jump, Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree II: The Eggnog Is Spiked. Find part one, from 2012, here

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Merry Christmas Loopy Lu (The . . .

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