Whether creating visionary psychedelia under the Six Organs of Admittance moniker, kicking up a raucous racket with Rangda or Comets On Fire, or putting out a lovely duet record with Magik Markers' Elisa Ambroglio as 200 Years, Ben Chasny has spent close to 15 years making the rest of us look lazy. Virtually everything he's done is of extremely high quality, but given how prolific the guy is, you'd be forgiven if you missed one or two of his various musical projects. Don't miss out on
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Neil Young :: Live At The Cellar Door
Neil Young had a hell of 1970. Let's review. He kicked off the year with a quick European jaunt with Crosby, Stills & Nash, where they were hailed as "the American Beatles." In February and March he took Crazy Horse on a tour of U.S. theaters. The band's mind-splitting onstage powers can be best heard on the absolutely essential Fillmore East live album belatedly released in 2006. Also in March, CSNY released Deja Vu, which sold millions, and the group played to the assembled hordes in stadiums all over the country that summer. At some point . . .
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AD Presents :: Daniel Bachman – Los Angeles, February 21st
Los Angeles — Aquarium Drunkard presents Danial Bachman, February 21st, at The Velaslavasay Panorama. Circuit Rider supports. We’re giving away a few pairs of tickets to AD readers. To enter, leave a comment with your name and a valid email we can reach you at. Advance tickets available for purchase, here
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Mark Banning :: Journey Into The Light
Mark Banning’s contribution to Light in the Attic’s new age collection, I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990, an excerpt from his piece “Lunar Eclipse,” is one of the highlights of the set. Journey to the Light, Banning’s only commercially available recording, furthers his story.
In I am the Center’s liner notes, Douglas Mcgowan shares a message from one of Banning’s former guitar students: “Our block was the ex-con, bathtub meth lab in every other house type affair…While Mark looked kinda like a broke down Hells Angel, I think he was pretty responsible.” The music of Journey to the Light transcends that busted neighborhood. Recorded in September 1984, and released January 1985, the LP is a cosmic slab of Northern California mysticism. Featuring Banning on “processed electric guitar, zither, voice & ocean sounds” and his wife Helen Perez on zither, the album is available again via Students of Decay. Journey to the Light explores the through line connecting new age, drone, and minimalist composition, evoking the Krautrock sounds of Manuel Gî¶ttsching (Ash Ra Tempel; Ashra) and proggy ambience of Robert Fripp’s Frippertronics guitar treatments as much as it calls to mind the hazy nature music you might associate with its misty beach sunrise cover.
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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
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 330: Jean Michel Bernard - Générique Stephane ++ Tinariwen - Tenere Taqqim Tossam ++ The Ify Jerry Krusade - Everybody Likes Something Good ++ Johnny 'Guitar' Watson - Lovin' You ++ Fatback Band - Goin' To See My Baby ++ We The People - Function Underground ++ Darondo - Let My People Go ++ Los Issufu & His Moslems - Kana Soro ++ Moses Dillard . . .
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Claudine Longet :: Let’s Spend The Night Together
Cross Nico’s deadpan delivery with the childlike sway of Deerhoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki and you’ve got Claudine Longet, a French born singer who is now unfortunately more famous for going OJ Simpson-style on her husband, Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich, than she is for the handful of great tracks she turned out during the late 60s early 70s. Although she’s been living a life outside the public eye since the trial in 1976 (in which she was convicted of a lesser charge and allowed to . . .
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Jackson C. Frank :: Blues Run The Game
Jackson C. Frank’s music and pain were always intertwined. As a boy, a furnace exploded at his school, killing 15 of his classmates and badly burning Frank. As he recovered in the hospital, a teacher brought him an acoustic guitar to keep him occupied. It’s impossible not to hear traces of that hurt echoing in the songs of his 1965 self-titled LP. Produced by his friend Paul Simon in London, where . . .
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We The People :: Function Underground
Though Arizona’s most popular soul export is Dyke and the Blazers’ “Funky Broadway” — not written about NYC, but rather Arlester “Dyke” Christian’s memories of Broadway in Buffalo, New York, and the Broadway Road's role in the burgeoning late-sixties R&B scene in Phoenix — no figure in the state’s soul history casts a wider shadow than “Mighty” Mike Lenaburg. A concert promoter, disc jockey, producer, manager (he handled Little Richard and Ike & Tina Turn on the road), songwriter, and owner of several renowned record labels, Lenaburg’s songs and the records he issued rank . . .
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The Woodchucks :: Angry Generation
Singer, songwriter, raconteur and businessman, Lee Hazlewood was an industrious cat. In addition to his own work, Hazlewood's label inprint, LHI, released scores of material by other artists. Released last year, the multi-disc, and multi-faceted, collection There’s A Dream I’ve Been Saving, serves as both a clearinghouse and celebration of the label from 1966-1971. Which brings us to The Woodchucks. Written and produced by Hazlewood and released on 7" in 1970, the 'surf' instrumental pastiche, "Angry Generation," takes massive cues from both Dick Dale and Link Wray. And does it well. A Cowboy In Sweden this is not.
The Woodchucks :: Angry Generation
And in a poetic move, the song was later covered by Dick Dale, himself.
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Dead Notes #7 :: Hard To Handle (3/24/71 San Francisco, CA)
And we're back. Welcome to the seventh installment of Dead Notes where we find our former psychedelic heroes continuing to shed their kaleidoscopic, meandering, ways. Tightening up, both literally and figuratively, by March of 1971 the Dead's live show had been transformed into a lean, mean, rock 'n roll revue. The band had just lost second percussionist, Mickey Hart, who left indefinitely after his father, Lenny Hart (the Dead's former manager), absconded with the band's savings. While the loss of Hart was indeed significant, drummer Bill Kreutzmann had become a swinging powerhouse in his own right, and was more than able to compensate for the sudden loss. In return, the Dead were able to open up — moving them further into the jazz idiom while producing some of the most dynamic live shows of their career.
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Les Charlots :: Hey Max
...profiter de la parodie
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Johnny Cash :: Live At Manhattan Center – Full Concert (1994)
It wasn't necessarily going to end this way for Johnny Cash. When the 62-year-old singer first sat in Rick Rubin's Sunset Strip living room and played him the handful of songs that would form the core of 1994's American Recordings, he seemed destined not for a packed Manhattan Center (now the Hammerstein Ballroom) and an inky monochromatic video treatment but someplace far darker: become a member or log in.
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
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 329: Jean Michel Bernard - Générique Stephane ++ Apple & The Three Oranges - Curse Upon The World ++ Bill Withers - Better Off Dead ++ The Dirtbombs - Livin' For The City ++ The Don Ezekiel Combination - Ire ++ Chuck Jackson - I Like Everything About You ++ The Soul Lifters - Hot Funky & Sweaty ++ Max Roach With The J . . .
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John Williams :: Flowers In Your Hair
Step back, this has absolutely nothing to do with Scott McKensie's "San Francisco". No, this is composer John Williams (yes, that John Williams) take on '67 psychedelia. Originally issued on 7" by Columbia, as the b/w to "Can't Find Time For Anything Now", the track was comped on vinyl in the mid-90s via a Swedish psych collection entitled: Fading Yellow Vol.1 - Timeless Pop-Sike And Other . . .
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The dB’s :: Moving in Your Sleep (1981)
Late 70s and early 80s southern power pop. I've had Dwight Twilley, the dB's, Big Star and mess of their lesser known brethren in my head, and on repeat, since the holidays. This latest binge was set off by the other side of the sugarcane, the bittersweet dB's ballad, "Moving in Your Sleep." Whereas Big Star had the yin and yang of Chilton and Bell, the dB's had Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple. Culled from the NC group's debut long-player, Stands for Decibels . . .
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