Uh huh, it's almost that time of year again, so let's do this. Our fiesta is going down Wednesday night, March 13th at Hype Hotel — 301 Brazos Street (3rd and San Jacinto). Come hang. Free booze.
DJ Sets: Mondo Boys -- Set times to come. See you in Texas.
Lineup: Jim James ++ Phosphorescent . . .
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While Impossible Truth may only be William Tyler's second solo album, chances are you're familar this Nashville-based guitarist. For more than a decade, he's been the go-to six-string stylist for such heavyweights as Lambchop and Silver Jews. Despite (or perhaps as a result of?) having studied under Kurt Wagner and David Berman, two of the best lyricists in all of indie rock-dom, Tyler's recordings under his own name are wholly instrumental affairs. That's just fine . . .
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When I was fifteen years old, I wrote MC Taylor a fan letter. At the time, he played in a hardcore band I liked called Ex-Ignota. I was a big fan of their split 7” with Uranium 9 Volt and wrote inquiring about buying their previous single. The band sent back a letter typed on the back of a snapshot of what I presumed to be the band members horsing around in their tour van. For some reason, I kept this photograph, tucking it into the copy of the record they sent me.
Nineteen years later I showed my friend MC Taylor that photo, and we both found ourselves struck by the smallness of the world. In 2011, I might have also written him a fan letter, because I was obsessed with Poor Moon, a record he and fellow Ex-Ignota bandmate Scott Hirsch had made with their current band, Hiss Golden Messenger. It was only after becoming friends with MC that we began to discuss hardcore and punk, and Ex-Ignota came up. Until then, I had no idea he was the guy I wrote the letter to well over half a lifetime ago.
Recently, I spoke to MC about the great new Hiss Golden Messenger album Haw (due out April 2nd on Paradise of Bachelors), the witchcraft of songwriting, and, erm, celebrity crushes.
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Honky tonk hero, Daniel Romano, released his third LP Come Cry With Me last month via Athens GA's Normaltown Records. Imagine Lee Hazlewood decked out in Gram Parsons Nudie suit and you're halfway there. . .
MP3: Daniel Romano :: Middle Child
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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 283: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Nirvana - Love Buzz ++ The Clash - 1977 ++ The Soft Boys - I Got The Hots ++ The Cure - Screw ++ Orange Juice - Falling And Laughing (BBC Peel Session) ++ The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make (Hatful of Hollow) ++ Girls Names - I Lose ++ The B-52s - Dance This Mess Around ++ Blur . . .
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It’s nothing new for Nick Cave to sound bummed out. Over his thirty-year career, the chief Bad Seed has groped his way around every dark corner he can find. Even at his hip-shakin’ freest--2008’s Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, his last record with the Bad Seeds--he sounds like he’s grabbing his crotch in the general direction of death and decay more than he is lauding life and good fortune. No matter. Cave’s particular gift has always been his ability to make darkness compelling, to render it real and horrible in a way that few . . .
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No stranger to collaboration, Will Oldham (the Bonnie 'Prince') once again finds himself working with Dawn McCarthy on the pair's new LP, What The Brothers Sang -- a 13 track tribute to the Everly Brothers, out today via Drag City Records.
An eclectic selection spanning the width and breadth of brothers discography, the pair navigate the Everly's stylistic canon paying homage to the brothers early 'classic' sound while dipping deep into the lesser known . . .
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On February 18th, 1995, Bob Stinson, founding member and former lead guitarist of the Replacements, was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment. While at the time it was suspected to be an overdose, it was later determined that the years of substance abuse had simply worn his body out. He was 35.
Bob Stinson's life is a key part of the story of the Replacements. He was the good-hearted, incendiary guitar player who powered the 'Mats' first five LPs with his chaotic, light speed guitar. The official story behind Stinson's dismissal from the band in 1986 was . . .
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We're back in New York. Aquarium Drunkard presents Bleached at Bowery Ballroom with Ex-Cops and Hunters. We're giving away five pairs of tickets. To enter, leave your name, email, and favorite Bleached 7". Winners notified Sunday. Tickets available for purchase, here
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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: Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Ghost Capital IV (A Mixtape)
SIRIUS 282: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Darwin Teoria - De La Ceca A La Meca (Sally's Uptight) ++ Lee Hazlewood feat. Suzi . . .
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Like the Biblical angel, the Siren of Greek Mythology is often portrayed as a winged human with an arresting voice. The former might use the gift of song to guide a weary traveler through a harrowing pass towards the Promised Land; the latter, to wreck a sailing ship straight into the jagged rocks guarding the shoreline. When Angel Olsen sings, she straddles the line between shimmering beacon and dark temptress. Will Oldham remarked in an interview that a part she sang on “Time to Be Clear” from Wolfroy Goes To Town raised “a mixture of apprehension and satisfaction at the same time.”
Oldham took the Chicago-based chanteuse on tour with him back in 2010, enlisting her talents in both his backing band and the opener, the Babblers, a punk rock tribute to Kevin Coyne and Dagmar Kraus' 1979 album, Babble. The following year, Olsen lent her voice and her instrumental prowess to the aforementioned Wolfroy album. 2011 also saw Olsen release her first solo record, Strange Cacti, via Asheville NC’s Bathetic Records. It’s a peculiar and rewarding batch of songs that invokes the black and white Kansas of Judy’s Garland’s Dorothy.
Auarium Drunkard recently caught up with Olsen via the World Wide Web. It came as no surprise that when prompted with questions about ideal touring partners and favorite records she mentioned Francoise Hardy and Candi Staton. Not only does she strike a resemblance to the former, especially on the cover of “Comment Te Dire Adieu”, Olsen feels the touch of both of those luminaries on her second LP, Half Way Home, released by Bathetic last year to much acclaim. Listening to that record, one might also hear the influence of Nick Drake or In My Own Time-era Karen Dalton. But it’s all Olsen when it boils down to it. As for the Angel-Siren debate: following her singing might cause you to crash a time or two, but it’ll lead to salvation in the end.
Our conversation after the jump. . .
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Clocking in at 9+ minutes, while effortlessly retaining its coziness, this unexpected dose of new Kurt Vile marks the first taste from his forthcoming LP, Wakin on a Pretty Daze, out April 9th via Matador. King of the 21st century loll, I expect this and the upcoming Phosphorescent record to dominate Spring listening.
MP3: Kurt Vile :: Wakin On A Pretty Day
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1970 Dutch fuzz monster. Throwaway elliptical bubblegum lyrics. Perfection.
MP3: Darwin Teoria :: De La Ceca A La Meca (Sally's Uptight)
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Once again, we touch down in Portland, OR with the fourth installment of our Ghost Capital series. Helmed by Nick Barbery with an ear bent toward the obscure, esoteric and out-of-print, Ghost Capital digs globally mining the secret shafts of psych, folk, blues and beyond.
Twenty-four track download, notes, and playlist after the jump...
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The Fine Recording Studio Gospel Highlights: A vintage gospel compilation, its 25 tracks have aided an abetted many a cross-country trek since they came into my life several years ago. I included The B.C. Harmonizers "You Ought To Been There" on the latest Transmissions podcast, and a quick scan finds WFMU hosting the entirety of the compilation for download (gratis) via their website, including . . .
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