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Rock And Roll Circus / A Quick One While He’s Away

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In an effort to get away from the cycle of recording and touring, the Rolling Stones put together the Rock and Roll Circus in the winter of 1968, inviting along Taj Mahal, Jethro Tull (featuring Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi), Marianne Faithful, and a one-off supergroup called the Dirty Mac that was comprised of John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell. To call it an historic night would be an understatement: It was the first . . .

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Catching Up With The Growlers :: The AD Interview

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The Growlers’  music that has trickled out over the past few years is scrappy, sloppy, and immediate. They call it “beach goth” -- lo-fi surf rock with a country backbeat. On tape the music sounds chill, but in concert it achieves a frenzying effect; a surprisingly tight and no nonsense live show helmed by the devil-may-care charisma of lead singer, and grungy surfer-dude chief, Brooks Nielson.
Earlier in this year, The Growlers were poised to get a big boost. Longtime fan Dan Auerbach (of The Black Keys) invited the Californians to his studio in Nashville to craft their next album. But after a week in the studio the band ditched the sessions claiming the results were “overcooked.” It was a buzz-kill for the fans, but the group didn’t seem to lose too much sleep over it, returning to California to make their record, DIY-style. The results (the first full length Growlers record in several years), Hung at Heart, is now poised for release. After the jump, Brooks and guitarist/singer Matt Taylor treated AD to a spritely, spirited conversation about this transitional moment in their band’s career. Dig in. . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: The Amazing (Tim Buckley / R.E.M.)

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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.

The Lagniappe Sessions return this week with  The Amazing. Comprised of members of Swedish psych-rock monsters, Dungen, the group just saw the stateside release of its second LP,

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AD Presents :: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion @ The El Rey

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Ladies and gentleman: this Friday night AD presents The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at The El Rey Theatre. For those of you in Los Angeles, we're giving away five pairs of tickets. To land a pair, leave a comment stating how you first discovered the band, along with your name and a valid email we can hit you back at. Winners notified by Thursday; tickets . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 6) — Podcast / Mixtape

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Buffalo print/autumn width.. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles.

Direct download, below; subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first five transmissions can be found and downloaded, here.

MP3: Sidecar . . .

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Calvin Love :: New Radar

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Calvin Love’s  music–the way it sounds–gives away the process responsible for its creation.  Its sparse musical landscape is populated by thin guitars, electronic drums, and occasionally vintage synthesizers,  which add a wooly, electronic warmth to the focused, slender arrangements.  The lo-fi, cassette, 4-track fidelity sets a very particular ambiance throughout New Radar

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Nina Simone :: Documentary (By Peter Rodis, 1969)

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Danny & The Memories :: Land of A 1000 Dances

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In his recent memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, Neil Young comes across this ancient Scopitone on YouTube. "I looked at it maybe twenty times in a row," he writes. Why such interest in this fuzzy piece of video from the mid-60s? Because it's a rare vision of Danny and the Memories, featuring Danny Whitten, Ralph Molina and Billy Talbot -- the trio that would become the original Crazy Horse

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Golden Void :: S/T

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Maximum Heavy. That’s the phrase — borrowed from Joe Carducci’s Rock and the Pop Narcotic — that comes to mind when listening to Golden Void’s self-titled debut offering. “Heavy” in this respect isn’t necessarily about volume or velocity (though those certainly play a part here), but more about a vibe, a kind of instrumental interplay, a . . .

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Parquet Courts :: Light Up Gold

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Yep. Last I checked, we’re still post-punk. And that means that Light Up Gold, the first widely available release from Texas-born New Yorkers Parquet Courts, is still relevant. The group, who put out a limited-run cassette a year ago, is fronted by Andrew Savage, late of Fergus & Geronimo, but where that group hopped goofily from here to there, Parquet Courts’ high-grade post-punk is stripped down and focused . . .

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Minutemen :: The Glory Of Man / Corona (Acoustic)

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When I was a kid, this is what I assumed punk-rock shows looked like: dudes in leather jackets, tough-looking ladies with homemade haircuts. Check out the dude sitting up by the speaker cabs, dancing like his ear’s attached to one of the cones. Other people stand around, passersbys look bemused or confused. Someone hands out some kind of flyer; the lady with the bad haircut takes one without missing a step.

But nobody ever told me when I was a kid that this was what a punk-rock band could look like. Or sound like, for that . . .

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Sinkane :: Mars

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These past few weeks, Ahmed Gallab has been the toast of NYC. He just released his debut record for DFA Records as Sinkane, and his band was the celebrated guest at many a high-profile CMJ party. Before cultivating his own music as Sinkane, Gallab performed on a variety of instruments for a handful of indie rockers who came up in the late ‘aughts –Of Montreal, Caribou, Eleanor Friedberger, and most notably Yeasayer. He was born in Sudan to intellectual parents who landed in the U.S. as political exiles, and his adolescent years were spent playing in hardcore and . . .

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Clifton’s Corner :: Volume 17 – I Hear A New World

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(Volume 17 of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b . . .

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Bill Wilson :: Ever Changing Minstrel

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File under: Rough hewn, blue-eyed, vintage Southern soul. Tracked in a single night in 1973, with producer Bob Johnston and the same Nashville session cats that cut  Blonde on Blonde, Bill Wilson's Ever Changing Minstrel was originally released on  CBS subsidiary Windfall Records that same year...to little fanfare.

Now, some four decades later, it's back in . . .

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