Try to think of someone cooler than Bob Wills. You cain’t. That’s not him singing--that’s him shouting over the verses like a real jazz cat and dancing with his fiddle like it’s a sack of money. Then he tosses in a solo just because he wants you to know that he can. Charlie Daniels’ Johnny beat the devil with the third verse of this traditional, but nobody’s got any business messing with “Ida Red” while this footage still exists. That’s what makes Bob holler. words/ become a member or log in.
A collaboration a long time in the making, our guest mixtape series returns this week with Monster Rally. Self-described as a "collection of influences, prime vinyl gems, voice mails, stories, day dreams, and straight funk from across the globe", the set is - in a word - simpatico. Monster Rally guests this Friday on our SIRIUS/XMU show.
MP3: Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Monster Rally - A Mixtape (continuous stream)
Tracklisting after the jump…
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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.
Note: the first 25 minutes of today's show can be downloaded, here.
Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Simon & The Piemen - Cut It Out ++ Ify Jerry Krusade — Everybody Likes Something Good . . .
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Ain't it funky, now. Chicago's Numero Group, in celebration of the label's tenth birthday, is dropping a limited edition Eccentric Soul 45 box set next week entitled Omnibus. Which, naturally, contains 45 7" singles. Each record comes tricked out with its own replica label and sleeve, coupled with a 108-page hardback, clothbound, book.
The label has been announcing the individual tracks daily on their blog over . . .
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Early on in this clip from The Old Grey Whistle Test, Kevin Coyne admits that he “knicked” his version of “I Want My Crown” off the song’s originator, Big Joe Williams. Coyne’s interpretation is more spritely, melodic, and memorable than the bluesman’s–it’s the work of an art-school lifer caught in a moment of mainstream success. “Crown” was featured on what is still Coyne’s best known album . . .
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Beyond The Audiodrome (A Mixtape . . .
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When vocalist Brian Hyland set out to reinvent himself in the late ‘60s, he already had a couple of hit singles to his name, including "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," a novelty song he cut at the tender age of 16, and “Sealed With a Kiss,” recorded two years later. But those bubblegum gems don’t really indicate where Hyland would head with his self-titled 1970 record, a remarkable album of soft psych, blue-eyed soul, and power pop.
Del Shannon, no stranger to the pop charts sat in . . .
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Sidecar, fourth transmission: Black sand blues. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles.
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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.
Matt Sullivan from Light In The Attic Records is my guest this week. Recorded Sept 18th at the label's HQ in Hollywood, CA.
SIRIUS 263: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The High Numbers - I'm The Face ++ The Orwells - Mallrats (La La La) ++ Los . . .
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We're heading to New York, so come party with us. Aquarium Drunkard - CMJ 2012 - No Jacket Required. October 16th at Mercury Lounge. Tickets available, here. Let's do this.
Dent May ~ The Orwells ~
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Let's take a trip to the Bowery, shall we? By the time the Feelies emerged in late 1976, CBGB was already well established as the epicenter of the era’s cutting-edge rock music scene: the reputations of Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads, and the Ramones were built on its stage in a few short, but action-packed, years. While the Feelies are a part of this lineage (they certainly absorbed lessons from Verlaine and Co.), they've always remained apart from any real scene . . .
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John Lennon, who would have turned a cracking 72 next week, cut these five radio promotional spots for Tobias Casual Sportswear, in 1974, while living in L.A. during his 'Lost Weekend'. One wonders - was Nilsson in tow, and if so, was he lingering outside the vocal booth with a frothy pitcher of Brandy Alexanders in hand? Sardonic, mercurial and subversive, these are pure Lennon. Lost weekend, indeed.
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Ten tracks, six countries, twenty-seven minutes -- Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar, third transmission. Direct download, below; subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, HERE.
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Swathed in an impenetrable fog of mystery and extremism, the Japanese group Les Rallizes Dénudés exist more as a myth than as a real band. But what is a real band anyways? Accounts of Rallizes live shows tell of overwhelming sensory experiences fueled by excesses of volume and light — musical performance so intense that the body can’t escape. That sounds real enough, but everything else about the band pulls a blank: no proper studio albums, interviews, press photos — press . . .
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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.
Perennial masters of avant jazz, soul and groove, Medeski, Martin & Wood returned to the fold last month with the release of Free Magic -- the trio's first LP since 2008's The Radiolarian Series. An unplugged set . . .
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