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Matthew E. White :: Big Inner / Levek :: Look A Little Closer

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If, as our rock ‘n’  roll legends suggest, it’s true that the adult Brian Wilson intended for Smile to be a teenage symphony to God, then it must also be true that Matthew E. White, he all of twenty-nine and very much of our day, has done the same with Big Inner. But where Wilson sought the sublime in cooed harmonies and American history, White, who was born in the Philippines and . . .

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AD Presents :: Patterson Hood @ The Masonic Lodge, Oct. 6th

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Saturday night, October 6th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Patterson Hood at The Masonic Lodge in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Hood is presently touring behind his new solo LP, Heat . . .

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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.

Note: the first hour of today's show is made up of the first 2 transmissions from our new podcast, SIDECAR, which can be downloaded HERE and become a member or log in.

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Melody’s Echo Chamber :: S/T

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The fundamental texture of Melody Prochet’s voice rings clean and delicate–an anti-diva, expressive in her elegant range and unwavering accuracy. The echo applied to her voice is pillowy, a cumulus cloud damply evaporating up into a bright sun. Set in a flurry of zip zappy synth sounds, Melody’s Echo Chamber sounds dreamy, but it’s more atmospheric than psychedelic: The feeling is like being lost in an overwhelmingly vivid daydream, not like you're tripping balls.

Melody’s Echo Chamber is the French singer-songwriter’s . . .

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Canailles :: Bien-être

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Montreal’s Canailles first got together in the summer of 2010, working out traditional québécois and Cajun songs among the green shadows of Parc LaFontaine. Two years later, they’re one of the city’s greatest francophone groups, and one of the few to cross over into anglophone territory: In addition to this year’s SXSW, the group played four raucous shows at notorious Lafayette, LA, nightspot the Blue Moon Saloon this spring, and they regularly prime crowds across anglophone eastern Canada.

Though they sing in French, their charm . . .

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Margo Guryan :: The AD Interview

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Inspired to pursue pop music after discovering the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Margo Guryan, a schooled jazz pianist, crafted brilliant pop gems that were recorded by artists ranging from Mama Cass, Astrid Gilberto and Julie London to Glen Campbell, Bobby Gentry, and beyond. Thanks in part to a pair of reissues, and  Saint Etienne's cover of "I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You," there's been a resurgence of Guryan's music over the past decade.

We caught up with Guryan, via email, from her home in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles last week to discuss long lost Harry Nilsson covers, songwriting, jazz, and her initial surprise at the renewed interest in her work. The conversation after the jump...

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Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 2)

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VU meter at peak LED. Twenty-seven minute ghost transmission scanning the midnight radio -- on your dial residing somewhere between here and the astral plane. Direct download, below.

Last week's broadcast can be found, here. Subscribe to future transmissions, via the podcast, HERE.

MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 2

Intro
Allah-Las - Tell Me What's . . .

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Paul Westerberg :: My Road Now

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Putting Paul Westerberg behind a piano is often a recipe for some of his most moving work - and he's deft at mixing humor with his pathos. Early in his career - with piano-driven songs like "Androgynous" - the laughs were a way to disguise the more emotional insight. "Androgynous," despite its jokey lines, is at its heart about the freedom you feel from just being allowed to be and how, well, to borrow from Dan Savage, it gets better.

As Westerberg has gotten older . . .

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Avec pas d’casque :: Astronomie

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If your French is better than mine, you might understand the words that Stéphane Lafleur is singing. But il ne faut pas que vous parler français to understand what’s going on in Astronomie, the fourth full-length release by Lafleur’s Montreal brush-folk group Avec pas d’casque. The group take their name (literally, With No Helmet) from the rough-and-ready hockey players of the early 1980s who, under . . .

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Rockin’ Horse :: Yes It Is (1970)

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The two core members of Rockin’ Horse, Jimmy Campbell and Billy Kinsley, are masters of English beat music. Students of American R&B, The Everly Brothers, and the Shirelles, the pair could marry a hard rocking groove to a pop hook with ease and could blend their voices into beautiful close harmony. The band itself was a figment of the studio, a one-off ensemble gathered at Majestic Studios in Clapham, South London, to make the great ‘60s rock album four years too late.

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: Fukuoka, Japan – March 8, 1976

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"I'd like to do this song for Rodan the Flying Monster," announces Neil Young towards the end of the opening acoustic set on this excellent audience tape. The song that follows is a mellow rendition of the chart-topping "Heart of Gold". But Neil obviously had Japanese monsters in mind this evening: he returns for the second set with Crazy Horse and proceeds to lay waste to the concert hall like Godzilla.

Aside from a few low profile NoCal gigs in 1975, this Japanese jaunt was the debut of the new Crazy Horse with . . .

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Nina Simone :: Revolution (Harlem Cultural Festival, 1969)

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"I thought it was interesting that Nina Simone did a sort of answer to “Revolution”. That was very good -- it was sort of like “Revolution,” but not quite. That I sort of enjoyed, somebody who reacted immediately to what I had said." - John Lennon, 1971

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Ray Stinnett :: A Fire Somewhere

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"Wooly Bully" this is not. Following his departure from Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, Ray Stinnett took off for the Haight in 1967. Shacking up at the Morning Star Ranch with his wife and young son, Stinnett bean sowing the seeds on what would later become A Fire Somewhere -- a record that would languish unreleased and in obscurity until now. Four long decades after A&M first shelved the tapes, Fire sees its belated . . .

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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.

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 . . .

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Jamaica To Toronto :: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974

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As we inch closer to Light in the Attic Record’s 10 year anniversary showcase, featuring Rodriguez and Shin Joong Hyun later this month in L.A., it’s worth noting that the label’s last decade has been littered with classics. Case in point, the excellent 2006 compilation, Jamaica to Toronto: Soul Funk & Reggae 1967-1974, a set that finds . . .

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