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East Side Story (Never Mind The Bullets 1966-1974)

In the early 2000s I was turned on to a website that was solely devoted to providing a history of Michigan's, and more specifically, Detroit's early rocknroll and garage rock scenes from the early-mid 60s. I have the site to thank for my first taste of early Bob Seger; and by that I mean the raw primordial shit that was a far cry from the spit-shined, ready for prime-time, Silver Bullet Band of the 1970s. Which brings us to 2010's Never Mind The Bullets: 1966-74, a fan-made . . .

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The Soul Lifters :: Hot, Funky And Sweaty (1972)

The Soul Lifters only 45; coming off like a Meters/Sly Stone hybrid. Funky Indeed.

MP3: The Soul Lifters :: Hot, Funky And Sweaty

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Willie Dickson & The Playboys :: Licking Stick (1969)

Montego Bay's Willie Dickson & The Playboys (doing their best James Brown) covering "Licking Stick". Released one year after the godfather laid the joint down via a two-part 7" single.

MP3: Willie Dickson & The Playboys :: Licking Stick

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Naomi And The Boys :: As Tears Go By (Singapore ’65)

"As Tears Go By" -- Mick and Keith penned it (their first original composition), Marianne Faithful crooned it and Singapore's Naomi And The Boys covered it, in 1965.

MP3: Naomi And The Boys :: As Tears Go By

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Benjamin Booker: Have You Seen My Son / Waiting Ones (Demos)

Blues/garage/gospel/punk/folk...introducing  New Orleans' Benjamin Booker. Via the Waiting Ones demos (2012).

MP3: Benjamin Booker :: Have You Seen My Son?

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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.

Download The Orwells Aquarium Drunkard Session, HERE...

SIRIUS 258:  Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Lush — Breeze ++ The Vivids — Totally Sober ++ Savages — Husbands ++ Cat Power — Ruin ++ Spiritualized — Run ++ Dungen — Festival ++ Simple Minds . . .

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Kelly Hogan :: The AD Interview

People like to call Kelly Hogan a “chanteuse,” but isn’t that really just a fancy French word for “she can sing her ass off?” The Georgia native cut her teeth belting it out in Atlanta with rootsy-jazzy-indie-indefinable The Jody Grind before moving on to the Rock*A*Teens, and then to Chicago, where she tried to quit music, but couldn’t.   Nowadays, she lives in rural Wisconsin and sings with Neko Case (among many, many others). She recently released her fourth solo album (the first in 11 years) I Like To Keep Myself in Pain, which features songs penned by Andrew Bird, Robyn Hitchcock and Vic Chesnutt (among many, many others).

Last month, AD caught up with Kelly via telephone from her home in Evansville, where she was cooking dinner for her “dude,” who was about to go to work in the cheese factory.

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Thelonious Monk – Straight No Chaser’€¬ (Documentary, 1988)

The Dead Sea Scrolls of jazz. Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser: Produced by Clint Eastwood, the documentary is a medley/marriage between West German television documentarians Michael and Christian Blackwood's archival 1968 footage "of the groundbreaking modern jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, including the only footage of the very private Monk off stage", and filmmaker Bruce Ricker's (then) contemporary behind the scenes look into Monk's . . .

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Clifton’s Corner :: Volume Sixteen

(Volume 16 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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Alemayehu Eshete :: Kotuma Fikreye

Here’s a favorite piece of choice vintage footage: legendary Ethiopian singer Alemayehu Eshete decked out in his trademark butterfly collars, sporting a sly grin and sultry shoulder shimmy, gesticulating along with the lyrics. Ticking octaves are picked out on blippy guitars, and the majestic melody comes via a pair of saxophones—a classic Ethiopian arrangement. The tight song structure doesn’t slow down in meditative repetition, so the tune is especially catchy and immediate. Eshete plays the cool showman without being flamboyant, engaging in a . . .

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Matthew E. White :: The Lagniappe Sessions

Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.

A veritable bouillabaisse of sound, Matthew E. White’s debut LP, Big Inner, is set for joint release  August 21st via Hometapes and Spacebomb. Here, on the twelfth installment of the become a member or log in.

The Orwells :: Remember When

You almost don’t want to believe it, it seems so perfect. Five kids from suburban Chicago, wrapped in scuffed-up jeans, writing punk songs about going to the mall, dedicating their work to the girls who work at the go-kart stand, right-out rejecting the Winnie Coopers and the soccer practice and the daytime trips to Steak and Shake. You have to tell yourself: we’ve heard this before. It’s a story as old as rock ‘n’ roll, or as old as the suburbs themselves, which is the same thing. Give your gym coach the middle finger . . .

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