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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Futurebirds @ The Echo, July 23

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The circus is coming to town. Los Angeles:  Tuesday night Aquarium Drunkard presents Futurebirds with Diarrhea Planet and T. Hardy Morris at The Echo. We're giving away tickets -- leave a comment below with your name, an email we can reach you at, and what you've been listening to this summer, old or new. Winners notified Monday night via email . . .

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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.

SIRIUS 289: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Ofo & The Black Company - Allah Wakbar ++ The Ify Jerry Krusade - Everybody Likes Something Good ++ Dutch Rhythm And Steel Show Band: Down By The River ++ Fatback Band - Goin' To See My Baby ++ The Last Poets - Time (edit) ++ Darondo - Let My People Go ++ Mor Thiam - Ayo Ayo . . .

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Le Onda Pesada De Ernan Roch Con Las Voces Frescas

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English language Mexican psych joint from 1971, this one is heavy on the south of the border fuzz -- and if “The Train” hasn’t been comped yet, I’m sure it's only a matter of time. Whereas the vinyl boasts a hefty price tag, a digital rip of the wax has made its way around the Internet, and back again, several times. If you happen upon a superior rip/mix to the one posted below, please hit us up.

MP3: Ernan Roch :: The Train

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Rich Ristagno :: What Would It Be Like To Be Rich? (Reissue)

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Finally, a record that answers the age-old question: What would Lou Reed have sounded like if he had never left his parents' Long Island home and just made private press LPs of oddball funk rock? Don't pretend like you haven't thought about it. Rich Ristagno's What Would It Be Like To Be Rich is another extremely rare gem unearthed and made available to the masses by the fine people at Drag City. Recorded in Detroit in the early . . .

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The Don Isaac Ezekiel Combination :: Amalinja

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Spinning Fela Kuti's proto-Africa 70 band,  Koola Lobitos, for an upcoming program, I was reminded of just how seminal, loose (and great) this period of his career arc can be. And if you only know the more politically charged Fela of the 70s/80s, I highly recommended exploring Kuti's--vastly different--sixties output. Like any massive bandleader, from Miles to James Brown, you eventually begin to trace the individual players in the group, session or otherwise. It was this path, digging into the Koola . . .

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AD Presents: Chances With Wolves 2: Hotel Motel / A Mixtape

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Our east coast compatriots, NYC's Chances With Wolves return with their second serving for Aquarium Drunkard: Hotel Motel - A Mixtape. As always, it's a heady/essential brew. The CWW squad is in L.A. this week launching the inaugural issue of their new zine at Family Books (tonight) on Fairfax -- with a DJ set immediately afterwards. You can still download the first AD/CWW joint from 2012, become a member or log in.

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Clifton’s Corner 19 :: Vintage Soul & Funk 45s

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(Volume 19 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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History Of Spiritual Jazz :: 12 Hour Mix

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Sunday listening. Dig into this marathon 12-hour Spiritual Jazz mix compiled by The Black Classical. Playlist and stream via the Word Is Bond. Direct download: here

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Take Me Home :: A Tribute To John Denver (2000)

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John Denver died in a plane crash in 1997 -- several years later the compilation Take Me Home: A Tribute To John Denver was released via Badman Recordings. Guiding the artist roster, the compilation sonically concentrated on the somber stylings of the (then) quiet-is-the-new-loud zeitgeist - specifically that of Mark Kozelek, whose Red House Painters appear three times . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard: Astral Blues T-Shirt — Now Available

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Only the good shit. Our 'astral blues' t-shirt is finally available, as modeled above by our amigo for life, Cold Splinters' Jeff Thrope. It's spring, and you need a new t-shirt. Wear it as-is, or, if you're like Justin, embrace your inner redneck and whack the sleeves off. Super-soft, pre-shrunk, priced at a real nice twenty . . .

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Kurt Vile :: Wakin On A Pretty Daze

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Wakin on a Pretty Daze  is Philly rocker Kurt Vile's 5th solo LP and new best. It is marked by maturity, craft, and confidence, evidence that Vile successfully cannibalized all the parts of his sturdy back catalog -- the howling guitars, bedroom pop, his quizzical, drawling voice, and even the more fully-figured stuff on the excellent Smoke Ring For My Halo. This new album isn't so much a rebirth but a refinement, a peak, an aesthetic streamlining that results in the . . .

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Sid Hemphill :: The Devil’s Dream: Alan Lomax’s 1942 Library of Congress Recordings

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Alan Lomax didn’t know what he was in for tearing down the dirt roads of the Mississippi Hill Country in 1942. He was looking for Sid Hemphill, a multi-instrumentalist he’d one day describe as “the best musician in the world.” When Lomax found him, the “boar-hog musician of the hills,”   he was surprised to learn that the fiddle man and string band leader was blind. Not that it mattered. “His face blazed with inner light,” Lomax writes in his 1993 book, Land Where . . .

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Tom Waits :: Never Talk to Strangers (LP Bootleg, 1979)

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Recorded at the BBC Studios London, for the “Tonight In Person” show in July of 1979, this vinyl bootleg finds Waits working up material from his Asylum years. This particular performance hit the spot recently as I’d been spending a lot of time with Waits’ transitional Heartattack And Vine LP–which ultimately reinvigorated an interest in the earlier catalog. Download and tracklisting after the jump.

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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. Download this week's Lagniappe Session with Night Beds, here.

SIRIUS 288: Jean . . .

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