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Bessie Jones :: Songs And Games From The Georgia Sea Islands

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“How do you like your blue eyed boy, Mr. Death?” read the E.E. Cummings quote that tattooed Harry Crews' right bicep. I suppose he got his answer. Crews died last week; for those of us who followed his work it's quite a loss. National obits have alternately likened the 'literary outlaw' to Bukowski and Hunter S. Thompson, but those are loose, at best, comparisons. If you grew up in the South, or have a feeling for the region, you appreciate Crews surgical gift for tapping . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 239: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Whitefield Brothers - Rampage ++ Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenza - Love And Death ++ Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me A Tale ++ Nora Dean - Angie La La (Ay Ay Ay) ++ JD & The Evil's Dynamite - Beer (So Nice, Right On) ++ Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band - Stay Away . . .

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Nora Dean :: Angie La La (Ay Ay Ay)

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The hoodoo is just dripping off this one -- gris gris psychedelia, circa 1969. In terms of pure vibe, Dr. Kanaga has nothing on this. Product of Jamaica, Nora Dean's "Angie   La La (Ay Ay Ay)" defies easy genre categorization existing in an  Obeah netherworld. File under: Jamaican psych.

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Dean Wareham :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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It might have seemed just a bit too obvious to ask Dean Wareham to work on a project scoring screen test films done by Andy Warhol, but really it was all too perfect. Wareham has received his fair share of comparisons to the Velvet Underground over the years through his work in Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean and Britta - his project with his wife and Luna bassist, Britta Phillips. But when the Andy Warhol Museum approached Wareham and Phillips about scoring the Warhol films, they jumped at the chance. The result is 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests. First performed in 2008, the live show will be at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, NC this Friday, March 30th and at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on the 31st.

We caught up with Wareham earlier this month to discuss the upcoming performances, what it was like to be a teenager in New York City at the height of the punk movement, why Warhol matters, his thoughts on scoring films, vinyl reissues and more.

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Nick Waterhouse

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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.

In 2010 I debuted the A-side off Nick Waterhouse's Some Place 7" on my SIRIUS show. Looking to describe his aesthetic in a contemporary sense I likened it to that of Richard Hawley - in that both artists tap into the past without falling prey to overcooked retro pastiche. Here, on the seventh installment of the become a member or log in.

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Lower Dens :: Propagation

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On “Propagation”, taken from the forthcoming album Nootropics, the passion and atmosphere of vocalist Jana Hunter is deafening. Patient and heady, Lower Dens lull listeners into a trance with its most fragile and fractured work to date. As desolate verses with wobbly pedal effects and droning guitars emit a dimming metallic light, you get the feeling that Hunter has lost a significant battle. She's left spent and weary-eyed with absolutely nothing left to deliver a counter-argument - it’s in her delivery, one that . . .

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Field Report :: I Am Not Waiting Anymore

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Wisconsin based,  Field Report is the  nom de guerre of Chris Porterfield, formerly of  Conrad Plymouth and DeYarmond Edison. At time of writing the available recorded output solely consists "I Am Not Waiting Anymore" and "Fergus Falls" - a pair of unmastered tracks from his forthcoming self-titled debut. Folk music, restrained synths texture Porterfield's honey and gravel vocals elevating it in a way . . .

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The Strange Boys :: Doueh (Video)

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Austin's Strange Boys gigged in LA Friday night at Club Los Globos. After the jump, the fellas pay tribute to the Saharan rebel blues of Group Doueh on their new video culled from Live Music.

MP3: The Strange Boys :: Doueh

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Fugazi: 20 Songs (Spotify)

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I had planned focusing on the ongoing Fugazi live archives for this week's Spotify entry. Turns out those are not yet available, so I switched gears and carved out twenty favorites culled from the band's seven studio albums and Instrument soundtrack. There are very few bands/artists I've had this kind of longevity with. The playlist is set up sonically/aesthetically vs. chronologically and I . . .

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Sevens :: Sharon Van Etten – Warsaw

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(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)

I've become obsessed with segues and album structure over the years. I appreciate, probably to excessive levels, a record that puts all of its parts together in a way that shows the strength of even the album's weakest moments. Beginnings and endings, as with most things, are the toughest to nail, and it's with that in mind that Sharon . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 238: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Gentleman Jesse - Highland Crawler ++ Mikal Cronin - Apathy ++ The Orwells - In My Bed ++ Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave ++ Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Zig Zag Wanderer ++ Pet Politics - The Ghost Mary And Her Friends ++ The Art Museums - So Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore . . .

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Odetta :: Odetta Sings Dylan / Baby, I’m In The Mood For You

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As Dylan fandom knows no bounds, a couple of years back I came across Linda Mason Sings Bob Dylan. Privately pressed and released in 1964, it is the earliest known Bob Dylan artist tribute LP. If you're interested in its contents, Heirloom Records just scored a couple of sealed copies linking to streams of both sides A and

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Tom Waits :: Books Of Moses (Skip Spence)

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Twelve or so years ago Birdman Records released More Oar, a 17 track tribute to the music of Alexander 'Skip' Spence. Outside of his work with Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape, the compilation served as my introduction to Spence's solo work. Among others, participants include Mark Lanegan, Robert Plant, Beck, Robyn Hitchcock, Jay Farrar and Alejandro Escovedo. And while all of the aforementioned interpretations hold up, it's Tom Waits' midnight graveyard reading of "Books Of Moses" that remains . . .

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Bo Diddley :: The Black Gladiator (Reissue)

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"Who's the funkiest man in town? You are Bo Diddley."

Sans, say, drugs, the closest you'll ever come to hearing an album again for the first time is through the ears of another - i.e. their reaction. In this case the album in question is Bo Diddley's 1970 psych-funk monster, The Black Gladiator - the ears on loan from my wife. While spinning the new Light In The Attic Records reissue en route to pick her up, she stepped into the car just as

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