Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas, his 12th studio album, will be released a week from today. If I might I offer a suggestion, listen to the album cold - sans any outside editorial critique. You'll be glad you did...it's worth it.
You can stream to the record, in its entirety, here . . .
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Serge Gainsbourg cut "Requiem pour un Con" in 1968 for Jean Gabin's film Le Pacha (see clip below). Forty years later Casey Dienel, under the nom de tune, White Hinterland, released the Francophone, six song, Luniculaire ep. I've been revisiting the collection for the first time since its release - specifically Hinterland's take on "Requiem . . .
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This shit is intense. My friend Ryan happened upon Sandy Nassan's Just Guitar while digging at Folk Arts Records in San Diego a few weeks back. Released in 1970, the opening track, "Jam," is just that. Clocking it at over 16 minutes, Ryan described it as: "being drawn into the most tense moment of the most suspenseful movie you've ever seen - it's like Sandy Bull on steroids and it doesn't let up. It's . . .
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RE: Dan Bejar. The latest Mojo compilation to hit newsstands is a disc comprised of reinterpretations of New Order's second LP, 1983's Power, Corruption & Lies. The covers range from the fairly catholic to wholly re-imagined versions, with the key takeaway being Destroyer's take on the original album's eighth and final track, "become a member or log in.
How's your French? I watched this twice last night before going out -- 1969 footage from a French documentary on the Stax and Muscle Shoals sound. The description bills its 11 minutes as featuring "Brook Benton & Booker T. & The MGs recording session...and The The Mar-keys working out a horn arrangement" but what your really seeing is a rare view into one of the most fertile eras of 20th century American music. Hat tip to Scottie Diablo for the tip and Bedazzled for the upload . . .
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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 229: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ The Damned - New Rose ++ Bleached - Think Of You ++ Bass Drum of Death - Nerve Jamming ++ Ty Segall - Girlfriend ++ Black Keys - Thickfreakness ++ Jeff The Brotherhood - Health And Strength (Heavy Version) ++ The Soft Pack - Fences ++ Lower Dens - Brains ++ Pet Politics - The Ghost Mary And Her Friends ++ Le Loops . . .
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To these American ears, Merit Hemmingson's Swedish lyrics on "Brudmarsch efter Florsen i Burs" come across like an inspired - if whimsical - jazz scat vocal. Known as the "queen of Swedish Hammond folk groove," "Brudmarsch" is culled from Hemmingson's 1972 LP, Trollskog. While the Hammond organ is ever-present, it's this - the more 'folk' than 'groove' side of her work - that keeps me coming back.
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I came across today's Videodrome entry last month while digging around in search of an Ike & The Rhythm Kings performance I'd previously stumbled upon (late) one night. I never did find the Ike clip, but this "live performance" did more than suffice. And yes, do note the quotes surrounding the words 'live' and 'performance'. While I haven't found the provenance of this clip (if you know, please comment), I'm assuming it's a television talk show promo the pair did, circa 1973 . . .
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The recent release of The SMiLE Sessions must mark the ebb tide of the steady stream of retrospective issues of mythical “lost” albums from the sixties. One other such offering that crept out with much less fanfare in the same month as SMiLE is the “lost” solo album by become a member or log in.
I remember the first time I heard Alice Russell's voice. Blown away doesn't even begin to describe the feeling. I can only describe it as devastating, in the best possible way, and awesome (and I say that as a supporter of the campaign to the stop the misuse of the word). My introduction to Alice Russell was through the cover of the White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" that she recorded with Nostalgia 77. After it was through, I immediately had to hear it again. My initial experience with Quantic's music (his Soul Orchestra's version . . .
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Threw this track on a mix for a friend over the holidays: Ponderosa Twins Plus One. A five-piece consisting of two sets of identical twins plus a friend from the neighborhood, this Cleveland outfit was one of several groups positioned in the 70s as 'the next Jackson 5'. And while that obviously didn't happen, they did leave behind a handful of super-cool singles, including "Bound." I was first hipped to these kids via DJ Matthew Africa's
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"There's a sound on that recording, a vocalized So! right between the ninety-ninth and one-hundredth seconds: the Wailers, have just sung, "remember he is young, and he will live long." And then someone - you can't tell who - makes this noise. Intones, rather. It doesn't seem to come from inside the studio - doesn't belong, that is, to the texture of the session; it emanates from miles away and has arrived through an open window. Somewhere in the interior of Jamaica a goat herder with a staff has leaned back and loosed this sound . . .
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Tomorrow night AD Presents Cass McCombs at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also purchase tickets here). To enter for a pair, leave a comment below with your name and favorite Cass record. Winners will be notified via email prior to the show, tickets held at will-call . . .
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It's been seven years since the last Dirty Three album, 2005's Cinder. Come February 28th the Melbourne based trio make up for lost time with the release of Toward the Low Sun, their eighth record and first for the Drag City label. Here's the first taste, the velveteen violin walkabout, "Rising Below."
MP3: Dirty Three :: Rising Below
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First taste from Lee Ranaldo's upcoming solo full-length, Between The Times And Tides, out March 20th via Matador Records. More Ranaldo news/etc over on his the Sonic Youth page (keep an eye out for 2012 tour dates).
MP3: Lee Ranaldo :: Off The Wall
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