Our guest DJ series returns this week with the third installment from our compadre Turquoise Wisdom. Wisdom (Zach Cowie) helped kick off the guest mixtape series in March of last year (our third entry) which is still available for download, here, and Heavy Summer Nights, become a member or log in.
While he may not have been one of the most celebrated soul singers, Howard Tate was one of my favorites. This morning I learned that Tate died Friday from complications related to Leukemia and Myeloma; he was 72. As far as tributes go, read Funky 16 Corners piece on the man and his music, here, and listen to Tate's stirring version of Dylan's "
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For those of you who use Spotify, the second installment of my partnership with Rhinofy just went live. This week's playlist is a round-up of twenty tracks that I've been working into various DJ sets, radio shows and blog posts of late. It's loosely centered around old wave, post-punk and their various and sundry sonic descendants. Amongst other players included, think . . .
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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 222: Jean-Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ William Sheller - Exitissimo ++ Jacques Dutronc - Sur Une Nappe De Restaurant ++ Yura Yura Teikoku - Ohayo Mada Yaro ++ Richard Swift - Broken Finger Blues ++ The Shakes - You Ain't Alone ++ White Denim - Burnished ++ White Denim - At The Farm ++ Deerhunter — Cool (Pylon Cover) ++ Witch - Introduction ++ The Ify Jerry Krusade . . .
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Friday night, December 9th, Aquarium Drunkard presents The Soft Pack, Abe Vigoda and So Many Wizards at the Echo's 10th Anniversary fiesta in LA. We have three pairs tickets for AD readers. If looking to go, leave a comment below with your name and an email in the address field (its hidden from the public) we can reach . . .
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This record is like a river, ebbing and flowing. That may sound vague, but it’s probably the best way I can think to describe the music contained on the 1964 recordings that make up Terry Callier’s debut record The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier. Every time I put this music on I . . .
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It's December 1st. Josh T. Pearson, the man responsible for Last of The Country Gentleman - one of the strongest and starkest folk albums of the year - has shared with us his take on the traditional "O Holy Night." Pearson's rendition, much like his own music, finds the dark troubadour stretching out (just over 8 minutes) sounding not unlike the late . . .
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From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles issued limited edition Christmas fan-club singles on 7 inch flexi-discs. All very relaxed and off the cuff, it's interesting to note how the cover art changed, along with the music, as the sixties rolled along.
Download: The Beatles :: Christmas Singles Club, 1963-1969 (zipped folder 59 KB)
1) The Beatles Christmas Record - Issued December 6, 1963
Description: Christmas greetings, a rendition . . .
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Friday night, December 2nd, Aquarium Drunkard presents Nick Waterhouse with the Allah-Las and Ana Egge at the Bootleg Theater in L.A. We have three pairs tickets for AD readers. If looking to go, leave a comment below with your name and an email in the address field (its . . .
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SIRIUS 221: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Talkdemonic - Revival ++ Red House Painters - Cruiser ++ Frankel - Know (Nick Drake) ++ Broadcast - Echo's Answer ++ Lotus Plaza - Red Oak Way ++ Cass McCombs - The Same Thing ++ Sandro Perri - Changes ++ Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Seedling ++ Atlas Sound - Terra Incognita ++ The Walkmen - Paper House ++ The Owsley Brothers - Blood & . . .
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ALICE MAY BROCK, born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 28, 1941. A Pisces ... Grew from a difficult child to a juvenile delinquent to a regular (irregular) person ... Spent a few years in high school .... reform school ... fancy school .... Moved to the Lower East Side, then to the green greener Berkshires ... Married crazy Ray D. Brock (picked up in old Cedar Street Tavern) ... Worked as a librarian at the Stockbridge School ... Bought a church ... sang songs ... Fooled around ... Cooked good good food with a smile and other expressions ... Bought a crummy diner .... Turned it into a crazy-yummy-cozy restaurant ... Got tired ... Got divorced ... Got famed by Arlo Guthrie, an old friend who wrote the song "Alice's Restaurant," which inspired Arthur Penn to direct the movie Alice's Restaurant--about Alice and Ray and Arlo and the Scene ... now in the past. Thru it all Alice is a real live human bean--Still foolin' around and still cookin' ...
Around here, Alice's Restaurant is as much a part of Thanksgiving as turkey, stuffing and pants that used to fit just 24 hours prior. "Alice's Restaurant" could mean any number of things, though. It could mean Arlo Guthrie's debut record, released in 1967 when he was just 20 years old. It could be the epic 18-minute comedic folk-monologue "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" that encompasses the entire A-side of that record. It could be the 1969 film Alice's Restaurant, adapted from the song. Or it could be "Alice's Restaurant Cookbook," by Alice Mae Brock, the woman from whom all of the previous was more or less inspired, and whose author's bio you read above, taken from the back book jacket of a real, live copy.
Arlo Guthrie :: Alice's Restaurant Massacree
By now, most of you are probably familiar with the song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," a satirical protest ballad that revolves around a Thanksgiving in 1965, a church-cum-flophouse, littering and all that you can and should do to avoid a war draft that receives its fair share of humiliation along the way. It's written in the sort of carefree counter-cultural voice of the mid-'60s, before mounting frustration (and drug use) created a noticeably edgier, grittier anti-war movement just a few short years later. It's a lighthearted, though meaningful, rendition that contrasts the elder Guthrie's more pointed, sometimes serious social critiques of decades past.
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“People Get Ready” was a vessel for the zeitgeist of the Civil Rights Movement. The Impressions’ earnest, glowing harmonizer made a perfect anthem, thanks to a sing-a-long chorus and a positive, be-gospeled message: a fair shake is on it’s way because there’s a train a-comin’. A simple, powerful, beautiful song.
Curtis Mayfield wrote that song in 1964, but as the decade progressed, his songwriting grew more focused and aggressive… less a prayer, more a message. The richly textured, “vocal group” sound . . .
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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 220: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Ramones - 53rd & 3rd ++ Mission Of Burma - New Disco ++ Guided By Voices - Captain's Dead ++ The Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste The Floor ++ Joy Division - Day Of The Lords ++ Iggy Pop - Sister Midnight ++ Pure X - Twisted Mirror ++ The Cure - Screw ++ Fugazi - Lusty Scripps ++ Ty Segall . . .
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It had been many years, but a couple of weeks back upon (re)hearing the 'jam' section, i.e. the latter 3/4, of the Dead's 1971 live interpretation of Otis Redding's infallible R&B staple "Hard To Handle", my reaction was something akin to 'fucckkkk' or 'holy shit!' Eloquent? No, but emotion rarely is in my experience. And that's music for you.
Anyway, speaking of the Dead, I just partnered with Rhino Records -- in short I . . .
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"That was an inspired song that came to me. I felt like I was just putting down words that were coming from somewhere else, and I just suck it out." Dylan of the genesis of "Every Grain Of Sand"
"'Every Grain of Sand' is the most Leonard Cohen song Bob Dylan ever wrote." My friend John made that statement yesterday and, if forced to compare the two artists work, I'd have to agree. Among other notables the track holds the dubious honor of acting as a sort of saving grace (dig that . . .
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