1965 cover of Dale Hawkins' "La-Do-Dada" via the Hays, Kansas garage outfit The Blue Things. Sped up, the band plays it relatively straight (tempo aside) sounding more British invasion than middle America.
MP3: Dale Hawkins :: La-Do-Dada
MP3: The Blue Things :: La-Do . . .
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Hi. Turquoise Wisdom (aka Zach Cowie) here with another installment of the SAD SEASONS series for Aquarium Drunkard. Here are some moody jams for a late evening in the springtime. Please also check out this Beach Boys mixtape that's chilling in the Sound Clouds for an early taste of heavy SUMMER feelings...and for you LA readers - I'll be spinning tunes at Dublab's Krautrock Classics show June 1st and again before Cinespia's screening of Lolita in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery Saturday the 2nd. I thank you. -zc
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Based in New York City, the DJ collective Chances With Wolves is Kenan Juska, Kray, and Mikey Palms. They broadcast a weekly show on East Village Radio, an internet radio station wedged into a nook between two storefronts in downtown Manhattan. Juska recalls “the original concept for Chances With Wolves was to present overlooked, hauntingly beautiful music of all genres.” Simple enough premise, but these guys have . . .
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Song for song the strongest set in McCartney's solo career, 1971's RAM receives the grand reissue treatment this month as part of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection. Essentially this means RAM enthusiasts can now find all of the album related ephemera in one place; i.e. the Thrillington release, session outtakes, b-sides, the RAM documentary (Ramming), a mono version of the LP, and for those looking to replace their banged up vinyl, a 2-LP version of the Special Edition.
Related: In 2008 I put together a not for profit RAM tribute compilation entitled RAM On LA. Released in 2009, the comp focused wholly on Los Angeles artists each taking on one of the LP's tracks. It's still available for download, here.
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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 246: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Green Fuz - Green Fuz ++ Allah-Las - Tell Me (What's On Your Mind) ++ The Chocolate Watchband - It's All Over Now Baby Blue ++ Black Lips - Modern Art ++ King Khan And The Shrines - I Wanna Be A Girl ++ White Fence - Swagger Vets And Double . . .
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Our mixtape series returns with our third collaboration with Nick Barbery of the Portland, OR based Ghost Capital. With an ear bent toward the obscure and out-of-print, digging globally, Ghost Capital mines the secret shafts of psych, folk, blues and beyond. Mix download, notes, and tracklisting after the jump.
Ghost Capital is my guest this Friday during the second hour of the AD show on SIRIUS/XMU.
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In the past two months I've caught Lee and his band three times in three different states. Each gig was exceptional. Yours Truly just sent over this clip from their recent session with Fields and co.; "Still Hanging On" off Faithful Man.
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Nick Waterhouse is a man working a sound rooted in the early Soul and R&B that once piped out of the cathouses, clubs and dancehalls from coast to coast in pre-Beatles America. But forget nostalgia, the seam Waterhouse is working is a far cry from any kind of prefabricated 'retro' trip -- this is happening here, this is happening now. If last years "Some Place" 45 acted as both calling card and promise of a new sound and voice on the scene, then
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Santa Barbara, CA folker F.J. McMahon cut his sole release, Spirit Of The Golden Juice, in 1969 following a stint in southeast Asia while serving in the U.S. Air Force. Reflective and contemplative, the album's outsider, lo-fi folk vibe pulls from his experiences in Vietnam, at times sounding aesthetically like a sonic counterpart to Jim Schoenfeld with traces of both Fred . . .
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This guitar-slinging duo from the Cî´te d'Ivoire sought to combine West African folk styles with American country music. Pulling harmonicas, twangy guitar riffs, and gentle, plunking bass-lines bring a flavor to their songs that is equal parts Spaghetti Western to classic ‘70s singer-songwriter. Their vocal harmonies are soulfully delivered; their melodies sing like well-crafted pop country hooks. Yet, Jess Sah Bi & Peter One sound original and genuine, never imitative.
Our Garden Needs Its Flowers was a hit tape in West Africa when it came out in 1985. Its muted recording quality . . .
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Welcome to the tenth installment of the Lagniappe Sessions. This month we catch up with L.A.'s White Fence, aka Tim Presley. In addition to his new psych-collaboration with Ty Segall, Hair, White Fence just released Family Perfume Vol. I & II via the Woodsist label. The depth and breadth of Presley's interests/influences are on hand below, ranging from his re-imagination of 90s radio-rock, The Gin Blossoms, to Nina Simone and contemporaries The Strange Boys . . .
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A dapper Bonnie "Prince" Billy's black and white redux of 1999's "I See A Darkness" whilst dancing through the streets of Glasgow. To be released via his upcoming ep, Now Here's My Plan, out June 24th via Drag City
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Now-Again Records ongoing African reissue series continues this month with the release of We Intend To Cause Havoc, a four disc box set dedicated to '70s Zamrockers, Witch. More on that monster in a minute - but first, as a bit of a warm up, here's a couple I've been revisiting of late . . .
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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 245: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ The Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation ++ Can - Mushroom ++ White Fence - Swagger Vets And Double Vision ++ The Olivia Tremor Control - Hideaway ++ The Kinks - I Go To Sleep (Demo Version) ++ Nico - Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams ++ Agent Dale Cooper - The Killer In My Dream . . .
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This group sounds like bungalows in canyons; hidden deco stairsteps peeking from leafy hillsides; kustom kars and dovetails and chicks in OP shorts with long, long hair, like a Dennis Hopper photo come to life. - Nick Waterhouse
MP3: The Allah-Las :: Tell Me (What’s On Your Mind)
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