John Coltrane's favorite vocalist, Andy Bey made his name in the 60s and 70s honing his chops with the likes of Gary Bartz and Horace Silver. Tall company. Bey's 1998 album, Shades of Bey, is comprised of interpretive covers including a dark reading of Nick Drake's "become a member or log in.
I wrote about this 7" a few years back - UK artist Kindness taking on the mats' "Swinging Party." Completely reinvented, the track ditches its original lounge vibe and comes off like a lost David Byrne cover. Full-length debut, World, You Need a Change of Mind, is out later this month.
MP3: Kindness :: Swinging Party
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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 236: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Yaphet Kotto - Have You Ever Seen The Blues ++ Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band - Stay Away ++ Willis Earl Beal - Take Me Away ++ JD And The Evil's Dynamite - Beer (So Nice) Right On ++ Bo Diddley - I Don't Like You ++ Alex Chilton - Jumpin . . .
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Monday night (3/12) Aquarium Drunkard Presents Girls w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers (you can also purchase tickets here). To enter for a pair, leave a comment below with your favorite late night watering hole in . . .
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Those of you who follow my radio show are well aware of my love of this short lived, 70s, Indian psych-rock outfit. As their sole release (the long out-of-print Obsession) was never released on CD, one had to put together, piecemeal, a sort of Atomic Forest anthology via bit-torrent, Youtube, etc. The results were hardly perfect. But here's the good news - Now Again Records have since corrected the situation with their 2012 reissue of Obession, a comprehensive retrospective of Atomic Forest's . . .
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Lee Fields new record, Faithful Man, is out a week from today (March 13th) on Truth & Soul Records. If you're in Austin next week, Fields (along with his band the Expressions) will be gigging at the Aquarium Drunkard party on Thursday afternoon. Details/RSVP
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Actor/producer/musician Yaphet Kotto laid down this dark slice of soul in 1968 via the Chisa label. Proto-rap in its delivery, "Have You Ever Seen The Blues" rides the cymbals like Max Roach, all percussive piano with Kotto spitting lines like "..and all the while visions of suicide were boogalooin' in your head and you was thinking how you might as well be dead." And then shit gets real.
Sourced from a 45 picked up for ten cents, the track was part of our 2010 . . .
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Last December the Numero Group issued the three disc set Boddie Recording Company: Cleveland Ohio; a collection that at 58 tracks spans roughly 15 years of the Ohio label's output. In terms of tone, imagine a hyper-localized version of Nuggets - only one that instead of garage rock concerns itself with the secret history of 60s/70s R&B, Soul and Gospel. In other words, the kind of collection Numero Group has both . . .
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As part of my ongoing weekly contribution to Rhino's 'rhinofy' project, this week I put together a twenty track Fela playlist. You can hit it up, here. The playlist was (partly) inspired by Kuti's 1980 collaboration with Roy Ayers - Music of Many Colours
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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 235: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Fela Kuti - My Lady Frustration ++ Julian Lynch - Just Enough ++ Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom ++ Jim Schoenfield - Before ++ Kurt Vile - He's Alright ++ Tashaki Miyaki - I Wonder If I'd Care As Much ++ Black Fiction - Magic Hands ++ The Liminanas - I'm Dead ++ The Art Museums - Paris . . .
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Next to Buddy Miles version of "Down By The River," this is one of the stronger explorations of Neil Young's work in the vein of soul/r&b. Culled from the 1971 album Givin' It Back, the Brothers set the tone with a military drum cadence before sliding . . .
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October 1993 - La Maison de la Radio. Mazzy Star, two weeks into touring behind their second album, So Tonight That I Might See, record a Black Session at studio 105 in Paris . . .
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Sweet Heart Sweet Light is due out on Fat Possum Records April 16th, and in this instance "Huh?” may be the perfect album art. Like most Spiritualized fans, I can imagine Jason Pierce’s cold stare piercing the Internet and the legions of bedroom-pop acts that have seemingly ignored their . . .
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(Volume 10 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, funk, psych and beyond. — AD)
I can’t remember who said it, but I’ve always been a firm . . .
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Languid, repetitive and hypnotic, I heard this somewhere in the neighborhood of 2:30 am last week via Gilles Peterson's show on BBC Radio 1. I had just been listening to a pair of Dr. John's early Nightripper albums, back to back, and the atmospherics of "Foggy Dew" fell right in line. Not unlike Gris Gris and become a member or log in.