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Fleet Foxes :: Helplessness Blues

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Today saw the first taste of new Fleet Foxes since 2008. The track "Helplessness Blues" was released this morning as an mp3 via the group's label, Sub Pop. Look for an LP of the same out May 3rd with a supporting tour down the coast with a gig at the Hollywood Palladium May 7th.

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The United States of America :: S/T

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The United States of America album is the product of Joseph Byrd, former FLUXUS member, artist and UCLA instructor who managed to combine experimental art and early synthesizer technology with psychedelic rock. Employing percussion instruments, electric violin and acoustic strings, electric bass, various keyboards, homemade oscillators and ring modulators (with Dorothy Moskowitz's confident soprano) this record shows surprising pop capability for an avant garde project.

United States of America is a pioneering record that is worth . . .

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Scratch The Surface :: Slint – Spiderland

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Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, takes a look at particularly interesting and/or exceptional cover art choices.

"To get to Utica Quarry you take Interstate 65 north out of Louisville, over the Ohio River into Indiana...In the fall the trees are rich reds, golds, browns."

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Dirty Beaches :: Lord Knows Best

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My first impression of Vancouver's Alex Zhung Hai, who records under the name Dirty Beaches, was that of a cross between Richard Hawley and Leonard Cohen if, say, collaborating with Angelo Badalamenti.   An impression that still stands. Zung Hai's upcoming LP, Badlands, is a surreal meld of 50s crooner cool coupled with blurry washes of mood and sound. The below track, "Lord Knows Best," samples and re-imagines Françoise Hardy's "Voila" as a narcoleptic fever dream.

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Sevens :: Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl

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

There's a moment in Sleater-Kinney's "Modern Girl" where the music and lyrics begin to meld in ways rarely seen in popular music. But it relies on a lyrical thread that builds from the song's opening.

The song's melodic, sing-songy structure openly embraces its simple sounding beginning. "My baby loves me / I'm so happy / happiness makes me a modern girl." Carrie Brownstein's . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 178: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Las Robertas - Street Feelings ++ La Sera - Devils Hearts Grow Cold ++ Frankie Rose And The Outs - Candy ++ Smith Westerns - Imagine Pt. 3 ++ Dead Gaze - This Big World ++ Disappears - Gone Completely ++ Deerhunter - Desire Lines ++ Hunx & His Punx - Lovers Lane ++ Gentleman Jesse . . .

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Willie Wright :: Telling The Truth

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As noted in our year-end wrap up, Numero Group consistently earns points for hipping a wider audience to artists and sounds they didn't yet know they were missing. And when it comes to reissue labels you really cannot ask for more. Latest case in point: Willie Wright's Telling The Truth. From Wright's label bio we learn he cut his teeth on the Harlem doo-wop scene before heading north to Boston. From . . .

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Charles Bradley :: No Time For Dreaming

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Lee Fields, Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley. All three of these names are grouped into what is collectively known in 2011 as the retro-soul movement.   Not that this style of music ever really went away, but on a commercial level it did find itself largely supplanted in the early 80s by slick production and a gloss that had little, of anything, to do with STAX, Muscle Shoals and the other seminal core scenes originally associated with the genre. But like anything, if one pulls the curtains back a bit, it's not hard to find the regional pockets . . .

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Dr. John & Etta James :: I’d Rather Go Blind

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In terms of sheer personality the above performance has it in spades (and then some). I happened upon this vintage clip a couple of days ago and have since shared it with just about every Dr. John freak I could think of. This, his pairing with Etta James on "I'd Rather Go Blind," is beyond inspired. Things start off pretty standard with James laying into a song she's surely belted out hundreds of times over the course of her career. But keep watching. Soon we witness the true power of a duet, one which takes on . . .

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RIP Charlie Louvin

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Charlie Louvin died today at the age of 83 from complications of pancreatic cancer. One of the true legends of the golden age of country music, along with his late brother Ira, Charlie Louvin continued to record well after his brother's death. The influence of his body of work, both with his brother as the Louvin Brothers and without, is immeasurable. The Cosmic Americana movement of the late 60s and 70s and the alt-country movement of the early-80s through late 90s would not have been the . . .

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La Sera :: Devils Hearts Grow Gold

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A-side from the new La Sera 7-inch taken from the forthcoming full length due out next month via Hardly Art. I'm loving the dusky/dreamy early Pixies vibe here. While Goodman may be 1/3 of Vivian Girls, don't make the mistake of dismissing the La Sera material as a throwaway side-project. It's just too damn good.

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Disappears :: Guider

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Disappears want to be chased. That’s the immediate feeling I got after watching the Kyle Obriot-directed video for “Superstition” late last year. The track is like the theme song to an ultimate car chase where the group's one-chord guitar attack and driving floor tom represent the pistons of an engine firing at top speed. Brian Case’s (90 Day Men, The Ponys) echoed vocal command blasts from out the window with its Doppler effect signifying how far behind you really are. Pick any classic muscle . . .

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Apex Manor :: The Year of Magical Drinking

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You'd be hard pressed to name two finer power pop records from the past decade than the two released by the Broken West. Not only were the albums full of the shimmering hooks, harmonies and bridges that are essential for a great record of that style, but they showed amazing growth as well, even if the second, Now or Heaven, dialed back the production to a colder effect . . .

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Earth Girl Helen Brown :: Hit After Hit

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Without warning the following track came fuzzing out of my radio last month; a sound more akin to something being pushed out of a beat up transistor radio circa 1964 than anything beamed down from a 21st century satellite. Like space junk orbiting our atmosphere, some sounds get caught out there in the ether. Biding their time these rogue transmissions wait for an opportunity to be heard---whether through some poor unsuspecting bastard's dental work or your car's stereo.

"Hit After Hit" is part of Forest Family Records

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Les Savy Fav @ The Echoplex

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The rodeo is back in town January 28th as AD welcomes Les Savy Fav to the Echoplex. Our friends Dirt Dress support so be sure to get there early. This is the first must-see show of the year and we have a few pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. If you are looking to land a pair, leave your name and a valid email in the address field with your favorite Les Savy Fav jam in the . . .

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