I'm scrapping the usual year-end wrap up and instead dropping an old school form letter on you. Just like the kind your granny used whip up and put inside her Christmas cards. So sit down, eat some peanut brittle, and we'll get right into it after the jump.
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Marriage: it's why we're gathered here today. It only makes sense that the most common of lyrical subjects, love, would see its supposed apex, the wedding, represented time and time again in popular song. But two's company, three's a crowd and rarely is a wedding simply about just the folks getting hitched. Otherwise, why bother asking if anyone objects to the union?
At two bookend points of his career with the Replacements, Paul Westerberg tackled weddings from the perspective of a man in the audience who is an ex of the bride-to-be, and looking . . .
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Strut Record's vintage funk and soul compilation, In The Christmas Groove, is a very worthy addition to any James Brown/Stax/Motown, soul-heavy, holiday collection. Released in '09, the below track was a mainstay last season---on the deck from December 1st through New Year's Eve. Time to tighten up and spin it again.
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One of Carl Wilson's inspired contributions to the Beach Boys, lead singer Blondie Chaplin and percussionist Ricky Fataar form the core of this under recognized group. The album was recorded for the Beach Boys' own Brother Records in 1970.
Before this record they were The Flames and fairly popular in South Africa. They even released six records before being spotted by Al . . .
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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 170: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ William Sheller - Exitissimo ++ Sea-Ders - Thanks A Lot ++ Arif Sag - Su Samsunun Evleri ++ François Wertheimer - L'automne ++ Vermillion Sands - I'm A Little Mixed Up ++ Jacuzzi Boys - Island Avenue ++ Harlem - Witchgreens ++ The Beach Boys - Ganz Allein (In My Room . . .
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(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
In January of 2006, Will Oldham, under his working guise of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, released a collaborative ten track covers album with the comparatively abrasive post-rock quintet Tortoise. They called it The Brave And The Bold. I loved the project from the get-go, but seemed to be in the minority as its release was met with little fanfare and/or praise. Not to mention outright disdain . . .
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Francophiles, check your jones and satisfy your sweet tooth with French duo the Limiî±anas. Something like Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc in a garage, the group's self-titled debut is out now via Chicago's Trouble In Mind Records. Head over to Rollo & Grady for another track.
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It's the first of December. In addition to it being the first day in the last month of the year, it's also when I allow myself to begin with the month-long Christmas song onslaught. For fans, Yo La Tengo's annual run of Hanukkah shows in Hoboken has become the stuff of legend. So, in keeping with the spirit, here are a couple of YLT Christmas nuggets, from a ways back, found on Merry Christmas From Yo La Tengo.
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Since its February inception, the blog Turkish Psychedelic Music has exposed me to some choice finds. For those of you short on the time to dig through it, and similar online archives, I'll remind you of the stellar 2010 compilation Turkish Freakout, that dropped last June, spanning the years 1969-1980. The original 1,000 copies of the . . .
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I'm re-posting Merry Clayton's version of the Stones "Gimme Shelter" for a couple of reasons. Primarily because I've been completely mesmerized by this recent post, over at Dangerous Minds, going over the various isolated tracks used in the studio while cutting "Gimme Shelter" for Let It Bleed. As if the song weren't haunting enough as is . . .
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This is so good. A couple of weeks back the guys at Crescere shot me an email hipping me to their latest creation; a two part compilation of super-obscure, often private press, outsider psychedelic guitar and folk music from the 60s and 70s...all with the underlying theme of the Jesus People's Movement. From what I can tell a lot of this stuff has yet to be comped (though I'm sure it's only a matter of time) making this collection all that much more interesting.
I fixed some of the tags in the set with track numbers, the comp's name, etc and re-upped both at mediafire. Get both after the jump, and be sure to keep and eye on Doug and Josh at Crescere.
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What year is it, again? Within the last twelve months I have picked up the reissue of Exile on Main Street, the Keith biography, Life, and went downtown for a screening of the 1972 concert film Ladies & Gentlemen The Rolling Stones, documenting the American leg of the Exile tour. All worth it, and the Keith bio itself re-sparked my interest in the band's Goat's Head era, notably the Brussels Affair bootleg.
Allegedly a near-miss official Stones release documenting . . .
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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 169: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Richard Swift & Damien Jurado - Be Not So Fearful ++ Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Tortoise - Thunder Road ++ Morphine - In Spite of Me ++ Horse Feathers - Drain You ++ Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox ++ Kurt Vile - He's Alright ++ Jim Schoenfield - Before ++ Gary Higgins - Thicker . . .
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One of the best underground/unsung soul albums I know of. Prior to Total Destruction To Your Mind, Swamp Dogg had been recording music and releasing 45s since the 50s, under the name Jerry Williams (or Little Jerry Williams). Frustrated by the lack of commercial success, Williams changed his name and persona and in 1970, unleashed Total Destruction . . .
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Bill Burroughs. As acerbic as ever . . .
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