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Our Boy Roy :: A Garage Rock Tribute To Roy Orbison

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What I find really appealing, not to mention refreshing, about Our Boy Roy, a garage rock tribute to Roy Orbison, is that it puts the music first. The songs first. It would be very easy (and predictable) to to treat such a project with kid gloves---an all too precious ode to a legend, carefully tip-toeing through the material. Thankfully, there is no chance of that happening here. While I can't say all of the tracks do it for me, I very much . . .

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Lux And Ivy’s Favorites

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I first caught the Cramps on a humid day in the summer of 1992. It was bizarre, unconventional, amazing and above all else, eye-opening.   In the span of their set I saw the band mix up Buddy Holly, Johnny Thunders, Link Wray and the Ramones; turn it on its head and spin it into some kind of monstrous goo. I was 16 and there was no turning back -- it just worked for me. This strange beast---an unholy amalgamation of surf-rock, voodoo, latex, B-movie comic . . .

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The New Pornographers :: Together

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Four albums into their career as one of the most accidental of "super-groups," the New Pornographers seemed to have hit a bump. While Challengers was a solid record, it wasn't nearly the equal of its predecessor, the near-perfect Twin Cinema, and the interim between albums had seen masterful releases from both A.C. Newman and Dan Bejar's Destroyer and only a quasi-return to the fold for Neko Case . . .

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Tommy Womack :: The Replacements

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On his third solo record, 2002's Circus Town, Tommy Womack, former member of the Bis-Quits/Government Cheese, recorded this sprawling paean to the Replacements. The song is full of allusions to classic rock tropes - album titles are incorporated as adjectives, and a full-on Dylan impression erupts at one point. But gently, lovingly, just as all the best stories are told, Womack winds out an Odyssian tale of coming to adore the band that made him "drive home white-knuckle . . .

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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.

During the first hour of the show I re-aired the Avi Buffalo session cut for Aquarium Drunkard last year. You can download it become a member or log in.

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The Masked Marauders

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It's 1969. Rolling Stone magazine alludes to a mysterious super-group called the Masked Marauders comprised of John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. The group is reportedly set to release an album, although sub rosa, produced by Al Kooper (himself hot off the success of Super Session). Sounds good, no?   Too good, as it turned out to be a hoax dreamed up . . .

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Avi Buffalo :: The Aquarium Drunkard Session

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Friday, during the first hour of the SIRIUS/XMU show, I am re-airing the Avi Buffalo session recorded last Fall at Infrasonic Sound Studios in Alhambra, CA. A stripped down set with Avi on guitar/vocals, and Rebecca Coleman on keys, the following three tracks present a different side of the group than the psychedelic pop found on the self-titled Sub Pop become a member or log in.

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The Cellos :: Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am The Japanese Sandman)

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"Who are you?"   "I am the Japanese Sandman." And so begins the 1957 Doo Wop jam that is "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am The Japanese Sandman)." I'm working on something that I realized needed a bit of context prior to my posting it on AD, so if you have yet to discover this forgotten Apollo Records gem, there is no time like the present. Dig.

MP3: The Cellos :: Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am The Japanese . . .

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The Love Language :: Heart To Tell

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The Love Language: "Heart To Tell" from their forthcoming Merge release, Libraries (July   13th).

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Sevens :: Paul McCartney & Wings/Arrow Through Me

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

"Arrow Through Me," off 1980's Back To The Egg, finds McCartney dipping into his Stevie Wonder bag of tricks, employing both a laid back, slightly gruff, low-end Michael McDonald coupled with a high falsetto. All good, but what really sets the track apart, and grounds it . . .

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Tom Waits/DJ Lee ‘Baby’ Sims :: Jim Jarmusch’s “Down by Law”

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Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits go together like, well, a shot bourbon and a glass of beer. But you already knew that. Back when I was still doing free-form radio, downtown, prior to the show on SIRIUS, I would occasionally air Tom Waits' riff (as DJ Lee "Baby" Sims) to John Lurie, from Jarmusch's Down By Law,

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The Meters :: Live 1977: The Showboat Lounge & Bottomline NYC

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As promised, continuing with the New Orleans related posts during Jazz Fest, here are two Meters shows from 1977 that I’ve posted several times since 2005. Call it tradition.

I acquired the following 1977 Meters show in 2000 (along with the Showboat Lounge show further down the page) from a friend; both on CD-R.   At the time---and this . . .

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The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark

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The Fantastic Expedition is one of the world's greatest country rock albums, ahead of its time and seriously overlooked even today. I would take it over Sweetheart of the Rodeo any day, as it's my favorite piece of magic from the Byrds' best songwriter, Gene Clark.

Doug Dillard and Gene Clark, after leaving their respective acts (Dillards and Byrds), teamed . . .

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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 138: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Jacuzzi Boys - Island Avenue ++ Sex Pistols - Submission ++ T. Rex - Lean Woman Blues ++ The Cramps - New Kind of Kick ++ Arthur Russell - A Little Lost ++ Thurston Moore - Ono Soul ++ The Breeders - Fortunately Gone ++ Grass Widow - Celebrate The Mundane ++ Turbo Fruits - Trouble! ++ The . . .

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Sevens :: Roky Erickson/Devotional Number One

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

Roky Erickson is among the most tortured of our pop ingénues. The Austin singer-songwriter, founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators, and arguable founder of psychedelic rock, is a casualty of the sixties’ oft-ignored fallout; Erickson reportedly took LSD over 300 times in the sixties, was . . .

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