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James Booker :: Live @ Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1978

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Ahoy there. I featured this rare 1978 live recording, from the Montreux Jazz Festival, on AD in October of 2005 as part of the original Live Upload Series. I suspect a good many of you were not following the blog way back then, so with New Orleans' Jazz Fest on the horizon I'm re-upping it here. I have several live "albums" from this New Orleans piano master, and Live @ Montreux is by far the best. Very raw arrangements with Booker backed by a loose pick-up band that just swings. Spiders on keys, indeed.

If you're unfamiliar with James Booker and/or traditional New Orleans piano-based music, this set, some Dr. John and a Professor Longhair collection are a fine introduction. I've long had an affinity for this stuff and will be posting some other choice, related, nuggets leading up to fest so stay tuned. Booker was the king---fucked up, yes---but the king nonetheless. Brilliant. If you can find it (as it's often out-of-print) read the Booker excerts in the Dr. John biography "Under a Hoodoo Moon." Wild/fascinating tales.

The below video of Booker performing “Papa Was A Rascal” is taken either from a French television performance from the same year – presumably from the same tour – or from the Montreux session itself. The exact date of the performance is up for debate among fans.

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Flashez :: NYC’s Punk Magazine, 1977

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Interview with John Hallstrom & Legs McNeil of New York's Punk Magazine by Stephen MacLean from Flashez, 1977. Ref. Radio Birdman, Patti Smith, Saints, Ramones, Television, anti-intellectualism et al.

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Cold Splinters, A Mixtape

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Welcome to the fourth installment of an irregular series in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Thus far we've featured sets by Raven Sings The Blues, Ponytone and, most recently, L.A.'s Turquoise Wisdom. Today we head back east, to Brooklyn, to catch up with Cold Splinters' Jeff Thrope. Cold Splinters, as all the best blogs do, excels in creating an entire world within its digital framework. Aesthetically it resides somewhere between 1974 and 2010. Riffing on everything from discontinued climbing gear and forgotten trail heads, to Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, CS is a daily read.   Consider Cold Splinters, the mixtape, its aural counterpart.

Thrope is my guest this Friday during the second hour of my SIRIUS XMU show. Grab this mix, bookmark his site and if you're in Brooklyn, do check our his new recording/performing project Ocotillo.

After the jump...Cold Splinters — A Mixtape.

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Harlan T. Bobo :: Hamster in a Cage

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Poet, lover, troubadour, heartbreaker, songsmith...Memphian. Harlan T. Bobo's third LP, Sucker, was released last week on Goner Records. We previewed the album's final track, the Franco-phile"Mlle-Chatte," in February. Courtesy . . .

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AD Presents :: Dr. Dog/Deer Tick @ The Henry Fonda April 27th

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Next Tuesday night, April 27th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Dr. Dog at the Henry Fonda Theater with special guests Deer Tick. We're giving away four pairs of tickets for the show. To enter for a pair: in the comments below leave your name (and an email address we can reach you at) along with your most listened to Dr. Dog LP (not including

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Radar Brothers :: Aquarium Drunkard Session

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Radar Bros. or Radar Brothers, the group's focal point has, and always will be, Jim Putnam. Just prior to SXSW we caught up with the re-tooled, and newly christened, "Brothers" for an Aquarium Drunkard session at bassist Be Hussey's Glendale studio. The band worked through four tracks off their new Merge Records release become a member or log in.

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Diversions :: Le Switch on Blue-Eyed Soul

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(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)

Since their inception Le Switch have been called a lot of things, from Waits-ian barroom growlers to whiskey-soaked, confessional, soul-pop.   Both fitting, but one common descriptor that always manages to find its way into the conversation is that of soul. Without question, the band has it. But what is soul exactly, and how does one articulate it to others? Below, Le Switch's Aaron Kyle ponders both questions.

Le Switch have a split 7" out at the end of the month---with LA compatriots Les Blanks (sample "How We Imagined It" below)---and a new album in the can coming out this summer.   Catch them in town before their tour: AD is presenting, and giving away a few pairs of tickets, to their April 22nd show at the Bootleg Theater. Leave your name and a valid email address to enter. Winners will be emailed/tickets available at will-call.

MP3: Le Switch :: How We Imagined It

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Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings :: I Learned the Hard Way

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It's hard to know what will work and what won't, commercially, when it comes to influences. Critics are quick to call out a band for too closely appropriating a certain sound without adding much of its own originality, and when it comes to what Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are doing, it would be an easy criticism to launch. It would also be lazy and soulless as they are one of the most invigorating acts in America, from studio to stage, and are peerless channelers of the . . .

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Beach House :: The AD Interview

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After settling into the blissful haze that is Teen Dream, Aquarium Drunkard guest Raquel Nasser caught up with Victoria Legrand of Beach House in the few days between the band’s European and North American tours. Those of you doing Coachella can catch the band this Saturday on the Mojave stage at 4:25, and then wait a mere seven hours, with bated breath, for Devo’s set on the very same stage.

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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.

Today, during the second hour of the show, we’re airing the Idaho Falls Aquarium Drunkard session, recorded at Red Rockets Glare studio in Los Angeles. The session is available for download become a member or log in.

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: The Wonder Show of the World

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Will Oldham's career has more or less been a series of collaborations. His name is most often been attached to the work, and more times than not, he's the primary artistic driver behind the wheel. But he employs a shifting troupe of musicians whose influence is not lightly wielded. The result allows the consistency of Oldham's songwriting to diversify itself in ways that Oldham might struggle to find on his own. And Bonnie "Prince" Billy is the better for it.

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Diversions :: The Deadly Syndrome/Tim & Eric’s Theater of Magic

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(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)

This week we catch up with The Deadly Syndrome whose sophomore LP, Nolens Volens, was self-released by the band last month. After the jump, Deadly Syndrome's William Etling and Jesse Hoy reflect on the misunderstood genius of comedy team Tim and Eric.

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The Idaho Falls :: Aquarium Drunkard Session (SIRIUS/XMU)

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Earlier this year L.A.'s Idaho Falls quietly released The Spark. For those paying attention it marked one of the strongest entries in contemporary canyon rock since the Broken West's 2007 debut. Languid and coastal, the LP invokes sepia Topanga dreams, the Pacific, late nights and mornings after. I'll be airing . . .

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Pavement :: Copenhagen, Denmark – June 20, 1993, Loppen

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I can count on one hand the number of contemporary 'indie rock' bands that 90 percent of my friends all agree upon. As Pavement most definitely fall in that circle, it's no surprise that every other person I know in L.A. is making the drive to Pomona, Thursday night, for their Coachella warm-up gig at the Fox. Below is the last show to feature original drummer Gary Young; Denmark 6-20-1993. See you in Pomona, and here's hoping for a "Grounded."

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