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WAVED OUT Fest :: Final Details, etc – SATURDAY, Los Angeles

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SATURDAY, March 27th, Aquarium Drunkard, in conjunction with the Echo, is holding its inaugural all ages festival here in L.A. in Echo Park----WAVED OUT. For this, the kickoff, we are beginning in the afternoon at both clubs (the Echo and Echoplex) and going until closing. All ages + 12 bucks. 14 after six pm! Food trucks, t-shirts, ice cream (!) and more.... Sixteen bands, two stages - Beginning at 3 p.m. Also, don't miss the Origami Vinyl auxiliary stage going on in the afternoon just a few doors down. Schedules below.

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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.

SXSW edition. The first hour of today's show will be the new Mondo Boys mixtape: A Continuous Monument. Download it here.

SIRIUS 133: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Black Flag - Fix . . .

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Alex Chilton :: I’m In Love With That Song

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One of indie-rock's most important pioneers and songwriters died today. Alex Chilton, founding member of Big Star, died at the age of 59. It is especially sad given that Big Star was only two days away from a major performance at the South by Southwest music festival, but would be sorrowful regardless.

It's kind of hard to know what to say about the death of Alex Chilton. It's sudden and it's unexpected and tragic. Without him, it's hard to see how the 'college . . .

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Twin Sister :: The Curatorial Club Cassette Series

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It's SXSW time. While I always make a point to keep it pretty loose schedule-wise, one of the East coast outfits I'm looking forward to catching this week is NYC's Twin Sister. This is based entirely on the strength of their (free) Vampires With Dreaming Kids EP. In other Twin Sister news, the Greenpoint, Brooklyn based Chocolate Bobka has pegged the five-piece, along with Alex Bleeker and Run DMT, as one of the three bands to kick off his newly minted cassette series The Curatorial Club.

Twin Sister's Alternates (TCC 001) is a 30 minute collection of demos from their Vampires with Dreaming Kids EP. The B-sides harvests the work that's gone into their soon-to-be-released EP Color Your Life on Infinite Best.

MP3: Side A: Twin Sister ::   The Curatorial Club (Vampires with Dreaming Kids demos)

Full tracklisting after the jump....

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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 132: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Guided By Voices - Captain's Dead ++ Abe Vigoda - Dead City/Waste Wilderness ++ Lotus Plaza - Red Oak Way ++ Animal Collective - The Purple Bottle ++ Ganglians - Blood On The Sand ++ Women - Shaking Hand ++ Beach Fossils - Vacation ++ Surfer Blood - Catholic Pagans ++ Beach House - Wedding . . .

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Hi-Tone Poppa :: Like A Hillbilly Jukebox

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Named after the Faron Young classic, the 1991 Hi-Tone Poppa compilation plays out like your favorite hillbilly deluxe jukebox at your local dive bar. Through the magic of digital distro, the comp is again available.   Listening to this with fresh ears, I'd love to see a contemporary take on these . . .

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Titus Andronicus :: The Monitor

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Buried somewhere in the hour-long rubble of buzzed guitars, martial drums, shredded vocal cords, unsuspected string sections, skronking sax solos, and, uh, bagpipes that form NJ suburbanites Titus Andronicus’ second full-length record is a smart, smart album that’s sorta about how being smart doesn’t really count for shit. The Monitor, ostensibly named . . .

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Sparklehorse :: Little Fat Baby (Video, 2001)

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Off Sparklehorse's 2001 album It's A Wonderful Life. What an album.

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No Jacket Required :: Aquarium Drunkard SXSW Day Party — Thursday @ Lamberts, March 18th

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Come hang out w/ Aquarium Drunkard for a day of revelry this Thursday, March 18th, at Lamberts noon-6pm.  See some music, have a drink and say hello. Free day-party = no badges/wristbands needed. Also, no RSVP bullshit....first come/first served. No Jacket Required.

Lineup (No Jacket Required):

12:00: The Love Language
12:45:

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The Morning Benders :: Big Echo

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Big Echo is a well titled LP. For a band so clearly indebted to the sounds of the echo chamber of a particular branch of rock and roll, it is honest and forthright nomenclature. The Morning Benders, only now two albums into their career, have crafted a subtly charming album that . . .

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Mississippi Records Tape Series :: Vol. 18 – Blues & Spirituals

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Over the past year the RootStrata blog has been sharing the Portland, OR based Mississippi Records' ongoing Tape Series in individual installments for those without cassette decks. Shared as zip files, broken into two mp3s (side A and side B), the series has become my defacto road trip music. I'm gearing up to make the haul from Los Angeles to Austin next week so this seemed as good a time as any to highlight a . . .

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Don Cavalli :: Cryland

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A friend turned me on to Don Cavalli's Cryland shortly after it came out (2008), which I then promptly slept on until about six months ago. This was, indeed, my loss. Cavalli's debut, it turns out, is one Frenchman's take on swampy, gutbucket, rock & roll so steeped in deep southern imagery you'd swear it was . . .

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Okamatos :: Boogie Chudoku 東京都

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Jukin' howl from the land of Japan. If that piques your interest you need Okamatos' "Boogie Chudoku" in your life. Shit really gets kickin' halfway through the track. Catch the band this month on tour in the states with select dates in Austin (SXSW), NYC, L.A., Seattle, Chicago, etc. High five to Rollo Grady for the tip.

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Sparklehorse :: Return To Me (Travel by Sea)

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We lost another great talent this weekend. Yet another tragic loss. That is what immediately came to mind when I read of Mark Linkous's suicide last night; that and the recent passing of Vic Chesnutt in December. This morning I pulled out a number of Linkous' albums and and re-discovered my favorite track off That Horse Yonder, the 2007 Sparklehorse tribute---Travel by Sea's

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…On The Midnight Radio

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Jody at When You Awake asked me to contribute to her ongoing, themed, mixtape series. I came up 'midnight radio'   and put together a 34 minute medley of old, scratchy, vinyl rip weirdness inspired by a surreal, late-night, drive through the New Mexico desert. This could also very well be the soundtrack to an, as of yet, unfilmed David Lynch project. Go ahead and grab the mixtape over here...

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