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Mountain Man :: Honeybee (Video, San Francisco)

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Our friends in the Bay, videographers Yours Truly, just sent over their latest session with Vermont's Mountain Man. Having first heard them last summer they have since become my favorite, recent, New England export. Gorilla Vs. Bear has another exclusive from the session, "Mouthwings," available here.

Mountain Man's 2009 EP is available for download via Bandcamp.

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The Soft Pack :: S/T

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Do as I did and cue up The Soft Pack in your car, on cruise control, at a comfortable speed just above the posted Speed Limit (9/mph in my case). It doesn't feel like you're racing, but, with no one ahead of you or in the rearview mirror, the world still goes by at a blistering pace. As albums go, The Soft Pack truly felt like it was meant for that ride. Thirty-two plus minutes of sheer will-power, chugging along, on all cylinders but never struggling to keep up. When the last song finished, three minutes from my destination, I couldn't bring myself to select a specific track to repeat and finish the ride---I wanted the entire experience again.

The Soft Pack, even in their previous incarnation as the Muslims, never seemed quite at home with their Los Angeles (by way of San Diego) brethren. The energy always felt different, as is the case here. As albums go, this is one of force - and not force in the form of a push, but as in nudging you along for it's entire half-hour, gently prodding at your back. An invitation to keep on driving. Highly recommended.

The Soft Pack's self-titled LP is out new via Kemado Records. Video after the jump. words/ b. kramer

MP3: The Soft Pack :: C'Mon
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AD Presents :: Raven Sings The Blues – A Mixtape

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Here we go, the first installment of an irregular series in which I plan on highlighting some of my favorite voices online (and beyond). We're kicking off with Raven Sings The Blues. Based in NYC, since 2006, Raven has been a go-to source dealing in garage, psych, lo-fi and other related curiosities---both new and old. I asked RavenAndy to curate the following mixtape summing up RSTB's aesthetic. At 20+ tracks, it does just that. Andy is my guest this Friday during the second hour . . .

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AD Presents :: Smith Westerns/Pearl Harbor (Tonight, Chinatown)

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Tonight in Chinatown: Aquarium Drunkard presents the above show/house party at Madame Wongs. It's first come, first serve -- I'll leave it at that (read between the lines). Also, there is a special guest we can't announce here, but it's an AD fave. See ya there . . .

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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. Below is this week’s playlist.

SIRIUS 127: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ The B-52's - 52 Girls ++ Pylon - Stop It ++ The Raincoats - No Side To Fall In ++ The Vaselines - Slushy ++ My Bloody Valentine - Loomer ++ The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey ++ Surfer Blood - Catholic . . .

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Gil Scott-Heron :: I’m New Here

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When someone mentions there's a new Gil Scott-Heron album coming out, you sit up and take notice. On February 9th, XL Records will release I'm New Here, Scott-Heron's first new album in over 14 years. Produced by XL's owner . . .

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Lissie :: In The Valley of the Moon

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Ojai, CA sits at an elevation of 745 feet above sea level.   Seated in the Ojai Valley, the town is an easy hour and a half drive from Los Angeles; the majority of which is spent on the 101 freeway. Heading north, it is only the last fifteen miles or so, when you veer off onto HWY 33, that it's clear you're a long way from the never-ending suburban sprawl that is southern California. Suddenly it's rural---the McDonalds and   Starbucks replaced with produce stands, old barns and mom & pop small businesses. Teetering . . .

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Fela Kuti, Feliciano dos Santos, Afrobeat & Western Interpretation

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Hailing from the Niassa province of Mozambique, singer-songwriter Feliciano dos Santos is little-known outside of his native country, despite receiving praise from the likes of the New York Times, PBS, the Guardian and the BBC. His band, Massuko, generally sings in three regional dialects, Yao, Nyanga and Makua, and occasionally in Portuguese, the country's official language. The music drifts through rhumba, reggae and various provincial folk elements. One of Massuko's biggest successes is a subtle but powerful acoustic folk . . .

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Ram On L.A. :: Redux

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This Spring Aquarium Drunkard is releasing the follow-up to last year's RAM On L.A. compilation. Details per album choice and artists to follow. Stay tuned. In the meantime I'm re-posting the 2009 Los Angeles sampler with new cover art (front/back) by our good friend Bobby over at Kitsune Noir. Original . . .

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Dengue Fever Presents :: Electric Cambodia (A Compilation)

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Over the course of eight years and three albums Dengue Fever have neatly made a career out of mining the sounds of Cambodian rock & pop prior to the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Being so it's only fitting they were chosen to curate Electric Cambodia -- a fourteen track compilation LP to benefit the Cambodian Living Arts.

Billed as "14 Rare Gems From Cambodia's Past" the set acts as a primer for those who have yet to stick their big toe into the waters of the Cambodian Cassette Archives or other similar sets. With Dengue Fever's popularity having grown outside the NPR set the past few years, the group is in a unique position to shed light on the artists/movement that spawned their sound.

These tracks were recorded in the 1960s and early '70s soon after Cambodia became an independent nation. "A period of rapid modernization that not only influenced music, but also architecture, sculpture, painting, and cinema. Cambodia's own artistic renaissance, this era came to a sudden end when the Khmer Rouge took control of the country in 1975 and brutally attempted to destroy any trace of modern society." That is the 10,000 foot view of the political situation surrounding the music, a story Dengue Fever expand on in their 2008 documentary Sleepwalking Through the Mekong. Both Electric Cambodia and Sleeping Through the Mekong are out now. If you're here in Los Angeles, Dengue Fever are set to perform Saturday night at the KCRW Haiti Relief Concert at the El Rey Theatre.

After the jump: Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock & Roll - A Documentary

MP3: Pan Ron :: I Will Marry You
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Payom Moogda :: Tamai Dern Sae (Why Do You Walk Like…)

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I came across Payom Moogda's "Tamai Dern Sae" while down driving a desolate strip of the Pacific Coast HWY---somewhere between Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo. California's coastline, especially north of Santa Barbara, is both extreme and beautiful. This particular trip favored the former as it was well after dark and, except for the scattered hamlets that dot the central coast, was lit only by the moon.   It's nights like these that induce a powerful feeling of magic. Those rare instances where everything comes together cinematic in scope; the music, the stretch of . . .

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Angie Hart & Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: Little Bridges

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Former Frente! vocalist, Angie Hart, duets with Bonnie "Prince" Billy on "Little Bridges" off her 2009 disc Eat My Shadow. The Juxtaposition between Hart and Oldham's off-kilter vocals works perfectly here.

MP3: Angie Hart & Bonnie "Prince" Billy :: Little Bridges
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Eef Barzelay :: Two Tickets To Paradise (Cover)

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About a year ago I caught the reunited Clem Snide at a club show here in L.A. The band was touring behind the release of Hungry Bird, which while recorded in 2006, prior to the band's split, was not released until 2009. Eef Barzelay has always had a way with a cover. Oddly distinctive and immediately identifiable, Barzelay's voice that night lit into a languid rendition of Eddie Money's "Two Tickets To . . .

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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. Below is this week’s playlist.

SIRIUS 126: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ White Denim - All Consolation Revised ++ Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La ++ No Age - Sleeper Hold ++ Japandroids - The Boys Are Leaving Town ++ TV On The Radio - New Health Rock ++ Yeasayer - Sunrise ++ The Ruby Suns - Cranberry . . .

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