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Joe Strummer’s London Calling :: BBC Radio 1998-2001

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Clash fans, should you find yourself traveling for Thanksgiving, might I suggest loading the following on your iPod for the trip. Between 1998 and 2001 Joe Strummer hosted his London Calling radio show for the BBC spinning his favorites old and new. Strummer described his show as the following: ‘My pick of music for the show reflects the music that I listen to all year round. I am constantly trawling through music and . . .

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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.

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SIRIUS 168: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Deerhunter - Desire Lines ++ Thurston Moore - The Shape Is In A Trance ++ Warpaint - Ashes . . .

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Harry Nilsson Does The Beatles

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A few summers ago, at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, I caught a limited screening of Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him). It took a few years, but the documentary finally landed a DVD distribution deal and is   available to stream digitally via Netflix. Nilsson fans, you need to see this.

More than any other contemporary pop group, the Beatles played an important role in the Nilsson story, both artistically and personally. The band practically launched the singer's career, at a . . .

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Jim Schoenfeld :: Before

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Last May Lockett Pundt (Deerhunter/Lotus Plaza) guest DJ'd my satellite radio show. Afterwards we compiled his track selection into a mixtape which can be downloaded here. Lockett opened the set with the mercurial folk of Jim Schoenfeld's "Before," a track that caught its second wind last year via the Numero Group's Wayfaring . . .

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Frank Frost :: My Back Scratcher

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I first came across Frank Frost via author Robert Palmer's seminal blues doc Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads. Years later, just prior to beginning research on my guidebook to the Delta Blues Trail, I was reintroduced to the blues harp player . . .

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Gene Parsons :: Kindling

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Sometimes it’s the less visible members of a great band who turn out to be the most interesting. Gene Parsons was the drummer with the Byrds from 1968 to 1972. If you’ve ever even heard his name, there’s a fair chance that you’ll confuse him with his near namesake who was with the same band less than a year and achieved a disproportionate notoriety. It’s indicative of Gene’s character that when Chris Hillman quit the Byrds to form the . . .

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Life is a Problem :: Mississippi Records MR-017

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"Subject...rock & roll. Can I get an amen?" So begins Elder Charles D. Beck, the 'singing evangelist,' on "Rock & Roll Sermon, pt. 1 & 2"-- arguably the most well known track found on Mississippi Records' Life is a Problem gospel compilation. And then things really start to cook.

Comprised of "raw, electric guitar-based, gospel recorded between 1949 & 1976" the 2008 collection boasts hard . . .

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The Rock*A*Teens / The Atlanta Series Continued

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Prior to my buying into the heathen bargain that is Los Angeles, ye olde Drunkard grew up in the wooded enclave that is Atlanta, GA. Recently, through the magic of eMusic, bit torrent and the like, I have been revisiting albums by ATL artists that I long sold off in the mid-late 90s in an effort to pay off various and sundry bartabs, gambling debts, etc.

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Horse Feathers :: Drain You/Bonnet of Briars 7″

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Beginning in 2006 with their debut, Words Are Dead, the Portland, Oregon based Horse Feathers have churned out three LPs of pensive folk music for the Kill Rock Stars label. Last week the trio released the Drain You 7" (b/w "

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Eddie Hinton :: Dear Y’all: The Songwriting Sessions

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An artist that will forever go down as one of the key architects of Southern soul, the late Eddie Hinton is about as swampy as the genre gets. A veritable Muscle Shoals renaissance man, Hinton paid the bills as a scratch session musician, in the town's famed rhythm section, contributing to some of the most well known sides to come out of the storied Alabama enclave. Hinton's chops can be found on the likes of Wilson Pickett, Arthur Conley, Aretha Franklin, Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge . . .

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Neil Young: Needle And The Damage Done (Johnny Cash Show)

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Happy Birthday, Neil Young. Taken from Neil's 1971 appearance on the Johnny Cash Show

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SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, 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 167: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Sgt. Dunbar & The Hobo Band — Everything Is, Pt. III ++ Harlem — Come Back Jonee (Devo cover) ++ Atlas Sound — Doctor (Five Discs cover) ++ The Girls At Dawn — I’m Not Sad ++ Deerhunter - Desire Lines ++ Surf . . .

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America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (Criterion Collection)

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I am as big a Netflix advocate as you will find, yet I am also a collector of things; records, books, photographs, and, yes, films. When it comes to the medium of the DVD no one quite holds a candle to that of the Criterion Collection. A meticulous bunch, the company takes extra special care in the special edition films they release, not only technically, but editorially, framing each project around supplemental bonus features that often add a gravity to the original films themselves (e.g. audio commentaries by filmmakers /scholars . . .

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It Goes Like That? But I Thought It Went Like This?

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"Lost my shit, trying to act casual." For years...years...that is what I thought David Byrne was singing on "Crosseyed And Painless" off Talking Heads Remain In Light. Nope. It turned out he was singing "lost my shape." The mishearing of lyrics is nothing new; there are books, websites, entire tomes dedicated to this very thing. But I'm not interested in rehashing cases of the "excuse me while I kiss this guy" Purple . . .

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The Strange Tale of Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O.

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Last June, over a round of drinks, my friend Matt excitedly told me the tale of his label Light In The Attic's upcoming release; that of the reissue of Jim Sullivan's U.F.O. Light In The Attic often reissues the lost and forgotten LP, but in the case of U.F.O. it was the very performer who was lost, as Sullivan had literally disappeared some . . .

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