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SIRIUS/XM Radio :: 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.

Today, during the first hour of the show, Akron/Family guest DJs while they cool their heels here in L.A. for a couple of weeks.   The second hour is made up of . . .

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Sevens :: The Walkmen, Canadian Girl

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

I know, I'm with you. It's hot out there. Late summer in Los Angeles, much of which by the way is un-air conditioned, can be brutal. And then there are those Santa Ana winds 'blowing hot from the north.'   Here is one for the beaches, good friends, and the margaritas with their melting ice.

The Walkmen . . .

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AD Presents :: Weird Summer, A Mixtape

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We are Mondo Boys -- a NY/LA mixtape/sound collage collaborative. This is our faded out late-summer mix. We do cassettes/digital.

"WEIRD SUMMER" was created exclusively to get you through those last few incredibly sticky days of the hottest god damn summer you can remember. Fuel for the fire. Grab that boom box, hit the beach, and turn up the volume. Best served before 9.21.2009. Mucho take it easy. - MB

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The Indestructible Beat of Soweto :: Volume One

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The good news: The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 1 is now available at eMusic -- I can promise you it is well worth the 12 credits.   A must for Afro-pop enthusiasts, at twelve tracks, this is a concise measure of the pulse of the regional radio and clubs of Soweto in the late '70s and early '80s. Aesthetically, the impact this compilation alone had on Paul Simon's Graceland is inestimable.   And, hey, just think how many . . .

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AD Presents :: Dungen @ The Troubadour 8.26

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Aquarium Drunkard presents Dungen, Wednesday night, at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.   Woods and Kurt Vile support. We are giving away tickets to AD readers.   Leave your name and email in the comments - tix will be at will-call.

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Chairman of The Board :: Surf Trax 1964-1974

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Comprised mainly of garage, folk and psychedelia, Chairman of The Board is pure surf-kitsch from the days of long boards and longer beards.   AD covered this upon it's release, but here at the tail-end of Summer we're taking another dip.   Released two summers ago, on the UK based Harmless Records, this rarities import compilation gathers up 18 tracks originally featured on surf movie soundtracks during the ’60s and ’70s. This, mind you, is the old-school surf culture, with filmmakers . . .

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Brendan Benson :: The AD Interview

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Brendan Benson has had quite the time the last few years. After releasing three critically heralded solo records, he joined long time friends Jack White, of the White Stripes, and Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence of the Greenhornes, to form the Raconteurs. Releasing two records as a band-mate to the high-profile Jack White did wonders for boosting Benson's presence, and with the . . .

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SIRIUS/XM Radio :: 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 107: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Girls - Lust For Life ++ Atlas Sound - Walk A Thin Line (Fleetwood Mac cover) ++ Foreign Born - Winter Games   ++ Ofo The Black Company - Allah Wakabarr   ++ Ruby Suns - Kenya Dig It?   ++ Black Fiction - Magic . . .

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The Very Best :: Warm Heart of Africa

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Roughly two years ago, M.I.A did well to introduce the globalization of music to the mainstream world. Her Clash/hip-hop/dance hybrid went far to broaden the tastes of the casual listening audience, and probably without them knowing it. Somewhat independently, Afro-beats, highlife and other traditional African sounds emerged in the white-boy consciousness over the last few years, allowing a band like Vampire Weekend to be a chart-topping certainty. In either case, the music has been best received in a Westernized form--M.I.A.'s hip-hop or VW's pop. It's . . .

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2001 :: A Floyd Odyssey (Full Ending Scene)

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I happened upon this the other day and bookmarked it. If you (like me) have a jones for the early Floyd, with a serious appreciation for Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, then I just made your day and/or week.  Alright, off to watch it again.

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Luke Top :: Friends

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Luke Top likes to dabble -- genre-wise that is. If you're local, here in Los Angeles, you've most likely seen Top gigging around town with one of the various projects he's loosely affiliated with -- Cass McCombs, Foreign Born and Paper Cuts to name a few.   And then there's . . .

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Swinging Mademoiselle :: ’60s French Girl Groups

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Do a quick retail scan and you'll notice there are a number of compilations on the market claiming to round up forgotten French sixties pop nuggets (specifically girl groups). Some of these are fairly good, some decent and some abhorrent. So it goes. As noted several weeks ago, many of my favorite genre compilations are of the 'bootleg' variety, meaning the licensing, etc. is dubious at best. Swinging Mademoiselle, Vol. I & II, which compiles girl group tracks from 1965-1968, is one such collection. I was hipped to this around the same time as the

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Scott Walker :: La Chanson De Jacky (Jackie)

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Pro-tip: If you're unfamiliar, the Netflix on demand feature, with the Roku player, is pretty ace (not to mention economical).   Through it, I finally got around to viewing the Scott Walker documentary 30 Century Man. As a fan, it is a fascinating, not to mention informative, watch tying up some loose ends in terms of the reclusive crooner's journey from the early

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