What do Grace Jones, Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads and Sly Dunbar all have in common? Besides all being progenitors in their respective, then, nascent genres, they all recorded at Chris Blackwell’s Bahamanian Compass Point Studio and are part of the become a member or log in.
Download The National :: Pretty in Pink, via daytrotter . . .
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Yesterday, I received a twitter reply -- in response the the sixties garage rock set -- hailing the campy greatness that is Screaming Lord Sutch. For horror movie obsessed, kitschy, garage rock at its finest, I couldn't agree more. Alice Cooper had nothing on this guy. The lord's best known track, "Jack The Ripper," has been covered by various '00s garage enthusiasts including Black . . .
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Arthur Russell died in 1992. Myth-making being what it is, nearly two decades after his death, the artist is presently more well known than he ever was during his lifetime. Typical. Over the past few months I've noticed an upward swell of folks writing about, and discussing, Russell's music in a way I had not before (did the Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell documentary get added to on . . .
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Like the sixties French Freakbeat compilation, Scarcest Garage Records (pt. 1 & 2) is a compilation I often frequent that has little to no information to be found online. In the 21st century, this fact alone adds yet another element of genuinely non-manufactured retro-cool to its already smoldering 26 tracks. This is herky-jerky garage rock at its finest.
Like some of my favorite comps, this one was passed on to me, some time ago . . .
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One of the more interesting online novelties to pop up this summer has been the kickoff of Beck's ongoing Record Club. If you have yet to check it out: in a nutshell, Beck invites a bunch of his musician friends over to jam for a day covering an album track-by-track, then releases the results piecemeal via his website. The first foray into the series tackles one of my all-time favorite LPs of any . . .
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As I hinted at last month, if I was to really break it down, the majority of my annual 'music spend' goes towards various genre compilations; largely due to residing just a few miles from Amoeba Music. This, trust me, is both a blessing and curse as a number of the more interesting comps often seem to be imports, complete with the associated import prices. I'm making a point to feature more of these on AD as, amongst the clutter, there are some real finds. Competing with these sanctioned compilations are the unsanctioned, bootleg, variety which are often just as, if not more, interesting than their legit counterparts. The following is a bootleg compilation of vinyl rips of 1960s French Freakbeat tracks I happened upon several years ago (and originally posted in '07).
Unfortunately, that is about the extent of my knowledge of the recordings as little information is to be found scouring the net. Although, I did like Metroactive Music's apt description: "A rare bootleg collection that explores mid 1960s mod-influenced psychedelia of French bands that were paying strict attention to their British brethren, most notably The Small Faces." Anyone with an ear and appreciation for sixties garage will absolutely love this stuff. Highest recommendation. Snap, crackle and pop.
Download:
MP3: Le Bain Didonc :: 4 cheveux dans le vent
MP3: Les 5 Gentlemen :: LSD 25 Ou Les Metamorphoses De Margaret Steinway
MP3: Les Boots :: Laissez Briller Le Soleil
MP3: Les Capitals :: Nous On Chante
+ Download the rest of the compilation after the jump. Don't miss The Brummel's "Bof!"
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(September 29th sees the release of the Flaming Lips double LP, Embryonic. Between now and then we're looking back on some of the band's pre-Soft Bulletin moments)
The Flaming Lips spent most of the 80s in the wilderness of rock and roll. They put out a series of albums - beginning with 1986's Hear It Is - that were alternatingly weird art pretension . . .
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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.)
Thus far, Diversions has featured artists discussing, amongst other things, their favorite '80s indie bands, rock 'n roll sartorial sense, the L.A. become a member or log in.
The inevitability of impulse purchases. As if the physical CD/mp3s weren't enough, in an inexplicable need to own the title in all three available formats, I went whole-hog several weeks ago and picked up the vinyl issue of Deerhunter's Cryptograms (that now additionally includes the band's 2007 Fluorescent Grey EP). During the same run I also ran across a used vinyl copy of fellow . . .
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Roadside Graves have been traversing the wilds of the USA the past few weeks touring behind their new LP My Son's Home, which, as I think I've mentioned, is thus far my favorite 'roots' based rock & roll album of 2009. This week they hit the west coast and are on the bill as main support for Le Switch, this Saturday night, in Los Angeles at Spaceland. . . .
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L.A.'s The Henry Clay People have been busy. As I write this they are presently on the road, somewhere in the Midwest, having just wrapped up their Daytrotter session in Iowa, now en route to Chicago to play the main stage at Lollapalooza.
To commemorate their first real L.A. date since their Spaceland residency last Spring, the band is going all out Friday night at the
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Monday night begins Local Natives month-long weekly residency at Spaceland. It is free - AD presents along with Filter. The band is back in L.A. after near-constant touring post-SXSW; most recently supporting Of Montreal in the UK and taking part in our friend become a member or log in.
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 105: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ No Age - Boy Void ++ Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom ++ Panda Bear - Ponytail ++ Ruby Suns - Kenya Dig It ++ The Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun ++ Les Surfs - Tîº Serî¡s Mi Baby (Be My Baby) ++ Yo . . .
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Switching gears entirely, and in the words of John Cleese, "and now for something completely different." With the release of Sonic Youth's The Eternal earlier this summer I've been working in tracks from Evol and Sister on ye olde aquarium drunkard radio show. Actually, that's . . .
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