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Midnight Oil :: The Politics of Diesel and Dust

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Politics in music is a tricky business. If it's so pointed and obvious, it can often make the politics, and the music, insufferable, no matter how much you might agree. The results are a compromised song. On the other hand, if you're subtle and thoughtful, your message sometimes gets lost. Just ask the Boss about "Born in the U.S.A." Similarly ask Midnight Oil about "Beds are Burning . . .

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Sevens :: Califone: “The Orchids”

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

What starts in a daze often ends in clarity. That’s the way things seem to be and that’s the way of “The Orchids,” from Califone’s excellent 2006 album Roots and Crowns. In the same way that Johnny Cash made “

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Jon Spencer :: Theremin Demonstration (Must See)

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Hey kids, ever wonder how Jon Spencer gets all those wacky sounds out of that box on stage? Me too. It's called a Theremin, and here he demonstrates it for a group of school children in a room that looks, unsettlingly, like The Black Lodge. Yeah, he humps it.

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Bo Diddley :: December 30, 1928 — June 2, 2008

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Sunday morning, I was flipping through Rolling Stone's latest issue, specifically, its feature, 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. The magazine has, over the years, loved to compile extensive and arbitrary "greatest" lists--greatest songs, greatest albums, greatest artists, you name it. They're impossibly constructed, primarily because, with the exception of a handful of automatics, the notion of "great" is largely subjective and endlessly debatable. Still, they're fair, inclusive and as accurate as anything so discretionary could be.

Monday morning, I woke . . .

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American Princes :: Other People

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Here is a classic case of better late than never. It took me a good two years to finally catch an American Princes show after a friend turned me onto their last album Less And Less at SXSW 2006. And even then it happened purely by chance as the band just happened to have a Monday night residency at the

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AD Presents :: The Whigs @ The Echo, 6-4

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Aquarium Drunkard is once again proud to present our favorite Athens, GA export, The Whigs, at the Echo Wednesday June 4th with very special guests L.A.'s Henry Clay People and Le Switch.

We have five sets of tickets to giveaway to AD readers. To get your hands on a pair, leave your full name, a valid email address that we can contact you at, and of course, yer . . .

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Off The Record :: Matthew Ryan (Nashville, TN)

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Off The Record is a recurring feature, here on the Drunkard, that marries two of my greatest interests; music and travel. Having a locals perspective when visiting a new locale is the difference between experiencing it through the lens of a tourist and of that of a native.

Off The Record gathers some of my favorite artists, asks them to reflect on their city of residence, and choose a handful of places they could not live without, be them bookstores, bars, restaurants or vistas.

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Bob Dylan :: Both Ends of The Rainbow 1978-1989

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Bob Dylan and session musicians :: Muscle Shoals, AL - 1980 (Recording the Saved LP)

This weekend I watched the latest installment of the Under Review series continued focus on Bob Dylan entitled Both Ends Of The Rainbow. I believe this was number three . . .

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Julie Ocean :: Long Gone And Nearly There

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I seem to go out of my way annually to crown a power-pop champion for the year. Someone whose subversion or reverential recreation of the genre is so willfully brilliant and fun that I have to listen to the record over and over. In 2006 it was Devin Davis, last year it was Georgie James, in 2008 it's Julie Ocean.

But despite this being a debut album, the . . .

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Retro TV Themes Revisited :: WKRP In Cincinnati

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Retro TV Themes Revisited is an on-going AD feature that aims to mine our long-running collection of past television (aural) glories, cuz they just aren't making them like they used to. Have at it in the comments.

"Baby, if you’ve ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me. I'm living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati WKRP...I'm at WKRP In Cincinnati."

Johnny 'Dr. Fever' Caravella, Herbert 'Herb' Tarlek, Les Nessman, and DJ Venus Flytrap...characters every one of them; and then you had Loni Anderson, who I always just assumed . . .

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Papa Legba, Come On And Open The Gate…

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Even today, while traveling in and around the Mississippi Delta, you'll still hear fabled tales of the old bluesmen selling their souls at the crossroads in exchange for supernatural musical gifts. Whereas the Robert Johnson tale has become the most widely known, it is in fact more of a composite story derived from old African American folk traditions that found their way to the Americas centuries ago embedding itself into . . .

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SIRIUS Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.

SIRIUS 49: (Intro) Jean-Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ AC Newman - Drink To Me Then Babe ++ Blitzen Trapper - Murder Babe ++ Badly Drawn Boy - Camping Next To Water ++ Black . . .

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More Dirty Laundry :: The Soul of Black Country

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Just got back to Los Angeles after six weeks on the road and, brother, let me tell you it feels great to be home. Big thanks to AD contributor J. Neas for an excellent series of posts while I was out criss-crossing the country. As of this post its back to business as usual here at AD, but I will try and throw up another couple post-trip Car Jamming pieces.

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Jim White :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview (Part One)

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Few songwriters have the gift that Jim White has. Channeling the strange and weird side of life into song-stories that are as compelling and moving as they are sometimes disturbing, Jim has helped push the Southern-gothic genre into music and back out into the limelight. His latest album, Transnormal Skiperoo, is a continuation and expansion on his familiar themes.

Earlier this month, in coordination with Aquarium Drunkard, Jim took time out of his current tour to stop at Northeast Guilford High School . . .

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Car Jamming :: Earnestine & Hazel’s (Memphis, TN)

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(note: i’m on the cross-country road trip for six weeks doing research on a book about memphis and the delta blues trail. car jamming is recurring feature that documents random curios along the way)

Welcome to the final (on-the-road) installment of Car Jamming. We've been staying in midtown Memphis the past nine days and - after six weeks on the road - we'll finally be making . . .

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