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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 48: (Intro) Jean-Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Throw Me The Statue - Your Girlfriend's Car ++ Talk Demonic - Dusty Florescent/Wooden Shelves ++ Beachwood Sparks - Desert Skies ++ Lee . . .

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The Black Angels :: Directions To See A Ghost

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At times, epiphanies can be a slow process. I had been listening and re-listening to Directions to See a Ghost, the second LP from Austin, Texas’ The Black Angels, for a week at this point. The touchstones are obvious — their name is a Velvet Underground song reference after all and there is just too much fuzz to not think of My Bloody Valentine. But those names just seemed too obvious. I was hesitant to write this review using only those points for reference. I just wasn’t satisfied with my thought process.

Then came enlightenment.

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Marianne Faithfull :: Stoned

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After first hearing her sing, Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham described Marianne Faithfull as "an angel with big tits." The rest of the world would soon come to know her via her take on early Stones material, and in an early tabloid sense, her very public relationship with Mick Jagger.

Listen below to Marianne's latter-era reworking of a couple of Stones covers, and if you haven't yet, be . . .

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King Khan :: The Supreme Genius of…

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In case you missed it here or here, get ready for Khan.

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Tim Buckley :: Happy Sad (1969)

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Reverse engineering. It happens a lot when discovering music. You pick up one piece only to find it fell out of somewhere else. Son Volt was my introduction to Uncle Tupelo. Briano Eno my introduction to Roxy Music. And in a connection slightly different (well, very different) from those, Jeff Buckley was my introduction to Tim Buckley.

The parallels in father and son's life are eerie. Meteoric rises to success and tragic, young deaths. But

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The Replacements :: The Reissues

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This has been a pretty great year to be a fan of The Replacements. In addition to Jim Walsh's excellent book, All Over But the Shouting, the news had begun to circulate last year that the full catalogue would be getting the remastered/bonus track treatment this year. The first slate . . .

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Dennis Wilson :: At Long Last…Bambu

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“The next album is a hundred times what Pacific Ocean Blue is. It kicks. It’s different in a way. I think I have more confidence now that I’ve completed one project, and I’m moving on to another” - Dennis Wilson (on the unreleased Bambu album)

Next month will see the release of the two disc - 30th anniversary - reissue of Dennie Wilson's long out-of-print solo album Pacific Ocean Blue. Thank you Legacy Recordings. Disc two of the reissue is . . .

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AD Presents :: Le Switch – Residency @ The Echo

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Aquarium Drunkard proudly presents Le Switch's Los Angeles residency, every Monday night this May, at The Echo. Besides four free nights of Le Switch's boozy soul-pop, each night of their residency boasts fantastic support slots by the likes of: Frankel, Amnion, Seasons,

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Patterson Hood :: The AD Interview

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Currently on tour (note: Aquarium Drunkard will be presenting the West coast dates), AD caught up with Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood earlier this week in NC to discuss, among other things, the Truckers latest LP Brighter Than Creation's Dark, songwriting, revisiting a live album release, and the majesty of Spooner Oldham.

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Hayden :: In Field & Town

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The pinnacle of Hayden Desser's career thus far was his 2001 album, Skyscraper National Park. It took the suffocating isolationism of Hayden's lyrics and finally let it transcend the minimalist structures of his first two LPs, allowing it room to breathe and explode across songs like the noisy and gorgeous "Dynamite Walls." But those elements disappeared a bit through the follow-up, become a member or log in.

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AD Presents :: Earlimart – May 17th / Echoplex

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Aquarium Drunkard presents the the home team, Earlimart, at the Echoplex May 17th with special guests Voxhaul Broadcast, Siggy and Light FM. Tickets are $12 advance, or free if you win one of the five pairs we are giving out to AD readers below.

To win a pair: In the . . .

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Dirty Laundry :: The Soul of Black Country

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Get off yer horse and check out a few samples from volume one of the two-volume Dirty Laundry compilation that rounds up a collection of black country-soul nuggets, both covers and originals (James Brown covering Hank Williams, anyone?), from the sixties and seventies. Thanks to mr. Ryan for the turn-on.

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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 47: Pylon - Stop it ++ B-52’s - 6060-842 ++ Orange Juice - Moscow ++ R.E.M. - Wolves Lower ++ Port O'brien - I Woke Up Today ++ Bodies of . . .

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Off The Record :: Port O’brien (Coastal C. California)

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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.

Today’s installment of OTR catches up Van And Cambria . . .

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