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. * You can listen, for free, online with the SIRIUS three day . . .
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In honor of the life and work of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, (September 29, 1912 - July 30, 2007), here is a re-post, from last year, of a batch of tracks from the bootleg Zabriskie Point sessions. Rest in peace.
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When Radiohead's Ok Computer was released, one of the finest and most appropriate appraisals was that of deeming the band
I was originally turned on to this New Zealand pop duo, in 2005, by You Ain't No Picasso, and have been keeping tabs on them ever since. This month sees the release of their Sub Pop debut, so expect a bigger stateside splash than the last few albums released on the NZ based Lil' Chief imprint. Sub Pop correctly deems The Brunettes sound as "breezy, effervescent, Shangri-Las-reminiscent pop." OTM.
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Blair, and her band, are paying a visit to the Aquarium Drunkard Show today -- tune in from 2-4 PST @ Little Radio. Expect live tunes, chit chat and other foolishness. Also, if you're in L.A., Blair will be playing the Hotel Cafe' Thursday evening, as well as a show . . .
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Shortly after Friday's Zach Galifianakis/Will Oldham video post, a reader sent over this little gem...it's quite disturbing too. Here, Will Oldham, inhabiting his Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy persona, dutifully covers, a synth styled version of, Mariah Carey's "Can't Take That Away." Consider this fair warning.
If contemporary indie artists covering songs you probably can't stand is your thing, you're in luck. You can find this track, along with various other artists . . .
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Until last week I knew of Black Moth Super Rainbow only by name. Having now spent the past seven days with their latest LP, Dandelion Gum, I think it is safe to say they more than live up to their 'psychedelic' reputation.
While this shit is most definitely out there, it is also informed, and reined in by, a pop enthusiasm that keeps it from blasting off into the ether entirely. You might want to put on some headphones for . . .
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It was just announced that Johnny Depp will indeed inhabit the persona, and reprise the role, of his late friend, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in the upcoming film adaptation of Thompson's first (autobiographical) novel The Rum Diary. Your Drunkard has read . . .
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On a different level, Vic Chesnutt's musical collaborators and co-conspirators, over the past 15 years, are almost as interesting and varied as the southern Gothic bard's lyrical imagery itself. Always one for experimentation, the artist has collaborated with, among others: Van Dyke Parks, Lambchop, Michael Stipe, Will Johnson, Widespread Panic, and Bill Frisell. I could easily go on.
Here, on North Star Deserter, his fourteenth album, Chesnutt . . .
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Calling all John Vanderslice fans. JV and an Aquarium Drunkard would like to cordially invite you out to the LA river basin for a guerrilla-styled free concert. Think: that old U2 video, filmed on the rooftop in downtown LA, where the cops bust it up -- only smaller, and cooler.
Here is scoop: We will all meet up Thursday evening at 7pm in front of the Los Feliz Cafe . . .
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Heads up. You'll want to set those digital video recorders if you have plans Saturday night, August 11th, because at 9pm VH1 premieres its upcoming special NYC '77 :: The Coolest Year In Hell. It promises to chronicle the story of one of the "most astonishing pop culture years in American history." I'll bite.
Details: "Executive Produced by Academy Award Nominee Nanette Burstein ("The Kid Stays in the Picture"), "NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell" is a two-hour documentary . . .
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How many times, so far, have you watched Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited trailer? I think here at the A.D. home offices we are up to around, oh, ten, give or take a few.
Back in 2005 Wes Anderson was the first filmmaker profiled in our (presently on hiatus) series A Soundtrack Enthusiast. For those of you who were not reading back then, we've dusted this one off, and updated it with The Kinks track "This Time Tomorrow"
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"So utterly simple but the most powerful spirit I have ever seen or heard...." - Youtube quote
A huge thank you to the hero who filmed and uploaded this 2004 Will Oldham concert, with Matt Sweeney, to Youtube. All seventy minutes and nineteen seconds of it. This is as close as many of us will ever get to the become a member or log in.
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow Up, from 1966, left a lasting impression on me. Its depiction of mod-cool, sixties London, is aesthetically on point throughout its entirety -- and that's not even taking in consideration the actual (murder mystery) plot, which itself is both meandering (in the style of sixties art-house) and engrossing.
The Music . . .
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Zach Galifianakis & Will Oldham's video of Kanye's "Can't Tell Me Nothing" looks like it could be the bastard child of Oldham's "Cursed Sleep" video from 2006. Let's get weird. (via: Culture Bully
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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. * You can listen, for free, online with the SIRIUS three day . . .
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