I spent the past four nights in nyc. Returning to my friends pad Thursday night, post bars, he surprised me by throwing on a wonderfully aged vinyl copy of Goose Creek Symphony's LP Established 1970. The juxtaposition of this rural music framed by Chinatown, wafting up from a few stories below, made for an interesting cross-cultural mix.
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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.
Show 003: David Bowie — Conversation Piece ++ TV On The Radio — Province ++ Kings of Convenience - Winning a Battle, Losing the War (Andy Votel Remix) ++ Jose Gonzalez/Zero 7 . . .
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Repost: Below is part I of Volume I of the Neil Young soundboard-derived live collection, A Perfect Echo, capturing the years 1967 - 1971. Part II of Volume I can be found here. Additionally, Parts I and II of Vol. II can still be found here and here. For those interested in the back story, here are notes on the series via become a member or log in.
Track a Tiger's debut release, Woke Up Early The Day I Died, was one of Aquarium Drunkards favorite albums of 2006 -- if you're not familiar, you can download a couple of tracks off the album below.
Last month the group released their follow up, We Moved Like . . .
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Oh yes, it's that Mike Nesmith...the one from The Monkees...the one who always moved to the beat of a different drum. After the sixties television sensation ended, Nesmith went on to follow his muse which took him back, stylistically, to his Texas roots. The result were a number of under-the-radar country rock gems that come highly recommended to fans of the '70s California country rock that permeated the canyons of that era.
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The latest find in the Numero Group's eclectic Eccentric Soul series -- The Prix Label -- drops today. I hope you're saving your pennies, cause this one, like its predecessors, is the red hotness.
Returning to Colmbus, OH, the site of Numero Group's first Eccentric Soul release (2004's become a member or log in.
It's safe to say Judd Apatow's new film, Knocked Up, is most definitely one of the funniest mainstream flicks I have seen this year. Highly, highly recommended. Also recommended is Drunkard favorite Loudon Wainwrights III's contributions to the film's soundtrack; the tracks "Grey In L.A." and "Daughter," both of which roll during the end credits and can be found . . .
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Pre-dating Drakes debut, Five Leaves Left, this new posthumous collection, entitled Family Tree, gathers up laid back recordings culled from both Drake originals as well as covers. A few of these (from what I have witnessed personally) have been around previously via unsanctioned bootlegs . . .
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Below is the second half of the Neil Young soundboard-derived live collection A Perfect Echo Vol. I. capturing the years 1974 - 1976. Look for the first part of Vol. I to be posted here in the future. Parts I and II of Vol. II can still be found here and here. For those interested in the back story, here are notes on the series via sharing the groove:
"Braden . . .
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Earlier last week AD friend, and fellow Lucero enthusiast, Muzzle of Bees, turned us on to the new Ben Nichols track "Dog Day Night" off of the new Thick Syrup Records Arkansas Compilation. The track has a fantastically rough Mississippi Delta vibe to it expertly anchored by Nichols trademark growl and sparse, nasty back porch electric blues guitar.
You . . .
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I, like many of you, am a fairly ardent fan of Broken Social Scene, but really, who isn't? It's the collectives various solo spin-offs that have, for the most part, left me a little cold. Although this has never been the case with BSS contributor Leslie Feist, and her new album, become a member or log in.
Last week, while on vacation, I was recommended Yeasayer with a caveat along the lines of 'imagine TV By Radio if fronted by Genesis era Peter Gabriel.' Sold. Having no official release, the MP3s found on Yeasayer's MySpace page accompanied me, along with Cormac McCarthy's grim novel The . . .
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I loaned my vinyl copy of Cal Tjader's album Soul Sauce to a friend a few weeks ago and since then I have seen/heard it seemingly everywhere (including one of my SIRIUS shows). Must be the Tjader collective consciousness at work. You know how he do.
The vinyl copy I own was originally my fathers from his college days. I randomly stumbled upon it while in high school and was . . .
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Update: Our two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then and encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Here are the two playlists from the shows that ran over the Memorial Day weekend. You can expect the playlist posted here afer every show from now on.
Show 001: DJ Shadow - Best Foot Forward ++ Darondo — Let My People Go ++ Sister Nancy - Bam Bam ++ The Meters — A Message From The . . .
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Over the past couple of years I shared A Perfect Echo Volume I in sections. As promised, here is part 2 of 2, of Volume II, chronicling the years 1986 - 1989. You can find part one here.
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For those interested in the back story, here are notes on the series via sharing the groove:
"Braden Strickler has done it again. He's compiled and lovingly mastered, almost exclusively from soundboard recordings, an 8-DISC SET which runs chronologically from August 1967 to January . . .
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