Watching the Neko Case: Austin City Limits DVD got me thinking about Kelly Hogan who accompanies Case on vocals throughout the performance.
Hogan, like myself, is an Atlanta ex-pat who left the south in 1997 for Chicago where she continues to pursue music. I have always made an effort to keep tabs on her career, as her old band, become a member or log in.
Welcome to Episode 25 of the podcast edition of The Aquarium Drunkard Show; airing live every Wednesday 2-4 p.m. PST at the Little Radio studios in downtown L.A. As requested, below is the tracklisting order for this week’s podcast.
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We are getting closer to the release of Lewis And Clarke's next album, Blasts of the Holy Birth, and according to the outfit's website it is a "testament to process on many levels, and it carries various themes as found in a text called "The Secret of the Golden Flower."
While I am not familiar with the text, I do know if the album . . .
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February 13th saw the release of the 1970 psychedelic/schizophrenic gangster-meets-pop star tale Performance. Famously known as Mick Jagger's on screen debut, Performance expertly captures the late sixties decadence and decline into hard drugs and paranoia.But . . .
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Furthering it's mission to make the kind of records you didn't even know you wanted to own, Numero Group's Eccentric Soul series continues to amaze with this latest collection entitled Twinight's Lunar Rotation. Ignoring the mainstream, Numero Group rallies the troops and digs deep into attics, basements, yard sales, and other dusty holes to compile this collection of Chicago’s secret soul history.
As described by the group, the . . .
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Who else out there has recently had their ass kicked by this super-cold going around? Besides just being generally miserable, it also cut into my checking out Neko Case's gig this past weekend at the Henry Fonda here in L.A. Ah well, thanks to the good folks at New West it was not a complete bust as they had just recently . . .
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Benjy Ferree's 2006 LP Leaving The Nest is a fine album, if a bit schizophrenic at times. If you were to believe the online blog hype at the tail end of last year you most definitely would have expected the album to be, and I paraphrase, "a down home, back porch" affair. And, granted, that may be . . .
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I've noticed over the years that whenever Big Star creeps into my daily listening habits, I in turn find myself listening to a hell of a lot more power pop in general -- and vice versa. Lately, I have been obsessing (again) over Radio City, the band's 1974 masterpiece. If you like your pop shiny and shimmering, it doesn't get any sweeter and smarter than this; an album that you can revisit fifty times and still find something that renews the whole experience.
I have . . .
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Not unlike the John D. Loudermilk collection I mentioned earlier in the month, I have spent the past couple of weeks taking in the massive 29 track Porter Wagoner compilation become a member or log in.
As Songs: Illinois mentioned the other day, the Robert Fischer helmed collective known as the Willard Grant Conspiracy are finally seeing a stateside release of their sixth album, Let It Roll, on February 27th. Long time coming, but well worth the wait.
It's artists like Willard Grant Conspiracy that inspire me to seek out and write about new music; the highly talented and vastly under reported. This is americana-garage . . .
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You know, it seems like I was just writing about Great Lake Swimmers....oh right, I was. As reported last week, GLS have an album in the can entitled Ongiara, which will be released March 27th via the Weewerk label on 12’€³ vinyl, with Nettwerk releasing the CD version shortly therafter.
Below are two tracks off Ongiara . . .
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Jeff Mangum :: San Francisco July 4, 1996 (live at aquarius records)
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MP3: Jeff Mangum :: Oh Comely
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: Engine
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: Oh Sister
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: My Dream Girl
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For the most part I haven't really kept up with the last ten years of David Bowie's recording career (the last 'new' album I picked up was 1995's Outside a decade ago), so last month when Blake Hazard, from The Submarines, guest DJ'd a set on the Aquarium . . .
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Fat Tuesday is approaching. As I have discussed before on the these pages, Daniel Lanois' unique production style leaves it's unique fingerprints on any project he touches, no matter the genre, no matter the artist. In the case of Yellow Moon that meant fonky R&B courtesy of the Crescent . . .
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Yeah! Dig that album cover! Among other things, 2006 found me delving heavily into '70s afro-beat, and one cannot begin to mention the genre without Fela Kuti. Kuti was so hot The JBs allegedly readily admitted to copping his band's grooves. Yes, those JBs. One listen to the this become a member or log in.