Rickie Lee Jones has just released a new album, The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard, which also marks her first for her new home on New West Records. From the onset of her long career, Jones has been both a musical chameleon and rogue champion of genre exploration.
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Who's pouring, because this collection deserves a drink. Nashville's own original psyche-pop weirdo John D. Loudermilk gets the treatment here on this 2006 twenty seven track anthology. Regarded as an accomplished sixties Nashville songwriting fixture, it turns out Loudermilk was as at home with a sitar as a banjo, and left to his own . . .
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One of the more jaw-dropping DJ sets I have laid eyes and ears on was J Rocc's Stones Throw tribute to J Dilla this past January here in L.A. at the PLUG L.A. event. Skills. If this is your bag, head over to Gorilla vs. Bear as he has posted the Stones Throw 'Thank You J Dilla' Podcast mixed . . .
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Although I have owned, and enjoyed, this album for years now, there is something refreshingly new to it that is just now beginning to reveal itself to me. It's as if another layer has been peeled back that I had never taken notice of before. Yes, it's true that all great albums do this; but thankfully it still a surprise when it happens.
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Other than Democrazy I have actively sought out anything and everything Damon Albarn has laid his name to, and chances are I will eventually get around to that collection as well. This being so, like many, I was transfixed by the news in 2006 that Albarn was working on a new collaborative . . .
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I acquired this 1977 Meters show in 2000 along with the Showboat Lounge show that I posted in January. At the time -- and this still may be the case -- locating quality live documents from the band’s heyday was no small feat.Actually, until a few years ago, even locating copies of their studio albums was an Indiana Jones like undertaking, be it CD or vinyl. Now most decent record stores have the catalog on compact disc, and . . .
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Welcome to Episode 23 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.
The Broken West were the guests this week, so check out their DJ picks, acoustic set, and spirited Guided By Voices cover.
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Yellow Fever - Katcatcher ++ Tony Allen & His Afro Messengers
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The only bad thing about Scotland's Arab Strap's new release, Ten Years Of Tears, is that it is also the duo's last release. Brutal realists to a fault, Arab Strap never pulled any punches documenting the often depressingly humorous affair that is life, pints, love...and more pints.
A retrospective of sorts following Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton's . . .
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In continuuing with the sporadic New Orleans posts until Fat Tuesday here is the fourth installment in the series; the music of one Mr. Allen Toussaint. Like many fans I originally became acquainted with Toussaint's music in the late '90s through his production work with The Meters, Dr. John and the Nevilles. Upon further investigation it was no surprise Toussaint is super fly funky in his own right. Just listen.
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The Broken West stopped by the Little Radio loft studios yesterday for good conversation and an acoustic set on the Aquarium Drunkard Show. Ross, Dan, and Brian guest DJ'd, talked up their new album out now on Merge records, the upcoming national tour beginning Monday, Big Star and the super-cool Dwight Twilley.Below are the three tunes the guys worked up on their acoustics that can be found on . . .
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Last Friday night -- to and from the Of Montreal show -- Zapp Brannigan's automobile was filled with the acoustic sounds of Gruff Rhys latest, and second solo album, Candylion
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This track is brought to us courtesy of So Much Silence for taking the time to rip the audio from vinyl to mp3 format. Thank you, sir. The vinyl I received is a limited edition 7’€³ via Fader so unless your one of the lucky 500 who received a copy of the limited pressing I wanted to make sure you got a hold of this track digitally. For those interested, the b-side is the Ladyhawk . . .
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A few years ago a friend of mine returned from a business trip to Seattle with tales of former Whiskeytown guitarist Phil Wandscher's latest project. This turned out to be working with Jesse Sykes in their newly minted band The Sweet Hereafter. He also came back with a copy of their, as of then, just released debut LP become a member or log in.
It's raining like a sum bitch out there tonight, and I'm about out the door with a big umbrella , but before I head out for the night I want to encourage anyone with even a faint interest in Of Montreal to make a point to go see them on this present tour. Last night they brought the synth-psych-funk at the El Rey despite some sound issues the first few tunes. Oh, and they also covered . . .
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Are you down with the Numero Group? If not, get hip, as they are just one of the many, many great labels that have sprung up the past few years specializing in obscure reissues and deep-crate compilations. I spent much of 2006 exploring these label's vast and eclectic catalogs.
Numero Group's latest prject is a remastered reissue of '70s English folkie Catherine Howe's debut album What a Beautiful Place. I think they nail it in their desription of the the album lauding it as "a pastoral blend . . .
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