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 Drunkard show, I was intrigued by this nugget off Bowie's 2002 Heathen album as I could have sworn I had heard . . .
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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.
I consider Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road to be a true genre classic in every sense of the word. Its marriage of southern gothic lyrical imagery and atmosphere, paired with a good set of headphones, has the rare power to transport the listener to the deep rural south without stepping foot on a plane. This latest project, however, not so much.
Nearly a decade after Car Wheels release we find Lucinda on her eighth album, West, mourning both the loss of love and the death of her mother. "The songs . . .
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Jeff Mangum :: XFM Radio Session - May 1998
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MP3: Interview
MP3: Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone
MP3: Engine
MP3: King of Carrot Flowers pt. 3
MP3: Oh Comely
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The sporadic New Orleans related posts continue today through Fat Tuesday. See archives for past NOLA features.
Gris Gris is wholly steeped in New Orleans voodoo. It's all candles, black magic and psychedelic swamp blues led by Dr. John under his late sixties/early seventies guise known as "The Nighttripper . . .
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Are you a fan of John Fahey and/or Bert Jansch? If so Pat Gublar, aka P.G. Six, should be high on your radar in 2007. Gublar’s new album, Slightly Sorry, comes out this month on Drag City and is a folk laden affair sure to appeal to followers of the aforementioned legends. Below is the track “Strange . . .
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Our dear friends at Yer Bird will be releasing the next J. Tillman full length, Cancer And Delirium, in April. Details are scarce at the moment, but this release will follow hot on the tails on the much anticipated Yer Bird folk compilation due out in March. Below is an unmastered version of "When I Light Your Darkened Door"
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I love The Breeders. After the Pixies disbanded it was not Frank Black's career I followed with great interest, but Kim Deals. Austin's Yellow Fever sound a bit like Pod era Breeders, and "Katcatcher," the first song off their self released EP, had it's hooks in . . .
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