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Ry Cooder :: Chavez Ravine

It's no secret Ry Cooder has been making great records for decades. 2005's Chavez Ravine is no exception, ranking with his excellent Paris, TX

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AD Exclusive :: Franz Nicolay Interview

Franz Nicolay -- NYC musician-about-town sits down with the Drunkard to discuss (among other things): the NYC collective of musicians known as Anti-Social Music, The Hold Steady’s recent success and their involvement playing CO’s Columbine High School, the Internet and music, his favorite albums of 2005, etc. etc. etc. Read on…get enlightened.------AD: Can you give us a bit of your background — what . . .

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Soundtrack Rewind 2005 :: Wrong-Eyed Jesus

My favorite soundtrack to a film this year goes to last summer's documentary Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus. Alt-country musician, champion of the redneck-underground, Jim White steers us through the deep South connecting the various threads that make . . .

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AD Exclusive :: Fall Records Interview

2005 saw the release of Page France's 2nd LP Hello, Dear Wind. As one of my favorite albums of the year, it piqued my interest in the band's label, Fall Records. Based out of Baltimore, MD, Fall Records is owned and operated by Chris Fredericks. In the following Q & A, Chris discusses the beginnings of the label, it's . . .

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Nic Garcia :: The desperate Ones (2006)

This is the final installment of my interview with Yer Bird Record's Morgan King. Following up the label's excellent debut of Sounds Like Fall's The Wolf Is At The Door, 2006 will see the release of Nic Garcia's The Desperate Ones. Look for a review in '06 -- in the meantime . . .

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Season’s Greetings :: From Sufjan Stevens

DOWNLOAD:MP3: Sufjan Stevens - It's Christmas, Be Glad!MP3: Sufjan Stevens - Silent NightMP3: Sufjan Stevens - We're Goin' To The Country

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Elephant Micah :: Hindu Approximately

"In 2006 we’ll release the recording hindu windmills on time-lag records....the formats will be cd and 12” vinyl...the topic, if you use your imagination, will be the wheel of human suffering...its foil, to come at later date, will be elephant micah plays the songs of bible birds...(a collection of songs originally performed by the 1980s gospel/bluegrass outcasts Hansen's Bible Birds)"DOWNLOAD:MP3: become a member or log in.

Bob Dylan To Host XM Radio Show

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Legendary folk rocker Bob Dylan will start a new career as a radio DJ when he launches a new weekly music show on XM Satellite Radio next March. The station said on Tuesday the show would feature music hand-picked by Dylan, writer of some of the enduring classics of popular music since the 1960s such as "Mr Tambourine Man," "Like a Rolling Stone" and "The Times . . .

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Dame Satan :: Ghost Mansion

I have a real affection for spooky, off-kilter, weird southern folk and country. The romantic in me wants to think the genre might be what you would hear in a modern-day Faulkner screen adaptation. Dame Satan are making this kind of music. These guys, like myself, are Southern ex-pats living on the West coast. Ghost Mansion was recorded this past Fall in their adopted hometown of San Francisco. If you consider yourself a fan . . .

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Great Lake Swimmers :: Debut Eponymous LP

By the 2005 album Bodies And Minds, Tony Dekker's songwriting vehicle Great Lake Swimmers, had become a fully realized touring band. Not the case with his 2003 self-titled release. Recorded in an abandoned grain silo, this album showcases Dekker's voice and guitar, save a couple of . . .

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