Final artist lineup for our day party. Our (unofficial) fiesta is happening Thursday March 15th at Hype Hotel – 504 Trinity Street. Free booze. Stay tuned for RSVP details. Artist lineup, below...
Like Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso before him, Arthur Verocai and his auspicious 1972 debut transcend borders, time and genre. An album full of ‘moments’ – “Na Bo...
I got this slice of early 70s psych-sludge stuck in my head the other day…only the lyrics mentally devolved into something akin to “..shuh nuh nation, sumthin’ sumthin’ expect...
Released last month, Free Again: The 1970 Sessions highlights a fertile, if transient, period in Alex Chilton’s life and career. As the decade began the twenty year old Chilton found himself at...
Take me away right now if you believe. Right now. MP3: Willis Earl Beal :: Wavering Lines (via)
While I can’t really add much to the conversation per the provenance of Bosques’ “Heya“, I can say that when you’re spinning rocknroll records it’s a good one to h...
2012 has been a brutal year for those of us who love soul, jazz, funk and related music. In a short span of time, we’ve lost Jimmy Castor, Johnny Otis, Etta James and Don Cornelius (apologies to anyo...
Three years in the making, Howlin’ Rain’s new record, The Russian Wilds, is out this Tuesday – and if you’re here in Los Angeles their first local gig in as many years is set ...
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 232: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephan...
Just like last time, today’s Videodrome is a clip from a German TV show. Specifically, the show Beat! Beat! Beat! No, not the Beat Club… but the show did have a Shindig/Bandstand style “variety...
It’s Mardi Gras season. Sunday night Aquarium Drunkard Presents Rebirth Brass Band at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also...
Josh Tillman has been writing, recording and releasing albums for a decade now. Like Captain Beefheart and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy before him, it was announced last month that future Tillma...
A bunch of us drove from L.A. to Long Beach last month for night two of Reigning Sound‘s two night run at Alex’s Bar. To say it was exactly the kind of sonic punch in gut we were looking ...
Looped a capella track (reportedly) culled from a 1968 studio session known in fan circles as “Unknown Harmony.” I copped this five or so years ago via the fan-made compilation You’...
Born Marc Feld in 1947, this hour long BBC documentary traces Marc Bolan’s life and career from his London mod beginnings to his death in 1977, two weeks shy of his 30th birthday. Have a watch,...
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 231: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephan...
What do we expect from our beloved artists who are so deeply rooted with a singular, albeit explosive, sound? At this point in their career A Place to Bury Strangers are unbeatable at creating the mo...
Delaney & Bonnie had a lot of friends. So there’s no surprise that an early D&B album cut entered the repertoire of both The Staple Singers and The Flying Burrito Brothers before the duo comm...
SXSW party sneak peak over — stay tuned for more details shortly. – AD
It was somewhere in New Mexico, while out in the desert on a road trip listening the old Nuggets compilation, that a bunch of us got to listing our favorite Dylan homages/ripoffs. Specifically the tr...
(Volume nine of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyon...
Twenty-three track radio session Randy Newman cut while in New York City in August of 1971 for WPLJ FM. Stripped down, solo piano. The session serves to both highlight material culled from NewmanR...
Found this on Dangerous Minds. Fifty minute concert film of an August 8, 1970 performance at the Saint Tropez Music Festival, originally done for broadcast on the French TV program Pop 2. Another exa...
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 230: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephan...
Before Wit’s End, before Catacombs and before the near universal ‘year-end list’ acclaim, Cass McCombs quietly released A in 2004 via the Monitor label. I’ve been reintroducin...
Bill Fay is a name that has crept back into the underground consciousness in recent years due to some unexpected word-of-mouth publicity culminating in a series of commendable reissues of the artist’...
As I mentioned earlier in the month, the Dirty Three have a new LP dropping in February. My copy has been on repeat, but revisiting the Melbourne trio’s last output – 2005′s Cinder ...
Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas, his 12th studio album, will be released a week from today. If I might I offer a suggestion, listen to the album cold – sans any outside editorial critique. You&...
Serge Gainsbourg cut “Requiem pour un Con” in 1968 for Jean Gabin’s film Le Pacha (see clip below). Forty years later Casey Dienel, under the nom de tune, White Hinterland, released...
This shit is intense. My friend Ryan happened upon Sandy Nassan’s Just Guitar while digging at Folk Arts Records in San Diego a few weeks back. Released in 1970, the opening track, “Jam,&...
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