NEW YORK - Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits “Mustang Sally” and “In The Midnight Hour,” died of a heart attack Thursday in a Reston, Va., hospital, according to his management company. He was 64. - via A.P.
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Sad news. I have gotten down to Pickett’s music many, many times…the essence […]
Archive for January, 2006
Friday, January 20th, 2006
Friday, January 20th, 2006
“I am going to make it through this year if it kills me”
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-Tallahassee-
MP3: The Mountain Goats :: Tallahassee
MP3: The Mountain Goats :: First Few Desparate Hours
-The Sunset Tree-
MP3: The Mountain Goats :: You Or Your Memory
MP3: The Mountain Goats :: Up The Wolves
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Thanks to some kind soul on Craig’s List, I have a ticket to see Kozelek’s sold-out show here in Los Angeles at The Troubadour Saturday night. Performing solo, here are some tracks in his catalog I would love to hear should he take requests.
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Mark Kozelek - Up To My Neck In YouMP3: Sun […]
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
I’d like to add my two cents on Doveman, which you may have seen around the block on some of the other music blogs the past week. Look for my review of The Acrobat in the next week, but in the meantime do check out some of the tunes up on their Web site available […]
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Alejandro is the man. Sometimes — after many beers and tequila — I like to ponder moving to Austin so I could hear more of his music Live, well that…and the barbeque. California’s ‘Que is a joke. He’s on the mend, and back on the road, so go see him and eat BBQ.
Fri 01.27.06 Birmingham, […]
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
The Sparks family’s 2003 album Singing Bones features their usual heady brew of black humor, death, revenge, murder, insanity, white trash, etc., all wrapped up in the guise of dark, sparse alt. country. Spook city.
DOWNLOAD:MP3: The Handsome Family :: Forgotten Lake MP3: The Handsome Family :: Song of a Hundred Toads ———-Amazon: The Handsome […]
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
I typically let the music speak for it’s self in this series, but the soundtrack to The Squid and the Whale has been one of my favorite compilations in the past few years. As carefully crafted as your favorite mix-tape. Here are the three Bert Jansch downbeat-folk selections off the OST.
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Bert Jansch - Courting […]
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
When The Brokedown give you a heads up on rising new artists, you best take notice. Such is the case with Los Angeles based singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Scott Claassen. Embracing both the quirkiness of early Tom Waits, and songrwritng prowess of Warren Zevon, this guy is one to watch. Like Athens, GA’s HAM1, Claassen is offering […]
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
File under: Country & Western heartbreak.
Gustavo Santaolalla’s instrumental score to Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain frames the film as much as Lee’s sweeping Wyoming cinematography. Much like his work on 2004’s The Motorcycle Diaries, Santaolalla’s work is as enjoyable off the screen as on. DOWNLOAD:MP3: Gustavo Santaolalla :: Brokeback Mountain I MP3: Gustavo Santaolalla :: […]
Monday, January 16th, 2006
After a long hiatus, Idaho’s Built To Spill are back April 11th with the release of their fourth Warner Brothers album You In Reverse. Their MySpace page features a new song…I ripped the stream using Audacity – listen below.
“When Built To Spill wanted to find out what their music sounded like they locked themselves […]
Monday, January 16th, 2006
“The Mezzanine was produced by Vic Chesnutt, who has worked with Durrett on her previous album, “Husk”. The new album was recorded by Andy Baker (Macha, Japancakes, Glands) in Athens, GA. “
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Liz Durrett :: The Mezzanine———-www.lizdurrett.com
Monday, January 16th, 2006
The always excellent Dreams of Horses turned me onto Alec’s solo work: Read what Dreams of Horses says about these tracks here. The below demos are off the Alec Ounsworth Web site.
DOWNLOAD:MP3: We/Should/Drop/Like/FliesMP3: Wide/Awake
MP3: Details/of/the/War(early)
MP3: Cecil/Stick/With/The/Story
MP3: Underwater
MP3: Poor/Humpty/Dumpty
MP3: Wings/of/Stone
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Perusing the list of bands slated for the upcoming 2006 SXSW festival , I noticed The Silos were again on this year’s roster.
These folks somehow get overlooked in the whole “genesis of alt.country” debate. Revisionist history I suppose. Here are a couple of tracks off the re-issue of their 1987 album Cuba.
Sample more Silos […]
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
DOWNLOAD:MP3: The Harvey Girls :: Girls SingMP3: The Harvey Girls :: Practicing———-www.theharveygirls.comwww.myspace.com/theharveygirls
