(tap, tap. ahem, this thing on?) Dear good people of New Orleans, we are again proud (and very excited) to be presenting shows in your town on the regular. First up: Bowerbirds with Megafaun at One Eyed Jacks, Saturday night, August 15th. We are giving away tickets to NOLA based AD readers. Hit us up [...]
High school generally gets mixed reviews. Some hated it. Some loved it. But whether you’d rather relive the memories or repress them, it’s hard to argue that adolescence is marked by ambivalence. Maybe your experience might have skewed toward the positive, but it wasn’t absent its fair share of uncertainty. High school is mostly varying [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 105: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ No Age – Boy Void ++ Atlas Sound – Recent [...]
What do Grace Jones, Tom Tom Club, Talking Heads and Sly Dunbar all have in common? Besides all being progenitors in their respective, then, nascent genres, they all recorded at Chris Blackwell’s Bahamanian Compass Point Studio and are part of the Funky Nassau: Compass Point Story compilation. I name checked New York Noise at the [...]
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Yesterday, I received a twitter reply — in response the the sixties garage rock set — hailing the campy greatness that is Screaming Lord Sutch. For horror movie obsessed, kitschy, garage rock at its finest, I couldn’t agree more. Alice Cooper had nothing on this guy. The lord’s best known track, “Jack The Ripper,“ has [...]
Arthur Russell died in 1992. Myth-making being what it is, nearly two decades after his death, the artist is presently more well known than he ever was during his own lifetime. Typical. Over the past few months I’ve noticed an upward swell of folks writing about, and discussing, Russell’s music in a way I had [...]
Like the sixties French Freakbeat compilation, Scarcest Garage Records (pt. 1 & 2) is a compilation I often frequent that has little to no information to be found online. In the 21st century, this fact alone adds yet another element of genuinely non-manufactured retro-cool to its already smoldering 26 tracks. This is herky-jerky garage rock [...]
One of the more interesting online novelties to pop up this summer has been the kickoff of Beck’s ongoing Record Club. If you have yet to check it out: in a nutshell, Beck invites a bunch of his musician friends over to jam for a day covering an album track-by-track, then releases the results piecemeal [...]
As I hinted at last month, if I was to really break it down, the majority of my annual ‘music spend’ goes towards various genre compilations; largely due to residing just a few miles from Amoeba Music. This, trust me, is both a blessing and curse as a number of the more interesting comps often [...]
