I wrote about the b-side to this track last year (the accompanying video is ace). As previously mentioned, Kindness are from the UK and have thus far released one seven inch. Other than that I know very little. I’m bringing this back up as, due to a recent Talking Heads binge, I’ve been spinning the [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, 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 127: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ The B-52′s – 52 Girls ++ Pylon – Stop It [...]
When someone mentions there’s a new Gil Scott-Heron album coming out, you sit up and take notice. On February 9th, XL Records will release I’m New Here, Scott-Heron’s first new album in over 14 years. Produced by XL’s owner, Richard Russell, the album finds the poet moving through a dense urban soundscape reflective of the [...]
Ojai, CA sits at an elevation of 745 feet above sea level. Seated in the Ojai Valley, the town is an easy hour and a half drive from Los Angeles; the majority of which is spent on the 101 freeway. Heading north, it is only the last fifteen miles or so, when you veer off [...]
Hailing from the Niassa province of Mozambique, singer-songwriter Feliciano dos Santos is little-known outside of his native country, despite receiving praise from the likes of the New York Times, PBS, the Guardian and the BBC. His band, Massuko, generally sings in three regional dialects, Yao, Nyanga and Makua, and occasionally in Portuguese, the country’s official [...]
This Spring Aquarium Drunkard is releasing the follow-up to last year’s RAM On L.A. compilation. Details per album choice and artists to follow. Stay tuned. In the meantime I’m re-posting the 2009 Los Angeles sampler with new cover art (front/back) by our good friend Bobby over at Kitsune Noir. Original compilation notes and 132 MB [...]
Over the course of eight years and three albums Dengue Fever have neatly made a career out of mining the sounds of Cambodian rock & pop prior to the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Being so it’s only fitting they were chosen to curate Electric Cambodia – a fourteen track compilation LP to benefit the [...]
I came across Payom Moogda’s “Tamai Dern Sae” while down driving a desolate strip of the Pacific Coast HWY—somewhere between Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo. California’s coastline, especially north of Santa Barbara, is both extreme and beautiful. This particular trip favored the former as it was well after dark and, except for the scattered [...]
