Aside from scouring various and sundry bins at used vinyl fairs (with a fat bankroll) Top Drawer’s “Song Of A Sinner” can most readily be found on a compilation Now-Again Records released last year entitled Forge Your Own Chains. Like Obsession, another favorite compilation that deals in rare, globe-spanning, psych gems, here, Egon and the [...]
Beach Boys fans: A year and half ago the Rising Storm’s Brendan McGrath put together a compilation of some of his favorite cuts from the latter day Beach Boys records. He called it Beach Bros, and as compilations of this variety go, it did just as intended, re-stoking my interest in some of the Boys [...]
No Jacket Required returns this Friday at the Grandstar in Chinatown with a triple bill of The Warlocks, Summer Darling, and our friends New Mexico (formerly Apes of Wrath). Come hang. Bonus treats: there’s free Firefly Vodka from 8-10pm, so, you know, go nuts. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers. To [...]
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. Oliver Wang, of Soul Sides, is my guest today during the second hour of the show. If missed missed it, be sure and download [...]
Airing the Admiral Radley session today during the first hour of the show. For those of you sans satellite radio I’ve upped the tracks below. These were cut, live, in March in Austin during SXSW — aka, the public unveiling of the Grandaddy/Earlimart union. As always, thanks to our friends at The Ship. MP3: Admiral [...]
Welcome to the latest mixtape installment in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. Today we catch up with DJ O-Dub, aka Oliver Wang of Soul Sides. Since the series began in February Soul Sides has been at the top of my short list. Wang’s taste and knowledge in soul, r&b, [...]
Several years ago our pal Duke, over at You Set The Scene, turned us on to the unearthed/reissued Billy Nicholls LP Would You Believe. With the caveat that, unlike so many other ‘lost masterpieces,’ this was an album that actually delivered on the promise of the hyperbole. I took note and he was right. Hailed [...]
“Slivadiv” from Back Door’s eponymous, super funky, 1972 LP. Just try and not break into “Stand Together.” MP3: Back Door :: Slivadiv ——————— + Download Back Door free via eMusic’s 35 free MP3 no risk trial offer ____________________________________________________________________________________
As Record Collector magazine once noted, the Sea-Ders (who hailed from Beirut, Lebanon) took a decidedly different tack when approaching this thing that is rock & roll. Instead of spiraling into over the top eastern-flavored otherness (like so many of their peers at the time) the Sea-Ders, having landed in London and signed to Decca [...]
A friend passed the reissue of Gabor Szabo’s Jazz Raga off to me at a bar just as the summer began to kick in here in Los Angeles. Unlike much of the country, the season here is a creeper—coming on slowly, all hazy, unpredictable and noir like something out of a Thomas Pynchon novel. As [...]
