I’ve been pulling heavily from several Now-Again Records releases from past year on the radio show. I mentioned Witch’s Introduction, here, but this related Zambian monster of an LP, Amanaz’s Africa, has been getting just as much play. Speaking of Now-Again, they just released an Indonesian psychedelic-funk anthology that I’ll most definitely be endorsing on [...]

The Dirtbombs new record, Party Store, is a collection of nine covers from the Detroit techno scene of the 1980s— all done up Dirtbombs style with fuzzed out guitars and attitude. Good stuff to be sure, but more than anything it prompted my revisiting the band’s unfuckablewith, second album, Ultraglide In Black. Released in 2001, [...]

Taken from Confined To Soul, Ike Turner’s 1973 record with the Family Vibes (alternately/previously known as the Kings of Rhythm), “Garbage Man” serves as both an example of Turner at his funkiest and, yes, funniest. It’s worth a listen for the the clavinet work alone…or, as I so eloquently described it to a friend recently, [...]

This month saw both the reissue of Michael Chapman’s cult favorite Fully Qualified Survivor (via Light In The Attic) and Trainsong: Guitar Compostions 1967-2010 (via Tompkins Square). We are giving away copies of both records (vinyl and CD) to AD readers. To enter, leave a comment below with your name, and a valid email address [...]

First taste from the upcoming debut of Old Calf out on No Quarter Records April 12th. Old Calf is Ned Oldham (brother of Will) who we last featured in December of 2008 with the Anomoanon recording. MP3: Old Calf :: Bonnie Cuckoo ——————— ____________________________________________________________________________________

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. SIRIUS 182: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Akron/Family – So It Goes ++ Megafaun – Lazy Suicide ++ The Black Keys – [...]

This Youngstown, Ohio band hit pay dirt in 1967 with their version of the Isley Brothers’ classic “Nobody But Me.” The group featured Mel Pachuta (bass guitar), Ting Markulin (rhythm guitar), Mike Tatman (drummer) and Richard Belley (lead guitar). Prior to Evolutions the group had released a split LP with the Mammals and a legit [...]

Two decades after its network demise, Twin Peaks fervor has once again gripped Los Angeles of late; most recently in the form of this month’s In the Trees: Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition at Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown LA. All manner of the cult show’s eccentricities were on hand, from the slavish near-worship of [...]

Lazer Guided Melodies, the gorgeous debut album from space-rock pioneers Spiritualized, gets a well-deserved reissue. As unflashy and traditional as the packaging looks it still reminds me of the floating ghosts that inhabit each song, and I imagine those centerpieces to be Jason Pierce and Kate Radley as their relationship is the album’s central focus. [...]

(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) There is an understood snarl to much of Alex Chilton’s latter work beginning with Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers. While it was certainly detectable on the group’s first two LPs, it was in no way so pronounced…so visceral. “My Rival,” [...]