This Wednesday, September 21st, Futurebirds bring their psychedelic country-rock to the Satellite in Silver Lake. Waters and Loch Lomond support. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers. Hit us up in the comments, below, with your name and an email address we can reach you at. Winners notified by Monday afternoon. (purchase [...]
(Welcome to the third installment of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, will be sharing some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyond. – AD) JAZZ: When I was a little kid, just the word alone was [...]
Live “Cracked Actor” during the “Philly” Dogs tour in Los Angeles coupled with Bowie’s twisted ode to Hamlet. Dig the cape. CC: Yorick. Video: David Bowie :: Cracked Actor (Los Angeles, September 5, 1974) _____________________________________________________________________________________
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 210: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Braids-Lemonade ++ Azeda Booth- In Red ++ Baths- Lovely Bloodflow ++ Kurt Vile- Freak Train ++ Tijuana Panthers- Crew Cut [...]
(MTV turned 30 last month. Wow. Any music lover who came of age in the 80s, and most of the 90s, certainly has a positive or negative (or both) opinion of the network and its affect on popular music. In the first of two pieces, AD’s J. Neas looks back at the network, its place [...]
Early rock & roll fetishist, garage devotee, punk rocker, bandleader, impresario: Billy Childish has gone by about as many names and monikers as he has mustaches (and he’s had some good ones on both counts) but at their core, whether recording as Thee Headcoats, The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars or The Buff Medways they all boil [...]
Humor Risk, Cass McCombs second full-length of 2011, is set to release on November 8 via Domino Records. Here’s the first taste, “The Same Thing.” At this rate McCombs may land two slots on my best of 2011 list. MP3: Cass McCombs :: The Same Thing ————————— _____________________________________________________________________________________
A young Nancy Sinatra, seated with the ever-dapper Michael Caine, in 1965 at the Hollywood premiere party for Martin Ritt’s film, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. While this photo has absolutely nothing to do with Sinatra’s bubblegum rendition of the Statler Brothers “Flowers On The Wall,” the two do tend to complement [...]
Working the same vein as Black Merda and Band of Gypsys, 70s psychedelic funk outfit Kool And Together are getting the Heavy Light treatment next month. Forged in south Texas, the group merged raw, thick-grooved, soul and r&b with era-appropriate rock & roll (imagine an underground rag-tag version of Sly & The Family Stone). With [...]
With its picture of the gorgeous Bobbie Gentry superimposed in monochrome over a fallen-down shack, The Delta Sweete promises the peculiarly Southern music that Gentry is known for. Released in 1968, it was Gentry’s second album, coming on the heels of the tremendous success of one of the most memorable, if bizarre, hits of the [...]
