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 226: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ The Black On White Affair – Auld Lang Syne ++ Michael Kiwanuka – Tell Me A Tale ++ Bill Withers [...]
Aquarium Drunkard presents Black Lips New Year’s Eve at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. It’s going to be nuts. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also purchase tickets here). To enter for a pair, send an email to blacklipsnye AT gmail.com with your full name and [...]
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 225: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ The Walkmen – Christmas Party ++ David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging ++ Iggy Pop – Nightclubbing ++ Gary Numan [...]
The Walkmen have long employed mood and atmosphere into their sound as if they were a sixth member; as such they deftly capture the bittersweet, slightly inebriated, tone of “the holidays.” The below track is their own take on the festivities, courtesy of 2004′s Christmas Party ep. MP3: The Walkmen :: Christmas Party _____________________________________________________________________________________
(Welcome to the seventh installment of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyond. – AD) Usually I have a theme for these “Clifton’s Corner” installments but for this one [...]
Earlier this month we caught up with YETI publisher Mike McGonigal, the man behind one of our favorite compilations of the year — the Tompkins Square release This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982. A continuation of sorts to McGonigal’s initial collaboration with the label, 2009′s Fire In My Bones, the [...]
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. You can find our 2011 Year In Review, here. SIRIUS 224: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Tinariwen – Tenere Taqqim Tossam ++ Crystal Stilts – Precarious Stair [...]
It’s the 14th of December. The egg nog is spiked, the Christmas tree is trimmed and Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, is streaming on Netflix. If you grew up in the 80s this really needs no further explanation. Here is the unsanctioned soundtrack. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow. + After the jump: Download [...]
Here it is — our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2011. As the criteria is comprised of full-lengths only, a number of worthy 7″s, singles and EPs didn’t make the cut. Also, a point was made to not include too many reissues [...]
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 223: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Minutemen – History Lesson Pt. 2 (Acoustic) ++ Minutemen – I Felt Like A Gringo (Acoustic) ++ Polvo – Feather of [...]
