Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul, and Avant-garde from Arizona, 1951-1971 Border hawks and radical sheriffs may unjustly define Arizona’s national profile, but there are powerful vibrations still at play in the dry air of the Sonoran Desert – echoes of old Hoozdo Hahoodzo — bouncing off the rocks, through the canyons and [...]
Our east coast compatriots, NYC’s Chances With Wolves return with their second serving for Aquarium Drunkard: Hotel Motel – A Mixtape. As always, it’s a heady/essential brew. The CWW squad is in L.A. this week launching the inaugural issue of their new zine at Family Books (tonight) on Fairfax — with a DJ set immediately [...]
Once again, we touch down in Portland, OR with the fourth installment of our Ghost Capital series. Helmed by Nick Barbery with an ear bent toward the obscure, esoteric and out-of-print, Ghost Capital digs globally mining the secret shafts of psych, folk, blues and beyond. Twenty-four track download, notes, and playlist after the jump…
Extra width / Winter weight. Country gospel soul. Est. 1975. Direct download, below. Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first ten transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 11 Clover – Mr. Moon Daniel Moore – May, 16, 1975 Goose Creek Symphony – A Satisfied Mind [...]
Astral blues. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Green swamp fuzz from the 1970s. Direct download, below. Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first nine transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 10 Intro (Bob Brown “I’m Bolieve” [...]
Turquoise Wisdom here with another installment of my Sad Seasons mixtape series for AD. This time around we’re thinking about winter. ps- I have officially joined the future and started a ‘lil website to regularly post jams from my record collection, that’s here: playitasitlathes.com — and I’m also now here: @turquoisewisdom and soundcloud. Onward! zc/tw Download: [...]
Each December, Brian Reese at Big Rock Candy Mountain deals out a month’s worth of holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. Keeping it loose, he trims his tree with Red Simpson and Mae West, then tops it off with The Sonics, Hank Snow [...]
More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Direct download, below; subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first eight transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. Imagery courtesy of d norsen. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 9 Johnny Thunder – I’m Alive The Kinks – [...]
