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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: GIL SCOTT-HERON / Twenty (Article)
Monday, May 5, 2014
Gil Scott-Heron saw something of a rebirth toward the end of his life. 2010's I’m New Here proved to be his swan song. It was a reminder that he was there. One that served to bring him, once again, to the fore. Save one popular song, his enormity had been felt most in other people’s work, and almost anonymously for the casual listener. It’s not a matter of the quality of his own work. His catalog is packed with spoken word, jazz and blues epics. Every song feels like it should be playing over a Super 8 montage, cut between him howling on a dark, smoky stage, and depictions of the life he’s
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Digital Roundup: 4/30/2014 (Article)
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Body Count, Body Count: Why not kick things off controversially, right? Ah, it seems like only yesterday that Ice-T turned the world at large against him when he decided to try his hand at heavy metal and, with his new band Body Count, released a song called “Cop Killer.” The track was always intended as a protest song rather than any sort of call to arms, and when Ice-T grew annoyed by the media attention surrounding the sound outweighing its musical merit, he had the Body Count album recalled and reissued without the offending track…and, for better or worse, that remains the case with this
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: The Rock*A*Teens: A Primer (Article)
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Last week I had Okkervil River's Will Sheff guest on my SIRIUS XM radio show. I've been a fan of Sheff's music for a decade, but that's not what eventually connected us. Earlier this year, I learned, via this excellent piece he wrote, that Sheff and I share a certain obsession with a long defunct band from the 90s known as...The Rock*A*Teens. Go ahead, say their name out loud. I know you want to. It turns out the band is coming out of retirement this summer for a set of dates between May and August, from their home in Atlanta up to NYC. In fact, Sheff will be opening their show at (Le) Poisson
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Digital Roundup 4/23/14 (Article)
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
New this week in the iTunes Rhino Catalog Room: Long John Baldry, Boogie Woogie: The Warner Brothers Recordings: It may be a bit hard for British music fans to accept that folks on these shores are likely to be more familiar with Long John Baldry’s voice from giving voice to Dr. Robotnik on the animated Sonic the Hedgehog series than from any of his songs, but it’s almost certainly true: Baldry might’ve had a #1 song in the UK with his 1967 single “Let the Heartaches Begin,” but his highest-charting U.S. single, “Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” only earned a
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The Folk Box: ‘the kind of album that changes lives’ (Article)
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
by Ted Olson The Folk Box is the kind of album that changes lives—I know this because it changed mine, assuredly for the better. And over the years I have heard that The Folk Box played an important formative role in the lives of many other people. About the time I was learning to stay upright on a bicycle (1967), I discovered my parents’ record collection, which contained a host of titles—classical and jazz, mostly—that held little appeal to a six-year-old. But one album captured my interest—a thick box set with an appealingly rustic, unpretentious front cover. Somehow that cover spoke to me
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Live from New York, It’s... King Tut? (Article)
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
36 years ago today, a certain wild and crazy guy took to the stage of Studio 8H at 30 Rock to perform a rockin’ tribute to an Egyptian pharaoh named Tutankhamen. If you’re familiar with the song in question – we’re talking ‘bout “King Tut,” of course – then you may be interested to know that the elaborate performance that unfolded on Saturday Night Live on April 22, 1978 was one that apparently surprised even the man who performed it. (Check out the original performance here.) In the pages of Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, it’s said
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This Is Planet Earth... Day (Article)
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
It’s April 22nd, and everybody knows today is Earth Day…well, except maybe for Dramarama fans, but we’ll cut them some slack because it’s a hell of a lot harder to find a rhyme for “second” than it is for “first.” There’s also the fact that “What Are We Doing Here?” is a really great, Beatle-esque song that’s really well-intentioned and shouldn’t be written off just because they were a day off. Besides, all that matters is this: if you’ve got even a passing interest in environmental protection, then today’s the day to demonstrate your commitment to the cause. (You can find a list of Earth Day
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Tinariwen Twenty (Article)
Monday, April 21, 2014
Tinariwen’s music speaks for Kel Tamashek, the Tuaregs, and their desert home, the “tenere.” Formed in 1979, the group's latest LP (Emmaar) is a continuation of Tinariwen’s rhythmic, and at times incredibly psychedelic, Saharan desert blues. Unlike previous output, the new album was recorded in the U.S., specifically Joshua Tree, California -- the dusty cradle of “cosmic” American music -- due to violent political instability in the band’s home in Northern Mali. A return to form following their previous (mostly) acoustic album, Tassili, Emmaar is a heady, droning, affair aided and abetted by
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On Saturday, Rhino Will Seriously Rock Your Record Store Day (Article)
Thursday, April 17, 2014
This Saturday is Record Store Day, but it’s highly unlikely that this information is any sort of revelation to you, since we suspect that most folks who’d frequent a record label’s website are the same sort of folks who’d have circled the third Saturday of April on their calendar the day they bought their calendar. But, hey, just in case you’re one of the few who’ve been steered this way by a friend and have no clue what we’re on about, we’ll go ahead and offer a few paragraphs from the event’s official website – and, yes, it is www.recordstoreday.com – to fill you in: Record Store Day was
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Digital Roundup: 4/16/14 (Article)
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station (1974) / Release Yourself (1974): Man, could there possibly be a better opening track to Graham Central Station’s self-titled debut? When you consider how long the band’s fans have been waiting for this material to get the digital-release treatment, it’s almost a little too apropos to hear them singing, “We’ve been waiting for so long / Waiting to play for you some of our songs.” Well, now’s their chance, as both of the band’s 1974 albums, Graham Central Station and Release Yourself, have joined Rhino’s digital catalog, giving you new access to
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