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Happy Anniversary: Book of Love, Book of Love (Article)
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
29 years ago today, the band Book of Love made a whole lot of synthpop fans feel so good when they released their self-titled debut album on Sire Records. Formed in Philadelphia, Book of Love featured Susan Ottaviano on vocals, backed by a trio of keyboardists / backing vocalists: Jade Lee, Ted Ottaviano, and Lauren Roselli, with Lee chiming in on acoustic and electronic percussion and Ottaviano offering a bit of piano, melodica, and - wait for it - tubular bells. The band got a big boost in profile when they secured the sweet gig of opening for Depeche Mode in 1985, so you can imagine that
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Sounds: From Ghana To Memphis (Article)
Monday, March 23, 2015
Today we kick off with the original 1970s version of Ghanian highlife guitar legend Ebo Taylor's "Love And Death." As the polyrhythms fade out things quickly turn hoodoo with Nora Dean's "Angie La La (Ay Ay Ay)" - a thick slice of Jamaican psychedelia from 1969. Up next is Tom Waits take on Skip Spence's " Books of Moses." With its ambient indeterminate clanking amidst pouring rain and thunder, the Spence original is already otherworldly. Here, Waits further injects the track with a kind of backwoods Pentecostal deliverance sounding as if snake handling and Glossolalia are imminent. Bo Diddley
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Bob Lefsetz: Welcome To My World - "Dylan Covers" (Article)
Friday, March 20, 2015
BLOWIN' IN THE WIND Peter, Paul & Mary We had no idea who Bob Dylan was, but Peter, Paul & Mary were STARS! If you were Jewish and went to summer camp... No, scratch that, if you went to summer camp at all, I heard this at Boy Scout camp, you knew "Blowin' In The Wind." The folk boom was in full bloom, everyone was playing a guitar, especially counselors and religious leaders, and the masses sang along. That's right, rather than rapping, believing they were going to be stars, the youth of yesterday sang along to songs with melodies, changes and meaningful lyrics, rejoicing in the pure pleasure
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Digital Roundup: 3/18/15 (Article)
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
It’s another week where we’ve only got one artist’s work being added to the digital catalog, but they’re a classic group from the early rock ‘n’ roll era, and between the two albums we’ve made available – one studio release and one compilation – you get a pretty good idea of who these guys were, what they sounded like, and why they’re still remembered fondly six decades after their greatest chart success. The Cadillacs, Twisting with The Cadillacs: When Richie Unterberger reviewed this album for AllMusic.com, he described it as being “like a greatest-hits compilation (leaving aside the fact
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Rhino Interview: Jody Stephens of Big Star (Article)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The tale of Big Star is one filled with critical acclaim and commercial indifference, but thanks to the three albums the band released during the '70s - 1972's #1 Record, 1974's Radio City, and 1978's Third / Sister Lovers - the band has gradually found a devoted fanbase over the years. Regrettably, the majority of its membership is no longer here to appreciate it: of the foursome who founded Big Star, guitarist Chris Bell died in a car crash in 1978, frontman Alex Chilton suffered a fatal heart attack in March 2010, and bassist Andy Hummel succumbed to cancer only a few months later, in July
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Rhino Playlist: Streams of Poguetry (Article)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Being as it’s a holiday, you probably figured we’d be delivering a playlist of some sort tied to the various Irish shenanigans going on today, but we’ll be honest: the green beer’s already flowing, and we’re probably cutting out of here a little early to pay homage to the always intoxicating St. Patrick. That doesn’t mean we didn’t still make the time to put together a playlist, though. It just means that we kind of piggybacked on today’s other post and put together a collection of some of our favorite Pogues songs, the majority of which can be found – what’s this?!? – on the 180-gram vinyl
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Doing a 180: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with The Pogues (Article)
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Get Red Roses For Me Get Poguetry in Motion Get Peace And Love Get Hell's Kitchen When it comes to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, a few things should always be constants: green beer (unless you’re an alcoholic), corned beef and cabbage (unless you’re a vegan, in which case hold the corned beef), and The Pogues. Okay, if you prefer your music less chaotic and your vocals more comprehensible, then perhaps Shane MacGowan and the gang aren’t your cup of tea, but for those of you who’ve come to appreciate the merits of falling from grace with God, then put on your finest greenery and go pick up our
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Steely Dan: Twenty (Article)
Monday, March 16, 2015
This one goes out to all the Steely Dan freaks, nerds and weirdos out there -- you know who you are -- and to the haters as well (you, too, know who you are). One of the more divisive groups out there, Steely Dan are slated to play Coachella next month, As a massive fan, I'm curious to see how this will go down. This week's playlist is made up of twenty Dan favorites, pre-Two Against Nature "comeback." ABOUT AQUARIUM DRUNKARD Based in Los Angeles, Justin Gage is the founder of the long-running, eclectic music blog Aquarium Drunkard. In addition to the blog you can catch his weekly radio show
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Rhino Historic Tours: David Bowie and Iggy Pop (Article)
Friday, March 13, 2015
38 years ago today, Iggy Pop kicked off the North American leg of his so-called Idiot World Tour, a jaunt which featured a band that included three future members of Tin Machine: Tony Sales on bass, Hunt Sales on drums, and on keyboards and backing vocals, the one and only David Bowie. Arriving in New York after completing a six-pack of dates in London with the Vibrators as his openers, the esteemed Mr. Pop and his buddy Mr. Bowie flew to New York, where – per the invaluable website BowieGoldenYears.com – they met up with Mr. and Mrs. David Johanssen and caught a performance by the Patti Smith
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Rhino Factoids: Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, and Ivor Novello (Article)
Friday, March 13, 2015
30 years ago today, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure won the Ivor Novello Award for Best-Selling A-Side for the charitable endeavor known as Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” One of the most memorable accumulations of musical talent for a single song ever (and certainly a cast of characters which better defined its era than “We Are the World”), the original version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was a massive hit and became an instant classic, one which continues to be hauled out every holiday season without fail, whether you want to hear it or not. It also ends up being revisited with a
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