4th April 2012: Dawes / Dawes in Session / Playlist

Featured: Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong (Indochine)


No, not The Doors. Dawes.

They may yet to have step foot on Australian shores, but burgeoning Americana quartet Dawes are guaranteed to leave as adopted sons following their inaugural visit this April.

The young LA band are steeped in the rich tradition of the Laurel Canyon sound, harking back to the glory days of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s when folk like Jackson Browne and The Eagles ruled the AM airwaves, their heart-on-sleeve imagery slathered in gorgeous melodies, and when traits like ‘sincerity’ and ‘beauty’ weren’t considered dirty words in the rock n roll lexicon.

A glance at who the band have already been cavorting with in their young lifespan will speak volumes of where Dawes are coming from: they were handpicked to be the backing band for The Band’s Robbie Robertson on his recent (and all-too-rare) solo excursion, they’ve recorded with members of Wilco, and both Benmont Tench and Jackson Browne himself appear on their sterling sophomore album Nothing Is Wrong, the long-player which came in at #35 on the US Rolling Stone’s prestigious Album Of The Year list for 2011.

But it’s the live sphere where they’re touted to be the real deal, and Australian audiences get to find out for themselves when Dawes come to the country to appear at the 2012 instalment of the East Coast Blues And Roots Festival alongside brothers-in-arms such as Justin Townes Earle, Steve Earle and My Morning Jacket, as well as heading to Boogie festival in rural Victoria.

Catch them live in session for Sideways Through Sound, April 4, on 2ser 107.3

Dawes

Radio Playlist 4th April 2012

Poor Moon - Illusion [Illusion EP]

Sun Kil Moon - Unlit Hallway [April]

Dawes - My Way Back Home [Nothing Is Wrong]

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The See See - Gold & Honey [GPS 7"]

The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows [Revolver]

Pond - Dig Brother [Beard, Wives, Denim]

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Dawes - Million Dollar Bill [Nothing Is Wrong]

Dawes - How Far We've Come [Live on Sideways Through Sound]

Dawes - A Little Bit Of Everything [Live on Sideways Through Sound]

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The Morning After Girls - Lazy Greys [Shadows Evolve]

Jason Simon - The Dust Does Blow [S/T]

Spiritualized - Hey Jane [Advance from Sweet Heart Sweet Light]

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Dawes - So Well [Nothing Is Wrong]

Ampersand - 20 Seas 4 Oceans [GPS 7"]

Delta Spirit - Devil Knows You're Dead [History From Below]

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Underlights - Now That You're In Love [EP]

28th March 2012: Nathan Salsburg / Playlist

Featured: Nathan Salsburg - Affirmed (No Quarter)

Louisville, Kentucky's Nathan Salsburg is a folklorist, producer, and presenter of vernacular music for East Village Radio, the Drag City imprint Twos & Fews, and the Alan Lomax Archive, among other outlets.

With his first solo record as a performer entitled Affirmed, after the 1978 winner of horse racing's Triple Crown he enters a wholly new interaction with the corpus of American (and British) musical folklore.

Nathan Salsburg

Radio Playlist 21st March 2012 (HERE)



Chuck Johnson - Swallow The Sun [A Struggle, Not A Thought]
Peter Broderick - Sickness, Bury [Home]
Nathan Salsburg - The False True Love [Affirmed]
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Cheval Sombre - Couldn't Do [Trensmat 7"]
Shearwater - Insolence [Animal Joy]
House Of Fire - Crystal Gazing [The Morning Light EP]
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Nathan Salsburg - Eight Belles Dreamt The Devil Was Dead [Affirmed]
The Yellow Moon Band - Focused [Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World]
Old English - Particles [EP]
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The Woodbine & Ivy Band - The Roaming Journeyman [S/T]
Aaron Sheppard - Revelation's Reach [Leverage]
Nathan Salsburg - Affirmed [Affirmed]
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James Sera - Sweets [Demo]
The Owl Service - Time Is Ripe [v/a Echoes From The Mountain]
James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg - Scarborough Fore & Aft [Avos]

21st March 2012: Wooden Shjips & interview / Moon Duo / Playlist

Featured: Wooden Shjips / Moon Duo 

Wooden Shjips

Radio Playlist 21st March 2012 (HERE)

The New Mystikal Troubadours - Fragments Of A Classical Afternoon [Second Spring]
Moon Duo - Seer {Psychic Ills Remix} [Mazes Remied]
Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride [S/T]
Sand Pebbles - Dark Magic {the hell broth boil & bubble mix} [Single]
Moonwood - Trans Lunar Express III [Trans Lunar Express]
Eat Lights: Become Lights - Bound For Magic Mountain [Heavy Electrics]
Wooden Shjips - Phonograph [7"]
Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride / Crossing [Live on WFMU 91.1FM New York - November 29, 2011]
Wooden Shjips - Wiking Stew {aka Red Krayola-ing - Sonic Boom Remix} [Remixes 12"]
The Heads - Taken Too Much [Relaxing With The Heads]
Wooden Shjips - Crossing {Andy Weatherall Remix} [Remixes 12"]
Mystery Jets - Dreaming Of Another World {Wooden Shjips Remix} [7"]
Wooden Shjips - Lights Out [Peking Lights Remix} [7"]
Wooden Shjips - Black Smoke Rise [West]
Bad Liquor Pond - The Crescent Ship [Blue SmokeOrange Sky]
Spacemen 3 - Feelin' Just Fine {head full of shit} [Recurring]
Moon Duo - Seer [Mazes]
Psychic Ills - Sungaze [Hazed Dreams]

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14th March 2012: Hiss Golden Messenger / Playlist

Featured: Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon (Tompkins Square)

Hiss Golden Messenger is Durham, North Carolina-based songwriter M.C. Taylor, in partnership with multi-instrumentalist and recordist Scott Hirsch, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The pair have been playing music together for nearly two decades. 'Poor Moon' is the fourth proper Hiss Golden Messenger release, and serves as the best summation thus far of Taylor's lone journeys through the dark night of the soul. "God is good, and it's understood," he sings. "But he moves in mysterious ways."

Taylor and Hirsch are clear that they draw inspiration from a variety of sources, including the blue-collar mysticism of Ronnie Lane and Richard & Linda Thompson; the high haunted atmospheres of John Martyn and Talk Talk; and American vernacular music writ large (from Archie Brownlee to the Staple Singers; Charlie Poole to Merle Haggard). Yet for all that, 'Poor Moon' is a singular vision, one that only two companions could have made after twenty years of music-making, revelry, and repent. 'Poor Moon' sounds like nothing so much as Hiss Golden Messenger.

Taylor and Hirsch are joined on Poor Moon by regular collaborators Terry Lonergan, Nathan Bowles (Black Twig Pickers; Pelt); Hans Chew (D. Charles Speer & the Helix); Matt Cunitz (Brightblack Morning Light); Tom Heyman (The Court & Spark); visual artist Alex Jako and others. The result is a lush yet concise album, recorded in one week, that has been championed (unsolicited, we might add) with effusive praise in Interview Magazine, UNCUT, The Guardian, and NPR.

Tompkins Square will also release a limited edition 7" of "Jesus Shot Me In The Head" from 'Poor Moon' b/w the unreleased "Jesus Dub", on Record Store Day, April 21, 2012.

Hiss Golden Messenger

Radio Playlist March 14th 2012 (HERE)

Steven John Hopkins - Almost Dawn (S/T)

Hiiragi Fukuda - Man, Woman & Marshall Amp (The Stable At Dawn)

Hiss Golden Messenger - Jesus Shot Me In The Head (Poor Moon)

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Father John Misty - Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings (1 track album advance)

Brightblack Morning Light - Black Feather Wishes Rise (S/T)

J. Tillman - Crosswinds (Daytrotter Studio Session, 14-04-2010)

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Hiss Golden Messenger - Super Blue (two days clean) (Poor Moon)

The Soundcarriers - Rolling On (Celeste)

The Fauns - Fragile (S/T)

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Black Mountain - Angels (CBC Radio 3, 24-04-2009)

The Sand Pebbles - Long, Long Ago (feat. Britta Phillips) (Dark Magic)

Hiss Golden Messenger - Westering (Poor Moon)

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Yair Yona - This One's For You, Glenn (World Behind Curtains)

Glenn Jones & Jack Rose - Miss May's Place (Live in Brooklyn 2008)

Jack Rose - Sun Dogs / Black Pearls (John Peel Session BBC Radio 1, 06-09-2004)

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Charlie Parr & The Black Twig Pickers - I Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down (Glory In The Meeting House)

Hiss Golden Messenger - Dreamwood (Poor Moon)

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7th March 2012: Roky Erickson & interview / Playlist

Featured: Roky Erickson

Just before Roky comes to Australia to play for the very first time ever, Thee Sonic Assassin had the opportunity of talking to the Godfather of Psychedelic Rock...

Roky Erickson was engaging and insightful and an absolute gentleman!!

Tune in next week to hear about break-up songs, Janis Joplin, taking it easy and how the council nearly knocked his house down... amongst other things!!

Roky Erickson

Radio Playlist 7th March 2012 (HERE)

13^th Floor Elevators - (I've Got) Levitation (Live) (Sign Of The Three Eyed Man)

13^th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me (The Psychedelic Sounds Of...)

13^th Floor Elevators - You Really Got Me (Live) (Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco 1966)

13^th Floor Elevators - Reverberation (Doubt) (The Psychedelic Sounds Of...)

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Light Is Faster Than Sound (S/T)

13^th Floor Elevators - Rollercoaster (Headstone: The Contact Sessions)

13^th Floor Elevators - Livin' On (Bull Of The Woods)

Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - Goodbye Sweet Dreams (True Love Cast Out All Evil)

Roky Erickson & The Black Angels - Two Headed Dog (Live) (Austin Psych Fest 2008)

The Black Angels - Bad Vibrations (Phosphene Dream)

Roky Erickson & The Black Angels - Rollercoaster (Live) (Austin Psych Fest 2008)

Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - John Lawman (True Love Cast Out All Evil)

Roky Erickson with Billy Gibbons - You're Gonna Miss Me (Live) (Austin City Limits 11-12-2007)

Roky Erickson with Billy Gibbons - Don't Shake Me Lucifer (Live) (Austin City Limits 11-12-2007)

ZZ Top - Reverberation (v/a Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute To Roky Erickson)

REM - I Walked With A Zombie (v/a Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye: A Tribute To Roky Erickson)

Roky Erickson & Clementine Hall - Splash 1 (v/a Epitaph For A Legend)

13th Floor Elevators - You Don't Know (How Young You Are) (Live) (Sign Of The Three Eyed Man)

Roky Erickson - Don't Slander Me (Clear Night For Love EP)

13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House (Easter Everywhere)

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