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18 classic songs from the Velvet Underground catalog performed by The Feelies at White Eagle Hall/ Jersey City, NJ - October 13, 2018. Includes VU standards "Sweet Jane," "Rock & Roll" and "I'm Waiting for the Man" as well as rarely covered material like "I Heard Her Call My Name" and "That's the Story of My Life."

The often-elusive Alex Chilton was in New York City for a couple of gigs at the late, great East Village dive Coney Island High, with bassist Ron Easley and drummer Richard Dworkin. The trio had enough of a groove on playing mostly vintage soul tunes that they went into a Manhattan recording studio, Sear Sound, and kept the music rolling. In a single night, they cut 19 cover tunes, and Alex produced the session himself. That sort of approach was common in the studios of Memphis, Tennessee and Muscle Shoals, Alabama during the classic era of the sixties soul, though this think-on-your-feet, overdub-free style is an anomaly today. For the Memphis born-and-bred Alex, that's the way he always liked it. Alex and his cohorts had a list of songs for Set, based on what they'd been cooking up on stage, but, as Alex put it, "we thought of a few more once we got there." As he recently explained to a British reporter, "I had probably ten or twelve in mind when we went into the studio. As the evening wore on, band members would suggest tunes to do, and we'd do them. I think we only did more than one take of two or three of the songs we did, and I don't think we used any second takes on the album. There are all different approaches to do things. Over the years, I have come to think spontaneity and doing things live as much as possible is worth something. Somehow, when you layer things by overdubbing them, that seems to lose an element of spontaneity and live that's very important." The material on Setranges from the modern to the classic, the playful to the sexy. It stays in an R&B groove, save for a trio of jazzy numbers ("April In Paris," "There Will Never Be Another You," "Shiny Stockings") and a country tune from the even more elusive Gary Stewart ("Single Again") What links the lineup is that all these tuners are part of Alex's personal hit parade. "I know a few scholars of old R&B," he explains, "they play things for me to get me going. Plus I remember things from my teenage years, stuff that was even obscure then." Growing up in Memphis, Alex would listen to deejay George Klein on Whbo-am, would sign off each night with Jesse Blevin's "Goodnight My Love" -which reappears here as Alex's send-off to Set. "Lipstick Traces," written by Allen Toussaint but published under his mother's name, is another youthful fave. But other cuts, like the Randy "You've Got a Booger Bear Under There," are fresh off the car radio_if you happen to be driving around the Deep South, that is."

Playing all of the instruments himself, Mason Jenningsproduced his self-titled debut at home on an analog tapemachine. Upon its 1997 release, AllMusic called the album"an amazingly realized work. A distinct sound and vocalstyle is evident, and there's not one clunker on this entiredisc."He put a band together for a gig at Minneapolis' 400 Barand that show turned into a weekly on a 4 month run. Bythe end of 1999, the City Pages poll had Mason winningthe "Pick to Click." Twenty years later, Mason is still making record and selling out shows coast to coast.

The power of a Winter song is hard to describe, like how thedelicate world building of a good book can be more compellingthan real life. There's a make-believe, fairy tale surrealism that sets Winter's blend of shoegaze and psychedelia apart while existing in the same universe as the ethereal dream pop of Cocteau Twins and Melody's Echo Chamber.Samira Winter grew up in Curitiba, Brazil, where her Brazilianmother filled their home with the gentle melodies of MPB (música popular brasileira), and her father introduced her to the distorted sounds of American punk. At 18, she moved to Boston where she first released music as Winter, eventually moving to LA's Echo Park.

Limited Edition for Record Store Day 2022.

Chicago native Ezra Furman has always positioned himself as a singer-songwriter with or without the Harpoons.
His acoustic based music would sometimes rock or burst forth with technicolor pop flourishes. On 2012’s The Year of No Returning the production was especially sophisticated but now like Dylan in ‘65 he is ready to harness the electricity and delve a little deeper into life as a rock and roller with punk panache.

On Day of the Dog Ezra re-invents himself as an angry young man ready to throw himself on the pyre for the redemption that will follow. With a tight rockin’ combo he re-works ‘50s grooves through primal-Lennon outbursts, glam hissing, right up and full circle into Pixies-style/Buddy Holly rave-ups. It’s an instant classic that could have fit on Stiff between Costello’s debut and the Damned.

Ivy's debut album was released February 14, 1995. Produced by the band and Ultra Vivid Scene's Kurt Ralske, the sparse indie pop jangle was just a hint at what the band would go on to achieve. The album received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. The single "Get Enough" was named Single of the Week in the British tabloid Melody Maker. Ivy opened for Oasis on their maiden trip to the states and toured extensively with Edwin Collins and Lloyd Cole. While still promoting Realistic bass player Adam Schlesinger formed his successful side project Fountains of Wayne and penned the title track for the Tom Hanks film That Thing You Do.

On Domino, Diners has replaced their gentle pop sound with a more bombastic rock and roll approach while maintaining their upbeat positive world view. Diners teamed up with power pop prince Mo Troper and Grammy nominated engineer Jack Shirley to deliver her best record yet.

On Domino, Diners has replaced their gentle pop sound with a more bombastic rock and roll approach while maintaining their upbeat positive world view. Diners teamed up with power pop prince Mo Troper and Grammy nominated engineer Jack Shirley to deliver her best record yet.