Month: August 2006

This past week Pitchfork Media presented, in my opinion, it’s best feature yet. The website listed it’s top 200 songs of the 1960s. As a dedicated follower of roots, be them musical or historical, I found this list to be […]

Here is this week’s show recorded a couple of days ago at the Little Radio studio in DTLA. All kinds of audio treats to be had for the savvy listener: Jacques Dutronc, CSS, Ben Kweller, Nouvelle Vague, […]

I want to say something here that will make you take notice of the track below by the Portland duo that record and perform under the name Horse Feathers . The reason I want to say something […]

I ran into Karling Abbeygate’s voice by chance while browsing unknown artists on MySpace a few months ago. Initially, before listening to the tunes themselves, I was just taken with her excellent cowgirl boots. Mighty […]

Dogme 95’s Arcadian Hymns is one of my favorite albums of 2006 by a band or artist I did not know of prior to the beginning the year. Mission Label describes the artist’s sound in the press […]

Frequent Drunkard readers, you all knew this post was inevitable. Yes LUNA fans, you can now get (mostly) all of your favorite covers in one place. This digital-only release from Rhino , entitled Lunafied, collects the band’s […]

The Idiot is the predecessor to Pop’s more well known and commercially beloved solo album, Lust For Life . In the mid-Seventies after a homeless stint on the streets of Los Angeles, a strung out Pop checked himself into […]

The Skirts and their brand of piano-driven pop music are about to blow up, and blow up in a big way. Eschewing typical indie-rock guitar swagger for melodies sweet enough to sugar your cereal, Modern Skirts […]

Heads up — The Long Winters new tune “Fire Island, AK” will be played on this week’s little radio show — it’s off their latest LP Putting The Days To Bed , and if you’re into that indie power-pop thing you’ll love it. This […]

Post-Punk legends (and working band of the present), Mission of Burma , have returned with The Obliterati –their third LP since their 2004 “comeback” album. In the spirit of all things Burma, An Aquarium Drunkard wants to give […]

People, you really need Jacques Dutronc in your life. One way or another, this ’60s actor/singer/songwriter will find his way in. The somewhat seedy side of suave and debonair French pop never got much better than this, […]

Riding the momentum of last year’s album Nobody’s Darlings and the honestly of the bare-boned, band-on-the-road-documentary Dreaming In America , Lucero is back with possibly their strongest and most consistent listen yet. Produced by David Lowery in […]

Over beers earlier this summer at Athfest , team clermont’s Lucas Jensen casually mentioned that The Theatre Fire’s Everybody Has A Darkside album was his favorite release of ’06. I was immediately intrigued as: a) we share similar tastes […]

Hitting their stride (and the record-buying public) with not one, but two, albums this year is Brooklyn’s Oakley Hall . The latter of the two, Gypsum Strings , sees the psych-country-rock monsters burning through another set of experimental […]

Is it still necessary to mention how prolific Jason Molina is, or has that ground been pretty much covered? Like Will Oldham and Robert Pollard before him, Molina is back in two separate studio incarnations […]