Month: November 2006

Although suffering from poor health in the spring of 1970, Howlin’ Wolf agreed to travel to Europe to record with the who’s who if British rock royalty; namely the Stones rhythm section (Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman), Eric Clapton […]

A decade into her career, Chan Marshall’s alter-ego, Cat Power has amassed a level of mystery, speculation and gossip befitting an indie-sized Madonna. Publicly long portrayed as a shy and somewhat neurotic chanteuse, Cat Power has at times both […]

A number of readers have requested additional tracks off The Zabriskie Point Sessions, so here is another excerpt from the cream of the crop. Per the comments in the original post, yes, the sparse piano […]

After years of speculation and anticipation, Neil Young has finally released the first artifact from his legendary archives. The six track album is culled from the March 6th & 7th, 1970 performances at Bill Graham’s famed Fillmore East. While the […]

When Radiohead’s Ok Computer was released, one of the finest and most appropriate appraisals was that of deeming the band the ’90s Pink Floyd. I was reminded of this recently while listening to the Floyd […]

Welcome to Episode 19 of the podcast edition of The Aquarium Drunkard Show; airing live every Wednesday 2-4 p.m. PST at the Little Radio studios in downtown L.A. As requested, below is the tracklisting order for this […]

Last month Matador Records released the three disc Better Days Will Haunt You , a clearing house for all things Chavez related. Bless you, Matador. Chavez, along with Guided By Voices, Pavement, and a whole slew of others too countless to name, […]

You may recall that a couple of months ago I derided Beck’s output post Sea Change ; you can read that here if you like. The gist was that the last two commercial releases seemed like tired re-treads […]

THE SONG DIARY – Long Story Short: 365 songs in 365 days Morgan at Yer Bird introduced me to the sounds of Paleo last April, but I had almost entirely forgotten about the artist until last week when […]

The Hold Steady’s “Southtown Girls” may well be the most listened to single song in my collection since the release of their latest album, Boys and Girls in America, in October. It’s damn catchy in that ‘return-to-the-rock’ kind of way that harkens back […]

First off, a big thank you to the friend who sent me this session earlier in the week — it’s been a fine listen indeed. Secondly, if you are a Molina, Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co. fan you […]

If it seems like this 1969 recording, Johnny Cashs second Live stint in a prison, was just reissued not too long ago it’s because, well, it was. In 2000 audiences were graced with the At San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert) two disc reissue […]

This past month An Aquarium Drunkard was asked to participate in Information Leafblower’s 4th annual “Top 40 Bands In America” feature. It turns out I was supposed to send in my top ten picks, but I misread […]

The second Dischord related post in a week comes to us via Fugazi bassist Joe Lally’s solo full length debut, There To Here. With Ian MacKaye teamed up with partner Amy Farina on the excellent Evens project, Guy Picciotto wearing his […]