Month: January 2007

Upon listening to David Vandervelde’s late 2006 Daytrotter session (dude covered the Stones “cocksucker blues“..i mean, c’mon) I immediately shot an email to his label Secretly Canadian to get the scoop on who this guy was and if/when he had an […]

In 2006 the Luv N’ Haight folks released this nine track career spanning co llection of Darondo’s . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your […]

Picking up right where 2003’s L’Avventura left off, Dean And Britta return with their new full length Back Numbers . As with L’Avventura and their work with

First Off: If you have yet to make your way to vote for the nominees in this years PLUG Independent Music Awards — head on over and cast your vote . And if you’re local, grab your tickets ($10) and be there in person at the awards in New York […]

The James Booker re-post from last week has reinvigorated my interest in my New Orleans funk and soul collection which — with Mardi Gras in a couple of months — couldn’t have happened at a better time. So consider […]

I have probably watched the ’80s excess-fest that is the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel Less Than Zero thirty or so times the past fifteen years. Good lord. In retrospect it’s not that it is that a great […]

Welcome to Episode 20 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 […]

Grinderman are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos and they have come to bring you the rock & roll. Never one to fuck around, Nick Cave returns to studio rediscovering his Birthday Party roots with a few […]

Dr. Dog : a name that has been floating in and out of my consciousness for the past couple of years, but it took a kind soul feeding me their past two recording efforts to really take hold. As a […]

I uploaded this rare 1978 live recording from the Montreux Jazz Festival to the Drunkard in October of 2005 as part of the original Live Upload Series. I suspect many of you were not readers back then so […]

2006 saw many interesting online developments in the world of music; my favorite of these being the launch of the Daytrotter sessions. Whether widely introducing new artists to their audience or providing a new take on […]

As reported earlier on the Drunkard, local favorites The Brokedown switched their name to The Broken West this past Fall due to legal issues. No matter, the bands chops, their sound and the tunes themselves keep getting better. […]

Will Oldham is starting off 2007 with the release of the Lay And Love single culled from his 2006 LP The Letting Go . If yer keeping tabs, this is the third single from . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium […]

Welcome to Episode 20 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 […]

As a rule I don’t update An Aquarium Drunkard during the holidays, but the death of James Brown almost warranted that I do so. Being from Georgia and a lover of all things funky, the Godfather’s passing was truly sad […]