Month: March 2007

Longtime Drunkard favorite Page France will be releasing an album via Suicide Squeeze on May 8th, and (you guessed it) fresh from a string of dates at SXSW , are now making their way up […]

So. Pardon my french, but White Denim proved to be the shit at this years SXSW . The were definitely one of the more talked up acts on everyone’s lips (along with bbq […]

Oddly, I stumbled upon the U.S. release of Gonzalez’s Solo Piano album, and Dustin O’Halloran’s 2000 album Piano Solos , within two days of one another. Funny how these things often happen. Serendipity, indeed. I had […]

When I think I of Gospel music, two things from my childhood immediately come to mind: 1) the old-timey Gospel vinyl records my grandparents would play on their aged, multi-disc, […]

I’ve been pretty excited by this Sparklehorse tribute since I first heard about it last Fall. The Slight Records release is a compilation of 20+ artists celebrating the work of Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous. […]

You may remember I featured Gillian Welch’s genre bending cover of Radiohead’s “Black Star” a couple of years ago while the Drunkard blog was still in it’s infancy. If you grabbed it back […]

While The Rosebuds 2005 album Birds Make Good Neighbors received near unanimous critical accolades across the board, I have a sneaking suspicion 2007 might be real Rosebuds coming out party, judging by the buzz surrounding […]

According to the Austin grapevine, Steve Earle flew in strictly for the single solo show he did at The Parish Room Friday evening before heading back to NYC to continue working on […]

One of the many bands I had been looking forward to seeing in Austin was Brooklyn’s uber-prolific Bishop Allen . As many of you music blog readers (have no doubt) read countless […]

Have you seen Richard Swift in a live setting?? If not, make it a high priority on your to-do list. I was pretty much blown away by the show with his full […]

Oooo weee…back home in L.A., and as expected, SXSW , and Austin in general, did not disappoint. The four days and nights of music, old (and new) friends, bbq and beer, […]

Team Drunkard is about to head out the door to catch a plane to Austin for this year’s SXSW festivities. Therefore, things will no doubt be a little quiet around here, […]

Today marks the “official” release of Neil Young’s 1971 live at Massey Hall performance in CD format (with an accompanying DVD) . This is the second live offering in preparation for Neil Young’s long awaited archives project. […]

The I Am Drinking Again EP was released via Domino records in 1998 and consists of two songs, on original, and one a cover of The Cranberries “Dreaming My Dreams.” I […]

One of my all-time favorite bands, Athens, GA’s R.E.M. , is getting the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame treatment tonight, and you can watch it live, without commercial interruption, via AOL’s Spinner […]