I’ll give this to Jason Pierce – if he wanted to record an album that sounds like something recorded by someone coming off of a near death experience, he nailed it and then some. In turns weary, […]
Month: July 2008
AD Presents :: Bodies of Water (CD Release Show)
Come on out to the Echo Thursday, July 17th, for Bodies of Water’s release show for their new LP A Certain Feeling on their new label home @ Secretly Canadian . Our friends The Henry Clay People and Seasons open. We have three pairs […]
Shearwater :: Vinyl Giveaway
Shearwater has a new album, Rook , and a new tour. We have some limited edition vinyl to giveaway to AD readers; a limited edition test pressing of the full length, the full length (with album download […]
Off The Record :: The Weight (Brooklyn, NY)
SIRIUS Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS , channel 26 Left Of Center , can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 55: […]
Roadside Graves
Being a fan of folk music can be frustrating. Oftentimes, folkies focus so intently on their lyrical and storytelling powers that the music seems to come second, if at all; people forget that the flurry […]
Matt Berninger (The National) :: The AD Interview
I took the bus to work today because my car broke down, and I found myself in downtown Los Angeles, hemmed in on all sides by skyscrapers, alone with my bag and the headphones that […]
Otis Blue :: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Reissue)
With an artist like Otis Redding , who is truly a legend in every sense of the word, the market bears countless compilations, greatest hits collections, and bargain basement truck stop best of’s. Both official and not […]
Sevens :: Richard Hell: Blank Generation
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) My first exposure to a lot of things punk was the late music critic Robert Palmer’s Rock and Roll: An Unruly History , which was […]
Dwight Yoakam :: The Greek Theatre, July 27th
While he won’t have Will Oldham in tow (how great is the above rendering of the two?) when it comes to cool capital, Dwight Yoakam has plenty to spend. Aquarium Drunkard has five pairs of tickets to give away […]
Alejandro Escovedo :: The AD Interview
Poet…musician…troubadour…survivor, Alejandro Escovedo is all of those and more. Decades into a career that has spanned various styles and genres (all the while arguably creating his own), Escovedo has just released his 9th solo album, Real Animal , one […]
SIRIUS Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS , channel 26 Left Of Center , can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist. SIRIUS 54: […]
Uncle Tupelo :: First TV Appearance (1989)
Graveyard Shift – Mississippi River Center Benefit Show, May 1989 . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by […]
The Fourth of July :: Springsteen Style (10 tracks)
The 4th of July is almost here, and while I’ll be taking in an Angels game out in Anaheim with my dad (how American is that? Fathers, baseball, and Disneyland?), I figured it would be best to leave […]
Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: Wilding In The West (Live)
Have you been listening to Lie Down In The Light ? I’m calling it my favorite Will Oldham release since the 2005 Superwolf collaboration with Matt Sweeney. Not to discount