As we mentioned yesterday , Aquarium Drunkard will be stomping around Fort Adams State Park next month, taking in the Newport Folk Festival . Following the obvious night-show of Brian Wilson, Kate Taylor, and Willy Mason on Friday night, here’s a quick preview […]
Year: 2008
Newport Folk Festival :: August 2008
Aquarium Drunkard is nothing if not fans of pop music’s twisting and shaking history. While some may point towards Woodstock as the most important music festival in the history of our young country, one could make a […]
Bruce Springsteen :: Boston Music Hall 10-29-1974
AKA – Flesh And Fantasy, this has long been one of my favorite early ’70s Springsteen shows. Touring behind the Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle this show is loose as a goose. Keep an eye out for another Bruce show […]
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 56: […]
Joe Jackson :: Steppin’ Out…
Culled from the 1982 album Night And Day , Joe Jackson’s pitch-perfect single “Steppin’ Out” has long held a perverse power over me. It’s true. Besides being my round one, go-to, Karaoke jam, I’ve also been known on […]
Sevens :: The Band: Chest Fever
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) From Garth Hudson’s opening notes on the organ – on through to the songs climax – it’s immediately apparent The Band’s “Chest Fever” […]
The Hold Steady :: Stay Positive
Over the course of four years and as many albums, The Hold Steady have been given the knee-jerk title of America’s Best Bar Band, and, stylistically speaking, Stay Positive , the group’s latest release on Vagrant, will do little to […]
Liz Durrett :: Outside Our Gates
Just heard these two new tracks from Liz Durret’s upcoming LP Outside Our Gates (due out September 9th). Guest performances by Vic Chesnutt , Brian Causey ( Man or Astro-man? ), Amanda Kapousouz ( Tin Cup Prophette ) and members of Ham1. Related:
Garage Rock Tales :: Memphis, TN
A couple of months ago, while in Memphis, I was turned on to the folks who run both the Shangri La Records store as well as their off-shoot Shangri La Projects . A truly great independent record store (remember those?), Shangri […]
Spiritualized :: Songs in A&E
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, […]
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 […]