Will Oldham fanatics (raises hand) can expect the new Bonnie “Prince” Billy album, Lie Down in the Light , out next month via the Drag City label. While there is no firm trackist yet, it looks like the album drops stateside May 20th. Excerpt […]
Year: 2008
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 45: […]
AD/NOLA :: Parliament/Funkadelic @ Republic
Heading to the second weekend of Jazzfest in New Orleans? If so, head to Republic Friday night, May 2nd, as Aquarium Drunkard presents George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic . The combination of George Clinton and ‘Fest should be insane. We have ten […]
Dale Hawkins :: LA, Memphis & Tyler, Texas
Been traveling around the Mississippi Delta (presently in Greenwood, MS) for over a week now, doing juke joint research and eating all manner of fried food, soul food, crawfish, et al (speaking of, might I […]
Amnion :: aTONn
Good things tend to beget good things. Here’s a recent example of this: A few months ago I was turned on the the Amnion album by one of my favorite L.A. artists of the past year, […]
The Raconteurs :: Consolers of The Lonely
There’s something to be said for guerrilla marketing. The Raconteurs , the super-group that’s only a super-group if you’re a hard-nosed indie-rock person to begin with, announced the release of their sophomore album only one week before […]
Kathleen Edwards :: The AD Interview
Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards ‘ debut, 2003’s Failer , made our top ten list of that year. Five years and three albums later, Edwards, on tour in support of her new album Asking For Flowers, sat down with […]
R.E.M. :: Wolves, Lower (10/10/82, Raleigh, NC)
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Car Jamming, Pt 2 :: Route 66 – Erick, OK
The road tales continue in this second edition of Car Jamming . As I previously mentioned, until Thursday, we had been traveling east on Route 66 (when applicable) from L.A. en route to the Southeast. Before hitting […]
A Cassette Valediction: Part One of Two
Like Thurston Moore and Rob Sheffield before him, AD contributor j. neas reflects on, and laments, the art of the (actual) mixtape. Now, raise your hand if you’ve created a muxtape (yes, I’m guilty ). Part one of two. – […]
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 44: […]
The National :: The Black Sessions (Paris, 2005)
This is a re-post per multiple requests following the 2007 White Session posted a couple of weeks ago. The following should be required listening for National fans; its material taken from the Cherry Tree EP […]
Car Jamming, Pt 1 :: Titus And Strident Wet Nurse
I’m sitting in a hotel room approximately 100 miles east of Amarillo, TX in what may very well be the definition of a one horse town (and this being west Texas, I mean that […]
Nina Simone :: Protest Anthology
An iTunes exclusive (apparently not anymore), Nina Simone fans will want to investigate the recently released Protest Anthology collection (April 8th) that combines both audio and video artifacts culled from Simone’s career. Like the majority of Simone’s […]
Jordan Zevon :: Inside Out
The curse of the father’s success. It’s an unavoidable discussion when musicians are the sons or daughters of someone famous. Liam Finn has been facing that down with his music and now so will Jordan Zevon . […]