Matador just released “Here to Fall,” the second mp3 teaser off Yo La Tengo’s upcoming LP, Popular Songs, which is slated for retail shelves September 8th. The band plays the Avalon, here in Los Angeles, October 15th. Related: Yo La Tengo :: They Shoot, We Score […]
Month: July 2009
paradis :: avoir une écoute
Speaking of modern takes on sixties girl-groups, back in the early ’90s long before her relationship with Johnny Depp, French actress/model/pop star Vanessa Paradis recorded her self-titled, English language, debut. Helming the production, instrumentation and songwriting was her, then, […]
Esau Mwamwaya :: The Very Best
The Summer jams continue. Yeah, the season’s heat can be oppressive, and by September you are pretty much over it, but as far as seasons go there is little argument that summertime is the most […]
Vivian Girls :: When I’m Gone
This track went on my Summer mix-tape 2.0 last week. Say what you will about Vivian Girls live show, but for fans of lo-fi pop channeling a bedroom version of the Shangri-Las, last years S/T debut delivered. No […]
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Rehashing Red Hash & Rare Bert Jansch Reissues
Beardo. As I mentioned last week while discussing Death’s For The Whole World To See , the Drag City label is no stranger to digging up and releasing the long lost and nearly forgotten. In 2005 the label pulled . . . Only the good […]
Atlas Sound/Panda Bear :: Walkabout (New)
While I’m a casual fan of Animal Collective , Panda Bear’s Person Pitch LP remains one of my favorite albums of 2007. Panda (Noah Lennox) has tagged up with Bradford Cox on the track “Walkabout” from the upcoming […]
Pitchfork Festival :: Chicago, Day Three
J. Neas here, winding up AD’s coverage of the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. I want to start by laying some serious kudos on the festival staff and planners. Not only was it a breath of fresh air commerce and […]
Pitchfork Festival :: Chicago, Day Two
AD Presents :: Stephen Malkmus @ Echoplex, 7.25
Saturday, July 25th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks at the Echoplex in Echo Park, L.A. If memory serves, this is the first eastside Malkmus show in a long time. Expect a packed house. Tickets are $19 adv/$22 door. […]
Pitchfork Festival :: Chicago, Day One
J. Neas here reporting from Chicago. I’ll hand it to Pitchfork – they know how to get a crowd invested in the opening night of a festival. Whether it’s been the previous years’ Don’t Look Back -style album performances or this […]
SIRIUS/XM Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM , channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s […]
Jason Lytle :: AD SIRIUS/XMU Session
Today, during the second hour of our SIRIUS/XM show, we will air the session with Jason Lytle cut in March, during SXSW, at The Ship’s party at Homeslice. Lytle was in Austin in support of his, then, soon to be […]
A Wizard, A True Star
Barney Hoskyns, in Mojo magazine, once penned that Todd Rundgren sounds like “the missing link between the White Album and Sign O’ The Times.” I couldn’t have said it better. Artistically, Rundgren is indeed a strange beast; […]
Death :: For The Whole World To See
Facts is facts — in 2009 “punk”, as an adjective, has quite the stigma. This is not exactly breaking news. Now three decades into its run, the general populace most likely equates the term punk […]