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 […]
Month: August 2009
Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story
What do Grace Jones , Tom Tom Club , Talking Heads and Sly Dunbar all have in common? Besides all being progenitors in their respective, then, nascent genres, they all recorded at Chris Blackwell’s Bahamanian Compass Point Studio and […]
The National :: Pretty In Pink (RIP John Hughes)
Download The National :: Pretty in Pink, via daytrotter
Screaming Lord Sutch :: Jack the Ripper
Yesterday, I received a twitter reply — in response the the sixties garage rock set — hailing the campy greatness that is Screaming Lord Sutch . For horror movie obsessed, kitschy, garage rock at […]
Dinosaur :: Kiss Me Again 12″ (Side A)
Arthur Russell died in 1992. Myth-making being what it is, nearly two decades after his death, the artist is presently more well known than he ever was during his lifetime. Typical. Over […]
’60s Choice Collection of Scarcest Garage Records
Like the sixties French Freakbeat compilation, Scarcest Garage Records (pt. 1 & 2) is a compilation I often frequent that has little to no information to be found online. In the 21st […]
Beck’s Record Club :: Velvet Underground & Nico
One of the more interesting online novelties to pop up this summer has been the kickoff of Beck’s ongoing Record Club . If you have yet to check it out: in […]
Sixties French Freakbeat (Vinyl Rips)
As I hinted at last month, if I was to really break it down, the majority of my annual ‘music spend’ goes towards various genre compilations; largely due to residing […]
Revisiting :: Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
Diversions :: Portugal. The Man on Sci-Fi: Surviving Childhood in Rural Alaska
( Diversions , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) Thus far, Diversions has featured artists […]
Lotus Plaza :: Dot Gain
The inevitability of impulse purchases. As if the physical CD/mp3s weren’t enough, in an inexplicable need to own the title in all three available formats, I went whole-hog several weeks […]
Tonight In L.A. :: Le Switch, Roadside Graves and The World Record @ Spaceland
Roadside Graves have been traversing the wilds of the USA the past few weeks touring behind their new LP My Son’s Home, which, as I think I’ve mentioned, is thus far my […]
AD Presents :: The Henry Clay People’s Rock & Roll Summer Circus @ The Echoplex, L.A. August 14th
L.A.’s The Henry Clay People have been busy. As I write this they are presently on the road, somewhere in the Midwest, having just wrapped up their Daytrotter session in Iowa, now en route to […]