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. […]
Year: 2009
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 […]
Foreign Born :: Person To Person
Person To Person is the album I’d been waiting to hear from Foreign Born since first catching their live show in Echo Park three years ago. Entering the club cold, having never heard of the band, I left […]
AD Presents :: Magnolia Electric Co. July 28th
Heads up. Magnolia Electric Co. has a new album out, Josephine , their first since 2006’s Fading Trails . Tuesday, July 28th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Jason Molina and Co. with guests
24-Carat Black :: Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday
If I had an extra minute to spare I would seriously consider starting another blog focused strictly on covering the growing number of on-point reissue labels that have popped up the past several years. One […]
Fool’s Gold :: Surprise Hotel
Back here on the L.A. homefront — multi-lingual afro-pop enthusiasts Fool’s Gold , who have signed with Los Angeles based IAMSOUND Records , just released “Surprise Hotel” the first single from their full-length debut due out this September. If […]
Fela Kuti :: Koola Lobitos ’69 Los Angeles Sessions
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Pitchfork :: Festivus 2009
Ahoy, J. Neas here. AD is heading to the Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park in Chicago next weekend. I’ll be uploading recaps of each day’s festivities on AD as well as updating my personal Twitter account on a frequent basis. No promises […]
Jay Farrar :: Thus Far
It has to be intimidating – building a legacy. The shadow that Uncle Tupelo has cast across the alt.country genre for the past 20 years is an enormous one, no matter what your opinion about their music. […]
Les Surfs :: Tîº Serî¡s Mi Baby (Be My Baby)
Yo La Tengo :: They Shoot, We Score
“If you build it, they will come,” or in the case of Yo La Tengo , if they record it I will most likely eventually get around to listening to it — whatever the it may be. In […]