For everyone who cringed while watching the very-real-life 2005 Beulah break-up documentary A Good Band Is Easy To Kill , the news last year of a 2010 Miles Kurosky solo record on the horizon was akin to the promise of […]
Month: April 2010
C.W. McCall :: Convoy (The Tale of the Rubber Duck)
This is it, folks. This is where the rubber meets the road—the mother of all trucker movies: Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy . The recipe: take Kris Kristofferson (the Rubber Duck), a young […]
Jack Nitzsche :: The Lonely Surfer
Most (if not all) of you reading this know a thing or two about the names Phil Spector and Neil Young. But I would wager that the immediate name recognition […]
Twin Sister :: Color Your Life
Twin Sister leads listeners down a completely new path with Color Your Life , the quintet’s first batch of new recordings since 2008’s stunning Vampires Dreaming with Kids EP. Both releases are heavy on atmosphere, spacial rhythms and knockout […]
Venice Is Sinking :: Tugboat (Galaxie 500 Cover)
Athens, GA’s Venice Is Sinking are set to release their third full-length, Sand & Lines: The Georgia Theatre Sessions, on June 13th. Recorded live, stripped down in the vein of the Cowboy Junkies […]
The Ultimate ’50s Rockin’ Sci-Fi Disc :: A Compilation
The best compilations are very often the ones that succeed in contextualizing an experience—be it a genre, a movement, or in this case, a sub-genre within a decade. Taken as […]
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Band of Horses :: The Greek, Sept 25th – Tickets
Band of Horses third LP, Infinite Arms, hits retail shelves May 15th via their new label home at Fat Possum . We have four pairs of tickets to giveaway to their Greek Theater date Saturday, September 25, […]
Born Ruffians :: The AD Interview (SXSW 2010)
Master At Arms, B. Kramer , caught up with Toronto’s Born Ruffians’ just after their second performance at SXSW. Things soon turned meta. New album drops June 1st via Warp . Words after the jump…. […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight […]
AD Presents :: Ruby Suns/Toro Y Moi @ The Echo April 14th
Wednesday, April 14th, Aquarium Drunkard presents the Ruby Suns with guests Toro Y Moi at the Echo on Sunset on Echo Park. We have three pairs of tickets to giveaway to AD readers. To enter, leave a […]
Hush Arbors :: Yankee Reality/Sugar Mountain
It’s April—we’re now a good bit into 2010. Being so I’ve been thinking about, and digging into, the slew of sleeper albums from 2009 that I either missed entirely, or […]
Joe Meek :: I Hear A New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy
Several years before British producer Joe Meek and the Tornados scored an international super-hit with “Telstar,” Meek had composed and recorded his adventurous masterpiece, I Hear a New World , an imaginative musical take at life […]
AD Presents :: Roadside Graves, Saturday April 10 @ Pianos NYC
Saturday night, at Pianos in NYC, Aquarium Drunkard presents Roadside Graves EP release show. The band released You Won’t Be Happy With Me , on Autumn Tone , last month right after SXSW, so if you’re in the city come out […]