Thursday night, May 20th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Jacuzzi Boys with Wounded Lion at Five Star Bars in downtown L.A. We’re giving away several pairs of tickets for the show. Wanna chance to go? Hit up the comments and leave […]
Month: May 2010
Yuzo Kayama :: Black Sand Beach/Violet Sky
Google the name Yuzo Kayama and you’ll note that he’s “a Japanese popular musician and film star born in 1937. His father, Ken Uehara, was one of the most popular film stars in Japan during the 1930s. […]
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 EST. During the second hour […]
A New Kind of Mambo :: Volumes One Through Nineteen
In 2010 it’s all too easy to lament the state of the music industry, with its declining album sales, record store closures, etc. I miss that stuff too, but also firmly believe that for non-complacent, […]
Buffy Sainte-Marie :: Helpless (Neil Young)
Arranged and produced by Jack Nitzsche , her husband, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s version of Neil Young’s oft-covered “Helpless” still ranks as a favorite. I’ve been putting together a streamlined collection of Nitzsche affiliated production work over the past few months […]
The Charades :: Flamingo (1964)
Staying on the Cramps tip for minute, I thought some of you would dig the following; a vinyl 45 rip of the Charades doo wop cover of Duke Elligton’s “Flamingo,” which was played at Lux Interior’s memorial service . Beautiful, perfect…transcendent. Hat […]
AD Presents :: Warpaint/Priestbird @ The Bootleg May 8th
Saturday night, May 8th, Aquarium Drunkard presents a co-headline bill: Warpaint / Priestbird at the Bootleg Theater . We’re giving away several pairs of tickets for the show. To enter: send an email to aquariumdrunkardcontests at gmail.com with your […]
The Hold Steady :: Heaven is Whenever
Killer parties almost killed The Hold Steady , but then they didn’t. Hallelujah swept up the spotlight; she cleared the dust that kept coming up after all those killer parties. And then we all got up to have […]
Sevens (90s One-Hitters) :: For Squirrels/Mighty K.C.
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) AD is spending the month of May looking at some one-hitters from the 90s; an age rife with […]
The Bitters :: East General
Siouxsie and the Banshees’ debut album The Scream (1978) is a beautiful rash of music and personal moment of clarity for yours truly, a rite of passage if you will. It scratches and burns with reckless fury, […]
Keith Richards :: Umano Non Umano (Film), 1969
Eat your heart out Jonny Greenwood. That is indeed Keith Richards in Mario Shifano’s 1969 film Umano non Umano . + Download DRM free music via eMusic’s 35 free MP3
Our Boy Roy :: A Garage Rock Tribute To Roy Orbison
What I find really appealing, not to mention refreshing, about Our Boy Roy , a garage rock tribute to Roy Orbison, is that it puts the music first. The songs first. It would be very easy (and predictable) […]
Lux And Ivy’s Favorites
I first caught the Cramps on a humid day in the summer of 1992. It was bizarre, unconventional, amazing and above all else, eye-opening. In the span of their set I saw the band mix up Buddy […]
The New Pornographers :: Together
Four albums into their career as one of the most accidental of “super-groups,” the New Pornographers seemed to have hit a bump. While Challengers was a solid record, it wasn’t nearly the equal of its predecessor, the near-perfect […]