One thing about doing a show on satellite radio is that you can pull shit like airing “Sister Ray” in its entirety. While not my favorite Velvets boot, the 1967 Live At The Gymnasium set (that surfaced a few […]
Month: March 2011
Ron “Pigpen” McKernan :: The Apartment Demos
Sound architect and Lysergic Acid pioneer Augustus “Bear’” Owsley Stanley died this week in his adopted home of Australia. The sixties counterculture fixture (see: Ken Kesey, the Grateful Dead, the Acid Tests, Tom Wolfe, etc.) and fictional inspiration for […]
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. SIRIUS 185: Jean Michel […]
Steel Funk :: A Compilation
Serendipity, it happens. I stumbled upon this “unofficial” compilation a couple of weeks back while doing a search on the Trinidad Steel Drummers having come across their cover of the Meters “Cissy Strut.” Seek this one out; […]
The Mighty Hannibal :: Hymn No. 5
Hymn No. 5: courtesy of The Mighty Hannibal , née James Timothy Shaw is both a highlight and stylistic outlier in the oft-turbanned soul man’s lengthy career. Inspired one night by a newscast of Walter Cronkite discussing the […]
Aguaturbia :: Rollin’ ‘N’ Tumblin’
Cue this up—turn this up. Chilean psych-rock powderkeg from Aguaturbia’s 1968 self-titled debut . Viva. MP3: Aguaturbia :: Rollin’ ‘N’ Tumblin’ —————— ____________________________________________________________________________________ . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and […]
Monk Montgomery :: Fuselage (Parts I & 2)
Yeeooow. Monk Montgomery’s “Fuselage (Parts I & 2)“. A lost fuzzy gem from 1971, Wes Montgomery’s brother, Monk, melds jazz, prog, soul and funk into some special kind of stew (a bass odyssey, indeed). The […]
AD Presents :: Dengue Fever (A Khmer Music Mixtape)
Welcome to the latest installment of an ongoing mixtape series in which we highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. This week we take a trip to sixties Cambodia catching up with Dengue Fever who are set […]
David Bowie :: Cracked Actor (BBC Documentary)
Cracked Actor , the BBC produced Bowie documentary focusing on the changeling’s time spent in LA post-Ziggy/pre- Station To Station , is a raw—at times unsettling—look into the artist’s life and career during the mid ’70s. A period often mythologized […]
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. SIRIUS 184: Jean […]
AD Presents :: The Strange Boys @ The Echo, Tuesday Night
AD, FYF and the Echo welcome our lone star star amigos, the Strange Boys , back to Los Angeles Tuesday night at the Echo (the first of two LA gigs this week). We have several pairs of tickets to give away […]
The Beach Boys :: Ganz Allein (In My Room)
I caught wind of this German take on the Beach Boys “In My Room” via a collection of non-English covers over at When You Awake last year. While I wouldn’t go so far as to say the version has […]
Beastie Boys :: Dissecting The Roots Of Shadrach
“Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellers, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said […]
Randy Holden :: Population II / Over The Edge
Paul Westerberg :: Suicaine Gratification
“I didn’t start to make a record. I just had no other options. I didn’t know what to do with my time. I started playing piano and out of the few things I had written […]