Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 226: Jean Michel […]
Month: December 2011
AD Presents :: New Year’s Eve With The Black Lips, New Orleans
Aquarium Drunkard presents Black Lips New Year’s Eve at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans. It’s going to be nuts. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 225: Jean Michel […]
The Walkmen :: Christmas Party
The Walkmen have long employed mood and atmosphere into their sound as if they were a sixth member; as such they deftly capture the bittersweet, slightly inebriated, tone of “the holidays.” The […]
Clifton’s Corner :: Volume Seven
(Welcome to the seventh installment of Clifton’s Corner . Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch , shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of […]
This May Be My Last Time Singing :: An Conversation With Mike McGonigal
Earlier this month we caught up with YETI publisher Mike McGonigal, the man behind one of our favorite compilations of the year — the Tompkins Square release This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982 . A continuation of sorts to McGonigal’s […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. You can find our […]
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Soundtrack (1977)
It’s the 14th of December. The egg nog is spiked, the Christmas tree is trimmed and Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas , is streaming on Netflix. If you grew […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2011 Year In Review
Here it is – our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2011. As the criteria is comprised of […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 223: Jean Michel […]
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector
If you have a window near, go ahead and look outside. Chances are, there are some Christmas lights up somewhere within view. In the coming weeks, you’ll probably frantically brave […]
LA Gemstones Compilations :: The Rock Box/Pop Box, 10 Discs
If you liked LA Burnout , you will love these: The LA Gemstones Compilations – Parts One and Two . Comprised of ten discs (total) I caught wind of these two collections last summer […]
Dennis Hopper’s American Dreamer: Soundtrack
During the post-production of Dennis Hopper’s surreal and unjustly-forgotten South American anti-imperialist western, The Last Movie (which would prove disastrous for his career upon release, yet go on to become a cult classic […]
Turquoise Wisdom’s Fall Downers :: A Mixtape
Our guest DJ series returns this week with the third installment from our compadre Turquoise Wisdom . Wisdom (Zach Cowie) helped kick off the guest mixtape series in March of last year […]
Howard Tate :: August 14, 1939 – December 2, 2011
While he may not have been one of the most celebrated soul singers, Howard Tate was one of my favorites. This morning I learned that Tate died Friday from complications related to […]