Skip to content
Aquarium Drunkard
  • Membership
  • Membership
  • About
  • Contact
  • Supply
  • Search
Twitter Instagram Facebook Threads Bluesky

Month: February 2012

Mazzy Star :: Black Session (La Maison de la Radio: Paris, France)

Posted on February 29, 2012January 25, 2022

October 1993 – La Maison de la Radio. Mazzy Star, two weeks into touring behind their second album, So Tonight That I Might See, record a Black Session at studio 105 in Paris.

Spiritualized :: Hey Jane

Posted on February 29, 2012March 3, 2012

Sweet Heart Sweet Light is due out on Fat Possum Records April 16th, and in this instance “ Huh?” may be the perfect album art. Like most Spiritualized fans, I can imagine Jason […]

Clifton’s Corner :: Volume 10 – Freakbeat Primer

Posted on February 28, 2012February 28, 2012

(Volume 10 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 soul, r&b, funk, […]

Two Banks of Four :: Foggy Dew

Posted on February 28, 2012February 28, 2012

Languid, repetitive and hypnotic, I heard this somewhere in the neighborhood of 2:30 am last week via Gilles Peterson’s show on BBC Radio 1. I had just been listening to a pair of […]

Nina Simone :: To Love Somebody

Posted on February 27, 2012May 13, 2022

Last week   John Gleason guested on AD touting the lesser known side of the Bee Gees, making a case for their catalog being equal to or greater than the Beatles. Brave. And while I can’t say […]

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Captain Anomoanon :: New York, NY 2006

Posted on February 27, 2012February 27, 2012

As Will Oldham prepared to embark on what would become a very busy Fall of 2006, he played two very special nights at Joe’s Pub in New York City with brothers Paul […]

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

Posted on February 24, 2012February 23, 2012

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 234:  Jean Michel Bernard […]

Bill Callahan :: So long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen)

Posted on February 23, 2012February 24, 2012

Bill Callahan’s dark country & western croon takes on “ So long, Marianne ,” the opening track off side two of  Leonard Cohen’s 1968 debut, Songs of Leonard Cohen . Slowing things down, Callahan and co. eschew the […]

Willis Earl Beal :: Monotony

Posted on February 23, 2012February 23, 2012

In a era of near constant spin, hype and worse it’s increasingly rare to engage with art on one’s own terms sans any preconceived notions. It’s for this reason I shared two tracks by […]

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan :: Deus Ibi Est

Posted on February 23, 2012February 29, 2012

The atmospheric baritone. Next to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, Mark Lanegan possesses one of the few contemporary voices capable of a kind of subliminal storytelling that exists outside the realm of […]

Frankie Rose :: Interstellar

Posted on February 22, 2012February 23, 2012

When Frankie Rose revealed   Interstellar’s incredibly catchy first single, “Know Me,” she tapped in to a familiar place, and I’m not just talking about the ease in which she weaves a tapestry of colors into […]

Pulp :: This Is Hardcore

Posted on February 21, 2012April 18, 2019

An audacious choice as a single based on running time alone, the title track from Pulp’s 1998 album made an equally brazen choice for video. This is Hardcore , the album, is more than […]

Jimmy Had a Bomb and the Bomb Went Bang: Reconsider the Bee Gees

Posted on February 21, 2012May 22, 2022

Diversions , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing. This week: Roadside Graves’ John Gleason takes on the […]

Jim White :: Where It Hits You

Posted on February 20, 2012February 21, 2012

There’s a key moment in Jim White’s fifth and latest LP, Where It Hits You , where the album pushes itself into emotional depths only hinted at in its opening sections. When the marching-band […]

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

Posted on February 17, 2012February 19, 2012

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 233: Jean Michel […]

 
  • The AD Interview
  • Lagniappe Sessions
  • Transmissions Podcast
  • Mixtapes
  • Email Newsletter
  • AD Supply
  • Membership
Twitter Instagram Facebook Threads Bluesky
Aquarium Drunkard
  • Membership
  • Membership
  • About
  • Contact
  • Supply
Back to Top