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 239: Jean Michel […]
Month: March 2012
Ebo Taylor :: Love and Death (Original)
Ebo Taylor has a new LP in the can, Appia Kwa Bridge, out next month on Strut Records . Check the first taste off the album here ; Taylor’s take on the highlife standard “Yaa […]
Nora Dean :: Angie La La (Ay Ay Ay)
The hoodoo is just dripping off this one — gris gris psychedelia, circa 1969. In terms of pure vibe, Dr. Kanaga has nothing on this. Product of Jamaica, Nora Dean’s […]
Dean Wareham :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It might have seemed just a bit too obvious to ask Dean Wareham to work on a project scoring screen test films done by Andy Warhol, but really it was […]
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Nick Waterhouse
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. In 2010 I debuted the A-side off […]
Lower Dens :: Propagation
On “Propagation”, taken from the forthcoming album Nootropics, the passion and atmosphere of vocalist Jana Hunter is deafening. Patient and heady, Lower Dens lull listeners into a trance with its most fragile […]
Field Report :: I Am Not Waiting Anymore
Wisconsin based, Field Report is the nom de guerre of Chris Porterfield, formerly of Conrad Plymouth and DeYarmond Edison . At time of writing the available recorded output solely consists “I Am Not Waiting Anymore” and “Fergus […]
The Strange Boys :: Doueh (Video)
Austin’s Strange Boys gigged in LA Friday night at Club Los Globos. After the jump, the fellas pay tribute to the Saharan rebel blues of Group Doueh on their new video culled […]
Fugazi: 20 Songs (Spotify)
I had planned focusing on the ongoing Fugazi live archives for this week’s Spotify entry. Turns out those are not yet available, so I switched gears and carved out twenty favorites culled from the […]
Sevens :: Sharon Van Etten – Warsaw
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) I’ve become obsessed with segues and album structure over the years. I appreciate, […]
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 238: Jean Michel […]
Odetta :: Odetta Sings Dylan / Baby, I’m In The Mood For You
As Dylan fandom knows no bounds, a couple of years back I came across Linda Mason Sings Bob Dylan. Privately pressed and released in 1964, it is the earliest known […]
Tom Waits :: Books Of Moses (Skip Spence)
Twelve or so years ago Birdman Records released More Oar, a 17 track tribute to the music of Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence . Outside of his work with Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape, the […]
Bo Diddley :: The Black Gladiator (Reissue)
“Who’s the funkiest man in town? You are Bo Diddley.” Sans, say, drugs, the closest you’ll ever come to hearing an album again for the first time is through the […]
Neal Creque :: Whatcha Wanna Do, Do It
If you hit up our party in Austin last Thursday you likely noted the man spinning records between sets: Ryan Wilson, aka DJ Sir Pall McCartney. Every 30 minutes for seven hours […]