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Month: December 2012
New Year’s Eve :: AD Presents Black Lips, New Orleans
Once again: New Year’s Eve with Black Lips. New Orleans – One Eyed Jacks . The Orwells and King Louie’s Missing Monuments join the festivities. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Tis the season. Download the […]
A Reflection: Vince Guaraldi Trio – A Charlie Brown Christmas
There’s loneliness and companionship, joy and despair, truth-seeking and blithe celebration, all during what’s marketed to be the most wonderful time of the year. Your interpretation of the season begets your holiday spirit, whatever version it may be — bah humbug and good tidings. It’s little surprise then that Charlie Brown’s soundtrack, as well as our own, is something just as introspective and shifting. Something like jazz.
Tom Waits :: Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
In December of 1978, Tom Waits recorded an episode of Austin City Limits. The now-mainstay music program was in its relative infancy – only its fourth season – and had […]
Christmas With The Louvin Brothers (1961)
Christmas music: It ain’t for everyone. But then, it is for some. In later years, I’ve gravitated more towards the solemn, poetic hymns that predate by a matter of centuries […]
Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble :: Hard Luck Soul
Hard Luck Soul , originally pressed in 1971, is the result of a single recording session by the Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble, a group led by Ohio State Penitentiary inmates Reynard […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2012 Year In Review
Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2012. Go nuts. Cheers — AD Josh Tillman did more than […]
Big Star :: Cambridge Performing Arts Center, March 31, 1974
If there’s a power pop heaven, you know they’ve got a hell of a band. Us sinners can get a sneak preview of it on this recording, which captures Big […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Download the Lagniappe Sessions’ archives, […]
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 […]
Lit Up Like A Christmas Tree: A Vintage Holiday Mixtape
Each December, Brian Reese at Big Rock Candy Mountain deals out a month’s worth of holiday esoterica from the far corners of vintage twang, fuzz, scuzz, r&b, blues, country, garage, lounge and beyond. Keeping […]
Epic Soundtracks :: Wild Smile (An Anthology)
Heads were undoubtedly scratched in confusion when Epic Soundtracks ‘ debut album, Rise Above, hit shelves in 1992. After all, Epic Soundtracks (born Kevin Paul Godfrey) was then best-known for being one […]
Music From The Films Of Jim Jarmusch
(Next year Jim Jarmusch will once again take direct part in a soundtrack to one of his films, working with lutist Jozef van Wissem for the vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive . The […]
Marcos Valle :: Dez Leis (1970 / Reissues)
In 2013 Light In The Attic Records is set to reissue four of Marcos Valle ‘s 70s studio albums; now available for the first time in North America. Complimented by legendary Brazilian […]