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. SIRIUS 315: Jean Michel Bernard […]
Month: October 2013
Tal National : Kaani
Tal National is one of Niamey, Niger’s chief party bands, a powerhouse team of musicians who stage nightly marathon shows and summon a rich, cosmopolitan cipher of West African styles. […]
Trick Or Treat, Volume 9 (A Vintage Halloween Mixtape)
Trick or treat. Another 32 vintage spookers from the Grey Haas spanning 1958-1977. Download/tracklisting after the jump. For more undead, last year’s Halloween mixtape is still available, here , as well […]
Legion Of Mary :: December 14-15, 1974 – Northwest Tour
As the popularity of the Grateful Dead grew in the early 1970’s the band found themselves perpetual road dogs in an attempt to make up for lost ground after Mickey […]
Neil Young :: Pushed It Over The End (Live, 1974)
“I’d like to start with a kind of a quiet song,” Neil Young mutters, having popped up unannounced at a Leon Redbone/Ry Cooder gig at NYC’s Bottom Line in May […]
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. SIRIUS 314: Jean Michel Bernard […]
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Of Montreal
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Tuesday saw the release of Lousy with Sylvianbriar , Of […]
Gary Numan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Gary Numan was 20 years old when Tubeway Army’s self-titled record dropped in 1978 and launched a career that became very successful, very quickly. Over the past 35 years, Numan’s influence on the shape […]
Halloween II : Soundtrack (Death Waltz Records) 1981
Trick or treat. I was trying to phonetically write out the sound the ‘dark’ synthesizers gracing the score of John Carpenter’s Halloween II , but it just became too ridiculous. But, you […]
Parquet Courts :: Tally All the Things That You Broke (EP)
Following the re-release of 2012’s stellar Light Up Gold on respectable mid-level indie What’s Your Rupture? earlier this year, the quartet of Texans-cum-Brooklynites in Parquet Courts have ridden the critical wave to respectable […]
Clover :: Harvest
We’ve previously mentioned Clover (along with Goose Creek Symphony) as part of the lost “Band Not Band” mixtape. Clover would later feature Huey Lewis on harmonica, back Elvis Costello, and […]
Dead Notes #5 :: That’s It For The Other One (9/2/68 Seattle, WA)
Welcome to the fifth installment of Dead Notes where once again we find ourselves in the great Northwest, at the Sky River Rock Festival, on the outskirts of Seattle in Sultan, WA. […]
Johnny Hallyday :: Hey Joe (1967, en Francais)
Johnny Hallyday :: Hey Joe (1967 en Francais . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your […]
Marian Anderson :: Scandalize My Name
That voice. A spiritual, many have taken on “Scandalize My Name” over the past 70 years, but it’s Marian Anderson ‘s contralto that elevates the delivery. Recorded in 1961, “Scandalize” is culled […]
The Velvet Underground :: Guess I’m Falling In Love, Live 1967
The just-announced “super-deluxe” edition of the VU’s White Light/White Heat will include a handful of previously unheard performances — the most interesting of which are a live rendition of “The Gift” and […]