John Fahey would’ve been 75 today, and though he’s been gone for some time now, the legend of Blind Joe Death seems to grow larger with each passing year. There’s no shortage of Fahey live material in […]
Month: February 2014
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. Jason Woodbury is my guest this week. SIRIUS 332: Jean Michel Bernard, […]
Revisiting :: David Byrne’s True Stories / 1986
On Talking Heads’ final album, 1988’s Naked , the band imagines a reverse evolution, the erasing of centuries of pollution, development and commercialization. The particular song in reference is “ Nothing But Flowers .” With a subtle, but knowing […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Angel Olsen @ Echoplex, March 2
Los Angeles: This Sunday night, March 2nd, Aquarium Drunkard presents Angel Olsen at the Echoplex. Cian Nugent and Paul Bergman support. Advance tickets available for purchase, here . We’re giving away a few pairs to AD . . . Only the good […]
Eddie Dimas :: Por Perdido Amor
“For lost love.” Recorded by a 17-year-old Eddie Dimas and his band the Upsets, “Por Perdido Amor” is a woozy ode to love gone wrong. The song was put to tape in Audio Recorders studio […]
Fats Domino :: Please Don’t Leave Me (Live, 1965)
Today is the 86th birthday of the unsinkable Antoine “Fats” Domino : rock ‘n’ roll progenitor, Beatle lodestar, and one of the greatest to ever sit on a piano bench. This version of “Please Don’t Leave Me” is […]
Wax Wonders: The Soul Of NOLA, Part 1
With its complex and rich history, New Orleans has long served as a hotbed of rhythm and blues, with the city’s musicians often adding an air of sophistication (i.e. jazz influence) to the music. This […]
Jessica Pratt :: Central Park (Pendarvis Farm, OR)
Footage of Jessica Pratt performing “Central Park” (last summer at Pickathon) at the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon. This year’s festival is happening August 1-3. We’ll be there. Details, here
Tinariwen :: Emmaar
Tinariwen’s music speaks for Kel Tamashek, the Tuaregs, and their desert home, the “tenere.” The typical descriptor of “desert blues,” suggests a genre defined by it’s point of origin, but how linked are music and place, […]
Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-78
Get loose: Strut Records latest Caribbean fandango, the double LP collection, Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-78 . Here’s a little taste, Les Loups Noirs’ “Pile Ou Face.” From the comp’s liner notes: Led by charismatic singer Gardner Lalanne, Les Loups Noirs […]
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 331: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The […]
Angel Olsen :: Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Last January, Angel Olsen released the Sleepwalker 7” on Japanese label Sixteen Tambourines. That single’s A Side, “Sweet Dreams,” was three minutes of moldy basement rock ‘n roll replete with distorted guitar vamps and Angels’ passionate yowl. The track […]
Bobby Charles :: S/T (2014 Reissue)
As a teenager, Bobby Charles –né Robert Charles Guidry in Abbeville, Louisiana–cut several swampy, R&B-based sides for Chess and Imperial, including “See You Later, Alligator,” which the Texan Bill Haley would hit with in 1956. Then in […]
New Bums :: Voices In A Rented Room
Whether creating visionary psychedelia under the Six Organs of Admittance moniker, kicking up a raucous racket with Rangda or Comets On Fire, or putting out a lovely duet record with Magik Markers’ Elisa Ambroglio as […]
Neil Young :: Live At The Cellar Door
Neil Young had a hell of 1970. Let’s review. He kicked off the year with a quick European jaunt with Crosby, Stills & Nash, where they were hailed as “the American Beatles.” In February and […]