Just minutes into the album — with a shambolic instrumental rumble and a dour delivery of urgency — James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand, mutters “the thing I have been sick with, I am well, […]
Month: April 2014
Waylon Jennings / Sanford Clark :: Record Store Day 45
For every hobby there is an obsession. If it’s worth obsessing about you have to go all in. Pile up too many and it begins to become a problem. I’ve waited three hours to ï¬ll […]
RSD Guitar Soli :: Alvarius B. & Sir Richard Bishop / Glenn Jones
Record Store Day returns for another go-round this Saturday. For me, the event is known as Do I Really Want To Stand In Line For Limited Edition Colored Vinyl Day. But as usual, amidst the […]
Protomartyr :: Under Color Of Official Right
A protomartyr: the first person to be martyred in a particular country. A person, therefore, who is set apart–who sets themself apart–from their environment by guarding their integrity. A person who is singular in a […]
AD Presents :: Black Lips / Phoenix Theatre, Toronto – 4/22
Aquarium Drunkard and Collective Concerts present: Black Lips with Natural Child at the Phoenix Theatre in Toronto, April 22nd. Tickets available, here . We have a few pairs for AD . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium […]
Dion :: Purple Haze
1968 marked the dawn of a rock scene that would develop in the early 70s to wipe out Flower Power and any remaining grip folk music still held on popular music. Seven years earlier, this […]
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 337: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The […]
Odds & Ends :: Bob Dylan / Slow Train & City Of Gold – Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, CA, November, 1980
Light In The Attic just reissued the Los Angeles Gospel Choir’s Dylan Gospel LP, a downright excellent collection from 1968. Bob himself, of course, had his own gospel period about a decade later, releasing a trilogy of albums inspired by his […]
Peter Walker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Guitarist Peter Walker spent decades off the grid, but reemerged in 2006, when he contributed recordings — alongside James Blackshaw, Jack Rose, Thurston Moore, Steffen Basho-Junghans, and others — to Tompkins Square’s A Raga for Peter Walker tribute. Since then, […]
Unbelievable Things: The Story Of Superchunk’s Indoor Living
Superchunk’s 6th full-length Indoor Living is a beautiful and difficult record, one riddled with the anxiety of a vital, effervescent group beginning to fully wrestle with the inherent conflicts of productive adulthood juxtaposed against the rudderless life of a […]
Consider The Snowman :: Burl Ives
It’s a tough sell, I know. A man typically associated with famous Christmas classics doesn’t immediately scream ‘check out his back catalog ‘or ‘listen to these records he cut in Nashville’. He didn’t have the […]
Van Morrison :: Warm Love / Musikladen – July 10, 1974
(The summer of 1974 found Van Morrison in flux. Between the largesse of The Caledonia Soul Orchestra and what would become a three year hiatus (with a quick stop in San Francisco for The Last Waltz), Van was, by […]
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. Phil Pirrone, from the Desert Daze music festival, joins me during the […]
The Funkees :: Now I’m A Man
If Fela Kuti was Afro-Jazz, then The Funkees were Afro-Rock. Hailing from Eastern Nigeria, and formed in the late 60s as an Army band after the Biafran War, the Funkees were the band that set […]
The Brothers And Sisters :: Dylan’s Gospel
Of the many, many tribute albums concerning the Dylan catalog, the Lou Adler produced Dylan’s Gospel stands as one of the most coherent. Tracked at Sound Recorders in Hollywood, this 1969 set by The Los Angeles Gospel […]