“Hey, buddy. I saw you leaning on my car.” Hey kids, Richard Swift just sent this over – a new 54-minute mix for Aquarium Drunkard sourced from his personal 45 collection, laid down at National Freedom Studios in Cottage Grove, OR.
Month: June 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. SIRIUS 345: Jean Michel Bernard […]
Neil Young :: Homefires – Live, 1974
40 years after the fact, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are commemorating their massive, cocaine-fueled 1974 tour with a big box set. Sprinkled amidst the group’s tried-and-true warhorses are several […]
Christopher Denny :: If the Roses Don’t Kill Us
There’s no getting around Christopher Denny’s voice. At once impossibly fragile and immovably sturdy, it’s a haunting, alien thing. But once you acclimate to its strange beauty — and make […]
Wax Wonders: Los Angeles, Part One
In terms of epicenters of great soul music, Los Angeles rarely enters the discussion. And while the city in the smog and sun didn’t produce the volume of influential work […]
Curtis Mayfield :: Jesus
If you’re driving around and “Jesus” comes on the radio, pull to the side of the road, park the car, and sit with the song until the last note. That’s […]
Lux Interior Swallowed A Microphone And Made Me Hate Ted Nugent Forever
Diversions , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing. Boys and girls, the circus is coming […]
Bobby Womack :: California Dreamin’
In the universe of monster soul renditions of The Mamas & the Papas’ “California Dreaming”, there exists a sort of holy trinity. Yes, there are others, but these form a […]
Father John Misty :: Trouble (Cat Stevens) / The Hal Ashby Story
Yup, that’s Hal Ashby – filmmaker/renegade/iconoclast. And this is Father John Misty covering Cat Stevens’ “Trouble” – a track originally birthed via the soundtrack to Ashby’s film Harold & Maude in 1971. This, the Misty treatment, comes courtesy […]
Behold The Yellow King: The Music Of True Detective
Ushering in the opening credits, HBO’s juggernaut True Detective begins with the Handsome Family’s “Far From Any Road” — a song that sets the tone for what has quickly become one of […]
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. Second hour of today’s show […]
Range And Basin: Sonoran Roots, R&B, And Hard Rock 1966-1978
Range and Basin: another set of songs from the Grand Canyon State, or spiritually rooted there, a follow up to our Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul and Avant-Garde from Arizona 1951-1971 mix from last year. Sunbaked soul, psych, country, garage, […]
Tony Owens :: I Got Soul
Turn those lights way down. I Got Soul , by New Orleans’ Tony Owens. A gritty, no frills, southern soul monster from the late 60s and early 70s, this collection (released by […]
Parquet Courts :: Sunbathing Animal
Because of the type of music they play – proudly traditional alternative rock ‘n’ roll that finds its genesis in The Velvet Underground and stumbles forward from there – and […]
Dead Notes #8 :: Alligator (5/18/68 Santa Clara, CA)
Welcome to Dead Notes #8 where we find our steadfast pranksters in the pivotal years of 1967 and 1968. Long gone are the proto-psychedelic fuzzy garage jams, replaced with long, exploratory suites […]