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 354: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Pappy’s […]
Month: August 2014
Levon Helm :: Take Me To The River (1978)
Wax Wonders :: Chicago Soul, Part Two
When soul music aficionados get together and start talking music, the inevitable question of preference between ‘Detroit vs Memphis’ almost always seems to arise, to which my response is ‘YES, both please! But don’t forget […]
Jerry Garcia Band :: March 22, 1978 – Sebastopol, CA
GarciaLive Volume Four: March 22nd, 1978 Veteran’s Hall In late 1974 the Grateful Dead were battening down the hatches and taking refuge from the storm of popularity that had pushed them into larger venues, stage setups and crews. As the age old saying […]
Television :: Piccadilly Inn – Cleveland, July 25, 1975
One hell of a night in Cleveland. Television played its first out-of-town shows deep in the heart of Ohio in the summer of ’75. The opening band was Rocket From The Tombs, a band that […]
Castanets :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It’s been 10 years since Raymond Raposa’s Castanets released Cathedral , a powerful work of skeletal folk and dread. Since then the songwriter has been consistent — releasing a string of Castanets albums, each one stretching […]
Native Tongues: Origins
(this is the first of an ongoing series with our east coast brethren, Chances With Wolves…) It’s funny that we talk so much about hip hop and we play so little hip-hop on Chances with Wolves . For […]
Chuck Berry On The Rocks: Vol. II – A Mixtape
Chuck Berry On The Rocks: Volume II. A choice selection of primitive sixties garage rock. Our second collaboration with Gothenburg, Sweden DJ/record collector Peer Schouten. Find and download volume one, HERE . Download/tracklisting after the […]
Medicine Head :: Old Bottles, New Medicine
At a time when prog and glam were in the ascendant, Medicine Head stood out–or rather, they didn’t. Their lack of showiness just made them look all the more freakish: a two man band consisting of a […]
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. Our compadres the Allah-Las guest host this week. SIRIUS 353: Jean Michel […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Hipshakers & Heartbreakers Vol. I
Take a soulful trip from the handclappin’, hopscotchin’ sidewalks of New York with Shirley Ellis, down to New Orleans to do the Te-Ta-Ta with K-Doe and on up to Memphis for some soul stew from […]
Mark Capon of Asheville, NC’s Harvest Records: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Just over ten years ago, in the spring of 2004, two recent college graduates drove to Asheville, NC, to look into opening a record store there. Neither Matt Schnable nor Mark Capon had ever visited […]
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 352: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Pappy’s […]
Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 15) — Podcast/Mixtape
Ghana / Nigeria / Jamaica / Senegal & beyond. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. This is transmission fifteen. Direct download, below. The first fourteen transmissions can be […]
The Beach Boys :: That Same Song (with Gospel Choir)
This clip, from an NBC special on connection with the release of the 15 Big Ones album, featuring the Beach Boys singing “live” with the Alexander Hamilton Double Rock Baptist Choir, is eyebrow-raising for many […]