Northern Spy is set to release Shilpa Ray’s next full-length, Last Year’s Savage, in May. In the meantime you can pick up the covers cassette, Make Up, both on tour and online . […]
Month: February 2015
Codpiece Revisited :: Jethro Tull
From the very start there was something a little haphazard about Tull. In their initial incarnation they were a British Blues band who happened to be named after an 18th […]
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 377: Jean Michel Bernard […]
Jim White Vs. The Packway Handle Band :: Israelites
In August of 2012, six months following the release of his last studio album Where It Hits You, Jim White was emailed by yours truly. I was reaching out to […]
Father John Misty :: I Love You, Honeybear
“…the entire album is basically about him meeting his wife,” my buddy says about I Love You, Honeybear , the new album by Father John Misty. I think back to April 2013, when I […]
Wax Wonders :: RIP Don Covay
As the years march on, it’s only inevitable that we lose the musical heroes of days gone by at a steady and sad rate. Our most recent loss is the […]
Ural Thomas & The Pain :: Pickathon / Galaxy Barn
The third installment of an ongoing series with Pickathon , showcasing footage from the Galaxy Barn located at Pendarvis Farm in Oregon: Ural Thomas & The Pain’s “I’m A Whole New […]
Gruff Rhys :: The Aquarium Drunkard Session
In December we caught up with Gruff Rhys , during his last pass through LA, in support of 2014’s American Interior – the Welshman’s fourth solo release, beginning with 2005’s Yr Atal Genhedlaeth. Recorded […]
Mark Eitzel :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The inarguable, intangible greatness of Mark Eitzel is a slippery thing to articulate. To begin with, it appears by all available metrics not to be a well-known fact that Mark Eitzel is […]
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. Zach Cowie ( Turquoise Wisdom ) guests […]
15-60-75 (The Numbers Band) :: Animal Speaks
It doesn’t really make sense that a group of weirdo-proto-New Wavers, experimenting in blues and rock, from the scene that culminated in Devo, would open for Bob Marley. But they […]
Diversions :: Bloodshot Records on the Cramps and Beyond
Diversions , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing. Lux Interior died six years ago today, […]
Kenny Knight :: Crossroads
Kenny Knight’s Crossroads is an understated Colorado country rock gem, unknown and unloved since its release 35 years ago. It’s bound to get the audience it deserves this May, however, thanks to a […]
Catching Up With Elephant Micah :: The AD Interview
For 15 years, Indiana folklorist and songwriter Joseph O’Connell has recorded records under the name Elephant Micah. His latest, and first for Western Vinyl, is called Where In Our Woods , and it’s a […]
Turquoise Wisdom: Floating / A Mixtape
Our ongoing collaboration with Zach Cowie, aka Turquoise Wisdom , returns in 2015 with a myriad of sounds ranging from Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt to the divinity that is Alice Coltrane’s Rama […]