I think about Terry Kath every time a rock star dies. We’ve become accustomed to the cycle. It’s how we process the death of famous people now. The social media churn. The first 24 hours […]
Month: January 2016
Cian Nugent :: Night Fiction
Cian Nugent has been primarily known for his instrumental work, both as a Takoma School-inspired fingerpicker and an electrifying bandleader (as heard on his incredible 2013 LP with the Cosmos, Born With The Caul ). Night Fiction sees him slipping into […]
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 420: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++W-X – […]
Benji Hughes :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Way back in 2008, Benji Hughes released a genuinely weird and supremely pleasurable record called A Love Extreme. It was, in all the best ways, an oddity. Released by New West, primarily known for Americana and alt-country, […]
The I Don’t Cares :: Wild Stab / Paul Westerberg & Juliana Hatfield
It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Paul Westerberg . That’s a funny sentiment considering the non-stop Replacements-fest that went on from 2012 through last year’s final run of tour dates. But the Westerberg who appeared […]
Gimmer Nicholson :: Christopher Idylls
Did Big Star secretly record an album of delicate acoustic guitar instrumentals for pioneering new age label Windham Hill? They most certainly did not — but Christopher Idylls by Gimmer Nicholson is about as close as we’ll […]
Robert Stillman :: Rainbow
Expat composer Robert Stillman calls East Kent in the United Kingdom home these days, but there’s an undeniably American thread running through his new album, Rainbow, out now via Orindal Records . Born in Maine, Stillman’s collaborated […]
Ty Segall :: Emotional Mugger
In a goofball YouTube promo , Dr. Ty Segall, PhD defines “emotional mugging” as a “psychoanalytic subject-to-subject exchange formed as a response to our hyper-digital sexual landscape.” So sizing one another up, frontin’, a cold barrier of distraction, the […]
Glenn Mercer :: Twenty-Nine Palms
Following the 2009 reissue of the first two Feelies albums (converting a whole new generation of fans and spreading the Jersey group’s influence), Bar-None Records will release the group’s third and fourth records, 1988’s Only Life and 1991’s Time for a Witness, […]
Tom Jones :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Like all good music biographies, Tom Jones’ Over the Top and Back features some choice gunplay. While recording in 1963 with the legendary Joe Meek —with whom the fledgling singer hoped to score a hit—the producer warned Jones about his […]
Mysterious Travelers: Early Live Weather Report
Last year, Columbia/Legacy released a four-disc set of Weather Report called The Legendary Live Tapes, drawing on the band at their commercial peak: 1977-83. You know, the Jaco Pastorius years, when they toured records like Heavy Weather or Mr. […]
Clarence Reid / Blowfly :: In Memoriam
We lost Clarence Reid last week. While the world at large may know him from his notorious alter ego (‘dirty rapper’ Blowfly ), Reid was quite possibly the most important figure on the Miami soul scene that […]
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 419: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Ryan […]
Michael Chapman :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Singer/songwriter, guitar man, and master storyteller Michael Chapman began his recording career with the stellar Rainmaker on the venerable Harvest label in 1969, and he’s spent the decades since exploring the common ground between jazz, rock, […]
Pink Floyd :: 1965 / Their First Recordings
While the limited release (1000 copies only) and ensuing display of capitalism in excelsis in the immediate resale on the collectors market, the one thing that’s certain is that there is a massive outpouring of […]