So, that whole “cosmic American music” thing. What exactly was Gram Parsons getting at when he first muttered it? Each element of the term is loaded — the cosmos are awful big. So’s America. Did […]
Month: March 2016
Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Cheap Trick needs precious little in the way of an introduction. Roaring out of Rockford in the early ’70s, the band’s stayed on a remarkably consistent career path for decades, hewing close to a muscular […]
Crazy Elephant :: Dark Part Of My Mind
“Gimme Gimme Good Lovin” bubblegum this is not. Via our Transcendence mixtape, found here . . . Crazy Elephant :: Dark Part Of My Mind
Toncho Pilatos :: La Ultima Danza
As everybody knows, the counterculture revolution of peace, love, and rock n’ roll, can be said to have died, grimly and without shelter, on a racetrack outside of San Francisco on December 6, 1969. Perhaps […]
Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America
While there’s been no shortage of writing devoted to the Grateful Dead and its various subcultures, I don’t think there’s been one book that goes as deep as Jesse Jarnow’s new, completely marvelous Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America . I’d […]
Matthewdavid :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Matthew McQueen, known by most by his stage name, Matthewdavid, doesn’t have any qualms with the term “New Age.” While some electronic composers might prefer the term “ambient,” McQueen is attracted to the more metaphysical label, for its […]
Bola Sete :: Ocean
“Bola Sete’s music comes from everywhere and nowhere. The subconscious really is universal. Bola Sete’s music is the best reminder of this that I have ever heard. He is a man of great spirit and […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Endless Boogie / April 5th
Endless, indeed. If you missed the band’s last run through LA after the release of Long Island , now is your chance to make amends. Endless Boogie touch down at the Bootleg Theater along with Arctic and Loom on […]
Lionlimb :: Shoo
Shoo is the debut album by Lionlimb , a duo comprised of singer-songwriter Stewart Bronaugh and drummer Joshua Jaeger. The band has a sleeper agent story: Bronaugh performed under the moniker back in 2010, bopped between Chicago […]
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 428: Jean-Michel Bernard – Générique Stéphane ++ Sun Ra […]
Walker Family Singers :: Panola County Spirit
In the mid-2000s producer Michael Reilly joined a group of friends — most of whom worked as music supervisors for television and film — on a trip to the South, guided by advice from the […]
Harlem River Drive :: Idle Hands
Harlem River Drive were a short-lived but righteous group of musicians brought together in 1970-71 by Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader Eddie Palmieri . Veritable king of the Latin dance floors, by the end of the 1960s […]
Sidecar (Transmissions 1-16) — Podcast/Mixtapes
Freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles… Sidecar Transmissions : A polyglot bouillabaisse of black sand blues, green swamp fuzz and haunted radio wave detritus. Beginning in 2012, AD’s ongoing (irregular) podcast is […]
John Martyn: Rooted In The Country, But Aiming For The Cosmos
“Woodstock’s the best place I’ve found so far. I detest New York, but upstate it’s OK.” (John Martyn in Melody Maker, 1970) By the end of 1968, future psych/folk-jazz icon John Martyn was at an […]
Miles Davis :: Vienna 1973
When listening to the electric work of Miles Davis and his bands in the 1970s, the thought that often goes through my mind is: “How the fuck are they making these sounds?” This high quality […]