The guy staring out at you from the cover of this collection may not look like a blues god — maybe a little more like your local electrician. But it […]
Month: May 2016
Psychic Temple :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Psychic Temple is on a tear: In the last couple weeks, the group, led by composer/songwriter Chris Schlarb, has released not one but two excellent records, the loose-limbed Psychic Temple III and a […]
Beatles :: Child of Nature (The Esher Demo Tapes, 1968)
Unreleased John Lennon bit from the Esher Demo Tapes, recorded at Kinfauns in Surrey, England. We know it as “Jealous Guy” via Lennon’s 1971 Imagine LP.
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. Today we are joined by […]
Rollin’ Up The Rim: A Vintage Canadian Mixtape
Two sons of Tommy Douglas invite you on a spring trip across Canada. From lonesome provinces to cosmic territories, and everywhere in between. A place where private press unknowns stand […]
How Small We Are (A Mixtape)
Our ongoing collaboration with Zach Cowie, aka Turquoise Wisdom , returns with How Small We Are — A Mixtape. Tune in and turn on this Friday as Cowie guests on our SIRIUS show — channel […]
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 432: Jean-Michel Bernard — […]
Tarpon :: A Soundtrack (1974)
Before Jimmy Buffett became a corporation, he was a rangy and somewhat ragged country-folk singer/songwriter living a low finance life, still discovering his marketable Margaritaville persona. One of the projects […]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In the market for an expansive, dreamy headphone record par excellence? You couldn’t do much better right now than Ears, the latest by Bay Area composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Mining […]
Ilian :: Love Me Crazy
“Anybody can throw a bunch of licks at your face,” Endless Boogie’s Paul Major writes in the liner notes of Anthology Records ‘ new reissue of Ilian’s 1977 pop gem Love Me Crazy. “Communicating, telling the […]
Let Me Take You To The Empty Place: An Incomplete Story of Peter Laughner and Television (Slight Return)
Cleveland guitarist/singer/songwriter/scenemaker Peter Laughner , best known for co-founding Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu, died at far too young an age in 1977. But he managed to pack an astonishing […]
Cracked Actors: A Look Through The Bowie Cover Catalog
David Bowie had a habit of covering the songs of other artists, sometimes sublimely, sometimes woefully. In turn, covers of Bowie songs range from the “why?” (see Barbra Streisand’s “Life On Mars?”; […]