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Month: July 2016
The Lounge Lizards :: “Voice of Chunk” Live on Night Music 1989
Been spending a lot of time diving into the archives of Sunday Night/Night Music on YouTube, NBC’s short-lived but excellent showcase of eclectic music, which aired in 1989 and 1990. […]
Deepest Bison :: Six Tiny Strokes
Deepest Bison, the Minneapolis based one-man recording project of Kyle Imes, returns. Six Tiny Strokes, is another entry into an ongoing meditation on raga/reverb-ed folk. Deepest Bison :: A […]
Eric Bachmann :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The name Eric Bachmann is well-known to indie-rock devotees, but not because it has graced the covers of records that often. Chiefly known as a member of Archers of Loaf and the […]
On Bowie :: By Rob Sheffield
Rob Sheffield’s On Bowie begins plainly: “Planet Earth is a lot bluer without David Bowie , the greatest rock star who ever fell to this or any other world.” I read those words early Wednesday […]
Pylon :: A Sonic Reminiscence Of 1980s Athens, GA
Growing up an hour from Athens, GA, in Atlanta in the 80s/90s, Pylon were akin to something like the home team. Sometime around 1991, via R.E.M.’s regular endorsement, I picked up […]
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 440: Jean Michel Bernard […]
75 Dollar Bill :: Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
It’s hard not to slip into ridiculous hyperbole when it comes to 75 Dollar Bill. Best band in New York City? Best band in the USA? Best band in the […]
Omni :: Deluxe
Four decades since the dawn of seminal post-punk bands Wire, Television, Pylon, Social Climbers, B-52s and Devo, that stripped down, raw minimalism remains a vastly rich mine – with no […]
Transmissions Podcast :: Damien Jurado / William Bell
Welcome to the fifth episode of AD’s re-booted Transmissions podcast , our recurring series of in-depth conversations and unexpected sounds. As we did with our last episode , we’re halving the show, speaking with two […]
Sonny & the Sunsets :: Moods Baby Moods
“Death and transformation are the coolest shit to write about. When you look at life from a mystical point of view, we’re all going through changes all the time.” So […]
Betty Davis :: The Columbia Years, 1968-1969
Rumors had floated around for years about a Miles Davis/Teo Macero-produced session of late 1960s Betty Davis recordings — and now, finally, they’ve been uncovered and released by the good people at Light in the Attic Records (along with two even earlier tunes). Is this […]
Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me :: The AD Interview / Steven Hyden
Rock rivalries inhabit a weird part of rock and roll’s unruly history. At times as much the creation of commercially driven record labels and promotion people as it is the […]
Brother Ah and the Sounds of Awareness :: Sound Awareness, Move Ever Onward, Key to Nowhere
“The music and images came to me during deep meditation. As I was transcending, I felt as though I was leaving my body. I began to hear celestial ascending soft […]
Mild High Club :: Skiptracing
Mild High Club is the vehicle of LA-based Alex Brettin. His sophomore lp, Skiptracing , due out in August via Stones Throw, is landing at a perfect time. Occupying a hazy, […]