New Orleans. Aquarium Drunkard presents Kamasi Washington at One Eyed Jacks / May 4th, 5th and 6th. We have a few pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Into it? Leave a comment with your favorite jazz lp […]
Month: April 2017
Ciao! Manhattan :: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Edie Sedgwick famously said she wanted “to turn the world on just for a moment.” Ciao! Manhattan, the 1973 film written and directed by Warhol Factory associates John Palmer and David Weisman, might be the […]
Coco Hames :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Coco Hames likes to crack wise about “getting away with it” — as if her career as a musician and record store is some trick she’s pulling off. But the singer/songwriter’s newly released self-titled solo debut is […]
The Monkees :: Head / Alternate Version
While it’s a very short album, The Monkees’ Head arguably features their strongest overall collection of songs (with Headquarters a close second). There isn’t a bad song on the record, and it’s interspersed with trippy dialogue […]
Harold J. “Suni” McGrath :: In Memory
Recently, Josh Rosenthal, proprietor of Tompkins Square and author of Record Store of the Mind, reached out to us with news that acoustic guitarist Suni McGrath had passed. Introduced to many by the Imaginational Anthem, […]
Six Organs of Admittance :: Burning the Threshold
The Six Organs of Admittance catalog is deep and varied, each album offering the listener a terrifically tangled journey through Ben Chasny’s boundless musical imagination. For that reason, it’s tough to pick out a single […]
Philip Lewin :: Am I Really Here All Alone?
Another dive into the world of the 1970s private press universe via the ever-reliable Tompkins Square label. Released in 1975 in an edition of 300, Philip Lewin’s Am I Really Here All Alone? has gained a following […]
Bonny Doon :: S/T
Detroit’s Bonny Doon have a knack for melodies that breeze by in easygoing fashion – each tune on the band’s new self-titled LP is as effortlessly catchy as can be, calling to mind Stephen Malkmus […]
On Fillmore (Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Bassist Darin Gray and percussionist Glenn Kotche first began playing together nearly 20 years ago, when they hunkered down in the studio with “mutual best friend” Jim O’Rourke to record what would become his 1999 album Eureka. […]