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 486: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Quincy Jones […]
Month: June 2017
Lynn Castle :: Rose Colored Corner
At the height of the swinging ’60s, Lynn Castle was a barber to the stars. Del Shannon, members of the The Monkees and the Byrds, Sonny and Cher, Neil Young, and more, Castle groomed them […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Golden Retriever / A Mixtape
Built on a foundation of altered/mutated bass clarinet and synthesizer, the sound of Portland’s Golden Retriever evokes vast expanses. Though the core of the project remains Matt Carlson and Jonathan Sielaff, those expanses get even […]
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Psychic Temple
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. On its new record IV, Chris Schlarb’s Psychic Temple expands and blooms. Inspired by Brian Wilson’s […]
James Elkington :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Looking for a thread connecting some of the year’s best records, from Joan Shelley to Wooden Wand’s Clipper Ship, Brokeback’s Illinois River Valley Blues to Michael Chapman’s 50? Look to guitarist James Elkington. For the last couple years, the UK-born, Chicago-based musician’s […]
Bob Seger :: Brand New Morning / All-Acoustic, 1971
Silver Bullet Band this is not. While the masses may associate Seger with 1970s Motor City rock & roll and Chevy commercials, others champion the underrated, pre-stardom garage rock of The Bob Seger System and The Last Heard . Yet few are […]
The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart: Documentary
“This the story of one of rock’s great mavericks, and it began in the quiet Los Angeles suburb of Glendale in 1941.” And so it began… Courtesy of the BBC, and narrated by John Peel, […]
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. Did you slide into Good Trip Peru, Volume I earlier this month? If not, do it . […]
Transmissions Podcast :: Strand of Oaks
Welcome to Aquarium Drunkard’s Transmissions podcast, a recurring series of conversations with songwriters, authors, and creators about what drives their art. For this episode, AD’s Jason P. Woodbury sat down with Timothy Showalter of Indiana’s Strand of Oaks […]
The Letter People :: Meet Mister S.
The Letter People . Those three words either mean something to you…or they don’t. If they do, you most likely have a fuzzy half-remembrance of the vinyl / 8-track set or the accompanying companion PBS children’s puppetry show. […]
Paul Major :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
As anyone who tuned into the Aquarium Drunkard Show on Sirius/XMU last Friday is well aware, Endless Boogie’s Paul Major knows private press. A longtime record dealer, his catalogs, including Feel the Music and Sound Effects, helped establish much of […]
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Greg Ashley
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Best known as the leader of the Texas cum Oakland psych outfit […]
John Cage: From Zero // In The Ocean: The Classical Avant-Garde
From the casually curious to the autodidact, the information imparted by the voluminous youtube can be (at its very best) transformative / enlightening — nitpicky criticisms aside, of course. Which brings us to the two […]
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 484: Jean-Michel Bernard — Générique Stéphane ++ Stonewall — […]
Mary Lattimore / Elysse Thebner Miller :: And The Birds Flew Overhead
The so-called ambient music movement was kicked off sometime in 1975 when Brian Eno heard a tape of eighteenth-century harp music. More than four decades later, Mary Lattimore is connecting the dots, creating beautifully becalmed settings for […]