Seven years ago, songwriter Fletcher Tucker went to Big Sur. Settling into the rugged landscape, where the Santa Lucia Mountains jut sheerly before the Pacific Ocean, Tucker had an idea in mind: inhabitation. He did […]
Month: June 2017
Elkhorn :: The Black River
Elkhorn is just two guys with guitars – Jesse Shephard on acoustic 12-string and Drew Gardner on electric – but the duo packs a lot of music into The Black River , an excellent new collection of six […]
Catching Up With Kevin Morby
“Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, Tommy/they were all my friends and they died,” Kevin Morby sings on “1234,” a punk-influenced gem from his new album, City Music. In Morby’s mouth, the recitation of the departed Ramones’ […]
Van Morrison :: The Authorized Bang Collection
Rather than introduce a bevy of unearthed material or special-features, The Authorized Bang Collection retells a chapter of Van Morrison’s career in a reframed light using existing material. Famously, Morrison did not approve of 1967’s Blowin’ Your Mind, nor […]
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 483: Jean-Michel Bernard — Générique Stéphane ++ Pierre Cavalli […]
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Joan Shelley
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. One of our favorite albums of the year, the self-titled Joan Shelley […]
Sam Amidon :: The Following Mountain
Sam Amidon possesses the traits of an archetypal American songster: fiddle and banjo mastery, as well as a lifetime spent among his repertoire of deeply rooted folksongs. His interpretations of traditional tunes and ballads are often expansive […]
Allen Ginsberg :: Complete Songs Of Innocence And Experience
Between 1969 and 1971, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg took the poems of William Blake and set them to music – with musicians as diverse as Don Cherry, Elvin Jones, and Arthur Russell – Ginsberg recorded (with himself […]
John Mulaney:: The AD Interview
“I enjoy when people aren’t that into Steely Dan. I enjoy that almost as much as I enjoy talking to other Steely Dan fans.”
Iggy Pop In The East Village / Gimme Danger Soundtrack
2016 saw the return of filmmaker Jim Jarmusch on two separate fronts with the release of Patterson and his Stooges documentary, Gimme Danger . The latter is now on Netflix, so go ahead and queue it up. In the meantime: […]
Jason Molina :: Riding With The Ghost
In her new book, Riding With the Ghost, writer Erin Osmon accomplishes a tricky feat regarding the late Jason Molina, the songwriter and leader of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. She presents Molina, whose work can so […]
Hayden Pedigo :: Greetings From Amarillo
“Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget,” wrote the poet Ovid, in exile from his native Rome in 8 A.D. The concept of […]
Giorgio Moroder & Roger Miller :: They Won’t Get Me
It came from 1983 – “They Won’t Get Me” – the unlikely union of Italian electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder and Oklahoman honky-tonk hero, Roger Miller. No stranger to soundtrack work, Moroder was tasked with injecting some of his signature stile into the third installment of the Superman film series…you know, the one with Richard Pryor. The results are a delightfully bizarre mesh of electro-animatronic country & western that feels about a half a step away from The Rock-afire Explosion itself.
79rs Gang :: Dead and Gone / Wrong Part of Town
2015’s Fire on the Bayou was the debut album from 79rs Gang, the musical partnership between former rivals Big Chief Jermaine Bossier of the 7th Ward Creole Hunters and Big Chief Romeo Bougere of the […]
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. All 90s this week. SIRIUS 482: Mazzy Star – So […]