Last year, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Kayla Cohen released Open to Chance under her Itasca banner. In his review for Aquarium Drunkard, Tyler Wilcox admitted the temptation to call the album’s slow burning, psychedelically-tinged folk rock […]
Month: August 2017
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Jack Cooper
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Earlier this year Ultimate Painting’s Jack Cooper slid us an early version of his […]
Kacy & Clayton :: The Siren’s Song
Continuing to effortlessly distill the sounds and traditions of Southern Appalachia, the British Isles, and the rolling ranch land of their rural Saskatchewan home, second cousins Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum return with The Siren’s Song . Their […]
Chris Forsyth :: Dreaming In The Non-Dream
For the follow-up to 2016’s The Rarity of Experience , sprawling, expansive double LP, Chris Forsyth and his Solar Motel comrades take a more spare/skeletal path. For one thing, Forsyth handles all the guitar work on Dreaming In The Non-Dream himself, […]
Private Pressers: Tom Armstrong + Rick Deitrick
Last year’s Imaginational Anthem: The Private Press , was one of the best compilations in quite some time, bringing to light a host of extremely obscure guitarists from the 1970s and 1980s – players who lurked in the considerable shadows […]
New Weird Arizona :: The Myrrors and Sunn Trio
There’s been no shortage of national focus on Arizona of late. The president showed up, there was trouble ; our disgraced former sheriff slithered back into the headlines ; and a federal judge ruled racism as the main factor in a ban on ethnic studies in Arizona schools . From […]
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 492: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Rosebud […]
Ekambi Brillant :: Africa Africa
Come for the drums, stay for the humid washes of Cameroonian fuzz. Originally released in 1975 via Ekambi Brillant’s Africa Oumba lp, “Africa Africa” has been resurrected of late by the Paris based Africa Seven imprint. Dig […]
Studio One Radio Show: Jamaican Broadcast Corp. 1977 / 1978
Mic control, Jamaican DJ Winston Williams had it. Released last year as part of the latest excavation of Studio One’s vaults, Radio Show finds the famed selector mc’ing two episodes broadcasted for the Jamaican Broadcast Corporation; 1977’s Sounds of Young Jamaica and 1978’s […]
Rosebud :: Main Theme from More / Interstellar Overdrive
Lifted from a 1977 collection known as Discoballs: A Tribute to Pink Floyd, Rosebud was a French studio project featuring a number of notable players (composer Gabriel Yared, Magma’s Jannick Top and Claude Engel), bent on […]
Cloakroom :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On Indiana power trio Cloakroom’s new album Time Well , the band weds shoegaze’s blurry impressionism to post-rock heaviness and a rootsy framework. It’s a heavy record, but its heft is due to more than the […]
amiina and Lee Hazlewood :: Hilli (At The Top Of The World)
Earlier this month marked the 10th anniversary of the departure of Lee Hazlewood from our plane, on August 4, 2007. In the decade since his passing, Hazlewood’s music has been the source of no small […]
Leonard Cohen :: Montreux Jazz Festival, June 25, 1976
There’s no shortage of Leonard Cohen live albums from over the years, but there’s never been an official release from the man’s 1976 summer tour of Europe. This masterful two-hour Montreux set would do 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. SIRIUS 491: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Gil […]
Pierre Cavalli :: Un Soir Chez Norris
Composed by jazz guitarist Pierre Cavalli, swirling widescreen French psychedelia lifted from the short-lived 1971 television drama Un Soir Chez Norris . Pierre Cavalli :: Un Soir Chez Norris