If you’re someone that’s into records, especially soul records, you’ve probably heard of Carolina Soul . The Durham, NC based vinyl retailer has developed a cult following around its semi-weekly eBay auctions. Email blasts with subject lines […]
Month: October 2017
Sibylle Baier :: Colour Green
Softly. Home recorded via reel-to-reel in Germany between 1970 and 1973, Sibylle Baier’s Colour Green gently aches. Unearthed some 30+ years later by Orange Twin records in 2006, the album’s fourteen tracks hover somewhere between melancholy and […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Halloween Edition)
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 499: Aquarium Drunkard Halloween Intro 2017 ++ Eartha Kitt […]
Autumn: Way Out Weather (A Medley)
Woodsmoke, buffalo check and the crunch of broken pine needles underfoot — the tiny death that is Autumn. And not unlike its spiritual cousin, our Indian Summer mix, Way Out Weather is best played at night with […]
Scott McCaughey :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
There is something of the recently deceased Harry Dean Stanton to Scott McCaughey . Just as Stanton was to pictures for decades, McCaughey is that cool, mysterious guy in music that shows up in seemingly every conceivably […]
Kazuki Tomokawa @ The Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles – Nov. 4th
Performing for the first time in the United States, Aquarium Drunkard and Black Editions present an evening with Kazuki Tomokawa at The Bootleg Theater / Los Angeles, Saturday – November 4th. Bill Orcutt and Itasca support, along with Aquarium Drunkard […]
Mapache :: Mountain Song
Self-described California conscious country, Mapache are made up of local good guys Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch — think a blazed up Everly Brothers. The acoustic duo’s self-titled debut long-player was released last week via the Santa Cruz […]
Gunn/Truscinski Duo: Tape Bag (A Mixtape)
On their new album Bay Head , guitarist Steve Gunn and drummer John Truscinski offer up a sound honed by years of collaboration. Its a record full of spectral blues, haunting drones, and noise. The individual […]
Eddie The Wheel :: Leave Behind
We posted Eddie the Wheel’s “ Nearsayerfive ” from the He’s A Scream EP back in the spring of 2011. That summer, Eddie Whelan founded Grass Giraffes, one of the best Athens, GA bands that never […]
Catching Up With A. Savage :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Andrew Savage is in a pretty good mood. When the Parquet Courts co-frontman answers his phone, it’s Thursday night in New York, and he’s just finished packing a carton full of vinyl copies of Thawing Dawn , his first […]
Champagne Superchillin :: Fragment
Champagne Superchillin craft raw, psychedelic French pop for fans of Francoise Hardy, Broadcast, and heavy absinthe. That vibe-checking ain’t to suggest that these Nashvillians don’t have their own personality. They do. “Fragment” arrives replete with crushed velvet […]
Luna :: A Sentimental Education / “Friends” (Doug Yule VU)
“Yeah, but is it a Velvet Underground record??” If you’ve spent any time clerking in a record store hanging out online in obsessives fan circles, the matter of the Velvet’s final lp, 1973’s Squeeze , has […]
Allen Ravenstine + Albert Dennis :: Terminal Drive
Allen Ravenstine’s synth work with Pere Ubu brought strange new textures to the rock realm in the mid-1970s. Now we can finally hear, in full, his initial stabs at finding this revolutionary sound. Terminal Drive , […]
Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane :: The Elements / World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda
The new reissue label Jazz Dispensary did us all a favor this year by bringing, The Elements , Joe Henderson and Alice Coltrane’s lone collaboration, back to the marketplace, rescuing it from wild Discogs prices (even […]
Joseph Shabason :: Long Swim
Joseph Shabason has performed saxophone on recordings from the likes of Destroyer and the War on Drugs. Aytche , his first solo album, was released by Western Vinyl at the end of August. Better late than […]