It might have seemed like country singer Margo Price emerged out of nowhere with her 2016 album Midwest Farmer’s Daughter. But the real story is more complicated than that. […]
Month: October 2017
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 498: Jean Michel Bernard […]
Catching Up With Destroyer :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“I saw you at the castle/your eyes were clearly insane,” Dan Bejar sings on “Saw You at the Hospital,” one of the tenderest songs on ken , his twelfth album under […]
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile :: Lotta Sea Lice
On Lotta Sea Lice, their debut album of duets, Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile sound relaxed and unfussy. This is no overthought (or overwrought) “supergroup” type outing; it’s simply two pals, comfortable in their […]
Acetone :: Sam Sweet’s Hadley Lee Lightcap
The music of Acetone seems to exist outside conventional methods of timekeeping. Off to the side. Suspended and slightly warped. Likewise, the story told about the band in Sam Sweet’s […]
Jim O’Rourke :: Calder Walk (Whitney Museum)
As one never steps into the same river twice, so one never glimpses a Calder mobile in quite the same way again. Once set into motion, the pieces in “ Alexander Calder: Hypermobility ,” now […]
Nick Lowe :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
This year, Yep Roc’s massive Nick Lowe reissue campaign went into overdrive. The label re-released 1982’s Nick the Knife, 1983’s The Abominable Showman, and 1984’s Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit over the summer, […]
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 497: Jean Michel Bernard […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Songhoy Blues / Teragram OCT 19
The desert blues from Timbuktu. Thursday night, October 19th, Aquarium Drunkard Presents Songhoy Blues at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles. You want to see this. We’ve saved a stack of tickets […]
SQURL (Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan) :: The AD Interview
In Jim Jarmusch’s beatific Paterson, Adam Driver plays a bus driving poet named Paterson, living in Paterson, New Jersey. It’s a film guided by patterns: the patterns Paterson’s wife Laura […]
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Don’t Bring Me Down (Live ’78)
Putting on a Tom Petty record at wall shaking volume is one of life’s finest, simple pleasures. Tom Petty’s entire career is a wax wonder, and one thing that has […]
Rahsaan Roland Kirk :: Montreux Jazz Festival 1975
Until my machine is up-and-running, and I wake up with those stunning views of Lake Geneva, just plant me in front of youtube and start typing “Montreux Jazz Festival 197-“. […]
Diversions :: Wand / The Various And Sundry Brew Behind Plum
Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing. Following the quick succession of a trio […]
Transmissions Podcast :: Hiss Golden Messenger
“It’s a strange, sweet kind of light/To be lost out in the darkness of the border.” On Hiss Golden Messenger’s new album, Hallelujah Anyhow, songwriter M.C. Taylor stares down […]