Category: Book Club

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: a brief but powerful chronicle of the spiritual awakening, initiation, and transformation Alice Coltrane underwent between 1968 and 1970, the 1923 book that forever changed the course of David Lynch’s artistic life, Rosecrans Baldwin’s meditation on Los Angeles, from self-help cults and psychics to migrant workers and Octavia Butler, and Mark Swartz’s “what if” exploration of artists who died before their time

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: a guide to Krautrock, Lucy Sante’s sermons for Bob Dylan, plot twist poetry, and tomes devotes to Alan Vega of Suicide and The MC5.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: a PSA regarding the free audiobook app, Libby, John Higgs’ recently reissued tome on iconoclasts The KLF, Robyn Hitchcock’s recent coming-of-age memoir, and Chuco Punk, a look into the El Paso, TX DIY punk scene.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: the life and times of Island Records’ founder Chris Blackwell, the late Jean-Patrick Manchette, blurring the conceptual lines of experimental filmmaking and abstract animation, “the most unread book ever acclaimed,” and more.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: the communal effort that has made up NYC’s varied music scenes over the decades, Thurston Moore’s epic memoir, Haruki Murakami, the poetry of Oswell Blakeston and the hallucinatory, existential odyssey that is The Apple in the Dark.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: tales of aliens in upstate New York, the life and times of American folklorist Harry Smith, yet another (worthy) Dylan tome and the paranoid end of the 1970s. Your librarians are Justin Gage, Scott Bunn, Tyler Wilcox, and Jarrod Annis.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: ’60s girl groups, glitching realities and mirror world doubles, poetry from Richard Hell, modern occultism, and the indie rock fashions of the ’80s.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: an experimental reggae novel, Lou Reed’s tai chi practice, the final chapter of The Dead, and an oral history of The Hold Steady. Your librarians this month are Jarrod Annis, Justin Gage, Tyler Wilcox.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: a pictorial guide to the Steely Dan extended universe, conversations with the musicians who’ve backed up Bob Dylan, John Higgs alternative history of the 20th century, On Minimalism, and a road map to the shadow worlds of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: American polymath Harry Smith’s seismic influence over nearly every aspect of counterculture, the monk-like practice of deep listening, a survey of women in punk, how birds sleep and more.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: author Ben Wardle’s biography of Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, a look at why Sinéad O’Connor matters, future music from Germany, and critic, musician and media theorist DeForrest Brown Jr’s Assembling A Black Counter Culture.

We’re back in the stacks with creative guides from Rick Rubin and Chris Schlarb, looks at the music of The Byrds and Sonny Rollins, and Amiri Baraka’s groundbreaking Black Music.

Warren Zevon once said “We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.” But even if your towering “too read” pile can’t guarantee immortality, those pages can make life feel even more worth living. In this month’s stack: a comprehensive look at the early years of New Zealand’s Flying Nun Records, the life and work of Chet Baker, kranky records, and the story of Impulse Records.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. This month: Galaxie 500, the punk dramas of Kid Congo Powers, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s cross generational epic Re-Sisters, the Zen poetics of Philip Whalen, and horror comics from Jack “The King” Kirby.

Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. This month: false prophets, monsters of various mental planes, and bad trips. Reports from the frontlines of the late 1960s jazz avant-garde. The ritual zen of fly fishing. A slice of alternate history, and one cursed bunny.