( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Johnny Cash did it, and nearly turned it into a hymn. John Mayer […]
Category: Sevens
Sevens :: Alex Chilton – My Rival
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) There is an understood snarl to much of Alex Chilton’s latter work beginning […]
Sevens :: Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) There’s a moment in Sleater-Kinney’s “Modern Girl” where the music and lyrics begin […]
Sevens :: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy w/ Tortoise – Thunder Road
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) In January of 2006, Will Oldham, under his working guise of Bonnie ‘Prince’ […]
Sevens :: Palace Brothers/Gulf Shores
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) The muse that is ‘Summer’s end’ has long served as an allegory for […]
Sevens :: Hum/Stars
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) The shifting landscape of commercial music has forced the industry to reconsider how […]
Sevens (90s One-Hitters) :: Spacehog/In the Meantime
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) AD is spending the month of May looking at some one-hitters from the […]
Sevens (90s One-Hitters) :: Super Deluxe/She Came On
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) AD is spending the month of May looking at some one-hitters from the […]
Sevens :: Red House Painters/Cruiser
Languid like LA at dusk, “Cruiser,” off the Red House Painters Old Ramon , is simultaneously both a paean to the city of Los Angeles and the narrator’s romantic love interest. Ever […]
Sevens (90s One-Hitters) :: For Squirrels/Mighty K.C.
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) AD is spending the month of May looking at some one-hitters from the […]
Sevens :: Paul McCartney & Wings/Arrow Through Me
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) “Arrow Through Me,” off 1980’s Back To The Egg , finds McCartney dipping into his Stevie Wonder […]
Sevens :: The Pogues, Fairytale of New York
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Some of the best holiday songs are the ones that don’t focus on […]
The Love Language
I think our endorsement of Chapel Hill, NC’s The Love Language was made pretty clear in August with the inclusion of not one, but two of their tracks on our Weird Summer mixtape. If you […]
Sevens :: The Walkmen, Canadian Girl
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) I know, I’m with you. It’s hot out there. Late summer in Los […]
Sevens :: (Ballad Of) The Hip Death Goddess
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) I want you to listen to this song, so I’ll ask that you […]