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Part Two of our Year In Review… Part One can be found HERE. The following list is comprised of my favorite 12 albums released in 2006. Take note that this list is in flux, and could […]

Best 2006 Reissue :: Pavement – Wowee Zowee (Sordid Sentinels Edition) Matador continued their excellent Pavement reissue campaign in ’06 with the Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition . Like it’s reissued […]

Veteran readers will note this one is a long time coming. Last February I posted the first half (1967 – 1971) of the Neil Young soundboard derived live collection, A Perfect Echo Volume 1, and […]

Until this week I hadn’t listened to Kurt Wagner’s collaborative EP with Josh Rouse , Chester , all the way through in a couple of years. I’m happy to report it holds up extremely […]

It’s (somehow) December again…a quick year indeed. For the first Holiday post of many, let’s begin with Vince Guaraldi’s classic score for the 1965 Peanuts TV special ” A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Nostalgia inducing […]

Although suffering from poor health in the spring of 1970, Howlin’ Wolf agreed to travel to Europe to record with the who’s who if British rock royalty; namely the Stones rhythm section (Charlie Watts […]

A number of readers have requested additional tracks off The Zabriskie Point Sessions, so here is another excerpt from the cream of the crop. Per the comments in the original […]

After years of speculation and anticipation, Neil Young has finally released the first artifact from his legendary archives. The six track album is culled from the March 6th & 7th, 1970 performances at Bill Graham’s […]

When Radiohead’s Ok Computer was released, one of the finest and most appropriate appraisals was that of deeming the band the ’90s Pink Floyd. I was reminded of this recently […]

Welcome to Episode 19 of the podcast edition of The Aquarium Drunkard Show; airing live every Wednesday 2-4 p.m. PST at the Little Radio studios in downtown L.A. As requested, below is […]

Last month Matador Records released the three disc Better Days Will Haunt You , a clearing house for all things Chavez related. Bless you, Matador. Chavez, along with Guided By Voices, Pavement, and a whole slew of […]

You may recall that a couple of months ago I derided Beck’s output post Sea Change ; you can read that here if you like. The gist was that the last two commercial […]

THE SONG DIARY – Long Story Short: 365 songs in 365 days Morgan at Yer Bird introduced me to the sounds of Paleo last April, but I had almost entirely forgotten about the […]

The Hold Steady’s “Southtown Girls” may well be the most listened to single song in my collection since the release of their latest album, Boys and Girls in America, in October. It’s damn catchy in that ‘return-to-the-rock’ kind […]

First off, a big thank you to the friend who sent me this session earlier in the week — it’s been a fine listen indeed.Secondly, if you are a Molina, […]