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Fool’s Gold Fool’s Gold Fool’s Gold Fool’s Gold
“At first listen, it might be tempting to label Fool’s Gold as ‘world music,’ but the band is, in its essence, a Los Angeles band.” Or so says Fool’s Gold’s label, I Am Sound . […]
AD Presents :: Dead Confederate/Meat Puppets @ The El Rey
Dead Confederat/Meat Puppets with Dead Confederate at the El Rey theater. We have five pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Leave your name and email address in […]
Memphis And The Delta Blues Trail
“I got to keep moving, blues falling down like hail. And the day keeps on remindin’ me, there’s a hellhound on my trail.” – Robert Johnson Beginning in October of […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review ’08 (Albums)
As I mentioned in our Songs: 2008, year-end wrap up , AD brought on two regular contributors over the course of the past twelve months, J. Neas and M. Garner. In lieu of listing our […]
Lou Reed :: Rock ‘N Roll Animal (Live 1973)
For an audience, artists reinterpreting their own catalog, in a live setting, can be both exciting, and at times, an exercise in frustration. This trend of course also lends itself […]
Tonight @ The Basement Nashville, 9/19
Yeeee Haw!! Put on them shitkickers, fellas! Ha, kidding, but for real, AD , MOKB and 30 Tigers are throwing a joint showcase at The Basement , in Nashvegas, the Friday night (9/19) of the AMA Festival . […]
Celebrity Vinyl :: A Book By Tom Hamling
He’s doing it “Reynolds style.” Author/collector Tom Hamling suffers from a condition that drives him to hunt down the very most obscure in vinyl records. Granted, this in and of […]
A Cassette Valediction: Part Two of Two
Like Thurston Moore and Rob Sheffield before him, AD contributor j. neas reflects on, and laments, the art of the (actual) mixtape. Now, raise your hand if you’ve created a muxtape (yes, I’m guilty ). […]
Hot Freaks, Saturday :: SXSW Re-cap, Final
This will do it for our ’08 SXSW coverage – but I wanted to make sure to throw up some photos from Saturday’s Hot Freaks party. Highlights included: The Whigs bombastic set on […]
Lou Reed Keynote/Tribute :: SXSW Re-cap, Pt 3
Thurston Moore, in the audience, Thursday, at the Lou Reed tribute (photo: nathan malone) Beginning Thursday morning the typical SXSW blur begins, as it does every year. Lasting through Sunday, until […]
R.E.M. @ Stubb’s :: Post-SXSW Re-cap, Pt 2
Wednesday, after Gorilla vs. Booze , like every night during SXSW , there were choices to be made on where to go and who to see. Actually, I should say there were choices to […]
Back In Los Angeles :: Post-SXSW Re-cap, Pt 1
Alright – back home in L.A. after five days in Austin – gonna do our best to provide some highlights the next few posts. First off, thanks to all the […]
Buddy Miles :: Dem Changes (R.I.P.)
Between travel, and gearing up for sxsw later this week, things have been busy around the AD camp, of late, but I would be remiss if I failed to get a […]