A frequent spin, I almost played this slice of 60s garage Saturday night, but ran out of time. Dig.
MP3: The Bush :: Feeling Sad And Lonely
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
The term “apocrypha” comes from the Greek for “hidden things.” Applied the Christian Bible, it covers a wide swath of books deemed “non-canonical” by one denomination or another. The books and stories found within are pretty wild: there are dragons, beheading heroines, and Christ, as a young boy, animating clay pigeons.
Generally speaking, the Bible is comprised of a bunch of weird, weird books, but the scattered books of the Apocrypha are especially far-out. The same goes for the 20 gospel tracks found on Numero Group
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
In 1988 the Replacements headed to a studio in Woodstock, New York in an effort to record their follow up to Pleased to Meet Me. They enlisted Tony Berg as the producer and set to it. And although the band allegedly laid down an album's worth of material, it was all scrapped as Paul Westerberg . . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul, and Avant-garde from Arizona, 1951-1971
Border hawks and radical sheriffs may unjustly define Arizona’s national profile, but there are powerful vibrations still at play in the dry air of the Sonoran Desert — echoes of old Hoozdo Hahoodzo -- bouncing off the rocks, through the canyons and off the cacti.
The songs featured here span many genres, all recorded in Arizona between 1951-1971: dusty garage rock, riffing funk, Latin soul, psychedelic surf, lonesome queens and kings of country, and hot breeze lounge. They’re sounds of Old Gold, sounds of an older, even weirder, Arizona.
MP3: Old Gold :: A Sonoran Soul Mixtape (35 min.)
tracklisting after the jump. . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
The circus is coming to town. Los Angeles: Tuesday night Aquarium Drunkard presents Futurebirds with Diarrhea Planet and T. Hardy Morris at The Echo. We're giving away tickets -- leave a comment below with your name, an email we can reach you at, and what you've been listening to this summer, old or new. Winners notified Monday night via email . . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
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 289: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Ofo & The Black Company - Allah Wakbar ++ The Ify Jerry Krusade - Everybody Likes Something Good ++ Dutch Rhythm And Steel Show Band: Down By The River ++ Fatback Band - Goin' To See My Baby ++ The Last Poets - Time (edit) ++ Darondo - Let My People Go ++ Mor Thiam - Ayo Ayo . . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
English language Mexican psych joint from 1971, this one is heavy on the south of the border fuzz -- and if “The Train” hasn’t been comped yet, I’m sure it's only a matter of time. Whereas the vinyl boasts a hefty price tag, a digital rip of the wax has made its way around the Internet, and back again, several times. If you happen upon a superior rip/mix to the one posted below, please hit us up.
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
Finally, a record that answers the age-old question: What would Lou Reed have sounded like if he had never left his parents' Long Island home and just made private press LPs of oddball funk rock? Don't pretend like you haven't thought about it. Rich Ristagno's What Would It Be Like To Be Rich is another extremely rare gem unearthed and made available to the masses by the fine people at Drag City. Recorded in Detroit in the early . . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
Spinning Fela Kuti's proto-Africa 70 band, Koola Lobitos, for an upcoming program, I was reminded of just how seminal, loose (and great) this period of his career arc can be. And if you only know the more politically charged Fela of the 70s/80s, I highly recommended exploring Kuti's--vastly different--sixties output. Like any massive bandleader, from Miles to James Brown, you eventually begin to trace the individual players in the group, session or otherwise. It was this path, digging into the Koola . . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
Our east coast compatriots, NYC's Chances With Wolves return with their second serving for Aquarium Drunkard: Hotel Motel - A Mixtape. As always, it's a heady/essential brew. The CWW squad is in L.A. this week launching the inaugural issue of their new zine at Family Books (tonight) on Fairfax -- with a DJ set immediately afterwards. You can still download the first AD/CWW joint from 2012, become a member or log in.
Sho' nuff. Patti Drew does Otis Redding. 1969.
MP3: Patti Drew :: Hard To Handle
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
(Volume 19 of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b . . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
Sunday listening. Dig into this marathon 12-hour Spiritual Jazz mix compiled by The Black Classical. Playlist and stream via the Word Is Bond. Direct download: here
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
John Denver died in a plane crash in 1997 -- several years later the compilation Take Me Home: A Tribute To John Denver was released via Badman Recordings. Guiding the artist roster, the compilation sonically concentrated on the somber stylings of the (then) quiet-is-the-new-loud zeitgeist - specifically that of Mark Kozelek, whose Red House Painters appear three times . . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.
Only the good shit. Our 'astral blues' t-shirt is finally available, as modeled above by our amigo for life, Cold Splinters' Jeff Thrope. It's spring, and you need a new t-shirt. Wear it as-is, or, if you're like Justin, embrace your inner redneck and whack the sleeves off. Super-soft, pre-shrunk, priced at a real nice twenty . . .
Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.
To continue reading, become a member or log in.