One of the most unique, unheralded albums of the 60s, the C.A. Quintet's Trip Thru Hell was a small indie pressing of under 500 from the Candy Floss label, making it a very rare 1968/1969 release. Originals will set you back a pretty penny, but for the die hard may be worth it considering the CD version does not faithfully recreate the back side of the LP.
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Charles Manson has always been cloaked and hidden in music, and if not music, then at least the counterculture that swirls around it. Manson and his Family have, since their inception upon his release from McNeil Island in 1967 and subsequent move to the Bay Area, associated themselves with the counterculture in general and the musical counterculture in particular. As Bono alludes to in Rattle and Hum, he re-stamped the proto-punk of the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter”
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 116: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Dirty Projectors - What I See ++ Caribou - Eli ++ High Places - Head Spins (7") ++ Atlas Sound (W/ Panda Bear) - Walkabout ++ Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel ++ Local Natives - Airplanes ++ Foreign Born - Winter Games ++ Ofo The Black Company . . .
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We are Mondo Boys – a NY/LA mixtape/sound collage collaborative. We're back to fuck with your Halloween, just like you knew we would. Here's 27 minutes of spooky weirdness. Look for our autumn mixtape soon. Mucho take it easy. — MB
(mondo boys are: m. schanzlin, j. gage, m. griffin, and n. punwar)
Zipper Folder: Transylvanian Sublet, A Halloween Mixtape
+ Broadcast & The Focus Group: Royal Chant
+ Gorillaz . . .
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What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
As the decade begins to wrap itself up, today's Diversions catches up with Port O'Brien's Van Pierszalowski as he runs down some of his favorite albums of the past ten years. The bay-area band released their sophomore album, Threadbare, on the TBD imprint earlier this month and can soon be found touring Europe beginning in November though mid-December. Do see this band live.
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Modest Mouse :: The Moon And Antartica - This record came out when I was just getting into music other than Green Day and Rancid. A friend of mine gave me a Fugazi CD and The Lonesome Crowded West when I just started high school, and I immediately was obsessed with MM. When this record came out, it was the record of my life for a long, long time, and still is in a lot of ways.
Lil Wayne :: Tha Carter III - This is my favorite record of the last couple years, by far. Its one of the most emotionally driven records in a long time. Weezy is the best thing to happen to music since Kurt Cobain.
Little Wings :: Magic Wand - From Lil' Wayne to Little Wings. Two records that are equally amazing, but couldn't me more different. This is the best record to come from that whole "freak folk" or whatever kind of thing.... Every song is so different melodically, lyrically, and the album flows like no other.
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What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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Los Angeles: Thursday night, October 29th, Aquarium Drunkard presents The Antlers at the Bootleg Theater. Their debut LP, Hospice, has been a mainstay on my stereo and in my car since SXSW. See why Thursday night.
We are giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers. Hit us up in the . . .
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Sometimes an album's cover really does capture the atmosphere of its aural contents -- something we semi-regularly explore on the recurring Scratch The Surface feature. Jordaan Mason's cryptic blend of fucked folk, Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head, is one . . .
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What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 115: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Best Coast - The Sun Was High (So Was I) ++ Dump - Raspberry Beret ++ The Kinks - Nothing In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' Bout That Girl ++ Jacques Dutronc - L'augmentation ++ The Velvet Underground - White Light . . .
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If you're in NYC, play hooky from work today and come hang with us. Aquarium Drunkard is having an informal, unofficial, day party today (October 22nd) on the lower east side at Fontana's. It is free.
7 bands from both coasts and in between. I can promise you now that you won't be able to catch a few of these artists in rooms this intimate in six months. Come by, hang out, say hi and let's have some day beers. DJ sets . . .
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What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years?
Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren’t going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. There are enough of those. Rather, we elected to let our four main writers have a chance to write . . .
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Ernie Graham was a member of Eire Apparent, whose claim to fame was their Sunrise album, produced by Jimi Hendrix. His brilliant 1971 solo record often gets the 'pub rock' tag, but sounds closer to genuine Americana, like The Band record that never was. It doesn't feel like most pub rock (even considering Nick Lowe's Brinsley Schwarz filled out the backing band); it may just be because Graham hailed from England that . . .
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