Dump :: That Skinny Motherfucker With The High Voice?

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Last week Matador Records treated Yo La Tengo fans to "Periodically Double Or Triple," the first single off the band's upcoming September release, Popular Songs. If you've been following along the past few months than you're well aware of our sincere appreciation for YLT's other project, that of fictional garage rock revivalists Condo Fucks. But this post is neither about Yo La Tengo nor Condo Fucks, this is about Prince -- well, to . . .

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AD Presents :: Jay Reatard @ The Echo, L.A.

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This Friday Aquarium Drunkard presents Jay Reatard at The Echo in Los Angeles with guests Thee Oh Sees and Earthmen & Strangers.     On August 18th Reatard has a new album out on the Matador label entitled Watch Me Fall -- the follow up to 2006's Blood Visions. Check out the first . . .

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Grizzly Bear :: Owner of A Lonely Heart

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It's June -- we are now almost officially half-way through the year. Thus far - and not surprisingly - Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest is, at present, ranking as my favorite release of 2009.     The week of its release (May 26th) the album landed on the Billboard top 10, charting at number 8, with over . . .

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Roadside Graves :: My Son’s Home

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Listening to the Roadside Graves forthcoming LP, My Son’s Home, you might draw associations to dusty, cross-country road trips and grainy, lo-fi photography. Paying homage to nearly every piece of Music Americana–folk, alt.country, rock and more–the record indeed sounds like it could’ve been recorded nearly everywhere at once, despite the band’s New York-via-New Jersey roots. So, suggesting that the music or the band is an old car traveling great . . .

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Elton John Does Nick Drake :: July 1970 Session

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The past couple of weeks have found me spinning a disc comprised of the following Elton John session (from July 1970) in which the artist lays out, among other tracks, a selection of Nick Drake covers. Yes, you read that correctly. Let's first address the 800 lb gorilla in the room: on paper the often gregarious bombast of Elton John coupled with the introspective work of Drake looks rough. But it actually works . . .

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Radio, I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You

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"Radio is a sound salvation. Radio is cleaning up the nation. They say you better listen to the voice of reason. But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio." - Elvis Costello (famously protesting commercialization of radio broadcasts)

Since moving west, eight or so years ago, I've spent a good bit of time driving around the country--both for work and . . .

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SIRIUS/XM Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.

SIRIUS 97: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader ++ Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater ++ Avi Buffalo - Summer Cum ++ LUNA - Tiger Lilly ++ Jarvis Cocker - Angela ++ St. Vincent - Your Lips Are Red ++ Land of Talk - Yuppy Flu ++ Dark Meat - Angel of . . .

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Steve Earle on Townes Van Zandt

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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 tributes go, Townes is the sound of inevitability. One of Steve Earle's biggest influences . . .

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Sevens :: Kris Kristofferson – Sunday Morning Coming Down

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(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)

In 1995, through an unusual series of connections involving Coretta Scott King, my mother and high colonics, I got to attend the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day memorial at Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King pastored. It . . .

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AD Presents :: Cotton Jones, Spaceland 6.4.09

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This Thursday, June 4th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Cotton Jones at Spaceland in Silver Lake aided and abetted by our friends The Parson Red Heads.   We have three pairs of tickets to giveaway to AD readers.   If you've been keeping up with the various projects of Michael Nau (Page France, become a member or log in.

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Off The Record :: Avi Buffalo (Long Beach, CA)

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Off The Record is a recurring feature here on the Drunkard that marries two of my greatest interests; music and travel. Having a locals perspective when visiting a new locale is the difference between experiencing it through the lens of a tourist and of that of a native.

Off The Record gathers some of my favorite artists, asks them to reflect on their city of residence, and choose a handful of places they could not live without -- be them bookstores, bars, restaurants or vistas.

Since AD began this series several years ago we have . . .

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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds :: Your Funeral…My Trial

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It’s a good time to be a Bad Seed.   In addition to releasing the critically-acclaimed Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!, Nick Cave has, in the past year, toured relentlessly to rabid crowds, written the score to John . . .

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Johnny Cash/Bob Dylan :: One Too Many Mornings

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