Giddy up. Aquarium Drunkard and Standard Answer present White Denim, Black Joe Lewis and American Princes, at Red Eye Fly, Saturday night March 14th. The show is free -- no . . .
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For the third year in a row our SXSW Hot Freaks! day-party is happening Friday March 20th, and Saturday March 21st, noon - 6pm. Two days of, AD approved, live music, on three stages, held at Club DeVille and the Mohawk, located next to one another on Red River street. Once again the parties . . .
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It's again that time of year: SXSW. In two weeks, hordes of artists, industry folks and fans alike will descend upon Austin for a non-stop marathon of music, friends, BBQ, beer, and yes, breakfast tacos. Once again we'll be there in a variety of capacities. This is the first AD announcement, of three, per our involvement with parties this year (stay tuned for the rest).
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(Diversions, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing. We're kicking the series off in style with the incomparable Rennie Sparks, of The Handsome Family, as she lists and discusses her ten favorite murder ballads. Look for the new Handsome Family LP, become a member or log in.
Los Angeles: huge, sprawling, and eclectic, has been likened to microcosm of the country as whole — truly a melting pot of various cultures, ethnicities, tastes and influences. So is her music. Comprised of various scenes and sub-scenes, rarely has there been a defining sound that marks the overall zeitgeist of what is happening in the city at any one time. In 2008 I set out to create a compilation of a dozen or so LA based artists. After giving it some thought, I realized there needed to be a running theme, something to tie . . .
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Long Beach people, Aquarium Drunkard presents the Parson Red Heads at The Cellar tomorrow night in your town. Whispertown 2000 supports. If you have not seen the band in awhile, go see them as they have a new EP coming out very soon via JAXART records. I've heard it - it's great.
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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 with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 85: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Earlimart - Too Many People ++ Frankel - 3 Legs ++ The Parson Red Heads - Ram On ++ Bodies of Water - Dear Boy ++ Radar Bros. - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey ++ Naptunes - Smile Away ++ The Broken West - Eat At Home ++ Le Switch - Monkberry . . .
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On March 10th Elvis Perkins returns to the fold with his sophomore album, Elvis Perkins In Dearland, and this time there is little need to wax on his storied pedigree and biography. Like his debut, Ash Wednesday, Dearland sews a similar thread with . . .
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Perhaps due to the past couple of weeks of near constant puddles in L.A., I've found myself listening to Orphans and Rain Dogs ...a lot. Orphans, in particular, with its three thematic discs: become a member or log in.
Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface is a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard that that takes a look at particularly interesting cover art choices . . .
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Saturday, March 7th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Lambchop at the new Largo - at the Coronet - with special guests Radar Bros. This is a pretty incredible bill, and it's not all too often that the collective actually makes it to the West coast; in fact one is more likely to see them perform in Europe. Radar Bros. new-ish lineup sound great (saw them at Spaceland last week) and . . .
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Off Tillman's new album, Vacilando Territory Blues, the vid for "First Born" debuted on pitchfork.tv last week. A great album, and markedly different from Tillman's earlier, more stark, work, "First Born" features a number of his Fleet Foxes brethren. Your afternoon moment of birds and zen.
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"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
Written by Robert Towne, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jack Nicholson, Chinatown undoubtedly stands as one of the greatest films of the twentieth century. Classic film noir, on a base level, Chinatown tells the story of private detective J.J. 'Jake' Gittes as . . .
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The living legend that is Leonard Cohen is paying a visit to Los Angeles April 10th at the Nokia theatre. Tickets for the show go on sale Monday, March 9th at 10am, but you can win a pair here on Aquarium Drunkard before that. We have two pairs of tickets for AD readers; to win a pair, leave your name, email address and the first Cohen song or album you remember hearing in the comments below. I'm pretty sure . . .
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Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface is a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard that that takes a look at particularly interesting cover art choices.Bonnie "Prince" Billy's The Letting Go is broadly considered, even in rare negative critique, as become a member or log in.