Not unlike Mark Kozelek's reinterpretation of the Modest Mouse canon on his 2005 Sun Kil Moon LP, Tiny Cities, here Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker takes on the unlikely muse of Neil Diamond for the soundtrack to filmmaker Greg Kohs . . .
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(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
This song has been a go-to mix tape/cd staple for years. Similar to last month's Sevens entry on David Bromberg's "Sharon," Rick Nelson's "Garden Party" also tells a story, except, unlike Bromberg's imaginary carnival tale, the events here are a veiled nod to an actual . . .
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I (as I suspect many of you reading) discovered The Nerves via Blondie's cover of the seminal power-pop group's "Hanging On The Telephone." Years later I took a guitar/songwriting workshop with Peter Case, here in L.A. at McCabes, and every once in awhile he would drop a morsel or two about his days with the Nerves/
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If the below description of this lost blaxploitation flick's soundtrack doesn't pique your interest then I would wager you have never watched Dolemite, The Mack and Superfly back-to-back (which, I might . . .
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As we mentioned last month, Vetiver recently released the EP More of The Past, a follow-up and companion piece to their album of eclectic covers, Thing of The Past. As . . .
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Judging by the sad madness in our nation's Wal-Marts, it must be the holiday season. The days are getting shorter, the lines are getting longer, and it's becoming more and more important to cram as much as we can into the hours between sunup and sundown.
My friends and I like to play a game where we condense a band's entire lyrical output to one characteristic line; it can be a line that sums up their philosophy neatly (as my friend Ben . . .
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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.
Today’s installment of Off The Record finds us in . . .
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Psychologists have it all wrong. Myers-Briggs? For chumps. Rorschach tests? Child's play. No, there really is one much simpler, more defining way to tell exactly what makes people tick. First, ask them if they are Pavement fans. If they say no, you can pretty much write them off immediately. I mean, for purposes of this study. I'm sure their life can still amount to something in general, but frankly, I'm not interested.
Next, ask them what is their favorite Pavement album. There are only five possible answers, so this gives us a good . . .
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Oh yes, December is here and it is that time of year again. While Sufjan Stevens has been pretty quiet of late, it would not surprise me if he decided to come out of seclusion to drop a couple of new Christmas nuggets on us. Regardless, the artist released a four-disc holiday box set, Songs For Christmas, in 2006 that is made up . . .
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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 73: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Pavement - Passat Dream ++ The Glands - Livin; Was Easy ++ AC Newman - Most Of Us Prizefighters ++ Spoon - The Fitted Shirt ++ Guided By Voices - Hot Freaks ++ Little Joy - No One's Better Sake ++ Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes ++ Beirut . . .
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Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface is a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard that that takes a look at particularly interesting cover art choices.
In 1967, Bob Dylan got into a motorcycle crash, retreated into the bowels of Big Pink with the Band, and emerged months later with a slab of records that sounded something like every American song ever written. The cover of become a member or log in.
I grew up in Atlanta, and every Thanksgiving as far back as I can remember, one of the local FM radio stations would play "Alice’s Restaurant" in its entirety - all 18+ minutes of it - several times throughout the day. As traditions go, it was a fine one, and now in our fourth year, the song has become an AD Thanksgiving tradition, and will remain so for as long as the Drunkard is online.
Oh, and since it is Thanksgiving, many thanks to all . . .
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As promised, here are the re-posted Chrome Dreams companion tracks from 2007. The following live & unreleased studio MP3s are a companion piece, of sorts, to the unreleased Chrome Dreams acetate bootleg posted here last week. The below video is of Neil with Crazyhorse, live at the . . .
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Blitzen Trapper's Furr has turned out to be one of the year's strongest albums, and the band is presently on tour supporting it with the Parson Redheads. Aquarium Drunkard is presenting both the hometown date, here in Los Angeles at the Echo, and down south in San Diego at the
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