SIRIUS Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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

SIRIUS 63: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Hacienda - She's Got A Hold On Me ++ Dr. Dog - Old News ++ Bowerbirds - In Our Talons ++ Neutral Milk Hotel - The . . .

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Off The Record :: Benji Hughes (Charlotte, NC)

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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.

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AD Presents :: Tokyo Police Club/The Whigs

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Aquarium Drunkard is presenting Tokyo Police Club and The Whigs dates this week here in Los Angeles, both at the Henry Fonda Music Box (Sept 18th), and in Pomona at the Glass House (Sept 19th). We have some pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Hit up the comments below if you are wanting to check out the show.

Also, AD caught up with TPC's David Monks earlier in the month -- interview below.

Aquarium Drunkard: What is the nature of this experiment?

Tokyo Police Club: We grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, which was a place that was void of the more obscure music scenes we'd hear about happening in the city. We were the only people we knew in our school who were into the same band. So, the natural progression was eventually to attempt to play the music we listened to together.

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Liam Finn :: The AD Interview

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The Monolith Festival, held at Red Rocks outside of Denver, CO is approaching this weekend. AD sat down to chat with one of the festival's performers, Liam Finn, about how he ended up at Monolith, touring partners, current and future records and growing up as a musician under the influence of his father, Neil Finn. His 2008 solo debut, I'll Be Lightning, has garnered strong critical reviews and he's currently on a tour of the U.S. with the Veils.

Aquarium Drunkard: My first question is just about the Monolith Festival - how you got involved in that. There are a lot of great bands playing there and I wondered how you got drawn into playing there.

Liam Finn: I guess my agent was shopping for some festivals. And Monolith was the first people who were sort of interested in what we were doing. I don't really know that much about the festival other than that there are some great bands playing. I'm looking forward to it, it ought to be quite fun.

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Tonight @ The Basement Nashville, 9/19

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Yeeee Haw!! Put on them shitkickers, fellas! Ha, kidding, but for real, AD, MOKB and 30 Tigers are throwing a joint showcase at The Basement, in Nashvegas, the Friday night (9/19) of the AMA Festival. Doors are at 7pm and as . . .

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Vetiver: Thing Of The Past :: The Originals

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As I mentioned in August, Vetiver's 2008 all-covers album, Thing of The Past, has been a favorite around here over the past few months. Today, we're taking that interest a little further. If you're curious in the artists behind the scenes, below are . . .

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The Dude Abides :: Ten Years Later

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"The Dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there, the Dude, takin' 'er easy for all us sinners." - The Stranger

To abide is to accept without condition or question, and the Dude reminds of us that again in 2008. This year marks the 10th anniversary of White Russians and 10-pin, of nihilists and thousand . . .

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AD Presents :: Delta Spirit, New Orleans, Wed 9.10

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Aquarium Drunkard is presenting tomorrow nights Delta Spirit show at Republic New Orleans , Wednesday, September 9th. Hurricane Ike be damned, its going to be a good show. We caught up with the band's bassist, Jonathan Jameson, last week to discuss the new release Ode To Sunshine .

Aquarium Drunkard: Ode To Sunshine is an intimate record. One that calls on the familiarity of folk and yet still captures the rawness of punk rock. Describe the recording process at that cabin in Julian, CA and will you be doing more recording there or branching out to other locations?

Jonathan Jameson: Heat. Dogs. Friends. Heat. Live. Fun. Discouragement. Work. Slip n' Slide. Heat. Whiskey. BBQ. Eli. Sauna. Accomplishment. It was beautiful. It will be very different next time...that is all i know.

AD: As you were recording these songs, did it, at the time feel like what you thought Delta Spirit would sound like as you formed in 2005? Are there ways your original vision was different than the current group?

JJ: Yeah. The biggest difference was that we started with four people and now we have five. we have never tried to change our sound or send it in one specific direction, but it has changed and evolved and I'm sure it will continue to.

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Okkervil River :: The Stand Ins

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Sometimes the movements of time's big hands adjusts our fuzzy view of the past and pulls the picture into focus. Here we are in September of 2008, and Okkervil River's The Stage Names, a record that was at first loved and then capsized by the digital wake of 2007, has floated to the surface unharmed. The Stage Names made few (if any) top ten lists last year, despite . . .

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The Broken West :: The AD Interview

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Tomorrow sees the release of The Broken West's sophomore LP, Now Or Heaven, their second album for their label home at Merge Records. The album marks a departure from the more straight froward, hook laden, work of the bands last two studio efforts, both in tone and arrangement. We caught up with the Broken West's vocalist and songwriter, Ross Flournoy . . .

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Blitzen Trapper :: Furr

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Blitzen Trapper's 2007 release, Wild Mountain Nation, was hailed as an ideological heir to Pavement's Wowee Zowee - all jumbled genre and sprightly chaos. And the same could be said of

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AD Presents :: Damien Jurado, Spaceland, 9.9.08

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Damien Jurado's new album Caught In The Trees drops this Tuesday, September 9th, via the Secretly Canadian label. That evening, here in Los Angeles, AD is presenting the second night of his Fall tour at Spaceland. We have three pairs of tickets for the . . .

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Dawn Chorus :: Florida St. Serenade

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Seeing a band with multiple writers employing the old trick of 'you write it, you sing it' is always fun to watch - especially to see how the other singers add to the recipe when they're not the spotlight. Greensboro, North Carolina's Dawn Chorus mine that territory with a pair of songwriters - Zachary Mull and Andrew Dudek - who compliment each other in numerous ways. Whether it's lyrical style or guitar work, along with Amy Kingsley and Will Ridenour, the band is a cohesive unit.

The band's latest . . .

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Hacienda :: She’s Got A Hold On Me

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Hitting the road this fall with Dr. Dog, and with an album in the can produced by the Black Keys Dan Aurbach, San Antonio's Hacienda is on our watch list. And not to oversimplify the bands sound, but if you're a fan of the aforementioned Dog and Black Keys, you'd be doing yourself a slight injustice to not at least stream the below track off their upcoming album

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