The World Record :: Guitars! Forever

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Sure, name checking a band as the West coast heir apparent to Big Star is a bold statement, brave in fact, but that's exactly how I've been hailing The World Record of late. I didn't catch the bands live act until late '07, but their 2006 long player Guitars! Forever would have most likely made my best of 2006 list had I been hip to them at the time. Power-Pop enthusiasts take note, this . . .

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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 60: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Catfish Haven - Set In Stone ++ Cat Power - Speak For Me ++ The Broken West - House of Lies ++ James Jackson Toth - Banquet . . .

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Off The Record :: Horse Feathers (Portland, OR)

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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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Bloodkin :: All Dolled Up

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Athens, Georgia's perennial rock & roll torch-bearers, Bloodkin, have a new album in the can entitled Baby They Told Us We Would Rise Again. Fuck yes; further proof you can never count these guys out. Stay tuned for details regarding a label and release date (looking like late '08) as they leak out.

In the late Summer of 2000 the band recorded their sole, official, live album, All Dolled Up, at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta. Living in town . . .

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AD Presents :: White Denim (New Orleans, 8.27.08)

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Aquarium Drunkard is presenting the upcoming White Denim show at Republic New Orleans , Wednesday, August 27th. I've said it before and I'll say it again; this is one of the best live acts touring today. Those of us stateside have been anxiously awaiting a full-length from the band which is finally on the horizon. It's called Explosion and drops this November (via our friend . . .

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Off The Record :: Rodriguez (Detroit, MI)

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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 . . .

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Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg :: The AD Interview

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Aquarium Drunkard: Rook is far more thematic than its predecessor Palo Santo. While those songs felt like they could be cohesive, Rook's ongoing chromatic descents seem to hint at a central theme? Is that the case?

Jonathan Meiburg: There's no hidden 'plot' to Rook (as there was, in a way, for Palo Santo), but there's certainly meant to be a feeling of oneness to the songs - I like albums that feel like a complete piece, which these days seems like a dying form. As we assembled the record (and tossed away several tracks that didn't fit), the final order emerged as the one that felt the most 'right', where the songs seemed like they were communicating best with each other, if that makes sense.

AD: The song "Rooks" paints a prescient pre-apocalyptic picture ("feathering pyre") and a very poetic embrace that death may not be too far away is present in many tracks. However, as a whole, some of the smaller images illuminate that this is what living life is all about. Are these, like Palo Santo, more of your meditations on nature?

JM: Palo Santo was mostly, though obliquely, about the life and death of Nico, with some natural landscapes thrown in for good measure. Rook is much more about the landscapes, with people added for color from time to time, since those places get lonely when there's no one there at all. I've been lucky enough, in the course of my bird research and other travels, to visit some places people have very rarely visited (or, in a few cases, may have never been at all).

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The Velvet Underground :: The Gift (A Short Story)

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The Velvet Underground with John Cale in the foreground - April 1, 1966

It's not easy to pin down my favorite Velvet Underground album as it regularly changes over time, yet always rotates between three titles. And really, it depends on what kind of mood I am in and where my head is at while it is rotating on the turntable. One thing that is concrete though is that fact that the groups second LP, become a member or log in.

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Fun Fun Fun Fest :: Austin, TX – November 8 & 9

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Fun Fun Fun Fest returns this November at Waterloo Park in downtown Austin with two day passes going for $59.99. The first press release just went out today detailing the majority of the lineup and the stages they will be performing on.

Stage 1: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The National, Atmosphere, Minus The Bear, St Vincent, Trail of Dead, Deerhoof, Rival Schools, Islands, The Annuals, Bishop Allen, Centromatic, Sleepercar, Frightened Rabbit, Spinto Band, Parts and Labor, Colourmusic, Expiremental Dental School, 27, Till We're Blue or Destroy . . .

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Catfish Haven :: Devastator

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In 2006 , in reference to the bands debut, I wrote that "Catfish Haven take on the trials and tribulations of love and relationships strewn over blues-holler, hand claps, and Dixie rhythms." That statement rings as true today as it did then, but here, on the band's follow-up, Devastator, they've ramped it up to a whole 'nother level.

Devastator is nothing less than a soul revue sounding like an impromptu . . .

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A Soundtrack Enthusiast :: An American Werewolf In London

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"Stay on the road, stay away from the Moors and beware of the moon." Sage advice, indeed. Filmmaker John Landis's An American Werewolf In London (1981) is a lot of things; a maverick comedy, a gratuitous horror flick, an Oscar winner, and one of my favorite examples of the juxtaposition of music and it's use in film.

Here Landis, no stranger to irony, uses all manner of odes to the moon to accompany his film. They are all here; most notably: three versions . . .

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Paul Westerberg :: 5:05

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After barely being released, Paul Westerberg's excellent 49:00 was pulled from the digital market last week. The reasons are somewhat unclear, but the almost universal understanding seems to be that it has to do with copyright issues - namely the medley of famous songs that Westerberg runs through toward the end of the album. It does beg the question though - things like this usually only take artist notification and some sort of royalty payment . . .

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Sevens :: Uncle Tupelo: Gun

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

"Gun," the opening track off Uncle Tupelo's sophomore LP Still Feel Gone, was the first of the band's . . .

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Jeff Tweedy :: Living Room (Chicago, Jan 14, 2006)

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Letters To Santa Living Room Show, Chicago, Jan 14, 2006: One of three shows Tweedy played that year as part of the auction for the annual Letters to Santa Charity event. The second year the event had occurred, each show had only Tweedy and about 30 guests. The combined three shows brought in $36,000 for Letters to Santa. While the show clocks in at about 2 hours, the event last about 4, with Tweedy signing the each of the 60 (two different sets) posters made for guests. Note both the covers and the old Uncle Tupelo nuggets.

Download:
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: Spiders (Kidsmoke)
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: Airline to Heaven
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: Pieholden Suite
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: Promising
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: Radio King
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: I Can't Keep From Talking
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: The Family Gardener
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: When the Roses Bloom Again
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: Blasting Fonda
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: Someday Soon

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Over The Rhine :: The AD Interview

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...and now, even more coverage from last week's Newport Folk Festival. Prior to their performance, AD sat down and caught up with Over The Rhine's Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist. Among other things, they give a shout out to, literally, my favorite burger in the U.S.

Aquarium Drunkard: You named the band after your neighborhood in Cincinnati, which is a pretty tough neighborhood.

Karin Bergquist: Yeah, it has quite a history and it’s experienced a bit of gentrification over the years, but twenty years ago it was a great, affordable place to live for artists who couldn’t afford anything else, and it’s a beautiful place. A hard place to live, a little dangerous, a little different for a couple of white kids from Ohio (laughs), but Linford had an apartment there and that’s where we started writing our songs. It was good. It got us out of our comfort zones.

AD: Do you think that being challenged in that way, in the sense of being pulled from your comfort zone, made you sit down and decide whether to actually go for it as musicians?

KB: We decided early on that we were gonna do this and do it to the point where we either made it and made a living at it, or we were gonna be penniless on the sidewalk. It was that kind of commitment.

Linford Detweiler: And here we are at the Newport Folk Festival! (laughs)

KB: (laughs) So, it’s just our dream, and wherever that takes us and whatever that looks like, we’ve stuck with it. Because we don’t know what else to do. We don’t know any better, you know? I think the payoff is getting to watch from the side of the stage as people like Levon Helm perform with joy. That was pretty cool.

AD: He looked so happy.

KB: We actually have a song on our Christmas record called “We’re Gonna Pull Through,” and I wrote a line that says “You hold me the way that Levon would play.” I love how warm and deep his grooves are, and I wrote this line in this love song and referenced Levon Helm, so it was cool to see him.

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