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Rodriguez :: Coming From Reality

Last year Sixto Rodriguez was responsible for one of my favorite reissues of 2008 -- 1970's Cold Fact.   He also composed an Off The Record that pissed some folks off. Good times.   This spring Light In The Attic reissued the follow up to Cold Fact entitled Coming From Reality

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds :: From Her To Eternity

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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Bettye LaVette :: You’ll Never Change

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: Los Angeles, 2009

Bonnie "Prince" Billy made several appearances L.A. last month in support of his new album, Beware, including a proper evening show at the El Rey, an Amoeba in-store, and a mid-morning studio taping for Fuel.tv at a studio in west L.A. While I missed the El Rey show, I did made it over to the taping . . .

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SIRIUS/XM Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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 93: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up ++ Nick Drake - Hazy Jane II ++ Creation - Making Time ++ The Kinks - Johnny Thunder ++ Emitt Rhodes - Long Time No See ++ The Rolling Stones - Soul Survivor ++ Warren Zevon - Join Me In L.A. ++ John . . .

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Condo Fucks :: The AD Interview

In their three years of existence, Cleveland proto-punks The Electric Eels played all of six shows.   According to the All Music Guide, each of those six shows ended in either arrest or violence, often between band members on-stage.   The group’s fuzzed-to-death music would go on to influence the Dead Boys, become a member or log in.

AD Presents Avett Brothers @ Music Box, May 9th

Saturday, May 9th, Aquarium Drunkard presents an evening with The Avett Brothers and Magnolia Electric Co. at The Music Box in Hollywood.   Tickets will be going fast for this one.

We have three pairs of tickets to giveaway for AD readers.   To land a pair, leave a comment below with your name, favorite Avett's or Molina album and a valid email you can be reached at.  . . .

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Johnny Jenkins :: Walk On Gilded Splinters

While he may be a footnote in history (compared to some of the artists he surrounded himself with) Johnny Jenkins laid down one heavy hitter of an album in late 1969 -- Ton-Ton-Macoute!.   As the the leader of The Pinetoppers, Jenkins famously hired Otis Redding to be his personal driver prior to Redding being discovered at

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Sevens :: House We Used to Live In

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

"A house divided against itself cannot stand," Abraham Lincoln famously said, and a house as metaphor for a relationship - be it one between warring parts of a nation or warring factions of a family or love affair - is an old one. It seems appropriate that Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens would use such a timeless metaphor. The Smithereens . . .

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Parson Redheads :: Diversions/80s Indie Albums

(Diversions, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)    

Steeped heavily in the sounds of the last four decades of the golden coast, I was both surprised and thrilled when Parson Redheads principle singer/songwriter Evan Way suggested he compile a Diversions piece on his favorite artists/albums from the 80s.

Over the course of the past . . .

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SIRIUS/XM Radio :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

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 92: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Minutemen - D's Car Jam/Anxious Mo-Fo ++ Yol Aularong - Jeas Cyclo “Ride Cyclo" ++ The Stooges - No Fun ++ Rodriguez - Only Good For Conversation ++ Brian Wilson - Better Get Back In Bed ++ Music Convention - Big Green ++ Creation - Making . . .

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Shuggie Otis :: Inspiration Information (Re-revisited)

Shuggie Otis' afro is reason enough to give his music a spin. A weave like that has potential, after all. And as it turns out, Otis' music is a lot like his hair: a lush dome of soul-funk.

If you were familiar with Otis prior to the 2001 reissue of Inspiration Information, then . . .

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Felice Brothers :: Division St./T For Texas (Video)

An impromptu gig by The Felice Brothers recorded on July 7, 2007 at The Cornbury Festival.

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