The Idiot is the predecessor to Pop's more well known and commercially beloved solo album, Lust For Life. In the mid-Seventies after a homeless stint on the streets of Los Angeles, a strung out Pop checked himself into the Neuropsychiatric Institute in L.A. After his hospitalization Pop joined Dabecome a member or log in.
The Skirts and their brand of piano-driven pop music are about to blow up, and blow up in a big way. Eschewing typical indie-rock guitar swagger for melodies sweet enough to sugar your cereal, Modern Skirts self-released album Catalogue of Generous Men hooks you straight through with it's catchy and tight niche Pop tunes. Highly recommended for fans of Chris Mills, Brendan Benson, The . . .
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Heads up -- The Long Winters new tune "Fire Island, AK" will be played on this week's little radio show -- it's off their latest LP Putting The Days To Bed, and if you're into that indie power-pop thing you'll love it. This . . .
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Post-Punk legends (and working band of the present), Mission of Burma, have returned with The Obliterati --their third LP since their 2004 "comeback" album. In the spirit of all things Burma, An Aquarium Drunkard wants to give away some M.O.B treats to those readers with a sense of appreciation for musical history. If any of the following items grab your attention, keep reading . . .
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People, you really need Jacques Dutronc in your life. One way or another, this '60s actor/singer/songwriter will find his way in. The somewhat seedy side of suave and debonair French pop never got much better than this, not for my money anyway. For years, Dutronc's music has been an instant crowd-pleaser at parties -- it just so perfectly sets the scene. My French is terrible, so I catch maybe three words to one . . .
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Riding the momentum of last year's album Nobody's Darlings and the honestly of the bare-boned, band-on-the-road-documentary Dreaming In America, Lucero is back with possibly their strongest and most consistent listen yet. Produced by David Lowery in his Virginia studio . . .
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Over beers earlier this summer at Athfest, team clermont's Lucas Jensen casually mentioned that The Theatre Fire's Everybody Has A Darkside album was his favorite release of '06. I was immediately intrigued as: a) we share similar tastes b) I had never heard of the Fort Worth band, and c) it was only mid-June. Now, having owned and digested the album for close to a month . . .
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Hitting their stride (and the record-buying public) with not one, but two, albums this year is Brooklyn's Oakley Hall. The latter of the two, Gypsum Strings, sees the psych-country-rock monsters burning through another set of experimental gothica, beginning with the shit-hot guitar lead on the album's opener "Confidence Man
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Is it still necessary to mention how prolific Jason Molina is, or has that ground been pretty much covered? Like Will Oldham and Robert Pollard before him, Molina is back in two separate studio incarnations available late Summer and early Autumn. Recording his second full-length with his Crazyhorse-style band Magnolia Electric Co., Molina also finds himself putting out an LP under his own name. While the Magnolia project continues down . . .
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And....we're back. My apologies for the slight delay in getting this week's podcast up and running. The following is last week's broadcast recorded live in the Little Radio studio. I can't tell you how much better it is doing these shows with a real mic/mixer/fader, etc. The computer got the job done, but it's not nearly as much fun.The show starts out mid-jam with Holwlin' Rain's "In Sand and Dirt " moving into . . .
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Last week after hosting Little Radio's Aquarium Drunkard Show, I stuck around for the first half of the The Garden Fence of Sound show which directly follows mine. Regular host Dave Newton was out, but his fill-in played some great stuff -- including this track. It turns out I missed out on 14 Iced Bears during their run in the Eighties, but I was immediately attracted to the tune "Sure To See . . .
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I am loving all this return-to-the-rawk shit that has been coming out of indie-land the past couple of years. It's like everyone put down their Joy Division and Television albums for awhile and started spinning their cool uncle's old vinyl from the late '70s. The latest record from this camp to grace my desk is that of the Ladyhawk debut. Judging from the jacket artwork alone I knew this would be, at the . . .
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A sultry Billie Holiday with an East Texas drawl? Soul-Jazz with a Country-politan lilt? Maybe, but the quality and craft of Jolie Holland's third full-length, Springtime Can Kill You, is beyond any convenient comparison. Like her previous albums (and brief stint with The Be-Good Tanyas), Holland's bouillabaisse of traditional American music defies easy . . .
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In our infancy, An Aquarium Drunkard hosted a semi-regular feature entitled "The Cover Wars" in which a (typically) obscure cover was paired with it's origin and you the reader would decide the verdict on which one you preferred. One of my favorite's in this series was Pavement's cover of the Echo & The Bunnymen new-wave classic "The Killing Moon." Tonight the moon is full -- or at least close enough to revisit this tune.Pavement's cover of "The . . .
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Keeping track of the extended Broken Social Scene cadre and it's member's various solo projects (not too mention their related band's projects) can be an excercise unto itself, which is why it took me until early summer to give Collett's become a member or log in.
