Aquarium Drunkard

Resident 5′er (Scott McCaughey) is back with a whole slew of guests on this seventh Minus 5 album. Check it: Kelly Hogan, Peter Buck, Colin Melloy, John Wesley Harding, the Wilco crew, Sean Nelson, etc. etc. This album has been covered pretty thoroughly elsewhere on the interweb, so let me leave you with this one […]

Earlier this week Josh Rouse released his seventh album, Subsitulo, recorded with a small group of friends this past year in his adopted home of Spain. Check out this track below — quickly becoming a Drunkard favorite. Remember when this cat was a sad bastard? Wha’ happened??
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Josh Rouse :: It Looks Like Love […]

Honky Tonk. Americana. Alt.Country. Any and/or all three of those terms could be used to define Atlanta’s National Grain. Mining a similiar vein of Drunkard favorites, the now defunct Star Room Boys, National Grain incorporate the best of Nashville before all the Music Row posturing took hold. If you read here regularly, you know what […]

Back in college, Nashville Skyline was the first Dylan album I ever really connected with. From there on out, there was no turning back. The claws were in, and in good. That being said, I was pretty excited when a friend passed these sessions/live/rare recordings on to me a few years ago. Two iconic masters […]

Shit…is there an echo in here? Oh, wait, no…okay cool, I get it now, it’s just every major music blog within the past month has written something about Track A Tiger’s debut album. Fast forward now if you have had your fill, if not, press play and we’ll continue.
Still here…okay, let’s get to it. Chicago’s […]

Last year I posted twice about sparse-folk vehicle Sounds Like Fall’s debut album The Wolf Is At The Door. If you by chance read the interview I did with Yer Bird Records owner Morgan King, you will recall the label was so taken with the original demo recordings that they initially thought about releasing them […]

Sure, I now live in southern California, but it wasn’t so long ago that I lived in less temerperate climes and lusted for Winter’s end with thoughts of Spring around the corner. It’s just that out here in L.A., it’s Spring year-round. Savvy? Ah well, luckily the folks from Norfolk & Western were good enough […]

The Crowes lost album The Band (aka Meet The Band) recorded in Atlanta in 1997, was to be the follow-up to Three Snakes & One Charm. Mixed and sequenced, it was shelved and the Crowes released By Your Side in it’s stead. One listen and it is evident The Band is twice the Crowes experience […]

Paycheck (left) possibly telling Wynn Stewart to shove it
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Johnny Paycheck :: Take This Job And Shove It———-Amazon: Soul & The Edge: The Best of Johnny Paycheck www.johnnypaycheckmusic.com

So Much Silence has a recap of last night’s Band of Horses show in Phoenix. I am heading out to see them tonight here in Los Angeles so it was a nice little primer. Their Sub Pop album Everything All The Time sounds to these ears like a stirred mix of Built To Spill, My […]

Stop. Before you read another word, go visit Be The Boy who has posted a You Tube video of The Replacements playing Live in 1981 at 7th Street in Minneapolis. I just watched it three times in a row. After that, since it’s the only Mats song on my computer right now, feel free to […]

I posted this song last summer, but since I decided to add the movie to my Netflix again, I said what the hell. This is everything modern garage rock wants to be. Check out the 1966 film and see Jimmy Page’s young-ass sporting a shit eating grin while tearing it up.
DOWNLOAD:MP3: The Yardbirds :: Stroll […]

This L.A. band’s 1 a.m. showcase at the Molotov was the final jam the Drunkard took in before calling it a week for 2006’s SXSW. Still unsigned by a major label, make that major independent label, The Brokedown played the final event of their three performances of the week. Check out SixEyes for a […]

Now hear this: This Tennessee band shook the Red 7 club pretty damn good Friday night. Commanding one of the more enthusiastic audiences I saw over the course of the weekend, a confident Lucero worked their Memphis-styled muse throughout the entirety of their set. Vocals/guitarist Ben Nichols, while powerful on record, delivers a Live performance […]