Aquarium Drunkard

I promise there is no unwritten rule stating Neil Young must grace the virtual pages of An Aquarium Drunkard, at least in some fashion, once a month. Admittingly, it does seem like that sometimes. So hell, in keeping with tradition, let’s get to it.

This past week I started boxing up CDs as we are putting […]

Having gotten ya’ll warmed up with some modern blues covers via The North Mississippi All Stars, here is a track from The Black Keys upcoming EP, Chulahoma, available May 2nd from Fat Possum. Here, the Keys cover songs from Blues legends Junior Kimbrough, Dan Auerbach (guitar/vox) and Patrick Carney (drums). This is the stuff […]

Released in 2000 on the Tone Cool label, Shake Hands With Shorty is an album comprised completely of classic blues covers — and it’s a great. I saw the band a couple of times upon it’s release and they pulled it off every time. Check out the Dickinson brothers below.
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A good time was had by all during yesterdays Aquarium Drunkard Show at Little Radio’s warehouse space in downtown L.A. I enjoyed The Whigs song I played so much that I played it twice. Dig that, commercial radio. This is a regular gig for the Drunkard, broadcasting every Wednesday from 2-4 PST, so tune in […]

photo credit: Ryan Dombal
Blacklisted was great, but I think Fox Confessor Brings The Flood transcends even it - which is pretty damn impressive. I posted “Hold On, Hold On” a couple of months ago — so if you missed it, here it is again with another sample. I highly recommend purchasing this album […]

The rumors are indeed true. On Garden Ruin, Calexico move away from their signature Southwestern spaghetti-western tinged sound for a more straight up (indie) pop/rock sound. While I enjoyed the bands past albums, I must say this one is sitting quite nicely with me as well. I do imagine some of the longtime die-hard fans […]

Yeah, these guys are good, so listen up. Sounds like: humid and sticky - kudzu draped - intelligent -indie rock & roll. Athens, GA continues to produce the good-shit regardless of genre…The Whigs just further prove this point. Recently pegged by Rolling Stone as one of the “ten artists to watch,” and voted “most likely […]

So it was only a matter of time until I got around to this one. Brooklyn based Blood On The Wall may sound like a cross-breed of Sonic Youth and The Pixies, but are a fine cross-breed. Distorted-melodic-scuzz-rock. Turns out lots of folks have written about their album Awesomer already, so go check out the […]

This indie-pop/twee mini-masterpiece is undoubtedly in many of your collections already. If not, well, it should be. While reading up on Isobel Campbell (see my infatuation with her latest album with Mark Lanegan) I learned that she is touring with (ex-Vaseline/ex-Eugenius) Eugene Kelly. The two also plan on collaborating on a studio project in the […]

Question: Does anyone know what the difference is between the1995 version of this record I had back in the day, and this newly reissued version? All Amazon has listed under the tracklisting is “album version” next to some of the tracks on the reissue — which means nothing to me.
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It’s here, on the band’s fourth EP, I realized I could pretty much listen to Jim James’ reverb soaked vocals sing the phonebook and be content. Years ago, after consuming At Dawn, I knew I needed more of this band. At the time I was under the impression that At Dawn was the band’s debut […]