I truly believe this may be the greatest video I have seen in years. The new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy release, “The Letting Go”, cannot come out fast enough. Will Oldham rides again. Video directed by Andy Bruntel.
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The influence of Glascow’s The Jesus & Mary Chain cannot be denied — their distinct brand of lush, thick feedback and distorted noise can be found on half of the albums you purchased the past decade. But that’s not why you should listen to them. While ultimately commercially ignored, the JAMC burned bright on the [...]
Admission: I’m no soccer-jock, so the constant references to one of Noir’s tunes being in the World Cup commercial are meaningless to me. But what I do know is that “Eanie Meany” is one of the finest sunshine/pop songs of the Summer. Nothing dark here. Instant pop goodness that sounds as if it could have [...]
An Aquarium Drunkard holds anything released by Charlottesville, VA’s Yer Bird Records in high esteem, but this, the label’s fourth release, is by far it’s strongest. Yer Bird’s latest find, Philadelphia based Hezekiah Jones, weaves his musical quilt out of the same soft, acoustic cloth most recently and elegantly spun by the likes of [...]
It’s been a little over a week and a half now, and I still can’t get the sound-memory of Elvis Costello’s “I Don’t Want To Go To (Chelsea)” (backed and arranged by the masterful Allen Toussaint) out of my head. And that, dear reader, is good thing. The re-worked track I heard live in New [...]
As a longtime Pavement devotee, the emerging details of the Matador Records Wowee Zowee reissue have me nearly frothing at the mouth. Nearly. In the meantime, a little live nuggett here and there should stave off the anticipation just enough to keep away the night sweats and the speaking in tongues. Feel me?
Some Wowee Zowee [...]
L.A. based Submarines are Jack Drag & Blake Hazard and they have a story to tell. It goes something like this: Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy writes songs about a love lost. Girl writes songs about a love lost. Separately. The story could end here, but the twist is that the two are [...]
Sometimes an artist emerges from the fray whose music winks at you like an old lover. I suspect I am not the only fan of Beirut (Zach Condon) to immediately connect the 19 year old’s sound with that of NMH, but you know, shit, I’m saying it too.
The sound: Ah yes, to be sonically [...]
The more things change the more they stay the same. Somehow it doesn’t quite seem like these guys have been putting out albums for over a decade, but time can be fluid and funny like that (moreso than not, yes?).
A side-project for the rootsy Mid-western scenester set of the early ’90s. The Smog return [...]
Howe Gelb’s ‘Sno Angel Like You was a traveling gift from an old friend in Atlanta I had the pleasure of catching up with over beers earlier this Summer (thanks, John). While on my “list,” I had never committed to purchasing the album. This in turn worked out to be a good thing because ‘Sno [...]
Look for a regular return to An Aquarium Drunkard’s Live Upload Series in the coming months. In the meantime, below are the first eight in the series ready for download. All are Zip files barr the Neil Young show. Which brings me to a question: Do you prefer the Zipped show format or the individual [...]
Now back in Los Angeles, I continually am asked two questions, A) the highlight of the 10 week excursion, and B) what albums got the most play. There are too many experiences to name to begin to answer the first question, but I continually list Athens, GA’s The Whigs debut (and self-released) album Give ‘Em [...]
