Aquarium Drunkard

Wow, now this is the good shit. One of perks of writing An Aquarium Drunkard is all the weekly reader tips/suggestions/emails we receive here at HQ. Thanks, and do keep ‘em comin’. The latest example of fine music to grace our mailbox from a reader is the late Link Wray’s self-titled 1971 album originally released […]

He of the patented honey and gravel-throated warble returns September 24th with his eighth album entitled Meadow. No stranger to experimentation and collaboration, Buckner enlists the help of former Guided By Voices alumnus Doug Gillard and Kevin March, as well as The Waco Bros’ Steven Goulding, in this latest studio venture. Also in tow is […]

Not unlike Ethan Miller’s side-project, Howlin’ Rain, this latest Comets On Fire album embraces such ’70s rock luminaries as The Allman Brothers and Hendrix. Picking up where Blue Cathedral left off, Avatar keeps in check some of the more flamboyant psych-rock experimentation of their earler recordings. Go see them live.
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This past week Pitchfork Media presented, in my opinion, it’s best feature yet. The website listed it’s top 200 songs of the 1960s. As a dedicated follower of roots, be them musical or historical, I found this list to be both fascinating, and at times perplexing. But hey, one cannot expect to agree with every […]

Here is this week’s show recorded a couple of days ago at the Little Radio studio in DTLA. All kinds of audio treats to be had for the savvy listener: Jacques Dutronc, CSS, Ben Kweller, Nouvelle Vague, Aretha Franklin, Whiskeytown, Bishop Allen, Elvis Costello, The Brunettes, The Vaselines, Camera Obscura, XTC, Tim Hardin, Jack Logan, […]

I want to say something here that will make you take notice of the track below by the Portland duo that record and perform under the name Horse Feathers. The reason I want to say something inviting is that this is a song you need in your iTunes - or your iPod - or discman […]

I ran into Karling Abbeygate’s voice by chance while browsing unknown artists on MySpace a few months ago. Initially, before listening to the tunes themselves, I was just taken with her excellent cowgirl boots. Mighty fine shit-kickers, but as it turned out, even better music. A modern day hybrid of Patsy Cline and Brenda Lee, […]

Dogme 95’s Arcadian Hymns is one of my favorite albums of 2006 by a band or artist I did not know of prior to the beginning the year. Mission Label describes the artist’s sound in the press release as: “Think of a 1940’s prison gang jamming with Kraftwerk in the garden of Olympia, WA. It […]

Frequent Drunkard readers, you all knew this post was inevitable. Yes LUNA fans, you can now get (mostly) all of your favorite covers in one place. This digital-only release from Rhino, entitled Lunafied, collects the band’s well chosen/diverse covers from over the course of their career. Here’s the deal though: You have to either get […]

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 David Bowie in Paris and then Berlin […]

What happens when a prolific mechanic/singer/songwriter from Winder, GA creates a comic book in which Peter Buck is a superhero? A record deal naturally! Back in the early ’90s this really did happen after Buck told Twin/Tone Records co-founder Peter Jesperson about Jack Logan and his volumes of unreleased work. After hearing Logan’s craft, Jesperson […]

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 […]

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 is the first full-length album in a few years from John Roderick […]

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 […]