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’80s college rock scenesters, The Smithereens, have recently unveiled news that they will be releasing a full album tribute to The Beatles Meet The Beatles! album appropriately entitled Meet The Smithereens! The tribute album is said to drop in January of 2007; the same month as the original Beatles release in 1964. This is all […]

The second Dischord related post in a week comes to us via Fugazi bassist Joe Lally’s solo full length debut, There To Here. With Ian MacKaye teamed up with partner Amy Farina on the excellent Evens project, Guy Picciotto wearing his producers hat, and drummer Brendan Canty helming the Burn To Shine documentary series, Lally […]

A copy of Magnus Larsson’s (aka Pet Politics) latest EP arrived in the mail the other day via Catbird Records, which reminded me I had yet to mention another of the labels releases I purchased this year: Tap Tap.
Frequent readers of A.D. should recognize Pet Politics nom de plume from various posts over the past […]

Read music blogs? If so you have no doubt read (numerous) blurbs on the languid, yet exceptional, Beach House debut — and for good reason. Laid back in all the right places, this may be the Sunday morning album of 2006. The LP makes the case for quality unobtrusive background music that seeps in over […]

—-Related Video: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals performing “Isis” at recent NYC Dylan trbute. Via: www.alt-country.org

In my mind The Pixies canon is hallowed ground, so much so that I opted out of seeing them live when they re-formed in 2004 for fear the experience might taint the music and memories for me. After watching this DVD I see that my fears were unwarranted as the band comes off as tight […]

A truly great documentary works for the audience regardless of it’s source material; one such recent example of this is The Devil And Daniel Johnston. Regarded by some as an incomparable artistic genius, and by others as a troubled and talentless hack, Johnston’s cult of personality is polarizing to say the least.

A haunting film, […]

While picking up the The Evens new release, Get Evens, Tuesday it dawned on me that the purchase was actually quite fitting with all the political hub-bub in the air (tv/conversation/computer/papers) of late. There is still something satisfying and somehow comforting about a new Ian MacKaye related release. I suppose it reminds us that there […]

We had a special guest visiting the loft studios at Little Radio yesterday. Kyle Kersten, one half of rising indie-folk duo Travel By Sea, stopped by The Aquarium Drunkard Show and spent a couple of hours playing unreleased songs off their forthcoming album. We also chatted briefly about the roots of the outfit, and how […]

Welcome to Episode 18 of the podcast edition of The Aquarium Drunkard Show; airing live every Wednesday 2-4 p.m. PST at the Little Radio studios in downtown L.A. As requested, below is the tracklisting order for this week’s podcast.
Today’s episode is an eclectic ode to the 1960s, a decade I only know from history books, […]

Most folks today are completely unaware of Dwight Yoakam’s original punk rock alliances at the beginning of his career. For when Yoakam started out his music was completely disregarded by the established country music regime who saw him as a honky tonk rebel. Instead, and quite fortuitous, Yoakam was readily embraced by the L.A. punk […]

There was a time, and not so long ago, when any mention of the name “Steve Winwood” quickly conjured images of very bad MTV videos and cheesy ’80s pop pap. For me, this lasted until late-college when an acquaintance emphatically exclaimed, “no, you’re mistaken , Stevie Winwood used to be the man.” It was then […]

“Oh, that I could bend my tongue outwards/Leave your lungs hurting/Tuckin’ my shirt in/Pants I wear so well/Cross your t’s shirt smells/Worse than your lyin’/Caught my dad cryin’” - “Rattled By The Rush”
And so begins the second song off my favorite Pavement album, Wowee Zowee. This Tuesday Matador Records will release the band’s third LP […]

I featured the formidable songwriting talents of Elephant Micah once before on the Drunkard at the tail end of 2005. Just recently I received in the mail the new Elephant Micah EP Embarrassment of Riches. Self released, Micah has another upcoming project entitled Hindu Windmills due out exclusively on vinyl before the end of the […]