Aquarium Drunkard

Welcome to Episode 25 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.
Also: If you have not already, subscribe to the podcast feed and never miss an episode of […]

We are getting closer to the release of Lewis And Clarke’s next album, Blasts of the Holy Birth, and according to the outfit’s website it is a “testament to process on many levels, and it carries various themes as found in a text called “The Secret of the Golden Flower.”
While I am not familiar with […]

February 13th saw the release of the 1970 psychedelic/schizophrenic gangster-meets-pop star tale Performance. Famously known as Mick Jagger’s on screen debut, Performance expertly captures the late sixties decadence and decline into hard drugs and paranoia.But for many of us, long before we saw a grainy VHS bootleg copy of the film, we knew Performance as […]

Furthering it’s mission to make the kind of records you didn’t even know you wanted to own, Numero Group’s Eccentric Soul series continues to amaze with this latest collection entitled Twinight’s Lunar Rotation. Ignoring the mainstream, Numero Group rallies the troops and digs deep into attics, basements, yard sales, and other dusty holes to compile […]

Who else out there has recently had their ass kicked by this super-cold going around? Besides just being generally miserable, it also cut into my checking out Neko Case’s gig this past weekend at the Henry Fonda here in L.A. Ah well, thanks to the good folks at New West it was not […]

Benjy Ferree’s 2006 LP Leaving The Nest is a fine album, if a bit schizophrenic at times. If you were to believe the online blog hype at the tail end of last year you most definitely would have expected the album to be, and I paraphrase, “a down home, back porch” affair. And, […]

I’ve noticed over the years that whenever Big Star creeps into my daily listening habits, I in turn, find myself listening to a hell of a lot more power pop in general — and vice versa (see: The Broken West). Lately, I have been obsessing (again) over the Radio City album, the band’s 1974 […]

Big high-five to eMusic for digitally stocking albums we would have to pay import prices for otherwise — the latest case being the Champaign, IL based Beauty Shop’s 2004 LP Crisis Helpline.
I’m not sure how The Beauty Shop evaded my alt.country leaning radar for as long as they did, but I’m thankful the […]

Not unlike the John D. Loudermilk collection I mentioned earlier in the month, I have spent the past couple of weeks taking in the massive 29 track Porter Wagoner compilation Rubber Room: The Haunting Poetic Songs of Porter Wagoner 1966-1977. This collection, in a nutshell, collects the ‘deep album cuts’ and more bizarre aspects […]

As Songs: Illinois mentioned the other day, the Robert Fischer helmed collective known as the Willard Grant Conspiracy are finally seeing a stateside release of their sixth album, Let It Roll, on February 27th. Long time coming, but well worth the wait.
It’s artists like Willard Grant Conspiracy that inspire me to seek out and write […]

You know, it seems like I was just writing about Great Lake Swimmers….oh right, I was. As reported last week, GLS have an album in the can entitled Ongiara, which will be released March 27th via the Weewerk label on 12″ vinyl, with Nettwerk releasing the CD version shortly therafter.
Below are two tracks […]

Jeff Mangum :: San Francisco July 4, 1996 (live at aquarius records)
Download:
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: Oh Comely
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: Engine
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: Oh Sister
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: My Dream Girl
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: Sailing Through
MP3: Jeff Mangum :: She Did A Lot of Acid/Beautiful Baby
——–
MP3: Neutral Milk Hotel :: Glue (Gerbils cover from […]