Aquarium Drunkard

Team Drunkard is about to head out the door to catch a plane to Austin for this year’s SXSW festivities. Therefore, things will no doubt be a little quiet around here, BUT, you can keep up with my adventures, and a gaggle of other folks’, via the Rough Mix SXSW blog. I should be doing […]

Today marks the “official” release of Neil Young’s 1971 live at Massey Hall performance in CD format (with an accompanying DVD). This is the second live offering in preparation for Neil Young’s long awaited archives project.
Here are some notes on The Massey Hall release in Neil’s own words: “This is the album that should have […]

The I Am Drinking Again EP was released via Domino records in 1998 and consists of two songs, on original, and one a cover of The Cranberries “Dreaming My Dreams.” I have never heard the Cranberries original, but have long loved Oldham’s cover off the EP. Anyone out there know the original; and […]

One of my all-time favorite bands, Athens, GA’s R.E.M., is getting the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame treatment tonight, and you can watch it live, without commercial interruption, via AOL’s Spinner. Tune in to the stream this evening at 8:30 p.m. ET
Here are a couple of tracks off the Chronic Town EP that […]

Long dismissed as an experiment gone awry, Their Satanic Majesties Request is the Stones album that, if given time (and an open mind), is as fascinating as it is flawed. Indeed, popular opinion has long skewered the band for aping the psychedelic sounds found on Pepper and other, ahem, “trippy” albums of […]

This is what we listened to a lot over the weekend. It’s a four song covers EP The Duke Spirit released digitally in Europa last November via Rough Trade. Travis at Medication turned me onto it (thanks).
From Rough Trade: “The Duke Spirit return with this Rough Trade digital exclusive featuring four cover versions: […]

At the time of The Eraser’s release, I was in the middle of two months of travel, and could not be bothered, so i just ignored it. And truthfully, based on the description, and the handful of reviews I glanced at, it just did not seem all that interesting.
Cut to last month: a […]

As I mentioned last week, Gorilla vs, Bear posted some videos and MP3s from Grizzly Bear’s acoustic in-store appearance at Good Records in Dallas, TX.  Listening to the pared down versions has, again, made me re-visit 2006’s Yellow House which, while one of my favorite LPs of the year, would rank even higher in […]

Welcome to Episode 26 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.
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If you follow Low, you are well aware they turned a big corner, stylistically, on their last album, 2005’s The Great Destroyer. Again teamed up with producer Dave Fridman, Drums And Guns (their eighth album) similarly finds the band’s sound up front, but toned down a bit; in stark contrast the super quiet material that […]

[ I ran out of time last month to get through all the New Orleans posts I wanted to do prior to Fat Tuesday, so here is one that was all lined up in the trick bag. ]
Released in 1971, Sun Moon & Herbs walks that thin line between the backwoods, psychedelic, voodoo blues of […]

Download:
MP3: Wilco :: What Light
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My weekly Wednesday route to the Little Radio warehouse studio takes about 15 minutes from Los Feliz Blvd. I jump on the 5 south to the 10 east and get off on Alameda taking the first right on Long Beach avenue, where situated amongst a sea of warehouses boasting every kind of fruit and […]

Panda Bear’s Person Pitch is one of the more interesting advance albums I have heard so far this year. Interesting and rewarding in the sense you can let it wash over your headphones time and again, catching something entirely new each time in the gauzy, narcotic headspace that exists within the LPs span of […]