Shortly after Friday’s Zach Galifianakis/Will Oldham video post, a reader sent over this little gem…it’s quite disturbing too. Here, Will Oldham, inhabiting his Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy persona, dutifully covers, a synth styled version of, Mariah Carey’s “Can’t Take That Away.” Consider this fair warning. If contemporary indie artists covering songs you probably can’t stand is [...]
Until last week I knew of Black Moth Super Rainbow only by name. Having now spent the past seven days with their latest LP, Dandelion Gum, I think it is safe to say they more than live up to their ‘psychedelic’ reputation. While this shit is most definitely way out there, it is also informed, [...]
It was just announced that Johnny Depp will indeed inhabit the persona, and reprise the role, of his late friend, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson in the upcoming film adaptation of Thompson’s first (autobiographical) novel The Rum Diary. Your Drunkard has read most everything the good Doctor has written, and think with Depp, again on board, [...]
On a different level, Vic Chesnutt’s musical collaborators and co-conspirators, over the past 15 years, are almost as interesting and varied as the southern Gothic bard’s lyrical imagery itself. Always one for experimentation, the artist has collaborated with, among others: Van Dyke Parks, Lambchop, Michael Stipe, Will Johnson, Widespread Panic, and Bill Frisell. I could [...]
Calling all John Vanderslice fans. JV and an Aquarium Drunkard would like to cordially invite you out to the LA river basin for a guerrilla-styled free concert. Think: that old U2 video, filmed on the rooftop in downtown LA, where the cops bust it up — only smaller, and cooler. Here is scoop: We will [...]
Heads up. You’ll want to set those digital video recorders if you have plans Saturday night, August 11th, because at 9pm VH1 premieres its upcoming special NYC ’77 :: The Coolest Year In Hell. It promises to chronicle the story of one of the “most astonishing pop culture years in American history.” I’ll bite. Details: [...]
How many times, so far, have you watched Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited trailer? I think here at the A.D. home offices we are up to around, oh, ten, give or take a few. Back in 2005 Wes Anderson was the first filmmaker profiled in our (presently on hiatus) series A Soundtrack Enthusiast. For those [...]
“So utterly simple but the most powerful spirit I have ever seen or heard….” – Youtube quote A huge thank you to the hero who filmed and uploaded this 2004 Will Oldham concert, with Matt Sweeney, to Youtube. All seventy minutes and nineteen seconds of it. This is as close as many of us will [...]
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow Up, from 1966, left a lasting impression on me. Its depiction of mod-cool, sixties London, is aesthetically on point throughout its entirety — and that’s not even taking in consideration the actual (murder mystery) plot, which itself is both meandering (in the style of sixties art-house) and engrossing. The [...]
Zach Galifianakis & Will Oldham’s video of Kanye’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” looks like it could be the bastard child of Oldham’s “Cursed Sleep” video from 2006. Let’s get weird. (via: Culture Bully) ——————————————————————————————————————————
