Aquarium Drunkard

Built to Spill’s sole live album, 2000’s Live, achieved what a truly good live album is supposed to do: it excelled in bringing another dimension to the songs, and in the process, improved upon them. No stranger to extreme guitar wrangling, Doug Martsch lets his classic rock loving, freak flag fly, laying waste […]

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
Carribou - Melody Day ++ The New Pornographers - Myriad harbor ++ Yellow Fever - Joe brown ++ The Raincoats […]

Aquarium Drunkard Presents Pink Nasty and Lee Bob Watson Bolero, live at the Silver Lake Lounge, Tuesday, September 18th.
My first exposure to both Pink Nasty — aka Sara beck — (and her brother Black Nasty ) was through her website and myspace pages. I thought it was a brilliant, smartass parody (see Black […]

Off The Record is a recurring, feature here on the Drunkard, that marries two of my greatest interests; music and travel. Having a locals perspective when visiting a new locale is the difference between experiencing it through the lens of a tourist and of that of a native.
Off The Record gathers some of my favorite […]

“Heart of Gold put me in the middle of the road. Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch.” — Neil Young
The 1973 Live album, Time Fades Away, marks the first LP in Neil Young’s early 1970s Ditch Trilogy (see also: On The Beach, Tonight’s The Night). Somehow, 30+ years […]

Athens, GA artist, cum Brooklynite, Phosphorescent (Matthew Houck) has a new album, “Pride,” coming out — on his new label Dead Oceans – October 23rd. New MP3, “A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise,” and album details, via Dead Oceans below:
“On previous albums, he’s recruited guest musicians to fill the gaps, but on “Pride”, […]

Considering the amount of artists their brief career inspired, and influenced, The Raincoats (1979) debut is an album that criminally goes in and out of print far too often. Rough Trade’s 2003 reissue, for example, quickly vanished from record stores years ago, and an Amazon seller presently lists a used copy being sold for […]

“Joseph Hill had a vision of 1977 as a year of judgment — when two sevens clash — when past injustices would be avenged. ” - Two Sevens Clash (liner notes)
Previously plagued with dubious sound quality, Culture’s Two Sevens Clash LP, from 1978, saw its re-release last month via the Shanachie label. […]

Aquarium Drunkard is giving away three pairs of tickets to the SOLD OUT, September 11th, Spoon show at the Henry Fonda Theater here in Los Angeles. Heads up, superfans, tickets are (at present) still available for the show the night of the 12th.

To win a pair of tickets: Leave a comment below with a […]

Songs: Illinois’ recent fIREHOSE video collection post led me to dig up my favorite tune on the band’s second album, if’n. It’s hard to believe this song is now twenty years old.
Download:
MP3: fIREHOSE :: Sometimes
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Amazon: fIREHOSE - “if’n”
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+ Visit The Hype Machine for additional fIREHOSE […]

Heads up, filmmaker Craig Zobel’s Great World of Sound will hit theaters mid September in select cities around the country. It’s great — go see it, and find out how music really gets made, a ha ha ha. We had the opportunity to catch a screening this summer at the Los Angeles Film […]

Off The Record is a recurring, feature here on the Drunkard that marries two of my greatest interests; music and travel. Having a locals perspective when visiting a new locale is the difference between experiencing it through the lens of a tourist and of that of a native.
Off The Record gathers some of my favorite […]

Elsewhere: Pitchfork Media reports on the Wattstax reissue - “an expanded 3xCD box set commemorating what is arguably the definitive r&b festival.”
Wattstax :: Additional festival videos (Bar Keys, Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Staple Singers, etc.) can be found here…
Download:
MP3: Rufus Thomas :: Memphis Train
MP3: Staple Singers :: Respect Yourself
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Amazon: Wattstax - Three CD Deluxe […]