Aquarium Drunkard

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.
SIRIUS 018: HAM 1 - Clown Shoed Feet ++ The Modern Lovers - Dodge Veg-O-Matic ++ Violent Femmes - Gimme The […]

If you follow blogs, chances are you have seen, Portland, OR resident, Scout Niblett’s name popping up here and there during the past month (or, say, in advertisements — like the one to the right), and rightly so. I first heard her voice on the duet she did with Howe Gelb a little while […]

We’ve sung the praises of White Denim multiple times over the past six months, both here online as well as our SIRIUS show. Now, with the band doing a partial U.S. tour before and after their upcoming date in New York, at CMJ, you can catch them live and see for yourself. Also, […]

Last week the Bob Dylan canon saw yet another re-packing; this time in the form of DYLAN, a career-spanning three disc retrospective chronicling the artist’s four decades of studio recordings. While Dylan purists and pundits will undoubtedly own the majority of the albums these tracks are pulled from, the set does lay out (over the […]

We are back in L.A. — the regular A.D. posting schedule has returned. Let’s begin by having you all mark those calendars for October 18th, as Aquarium Drunkard is presenting two of our favorite local bands; The Parson Redheads, and Le Switch, along with The Weather Underground and Acute, live at Spaceland.
We have three […]

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Explosions In The Sky performing Live at the Austin City Limits Studio
Confirmed airdates for AUSTIN CITY LIMITS – Season 33:

October 13 — The Decemberists/Explosions In The Sky
October 20 — Femi Kuti
October 27 — Tribute to Bluesman Jimmy Reed
November 3 — Wilco
November 10 — Arcade Fire
November 17 — Regina Spektor /Paolo […]

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 […]

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.
SIRIUS 018: Blur –> Radiohead > The Clash > Dub ++ Music Is My Radar > Star –> Beastie Dub ++ […]

DOWNLOAD:
MP3: The Clash - Straight To Hell
MP3: Josh Rouse - Straight To Hell (cover)
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Amazon: The Clash - Combat Rock
www.joshrouse.com ++ www.myspace.com/joshrouse ++ emusic

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Download:
MP3: Jefferson Airplane :: White Rabbit
MP3: My Morning Jacket :: White Rabbit (cover)
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Amazon: My Morning Jacket - Chapter 1 The Sandworm Cometh: Early Recordings
www.mymorningjacket.com ++ www.darla.com ++ mmj myspace ++ mmj @ emusic

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“The city hasn’t changed as much as real estate agents would have you believe,” Steve Earle explains about his adopted hometown of New York City. “Specifically, my neighborhood hasn’t changed that much. I point people in the right direction so that they can take their picture like the cover of Freewheelin’ all the time.” — […]

Although San Francisco’s The Speakers released their last LP Yeats Is Greats at the end of 2005, it was not until discovering Speakers side-project, The Lightening Bug Situation, that I became familar their music. If you enjoyed the Lightning Bug stuff, the following comes highly recommended.
Related: The Lightening Bug Situation :: A Leaf, A […]

To dismiss José González as just another tired, folk-based, singer-songwriter is to miss the point entirely. Granted, since the beginning of the decade, the resurgence of the ‘quiet is the new loud’ aesthetic has churned out some questionable talent, but, thankfully, González’s schtizz trumps any such description.
Download:
MP3: José González :: Teardrop (massive attack cover)
MP3: […]