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Speaking of Levon Helm, late last year the man released Dirt Farmer, his first album in twenty-five years. A truly instinctive drummer, and one of the most recognizable voices of rock & roll, Helm nearly lost his ability to speak, let alone sing, after battling throat cancer a few years back. Now on […]

I don’t want the week to go by without mentioning these two LPs, both by Los Angeles based artists. First off is the Radar Bros. latest Auditorium - which will be released January 29th via the Merge label. Chief Radar Bro Jim Putnam will be stopping by my Little Radio show next Wednesday […]

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 […]

Welcome to Retro TV Themes Revisited, an on-going AD feature that aims to mine our long-running collection of past television (aural) glories - they just aren’t making them like they used to. Have at it in the comments.
Alright, you asked for it — Barney Miller. Based on a 1974 pilot entitled The […]

This is one of the more exciting press releases we’ve come across in a good while, as one of the very first AD posts was lamenting the lack of an official soundtrack for Cat Stevens’ Harold and Maude soundtrack. For vinyl enthusiasts, the wait is over — filmmaker Cameron Crowe’s new label, Vinyl Films, […]

It’s been a long time coming, but Wisconsin soul-folkie Bon Iver’s debut LP, For Emma, Forever Ago, will be released on the Jagjaguwar label February 19th. A number of you may have seen the album pop up on numerous best of ‘07 lists, and for good reason, as the album saw a very limited […]

After a considerable silence, there has been a lot of My Morning Jacket news so far in 2008. First and foremost, details were revealed about the bands next album (it’s been awhile too, as Z came out in the Fall of 2005) that is presently being recorded and set for a June 10th release […]

Drugs, desperation, suicide, Alabama-born bed-time stories, and quirky southern character studies — a little bit country and a whole lot of rock ‘n roll. In other words, a Drive-By Truckers album. Tomorrow, the Truckers will release their seventh LP, Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, the first DBT album since the departure of guitarist/songwriter Jason […]

I acquired this 1977 Meters show in 2000 along with the Showboat Lounge show that was posted earlier in the week. At the time — and this still may be the case — locating quality live documents from the band’s heyday was no small feat.Actually, until a few years ago, even locating copies of […]

I’m not sure what I like better about this video; it’s clearly a toss up between the guy, covered in fake blood, flailing around on the stage, or Jeff Tweedy, on bass, wearing a dress. I’m gonna have to go with Tweedy in a dress. Ole Jay Farrar looks about the same.
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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 […]

Casey Dienel, one of our favorite discoveries of the past couple of years, returns this March, via her new home at the Dead Oceans label, fronting her newly christened group, White Hinterland. Chris at Gorilla vs Bear premiered the first single “Dreaming of The Plum Tree,” this morning off the forthcoming Phylactery […]