Aquarium Drunkard

“‘Transnormal Skiperoo’ is a name I invented to describe a strange new feeling I’ve been experiencing after years of feeling lost and alone and cursed,” - Jim White
One of our very favorite troubadours of the new, weird, south, Jim White is back with Transnormal Skiperoo which has already been released abroad, and is due for […]

Last week I suggested to a friend that his band cover The dB’s classic “Amplifier.” For those unfamiliar, The dB’s were a quintessential, if largely ignored, ’80s power pop band from North Carolina who hung their hats in New York City. This is on one of their finest moments. Highly recommended […]

For those who didn’t catch it, I want to highlight the interview with the Silver Jews’ Dave Berman that Pitchfork Media posted last Friday. According to the interview, the next Joos LP Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, will no longer be released in April, as previously scheduled, but “later in 2008.” Here is […]

Later this month Aquarium Drunkard presents Jason Isbell, live at Spaceland, on January 25th — details to be announced + ticket giveaway. In preparation, AD contributor J. Neas reflects, and weighs in, on Isbell’s debut solo LP, 2007’s Sirens of The Ditch; an album that was in the can for over a […]

Mr. Bobby Charles’ 1972 self-titled release may be, at times, a chore to track down (import), [note: this is in reference to cd/vinyl) but such efforts are more than rewarded from the moment you press play. Like Link Wray’s early seventies albums, Louisiana native Bobby Charles was making and recording music akin to the sounds […]

It’s 2008! What 2007 albums are you just catching up on now that it’s a brand new year? Leave ‘em in the comments.
I have several I am working on, but the past week has seen a lot of concentration on Scout Niblett’s LP This Fool Can Die Now. Yup, […]

From the forthcoming LP Mission Control. Drops January 22nd - ATO Records.
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MP3: The Whigs :: Right Hand On My Heart
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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 30: The Whigs - Violet Furs ++ Le Switch - Living In Another World ++ Band of Bees - End […]

Yeah, look at him. He bigger than you. When he lets it loose (See: “Yolanda” and “Cold Day In Hell” below), Bobby “Blue” Bland’s nicotine-phlegm coated, mid-song, trademark honking is as immediately recognizable, and identifiable, as a Keith Richards Stones riff. To the Blues faithful, that is.
While I have long been […]

The past few years have found me slowly re-building my Dinosaur Jr. collection — piecemeal. Sometime in the mid-late ’90s, while living in Athens, GA as a student, I sold the majority of it off to various downtown record stores. Now, a decade later I’m re-purchasing it. Actually, I find myself […]

“The Who is a bloody wild animal and it has to be fed chunks of raw meat and Southern Comfort. It can’t feed on anything less.” – Pete Townshend, New York Times, June 13th, 1974.
The Who: bombastic, excessive, crude, vulgar, drunk, and unfashionably fucking awesome. That is what I penned in 2005 immediately following […]

Originally titled Season of The Witch, Mean Streets is both an accomplishment in film in its own right, as well as a blueprint for the themes and motifs Martin Scorsese would later expand on and finesse for the next three decades. It’s all here: Cosa Nostra, religious devotion an doubt, moral contradiction, loyalty, family, […]