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 44: Jean-Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Port Obrien - I Woke Up Today ++ Bodies of Water - Here […]

This is a re-post per multiple requests following the 2007 White Session posted a couple of weeks ago. The following should be required listening for National fans; its material taken from the Cherry Tree EP and, mainly, Alligator (my favorite album from 2005), from which the band were touring in support of at the […]

I’m sitting in a hotel room approximately 100 miles east of Amarillo, TX in what may very well be the definition of a one horse town (and this being west Texas, I mean that both literally and figuratively). Might I also add that if you ever find yourselves in Amarillo, TX, do pay a […]

An iTunes exclusive (apparently not anymore), Nina Simone fans will want to investigate the recently released Protest Anthology collection (April 8th) that combines both audio and video artifacts culled from Simone’s career. Like the majority of Simone’s output, there is an undeniable weight to much of this material that transcends the music itself . […]

The curse of the father’s success. It’s an unavoidable discussion when musicians are the sons or daughters of someone famous. Liam Finn has been facing that down with his music and now so will Jordan Zevon.
The press release for Insides Out goes to great lengths to have Jordan say various things like “No […]

In light of recent events, AD contributor j. neas reflects on Springsteen’s 1995 LP The Ghost of Tom Joad, and how the material makes just as much sense in 2008 (if not more). - AD
In the middle of the Clinton ’90s, it was sometimes difficult to feel like there were hard times anywhere. Sure, […]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: Live, San Francisco (1978)
Download:
MP3: Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: Sugar Mountain
MP3: Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: I Am A Child
MP3: Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: Comes A Time
MP3: Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: After The Gold Rush
MP3: Neil Young & Crazy Horse :: Thrasher
MP3: […]

Who’s hitting up jazzfest this year in New Orleans? We’ll be there the second weekend presenting the Parliament Funkadelic show at The Republic. Details/Tickets to follow…
Download:
MP3: James Booker :: Tipitina/The Grass Looks Greener
MP3: Funkadelic :: Can You Get To That?
MP3: Aaron Neville :: Hercules
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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 43: Magnetic Fields - Too Drunk Too Dream ++ Beach House - Wedding Bell ++ Bodies of Water - Here […]

Building on the bones of their 2006 debut, Shadows Rise, Travel by Sea return April 2008 with their sophomore LP Days of My Escape, the third release on Aquarium Drunkard’s Autumn Tone imprint.
If I were writing a book on what I like most about music, I’d call it something literary and mildly pretentious like, “Of […]

Robyn Hitchcock and Nick Lowe are set to perform, tomorrow night, here in Los Angeles at the El Rey. AD NYC correspondent, adam mandel, reports from the Manhattan show last night, giving us a preview of what’s in store for L.A.
“Welcome to a previously unknown location in Manhattan,” said Robyn Hitchcock as he opened up […]

“There were three great beats in the ’70s: Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat, James Brown’s funk and Klaus Dinger’s Neu! beat.” - Brian Eno
The very word, “Krautrock,” seems like a joke. And truly it has been used for both praise and derision. But its main architects have had an unceasing influence on rock and […]

Last week The Watson Twins performed at L.A.’s Natural History Museum as part of the museums ongoing First Fridays series. AD correspondents Jason and Ben were there and had a chance to catch up with Leigh after the show.

AD: Having played and recorded with Jenny Lewis, recorded your own album, and now on a national […]

As much as Merge Records was defined by Superchunk’s roaring maelstrom indie-pop in the 90s, it has come to more resemble label co-founder Mac McCaughan’s other project, Portastatic, in the 2000s. Bands like the Essex Green, the Rosebuds, the Clientele and, yes, Portastatic, have created vibrant orchestrated pop, noisy anthems and everything in between. […]