Aquarium Drunkard

Here is some bad haiku in regards to the new Golden Animals LP Free Your Mind….
Like Jim Morrison
Bareback in the desert sky
Delaney Bonnie
Download:
MP3: Golden Animals :: The Steady Roller
MP3: Golden Animals :: Try On Me
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Purchase: Golden Animals - Free Your Mind And Win A Pony
www.myspace.com/goldenanimals ++ www.happypartsrecordings.com

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Hayden has come a long way from his introduction to the U.S. as the heir to the folky mope-rock throne over a decade ago. His new album, In Field & Town, is instrumentally his most fully realized to date. He sat down earlier this month with Aquarium Drunkard prior to his show at […]

This is part II of II of Marty Garner’s AD Interview with The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn. You can find part I HERE….

Craig Finn is a normal dude. He may be “gettin’ a lot of double takes when he’s comin’ around the corners,” (as he sings on the title track of the Hold Steady’s excellent […]

This, the reissue of Bubble And Scrape, is the sound of inevitability. Like various ’90s indie rock contemporaries before them, the Sebadoh reissues continue to gradually creep out; complete with a healthy dose of extras (15 tracks), which, by now, are practically a reissue prerequisite. Listening with fresh ears - 15 years after […]

It’s hot outside — L.A. has been in the in the midst of an early summer heat wave, and with much of the city air condition-less we could certainly use some music to match it. Enter Merge Records with their recently released 3 disc Big Dipper anthology, Supercluster chronicling the band’s early days, and […]

Listening to Sigur Rós has always required stepping out of the real world of traffic jams, smog, headaches, and Salinger novels. The grand, idyllic nature of the Icelanders’ music has always required a suspension of disbelief, a willingness to enter their world, where all of the most precious moments from this side of the […]

Craig Finn is a normal dude. He may be “gettin’ a lot of double takes when he’s comin’ around the corners,” (as he sings on the title track of the Hold Steady’s excellent new record, Stay Positive) but at his core, Craig Finn is a genuinely, refreshingly normal dude. That may explain the […]

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 53: Jean-Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Whiskeytown - Bar Lights ++ Cat Power - He War ++ Band of […]

Speaking of the old Dischord scene…Fugazi, December 11, 1988 - Peel Session…
Download:
MP3: Fugazi :: Waiting Room (Peel Session ‘88)
MP3: Fugazi :: Break In (Peel Session ‘88)
MP3: Fugazi :: Merchandise (Peel Session ‘88)
MP3: Fugazi :: Glueman (Peel Session ‘88)
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(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
Let me begin by saying that when the genre of yacht rock is finally sunk forever by the churning ocean of history and good taste, I’ll be one of the last to call SOS. There’s always been something grating […]

A long traded compilation, Shit, Shower & Shave, recorded in 1989, is the sound of the band while on tour with Tom Petty who later, infamously, ripped off Westerberg’s “rebel without a clue” line from the Mats “I’ll Be You.” Tracks 1-12 Bristol Connecticut August 31 1989 - Tracks 13-17 Milwaukee Wisconsin, June 1989 […]

High five. While The Gaturs name should be familiar to those who have picked up various ’70s NOLA funk & soul compilations (i.e., Soul Jazz Records), the Wasted LP itself has proved much more elusive.  After first digging the above LP while playing in the background at a friend’s house, during Jazz Fest […]

(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
At a brisk one minute and forty-three seconds Ryan Adams’ “Operator, Operator” is practically over before it really begins, ultimately leaving the listener wanting more. And really, isn’t that what we all want in a good pop song; something […]

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 […]