A couple of months ago, while in Memphis, I was turned on to the folks who run both the Shangri La Records store as well as their off-shoot Shangri La Projects. A truly great independent record store (remember those?), Shangri La is lined with vinyl and CDs ranging from local soul to very obscure […]
Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Monday, July 14th, 2008
I’ll give this to Jason Pierce - if he wanted to record an album that sounds like something recorded by someone coming off of a near death experience, he nailed it and then some.
In turns weary, desperate and weakly celebratory, Songs in A & E is a remarkable documentary of Pierce’s experiences from the edge […]
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Come on out to the Echo Thursday, July 17th, for Bodies of Water’s release show for their new LP A Certain Feeling on their new label home @ Secretly Canadian. Our friends The Henry Clay People and Seasons open. We have three pairs of tickets to giveaway to AD readers. Leave a comment […]
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Shearwater has a new album, Rook, and a new tour. We have some limited edition vinyl to giveaway to AD readers; a limited edition test pressing of the full length, the full length (with album download coupon) and then the 7″ single of “Rooks” with the B side Talk Talk cover of “The […]
Friday, July 11th, 2008
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 […]
Friday, July 11th, 2008
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 55: Kevin Shields - City Girl ++ Liquid Liquid - Optimo ++ No Age - Teen Creeps ++ Blur - […]
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Being a fan of folk music can be frustrating. Oftentimes, folkies focus so intently on their lyrical and storytelling powers that the music seems to come second, if at all; people forget that the flurry of finger-picking is just as important to “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” as the words themselves. At times, […]
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
I took the bus to work today because my car broke down, and I found myself in downtown Los Angeles, hemmed in on all sides by skyscrapers, alone with my bag and the headphones that covered my ears like an electric bulletin. Most artists milk the dusty landscapes of the open road or the […]
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
With an artist like Otis Redding, who is truly a legend in every sense of the word, the market bears countless compilations, greatest hits collections, and bargain basement truck stop best of’s. Both official and not so official. And yet, despite all of this (at times crude mass packaging) the power of […]
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
My first exposure to a lot of things punk was the late music critic Robert Palmer’s Rock and Roll: An Unruly History, which was written as a companion to the PBS documentary series of the same name. The chapter I […]
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Next week: Aquarium Drunkard presents the July 14th date of Princeton’s month-long residency at the Silverlake Lounge. It’s a free show - so come on out for a great lineup featuring Willoughby, I Make This Sound and Fol Chen. Also, we have two copies of the bands new Bloomsbury EP to giveaway to […]
Monday, July 7th, 2008
While he won’t have Will Oldham in tow (how great is the above rendering of the two?) when it comes to cool capital, Dwight Yoakam has plenty to spend. Aquarium Drunkard has five pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers for the July 27th Dwight Yoakam date at the Greek Theatre here […]
Monday, July 7th, 2008
Poet…musician…troubadour…survivor, Alejandro Escovedo is all of those and more. Decades into a career that has spanned various styles and genres (all the while arguably creating his own), Escovedo has just released his 9th solo album, Real Animal, one that is being hailed by many as his some of his strongest work to date. […]
Friday, July 4th, 2008
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 54: Jean-Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Big Star - September Gurls ++ The Replacements - Alex Chilton ++ The […]
