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 60: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Catfish Haven - Set In Stone ++ Cat Power - Speak […]
Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 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 favorite […]
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Athens, Georgia’s perennial rock & roll torch-bearers, Bloodkin, have a new album in the can entitled Baby They Told Us We Would Rise Again. Fuck yes; further proof you can never count these guys out. Stay tuned for details regarding a label and release date (looking like late ‘08) as they leak out.
In the late […]
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Aquarium Drunkard is presenting the upcoming White Denim show at Republic New Orleans , Wednesday, August 27th. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; this is one of the best live acts touring today. Those of us stateside have been anxiously awaiting a full-length from the band which is finally on the horizon. […]
Tuesday, August 19th, 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 favorite […]
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Prepping for their upcoming sophomore LP, Now or Heaven (and supporting Fall tour), The Broken West shot us the second MP3 off the album to preview here on AD. The album itself is a clear maturation of the golden-coast pop sound of the group’s 2005 self-released EP and subsequent Merge Records debut, I Can’t […]
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Aquarium Drunkard: Rook is far more thematic than its predecessor Palo Santo. While those songs felt like they could be cohesive, Rook’s ongoing chromatic descents seem to hint at a central theme? Is that the case?
Jonathan Meiburg: There’s no hidden ‘plot’ to Rook (as there was, in a way, for Palo Santo), but there’s […]
Monday, August 18th, 2008
The Velvet Underground with John Cale in the foreground - April 1, 1966
It’s not easy to pin down my favorite Velvet Underground album as it regularly changes over time, yet always rotates between three titles. And really, it depends on what kind of mood I am in and where my head is at while […]
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Aquarium Drunkard is presenting the upcoming Whigs show at Republic New Orleans August 22nd. Should be a barnburner. We have 10 pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Leave your name and a valid email address below for a pair.
Download:
MP3: The Whigs :: Violet Furs
MP3: The Whigs :: Right Hand On My […]
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Fun Fun Fun Fest returns this November at Waterloo Park in downtown Austin with two day passes going for $59.99. The first press release just went out today detailing the majority of the lineup and the stages they will be performing on.
Stage 1: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The National, Atmosphere, Minus The Bear, […]
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
In 2006 , in reference to the bands debut, I wrote that “Catfish Haven take on the trials and tribulations of love and relationships strewn over blues-holler, hand claps, and Dixie rhythms.” That statement rings as true today as it did then, but here, on the band’s follow-up, Devastator, they’ve ramped it up to […]
Friday, August 15th, 2008
“Stay on the road, stay away from the Moors and beware of the moon.” Sage advice, indeed. Filmmaker John Landis’s An American Werewolf In London (1981) is a lot of things; a maverick comedy, a gratuitous horror flick, an Oscar winner, and one of my favorite examples of the juxtaposition of music and […]
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
After barely being released, Paul Westerberg’s excellent 49:00 was pulled from the digital market last week. The reasons are somewhat unclear, but the almost universal understanding seems to be that it has to do with copyright issues - namely the medley of famous songs that Westerberg runs through toward the end of the album. […]
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
“Gun,” the opening track off Uncle Tupelo’s sophomore LP Still Feel Gone, was the first of the band’s songs I consciously remember listening to. A prime example of classic, early, Tweedy - in terms of the songwriting, delivery, and execution […]
