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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 73: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Pavement - Passat Dream ++ The Glands - Livin; Was […]

Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface is a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard that that takes a look at particularly interesting cover art choices.
In 1967, Bob Dylan got into a motorcycle crash, retreated into the bowels of Big Pink with the Band, and emerged […]

I grew up in Atlanta, and every Thanksgiving as far back as I can remember, one of the local FM radio stations would play “Alice’s Restaurant” in its entirety - all 18+ minutes of it - several times throughout the day. As traditions go, it was a fine one, and now in our fourth year, […]

As promised, here are the re-posted Chrome Dreams companion tracks from 2007. The following live & unreleased studio MP3s are a companion piece, of sorts, to the unreleased Chrome Dreams acetate bootleg posted here last week. The below video is of Neil with Crazyhorse, live at the Hammersmith Odeon, in London March 28, 1976, […]

Blitzen Trapper’s Furr has turned out to be one of the year’s strongest albums, and the band is presently on tour supporting it with the Parson Redheads. Aquarium Drunkard is presenting both the hometown date, here in Los Angeles at the Echo, and down south in San Diego at the Casbah. We have some […]

It was a bit odd to walk into Symphony Space on Saturday night and see director Jonathan Demme trying to scalp his extra tickets to that evening’s performance of I Often Dream of Trains, the “psych-folk” masterpiece by British cult figure Robyn Hitchcock. Hitchcock has appeared in several of Demme’s movies over the years — […]

This month marks the 40th anniversary of The Beatles White Album. Here’s some Footage from the 1968 sessions at Abbey Road and Trident studios. Check out Paul’s shoes.
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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 […]

Horse Feathers, another in a collection of great bands filling up the scene in Portland, Oregon these days, is largely the creation of its founder, Justin Ringle, who along with Peter Broderick has created a warm, simmering sound of rustic Americana and folk traditions. Their newest album, House with No Home, is another fantastic […]

According to the new issue of Rolling Stone, at long last, the first volume from Neil Young’s vast archives have a firm release date. Looks pretty outstanding, but I am curious if the format (DVD and Blu-Ray only), and the price point, will curb fans enthusiasm. Excerpt below.
After more than 20 years, the first […]

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, 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 72: Jean Michel Bernard ++ Deerhunter - Agorophobia ++ Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentleman We Are Floating In Space ++ […]

Earlimart :: Aquarium Drunkard SIRIUS/XMU Session (October 2008)
Today, during the second hour of our SIRIUS/XM show, we aired the Aquarium Drunkard session we cut a few weeks ago with Earlimart at their studio, The Ship, here in L.A. in the Eagle Rock neighborhood. The group had just returned form touring behind their 2008 LP […]

So I’ve been really into Men At Work’s greatest hits collection, Contraband, the past week or so (see also: Hall & Oates’ Best Of, but we’ll get to that some other time). Let’s just say the next time I find myself karaoking, at Thai Angel at 4am, “Down Under” is gonna get seriously worked over, […]

The other day while scanning the used bin at Amoeba Music I ran across a copy of the Gram Parsons tribute compilation Return Of The Grievous Angel. I had not played this collection (all the way through) in a couple of years and immediately dug out my copy out when I got home. […]