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Happy New Year.  In case you missed it, The Walkmen’s album You & Me was one of our favorite LPs of 2008.  As the year closes out we caught up with Walter Martin to discuss, among other things, the critical reaction to the band’s previous two releases, The Velvet Underground, Roy Orbison, recording/production and […]

February of 2007 saw the long-awaited DVD release of the 1970 psychedelic/schizophrenic gangster-meets-pop star tale Performance. Famously known as Mick Jagger’s on screen debut, Performance expertly captures the late sixties decadence and decline into hard drugs and paranoia.But for many of us, long before we saw a grainy VHS bootleg copy of the film, we […]

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow Up, from 1966, left a lasting impression on me. Its depiction of mod-cool, sixties London, is aesthetically on point throughout its entirety — and that’s not even taking in consideration the actual (murder mystery) plot, which itself is both meandering (in the style of sixties art-house) and engrossing.
The […]

Alejandro Escovedo’s cover of Gun Club’s “Sex Beat” has been posted here before and played many a time on my radio show over the years as well. Why? Because like any good re-interpretation, it takes the song’s bare essence and spins it until it becomes something entirely different — and yet it hangs on to […]

No, the photo to the left is not of Stephen Malkmus (although the resemblance is quite uncanny, no?) Even today the majority of Zeppelin fans still do not know that the band’s epic “Dazed And Confused,” off their eponymous debut, was in actuality a cover tune. During a U.S. American tour in the late […]

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 […]

Our label, Autumn Tone Records, had its most, ahem, action-packed year yet with the release of three new albums, plus the digital distribution of J. Tillman’s back-catalog (and his other band Fleet Foxes produced our favorite album of 2008). Last Spring saw the release of Travel by Sea’s sophomore LP, Days of My Escape, […]

As I mentioned in our Songs: 2008, year-end wrap up, AD brought on two regular contributors over the course of the past twelve months, J. Neas and M. Garner. In lieu of listing our favorite forty or so albums released over the course of the year, we each chose five (different) LPs comprising a group […]

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 76: Archers of Loaf - Web In Front ++ Firehose - Sometimes ++ Pavement - Grounded ++ Robert […]

Read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, then listen to Ben Nichols’ solo debut The Last Pale Light In The West.
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MP3: Ben Nichols :: The Last Pale Light In The West
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Amazon: Ben Nichols - The Last Pale Light In The West
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As Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy prepared to embark on what would become a very busy fall of 2006, he played two very special nights at Joe’s Pub in New York City. With brothers Paul and Ned Oldham (Will Oldham/BPB/Palace Music), the trio blistered through nearly 40 covers, nearly all traditionals - playing only one original (“Cursed […]

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MP3: Neko Case :: Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis (tom waits)
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As far as we’re concerned, blog-wise, Big Rock Candy Mountain is the place to be during the month of December. For four years now, every December, the site steadily offers up obscure quality Christmas nuggets you won’t hear at the mall or Starbucks.
The following is a medley of tracks I gathered from the last three […]

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 75: Jean Michel Bernard - Generique Stephane ++ Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission ++ Bonnie “Prince” Billy - […]