Archive for February, 2009

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 85: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Earlimart – Too Many People ++ Frankel – 3 Legs ++ [...]

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

On March 10th Elvis Perkins returns to the fold with his sophomore album, Elvis Perkins In Dearland, and this time there is little need to wax on his storied pedigree and biography. Like his debut, Ash Wednesday, Dearland sews a similar thread with the welcome addition of his eponymous band adding yet another dynamic [...]

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Perhaps due to the past couple of weeks of near constant puddles in L.A., I’ve found myself listening to Orphans and Rain Dogs …a lot. Orphans, in particular, with its three thematic discs: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, has me once again pondering the myriad of styles Tom Waits has experimented with over the [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface is a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard that that takes a look at particularly interesting cover art choices.
By 1993 Fugazi was three EPs and two LPs into their career as a band. Usually this is a watershed moment [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Saturday, March 7th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Lambchop at the new Largo – at the Coronet – with special guests Radar Bros.  This is a pretty incredible bill, and it’s not all too often that the collective actually makes it to the West coast; in fact one is more likely to see them perform in Europe. [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Off Tillman’s new album, Vacilando Territory Blues, the vid for “First Born” debuted on pitchfork.tv last week. A great album, and markedly different from Tillman’s earlier, more stark, work, “First Born” features a number of his Fleet Foxes brethren. Your afternoon moment of birds and zen.
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
Written by Robert Towne, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jack Nicholson, Chinatown undoubtedly stands as one of the greatest films of the twentieth century. Classic film noir, on a base level, Chinatown tells the story of private detective J.J. ‘Jake’ Gittes as he attempts to solve what (at the [...]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

The living legend that is Leonard Cohen is paying a visit to Los Angeles April 10th at the Nokia theatre. Tickets for the show go on sale Monday, March 9th at 10am, but you can win a pair here on Aquarium Drunkard before that. We have two pairs of tickets for AD readers; [...]

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface is a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard that that takes a look at particularly interesting cover art choices.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s The Letting Go is broadly considered, even in rare negative critique, as Will Oldham’s most unexampled result. The album, [...]

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Tweedy covers Neil Young’s lovelorn “The Losing End” at the Rocky Mountain Folk Festival, 2006.  The original appears on Young’s second LP, from 1969, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
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MP3: Jeff Tweedy :: The Losing End (When You’re On)
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Friday, February 20th, 2009

Late last year when we wrote about Arthur Lee’s superb soul spin “Everybody’s Gotta Live,” we hadn’t yet heard Vindicator, the track’s 1972 mothership and Lee’s solo debut. Admittedly, we (I) naively assumed that Vindicator would be a record full of similar songs–an exploration of Lee’s R&B range that was largely neglected during his time [...]

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, channel 26 (SIRIUS), and channel 43 (XM), can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 84: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Wavves – Beach Demon ++ Jay Reatard – Florescent grey ++ [...]