Archive for February, 2009

Friday, February 13th, 2009

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Friday, February 13th, 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 83: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Pink Mountaintops – Erected ++ The Soft Pack – Walking [...]

Friday, February 13th, 2009

If you’ve had the pleasure of seeing Jim White in a live setting – whether with big, full band arrangements in big, seated, venues or in small, dark clubs touring by himself, you know that each show is unique and special. For those of you who are fans of his recorded output but have never [...]

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Ah yes, Neil in the early ’80s. An interesting, if often ignored, era in the artist’s four decade career. If you’ve read Shakey (and really, any card-carrying Neil Young fan should) you’re aware the first half of the decade was rife with random experimentation and exploration — the majority of which was considerably underwhelming (although [...]

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

When it comes to Americana as a genre, many of its purveyors offer a sense that they’ve lived through their collection. No matter the story form or execution, you often believe (or are plainly told) that what you’re hearing or reading or seeing has been informed by their life experiences. Up close and personal. But [...]

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

In 2006 I spent a good bit of time with Dogme 95′s debut LP, Arcadian Hyms. Thanks to a 100 gb hard drive and iTunes shuffle I was recently reminded of its lo-fi charms; i.e. the unlikely intersection of cheap Casio keyboards, fake beats, and backwoods pentecostal freakouts. The kind of unholy union found inside [...]

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

This Friday, during the second hour of our SIRIUS/XM show, we will air the Aquarium Drunkard session cut last week with The Henry Clay People, at The Ship, here in L.A. in the Eagle Rock neighborhood. Tonight in San Diego the band embark on a six week national tour, up the coast — across the [...]

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

(Long Shots, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, asks some of our favorite artists to interview one another. Think of it as listening in on a good conversation.) As the album’s title suggests Athens, GA’s Bloodkin are indeed back — on tour with the Drive-By Truckers — and supporting their seventh release Baby They Told [...]

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Charlie Louvin is a legend. And I don’t use that term lightly. Recording alongside his late brother, Ira, The Louvin Brothers recorded some of the most vital and beautiful music of the last 60 years and was an unquestioning influence on the eventual alt-country movement. Even though Charlie has been a solo artist for over [...]