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 87: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Bonnie Prince Billy – Beware Your Only Friend ++ Phosphorescent [...]

I’ve witnessed many a Wilco show over the years, but spare for a few moments, was not particularly impressed by the two-disc, 2005 live document, Kicking Television.  I felt that it found the band in the midst of performance growing pains just prior to finding their footing again. Ashes of American Flags, on the other [...]

There are very few artists who had album runs like the one Stevie Wonder pulled off in the ’70s (the Rolling Stones come immediately to mind).  The following set, from January of 1974, finds the artist in the midst of a creative high while touring the UK.  Recorded after Innervisons and prior to Fulfillingness’ First [...]

When a songwriter’s prolificacy creates the volumes that Will Oldham’s has, it can become difficult to draw reference from his catalogue. It often exists as one vast document of his contribution, nuance be damned to the onlooker. With notable exceptions Greatest Palace Music and the Tortoise-backed The Brave and the Bold, Oldham’s shifts in tone [...]

I have to admit, I’m not always excited about the idea of a single artist recording the entire soundtrack to a film. It’s usually not the most career-defining moment for a musician. Sure, there are exceptions – but for every Aimee Mann and Magnolia, there are at least nine or ten Princes and Batman soundtracks. [...]

Speaking of RAM, have you heard of Percy Thrillington?  If not, don’t feel bad as Percy “Thrills” Thrillington never actually existed outside of Paul McCartney’s imagination. Back in the ’70s, prior to the release of Ram, McCartney decided to have an orchestral version of the album laid to tape. But then Wings happened. Recorded in [...]

Country music, at its best, is a dark apologetic for mystery.  Like most things, it’s got its glitzy side, the side that it’s convinced itself that it wants the public to see.  But once its Nashville sheen is scraped off, country is a dark, penetrating, and mysterious force that cuts away until it reaches a [...]

(Diversions, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) This second installment of Diversions finds us with Daniel Hutchens of Athens, GA’s Bloodkin – one of my favorite songwriters, wordsmiths and rock & rollers since I first discovered his music over [...]

We’ll be discussing Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s upcoming album, Beware, at length in the very near future. Until then, chew on the new video for “I Am Goodbye,” which is very demonstrative of Beware’s overall sound as a whole. It goes without saying that we love it. Another high five to Will Oldham, whose beard has [...]

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 86: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Television – Friction ++ Josef K – The Angle ++ [...]