Monday night begins Local Natives month-long weekly residency at Spaceland. It is free – AD presents along with Filter. The band is back in L.A. after near-constant touring post-SXSW; most recently supporting Of Montreal in the UK and taking part in our friend Daytrotter’s inaugural barnstormer series last week. Kickoff night, the band is supported [...]
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 105: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ No Age – Boy Void ++ Atlas Sound – Recent [...]
Switching gears entirely, and the words of John Cleese, “and now for something completely different.” With the release of Sonic Youth’s The Eternal earlier this summer I’ve been working in tracks from Evol and Sister on ye olde aquarium drunkard radio show. Actually, that’s not entirely true as I tend to consistently pull from these [...]
(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) My friend Mike may have departed L.A. for Brooklyn at the beginning of ’09, but that is not impeding the work on our collaborative late summer AD mix-tape (will be out by Labor Day weekend). As much a sound [...]
J Neas here, back from the weekend-long Merge XX anniversary party. With the exception of four months of my college career, I’ve spent my entire life living in the land of my birth, North Carolina. To this day it seems perverse that it took me until late high school and into college to begin to [...]
Fans of highlife, afrobeats and African funk, among others, generally discover new music due to either insane passion or dumb luck (count me as the latter). Most music from the Dark Continent is short on popularity and long in obscurity, oftentimes discovered accidentally in international bins at record stores (or, as it were, on blogs). [...]
If you somehow couldn’t tell, Roadside Graves new LP, My Son’s Home, is our favorite roots-based album of 2009. Period. Clocking in at an hour, in the span of 18 tracks, the record is a testament to the art of storytelling in the long-player format; something we are seeing less and less of in the [...]
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 [...]
Let The Music Play: Supreme Rarities 1960-1969, part of Hip-O Select’s Lost & Found series, just continues to impress. I originally wrote about the set in March of 2008, upon its release, and have returned to it time and again because of nuggets like the one below; an unexpectedly great Motown rendition of Buddy Holly’s [...]
This post was originally set to coincinde with today’s SIRIUS/XM show but I ran out of time and didn’t get to spin it. Happens. Recently signed (appropriately) to David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label, Brooklyn based duo Javelin have been making the rounds this summer both online and off (check for August tour dates outside NYC). [...]
