Beardo. As I mentioned last week while discussing Death’s For The Whole World To See, the Drag City label is no stranger to digging up and releasing the long lost and nearly forgotten. In 2005 the label pulled a similar trick re-releasing Gary Higgins’ 1973 LP Red Hash, a psych-folk classic and precursor to what [...]
While I’m a casual fan of Animal Collective, Panda Bear’s Person Pitch LP remains one of my favorite albums of 2007. Panda (Noah Lennox) has tagged up with Bradford Cox on the track “Walkabout” from the upcoming Atlas Sound release Logos. Highly anticipated. Cox on Logos: “My last album was a bedroom laptop type thing. [...]
J. Neas here, winding up AD’s coverage of the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. I want to start by laying some serious kudos on the festival staff and planners. Not only was it a breath of fresh air commerce and surroundings wise – from the diverse but non-traditional food booths to the exclusive beer sales [...]
J. Neas reporting again from Chicago. After a bit of late start due to some brunch navigation around closed lines on the L, I arrived at the festival in time to catch Fucked Up. Having grown to enjoy the layered and complex post-hardcore of their recorded material, the live show was a bit simplistic, but [...]
Saturday, July 25th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks at the Echoplex in Echo Park, L.A. If memory serves, this is the first eastside Malkmus show in a long time. Expect a packed house. Tickets are $19 adv/$22 door. We have several pairs of tickets to giveaway to AD readers. Interested? Leave a [...]
J. Neas here reporting from Chicago. I’ll hand it to Pitchfork – they know how to get a crowd invested in the opening night of a festival. Whether it’s been the previous years’ Don’t Look Back-style album performances or this year’s Write the Night theme, they have guaranteed to have an audience who is looking [...]
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 103: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel ++ Foreign Born – Blood [...]
Today, during the second hour of our SIRIUS/XM show, we will air the session with Jason Lytle cut in March, during SXSW, at The Ship’s party at Homeslice. Lytle was in Austin in support of his, then, soon to be released solo debut Yours Truly, The Commuter. Grandaddy fans: Note the inclusion of “Jed The [...]
Barney Hoskyns , in Mojo magazine, once penned that Todd Rundgren sounds like “the missing link between the White Album and Sign O’ The Times.” I couldn’t have said it better. Artistically Rundgren is indeed a strange beast; his body of work feels schizophrenic, random, rootless, and, ironically, in his own strange way, very focused. [...]
Facts is facts — in 2009 “punk”, as an adjective, has quite the stigma. This is not exactly breaking news. Now three decades into its run, the general populace most likely equates the term punk with that of Good Charlotte, and/or whatever the mall kids are purchasing at Hot Topic this week; rather than, say, [...]
