“As a producer, it really is all about taste. I’m not the greatest piano player in the world, but I’ve got damn good taste. I’ll sit down and go taste with anybody.” — Jim Dickinson When writing about music, so many of the words used are focused on the people in the spotlight – the [...]
Flaming Lips fans, AD is presenting their Pomona gig on the 18th at the Fox Theater. We have pairs of tickets to giveaway to AD readers…and we also have tickets to give away for the L.A. date (17th) at the Greek Theatre as well. If you are interested in a pair, leave you name below [...]
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 106: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ The Kinks – Nothing In The World Can Stop Me [...]
It’s been a minute since we’ve had anything Great White Jenkins related on AD, so let’s remedy that now as these guys just keep getting better. The Virginia based folk-pop group, with readymade bedroom flourishes of blue-eyed soul, toured earlier this summer in support of their new Karl Blau produced 7″– Side A: “Look Out [...]
Next month sees the debut of Justin Vernon’s (Bon Iver) collaboration with his Wisconsin brethren Collections of Colonies of Bees on their upcoming joint side-project Volcano Choir (out September 22 via Jagjaguwar). We’ll be discussing the fruits of their labor, the LP Unmap, later this month. Vernon, who seemingly appeared out of nowhere in late [...]
One has to appreciate life’s small synchronicities. I’ve recently been binging on Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 Tusk album, and today (if you haven’t noticed around the world wide web) Atlas Sound posted a cover of the LP’s “Walk A Thin Line” on their Deerhunter blog. Very stripped down. Previously: Atlas Sound/Panda Bear :: Walkabout Download: MP3: [...]
There are some really interesting comments in yesterday’s Sevens post on the Mats “Can’t Hardly Wait.” Worth a read if you’re a Replacements fan. An AD reader sent us yet another version of the track culled from the Pleased To Meet Me sessions bootleg, which, to my knowledge, has yet to be included on any [...]
(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Multiple versions of songs are often one of the more exciting things about watching an artist at work. Getting to see a song run through its stages of development, recorded in different ways with different lyrics and different instrumentation [...]
(August 18th marks the release of Farmer Dave Scher’s (founding member of Beachwood Sparks) debut solo record, Flash Forward to the Good Times. To commemorate the release I asked Duke from You Set The Scene, a longtime L.A. resident and local music encyclopedia, to recount the genesis of Beachwood Sparks and their place in the [...]
By 1987, Prince had created a body of work enviable by any musician. Starting with his third album, 1980′s Dirty Mind, he had slowly worked his way through almost every viable popular music genre of the era. He had even starred in two movies by this point, the latter of which, Under the Cherry Moon, [...]
