I’ll forever be indebted to British R&B bands like the Rolling Stones, the Pretty Things and the Downliner’s Sect for not only changing my life with their incredible music, but for also infecting me with an incurable obsession with American roots music. Noticing that their early albums were almost entirely comprised of cover songs sent [...]
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We are giving away several pairs of tickets away to AD readers. Hit us up in the comments with your name and email address we can reach you at. Tickets will be avail at will-call.
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As I mentioned last month, AD is again presenting shows in New Orleans on the regular. Up next: Blitzen Trapper and Wye Oak at One Eyed Jacks, Sunday night, October 4th.
We are giving away several pairs of tickets to NOLA based AD readers. Hit us up in the comments with your name and email address. [...]
I don’t envy bands who reunite and record new material, especially if they’re not a band that had a huge following in the first place. North Carolina’s Polvo crafted a sharp indie legacy on two big name indie-labels (Merge and then Touch and Go) across the early-to-late 90s, even hitting a creative high-water mark with [...]
Earlier in the year, by way of coincidence, I found myself on a bit of an Australian music kick after wearing out the Drones latest ATP Records release Havilah. Through this, as often happens with the Internet, I ran across Queensland, Australia’s The Middle East (who, it should be noted, could not sound more unlike [...]
(Below, via his home in Athens, GA, Daniel Hutchens shares his thoughts on the life and work of Jim Carroll…)
A while back I wrote a Diversions feature for Aquarium Drunkard about my “ten most influential albums.” I found out ten wasn’t nearly enough. I had to leave off so many albums essential to my musical [...]
First off, have you seen the documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?)? If not, you should get on that. This weekend the mailman delivered Songs From The Point, a collection of ‘indie’ artists each covering a track off the soundtrack to Nillson’s 1971 animated children’s story of the same [...]
Hat tip to Weekly Tape Deck for hipping me to this latest entry over at the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/Lotus Plaza blog. If you’re a fan, find/make 45 minutes in your day (night) for this.
Download: Lotus Plaza :: Live @ The Eyedrum, Atlanta 9.22.09
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Le Loup’s sophomore LP, Family, hit shelves this week via the ever-burgeoning Hardly Art imprint. While I make no claims to have been moved by the ‘07 debut, the group appears to have re-tooled their sound straying from the overt electronic tendencies and, as fluxblog earlier noted, instead place a collective toe in nostalgia inducing [...]
It’s telling that my favorite Devendra track is “Seahorse” off 2007’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. At once a dusky Topanga folk jam, a Doors-style rave up and inspired psych workout, the song is a distant cry from Banhart’s early catalog on Michael Gira’s Young God Records. Most impressive is that throughout its ramshackle 8+ [...]
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