This Sunday night (12/13) we’re tagging up with our friends at Origami Vinyl, in Echo Park, to celebrate Aquarium Drunkard’s decade in review. While we won’t finish on the blog until December 31st, Origami has our master list of AD’s favorites, and is stocking as many of them in vinyl as possible. This is a [...]
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in a position to do the same again. What were the best albums of the past ten years? Here at AD, [...]
It’s the second week of December. The egg nog is spiked. Our Christmas tree has been purchased, trimmed and decorated, and it has actually been (kinda) seasonally chilly here in L.A. the past few days. Having said that, I think the holiday-related posts can officially begin, and I can tell you there is no better [...]
I’ve been keeping tabs on Doveman’s (Thomas Bartlett) career for about four years now, beginning with his 2005 debut The Acrobat. Since then Bartlett has released several LPs including an album completely, and curiously, focused on reimagining the entirety of the Footloose soundtrack. Brave. Bartlett, a longtime friend (and touring musician) of the National, released [...]
(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) As I mentioned last month, one of the best new things I caught in Austin during FFF Fest was the Twin Tigers gig Saturday night at the Mohawk. In the span of [...]
London’s Wolf People have an album out early next year; the first under their new label home at Jagjaguwar. AD has a feature with them in the works, but until then I wanted to share the below track culled from the compilation A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island. An instrumental, the track moves in a [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, 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. Today, during the second half of the show, our old friend James Husband guest DJs spinning an eclectic hour’s [...]
Information. We crave it, store it, need it. Thrive on it. When I am out and about I am constantly making notes in my phone: lists, things to look up, research, read. And at the same time there is a conflict — a part of me that laments the time before widespread google-ability, which, really, [...]
Releasing two great underappreciated records in the early 80s (private press – real lo-fi), there is no one quite like Bobb Trimble in the world of rock n roll. His vision is very deep, personal, and absolutely original with a strong outsider, late night feel. While his music was totally out of sync with the [...]
Jonathan Richman is doing a string of nights at the Mint December 8-10 (next week). I have a pair of tickets for an AD reader for the night of the 8th. Leave a comment below with your name and email to enter. Also, separately, enter to win the Vapor Records Richman discography on CD or [...]
