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 [...]
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. The first hour of today’s show will be the new Mondo Boys mixtape A Continuous Monument. Download it here. SIRIUS 130: Jean Michel Bernard [...]
Listening to Joanna Newsom has always required certain things: patience, trust, an ability to overlook cosmetic flaws in favor of the more complete picture, more patience. Her precedent releases—2004’s Milk-Eyed Mender and 2006’s Ys—required these virtues in increasing numbers. But Have One On Me, her new Victorian triple-decker of an album, is asking for a [...]
“But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.” – Barney Hoskyns The above quote is from the 2009 forward of author Barney Hoskyns book Waiting For The Sun: A Rock & Roll History of Los Angeles. It’s a [...]
Art Museums tell ‘sordid tales of artists, lovers & poseurs with cult new wave jangle‘, or so says the San Francisco duo’s label, Woodsist. I’ll buy. On Rough Frame, their debut, Art Museums, made up of Josh Alper & Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards), cop early ’80s Pete Townsend moves that, more recently, occasionally sounds like [...]
I caught Austin’s Harlem twice last weekend here in town; Friday night at a house party in Chinatown and the following night at Spaceland. As expected, both shows were beautifully unhinged; the wheels teetering, barely staying on the tracks as the trio bashed out Lenny Kaye approved blasts of garage rock strewn with keen pop [...]
So Many Wizards‘ “Nico,” the third track off their forthcoming 2nd EP, Love Songs for When You Leave Me, (produced by The Morning Benders Chris Chu) feels like swimming through a pool of hot Jello. Slow, heavy, fuzzy—dense, sticky and hazy sweet. While the new EP doesn’t drop until March, you can (if you’re in [...]
The first time you hear her voice, you’ll know what I mean. Karen’s is a voice with “whoa” factor. She has been lauded by the likes of Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, the Holy Modal Rounders, and surely must have inspired (Joanna Newsom). Yeah, the first time you hear that voice, it can transfix you. Cover [...]
We are Mondo Boys — a NY/LA sound collage collaborative. This is our lunar transmission winter mix. We do cassettes/digital. “CONTINUOUS MONUMENT” was created exclusively to get you through the next month. Press play and shake them Winter blues…spring’s just around the corner. Mucho take it easy. – MB MP3: Mondo Boys :: Continuous Monument [...]
