Last week, while discussing unofficial compilations, I suggested that readers share some if their favorites in the comments. In doing so I asked myself the same question. While a number come to mind, I want to highlight a set that was put together by the now defunct music blog Setting The Woods On Fire. In [...]
Thursday night, May 20th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Jacuzzi Boys with Wounded Lion at Five Star Bars in downtown L.A. We’re giving away several pairs of tickets for the show. Wanna chance to go? Hit up the comments and leave your name and email address. Winners will be notified with tickets held at will-call. High five [...]
Google the name Yuzo Kayama and you’ll note that he’s “a Japanese popular musician and film star born in 1937. His father, Ken Uehara, was one of the most popular film stars in Japan during the 1930s. Yuzo himself became one of Japan’s biggest stars of the 1960s in the Wakadaishō, or Young Guy film [...]
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. During the second hour of today’s show I am airing the Happy Hollows AD session which you can download, in its entirety, at Web [...]
In 2010 it’s all too easy to lament the state of the music industry, with its declining album sales, record store closures, etc. I miss that stuff too, but also firmly believe that for non-complacent, hungry music lovers–for the heads with a sense of history–we are living in a very, very exciting time. As I’ve [...]
Arranged and produced by Jack Nitzsche, her husband, Buffy Sainte-Marie’s version of Neil Young’s oft-covered “Helpless” still ranks as a favorite. I’ve been putting together a streamlined collection of Nitzsche affiliated production work over the past few months and just recently re-discovered Marie’s take. Like all great covers, it cuts to the essence. MP3: Buffy [...]
Staying on the Cramps tip for minute, I thought some of you would dig the following; a vinyl 45 rip of the Charades doo wop cover of Duke Elligton’s “Flamingo,” which was played at Lux Interior’s memorial service. Beautiful, perfect…transcendent. Hat tip to Office Naps for the vinyl transfer. MP3: The Charades :: Flamingo ——————— [...]
Saturday night, May 8th, Aquarium Drunkard presents a co-headline bill: Warpaint/Priestbird at the Bootleg Theater. We’re giving away several pairs of tickets for the show. To enter: send an email to aquariumdrunkardcontests at gmail.com with your full name along with the name of Warpaint’s new drummer. Winners will be notified with tickets held at will-call. [...]
Killer parties almost killed The Hold Steady, but then they didn’t. Hallelujah swept up the spotlight; she cleared the dust that kept coming up after all those killer parties. And then we all got up to have a real sad time together but it ended up being not all that sad; that killer party almost [...]
(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) AD is spending the month of May looking at some one-hitters from the 90s; an age rife with overlooked “alternative” gems from the days of 120 Minutes and the just below-the-surface power-pop scene that was bursting with great music. [...]
