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. You can download today’s session with Roadside Graves here… SIRIUS 159: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ J. Tillman :: Tonight’s the Night [...]
(Guest post from travel/music author Brian Kevin discussing his recently released piece on the Jim Jones backed People’s Temple Choir and, their album, He’s Able. Great stuff. – AD) For years before the Jonestown Massacre made the group infamous in 1978, the California religious sect called Peoples Temple was known for three things: Their peculiar [...]
October 12th sees the release of Great Lakes fourth album, Ways of Escape. Below, founding, and constant, member Ben Crum reflects on the process, and hurdles, it took to get there. Great Lakes will play a record release show, with the full band that played on Ways of Escape, at The Rock Shop in Brooklyn [...]
(J. Neas reports from his native North Carolina on last weekend’s inaugural Hopscotch Music Festival.) Living in the South can be a frustrating endeavor when it comes to getting great concerts. Bands often seem to think that the region consists entirely of Washington, D.C. and, perhaps, Atlanta. But thankfully, Greg Lowenhagen and Greyson Currin of [...]
For those of you who purchased the Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards collection on vinyl, upon its 2009 release, the following is old news. But if you, like me, have the set on compact disc, keep reading. The vinyl release of Waits’ odds and sods compilation came with an additional six bonus tracks: “Crazy Bout [...]
“Well, late at night, when the people were gone, he used to pick up my guitar. And sing a song in a shaky voice that was real as the day was long.” – Neil Young, Tonight’s The Night J. Tillman takes on Tonight’s The Night, Neil Young’s dark night of the soul, in its entirety… [...]
When Portishead released Third in 2008, it had been nearly a decade since the release of their previous album. That’s a lifetime in the music industry and all sorts of questions arise when it happens: what will the band sound like now? ; has the band lost its touch? ; will anyone care? It’s a [...]
Lineup: Dungen, The Entrance Band, Sharon Van Etten, Lord Huron, The Fresh & Onlys, Shannon & The Clams, John Carpenter, Hanni El Khatib, Young Prisms, So Many Wizards, Summer Darling and more…. Last March, following SXSW, Aquarium Drunkard hosted our first all-ages festival here in Echo Park: WAVED OUT. Named after one of my favorite [...]
Earlier this month Muzzle of Bees posted the ‘lost’ Aquarium Drunkard session we did with Roadside Graves at Infrasonic Studios during the summer of 2009. Among other things the session marked the first appearance of “Liv Tyler” which would later be recorded during the You Won’t Be Happy With Me sessions in a cabin deep [...]
“Several of the songs on Get Happy had been played on the mysteriously named “Armed Funk Tour” in the spring of 1979, our last American trip for over two years. However our first trial sessions revealed our “road” arrangements to be trite, brittle, and uncomfortably close to the rapidly dating style which was now called [...]
