An artist that will forever go down as one of the key architects of Southern soul, the late Eddie Hinton is about as swampy as the genre gets. A veritable Muscle Shoals renaissance man, Hinton paid the bills as a scratch session musician, in the town’s famed rhythm section, contributing to some of the most [...]
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XM, 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. SIRIUS 167: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Sgt. Dunbar & The Hobo Band – Everything Is, Pt. [...]
I am as big a Netflix advocate as you will find, yet I am also a collector of things; records, books, photographs, and, yes, films. When it comes to the medium of the DVD no one quite holds a candle to that of the Criterion Collection. A meticulous bunch, the company takes extra special care [...]
“Lost my shit, trying to act casual.” For years…years…that is what I thought David Byrne was singing on “Crosseyed And Painless” off the Talking Heads Remain In Light LP. Nope. It turned out he was singing “lost my shape.” The mis-hearing of lyrics is nothing new; there are books, websites, entire tomes dedicated to this [...]
Last June, over a round of drinks, my friend Matt excitedly told me the tale of his label Light In The Attic’s upcoming release; that of the reissue of Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O. Whereas Light In The Attic often reissues the lost and forgotten LP, in the case of U.F.O. it was the very performer who [...]
When you walk away from a band that Griel Marcus once dubbed “the best rock and roll band in America,” people can get a bit antsy when you go almost completely off the radar for five years afterward. Yet, that’s exactly what Corin Tucker did when Sleater-Kinney took a still-ongoing break in 2006. Her first [...]
(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) The Polaroid SX-70, the camera Pat Sansone of the Autumn Defense pays homage to below, was one of the first cameras I recall using. I still have it today. It was my [...]
Last March, driving back to L.A. from Texas after SXSW, there was one thing the four of us riding down the highway in an old Ford could all agree upon: that Lissie had the best pipes of the week. Reminiscent of the same stuff that made Bonnie Raitt a star four decades before, Lissie, or [...]
Megafaun’s breadth of style has been a hallmark of all its releases thus far, but the Heretofore EP is possibly the best example yet of the rambling, shifting and well-sequenced tendencies of the band. But it’s a touch ironic to say that considering that this record is, in many ways, also their most accessible and [...]
