First off, if you copped one of the Dylan biographies from us last month, please refrain from entering into this one. This week Aquarium Drunkard is giving away a copy of the new, 3 LP, 180-gram vinyl set of George Harrison’s 1970 opus, All Things Must Pass. This is the mother lode for Harrison fans. [...]
The BBC produced documentaries that take on the mythical American west, or Americana, consistently impress. The footage found after the jump is no exception. Presently, via YouTube, is the network’s take on the music coming out of Los Angeles, beginning in the mid-60s with the Byrds, on through its eventual, comparatively bleak, decline. Broken up [...]
Welsh bands aren’t typically at the top of the British music heap, but that’s not because the country hasn’t produced its fair share of amazing music. Young Marble Giants were one of the earliest truly post-punk bands to approach minimalism as a style. Their debut full length, 1980′s Colossal Youth, is a testimony to the [...]
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. Futurebirds session here…. SIRIUS 166: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Fugazi – Repeater ++ No Age – Sorts ++ Sonic Youth – [...]
Tomorrow, during the second hour of the SIRIUS show, I am airing the AD session Futurebirds laid down in September at Red Rockets Glare Studios while touring out west. For those sans satelllite radio, check out the band, below, stretching out on five tracks culled from their Autumn Tone full-length, Hampton’s Lullaby. The band is [...]
(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) I have been writing about Ben Weaver as long as I’ve been publishing Aquarium Drunkard. His music, and words, are comprised of the same grit that initially drew me in me to [...]
During the next eight weeks, with the holidays on the horizon, the probability of hearing Vince Guaraldi goes way up. This is, of course, a good thing. Guaraldi’s score to A Charlie Brown Christmas is nothing short of brilliant—but it ain’t Christmas-time just yet, folks. Below is something just as good. In terms of Guaraldi’s [...]
A couple of years ago I posted a slowed down, 33rpm, version of Neko Case’s “Deep Red Bells” which effectively transforms the already gothic tune into an even more surreal experience. The always on point Diddywah recently dropped a similar experiment with Wanda Jackson’s “Funnel Of Love,” as heard at 33rpm. The results are nothing [...]
Shitty proto-drum machine. Check one. Woozy, repetitive, lounge organ. Check two. Billboard chart-busting hit? Yeah, it’s that third one where you do the double take, as nothing about Timmy Thomas’s “Why Can’t We Live Together,” from 1972, evokes any semblance of mainstream “hit” (this one made the top three in the Billboard Hot 100). More [...]
Thanks to a super-fine tip, I have been knee deep in this blog post, over at Versions Galore, comprised of 100+ covers of Allen Toussaint’s “Get Out Of My Life, Woman.” Whereas the name Jimmy Smith, and his backroom organ undertaking of the tune, may not be foreign to many of you, the Memphis, TN [...]
