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. SIRIUS 191: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Yo La Tengo – Tom Courtenay ++ Eddie The Wheel – Nearsayerfive ++ Gardens & [...]
Scour music blogs and magazines from over the past three to four years and you’ll find numerous assessments that clump Crystal Stilts into groups of low-fi indie acts employing mountains of reverb and choppy guitars. Obviously, it fits. These bands offer listeners an endearing, nostalgic throwback sound paying homage to the heyday of important indie [...]
In their twenty-plus year career, Athens, GA’s Five Eight has amassed quite an impressive share of critical adoration and a loyal (and vocal) fan base. Despite a short stint opening for REM and a proclamation by none other than USA Today that they were “the greatest live band in the world,” widespread success has been [...]
(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) This week we catch up with the Black Swans Jerry DeCicca as he reflects on his working relationship with the late/great Larry Jon Wilson. Jerry has an interesting vantage point as he [...]
Continuing to defy categorization, New Orleans eccentric Quintron has a new record out, Sucre Du Sauvage, this month via Goner Records. Sugar of the savage? Sounds about right. Recorded live at the New Orleans Museum of Art, over a four month stint in 2010, Sauvage plays out like one part live album, one part performance-art [...]
Some folks, particularly those in and around Austin, caught on to Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears shortly before they signed to Lost Highway in 2008. For many of the rest of us, the Black Joe Lewis revelation came in the form of their eponymous EP or, later in 2009, via their debut full-length, Tell [...]
Greetings from Paris. I’m renting an apartment for a week, walking around a city I haven’t visited in 14 years, discovering the new while trying to remember some of my old haunts from the late 90s. While I’m largely avoiding the Internet, I do want to share this nugget with you before I get back [...]
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. SIRIUS 190: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ The One Way Streets – Jack The Ripper ++ The Swamprats – Louie Louie ++ [...]
I grew up in a household where country radio was a staple of our car rides. And I certainly remember Juice Newton’s version of “Queen of Hearts” as a song that got quite a bit of airplay. Enough so that, years later, when combing through the vinyl archives of my college radio station, I did [...]
