Earlier this summer Sara from Hometapes and I drove up into the hills behind L.A.’s Griffith Park at dusk armed with a six pack of tallboys and a CD-R containing the upcoming, self-titled, Megafaun record. Never one to sit still, the band has once again turned yet another stylistic corner incorporating swaths of new sounds [...]

Roy Wood, one of the architects of ELO and The Move, possessed some of the most eclectic tastes and interesting ideas of any pop artist of his time. Boulders, his self-produced 1969 (though released 1973) solo outing combines the hard rock swagger of The Move with Wood’s own classical tastes, pop composition skills, and general [...]

“Bob Lind“—both the name of the gent who landed a folk hit in 1966 with “Elusive Butterfly” and the title of a song by Pulp. While a case can be made for both, Lind’s true triumph is his 1970 LP Since There Were Circles, an album that found him backed by Doug Dillard, Bernie Leadon, [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) Upon first meeting Roadside Graves keys/synths/piano-man Johnny Piatkowski, two things came to mind: 1) damn, this guy can really play, and 2) damn, this guy has a most impressive array of Peter [...]

Alright, so it’s no Dusty In Memphis, but that is not to say Sylvie A Nashville is without its charms—quite the contrary. Not unlike the Dusty In Memphis project, here we find yé-yé chanteuse Sylvie Vartan away from the Saint-Germain and in wilds of Nashville during the mid-60s trying her hand at cutting some country [...]

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 200: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Andenu – Cowboy Zoo Theme ++ Bleached – Think of You ++ Earth Girl Helen Brown – Girls Of My [...]