(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
The screen grab you’re looking at above is from the neo-classic 1987 vampire/western film Near Dark. And yes, that is indeed Bill Paxton, in all his pre Big Love glory, portraying Severin—a crazed, [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
I know it’s impossible to keep up with everything posted on Aquarium Drunkard, but I implore you to not miss this installment of Diversions. Why? Because the guys behind the UK’s Wolf People [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
With three weeks left in 2009, we asked Brian King of the Vancouver based, two-piece, Japandroids to run down his ten favorite LPs of the year. Don’t sleep on the duo’s stellar debut, [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
With three weeks left in 2009, we asked the Whigs vocalist/guitarist Parker Gispert to run down his ten favorite LPs of the decade. The Whigs have a new album (their third) due in [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
As I mentioned last month, one of the best new things I caught in Austin during FFF Fest was the Twin Tigers gig Saturday night at the Mohawk. In the span of roughly [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
Earlier this year I asked Roadside Graves‘ John Gleason and Jeremy Benson to wax a bit about one of their favorite songwriters, Roger Miller, as the Graves music is nothing if not story [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
Bear In Heaven just released Beast Rest Forth Mouth their sophomore LP and second release via our friends at the Hometapes label. Before their show at Lit Lounge, last month during CMJ, I [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
Last month Of Montreal multi-instrumentalist Jamey Huggins released his solo debut A Parallax I via OM’s long-time label home, Polyvinyl Records. Recorded under the nom de tune James Husband, the recording spans five [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
The Grateful Dead are misunderstood — I’ve said as much on here multiple times in the past. They also created some  of the finest American rock & roll of the twentieth century. Once [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
For fans, Fruit Bats re-entry this year, both touring and on record, was something to behold (be sure to track down that tour EP they were hawking from earlier in the year). Today’s [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
Beginning last week with Port O’Brein’s entry, a number of the Diversions features leading up to December 31st will focus on artists personal lists of favorite albums of the Decade. Today we catch [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.)
As the decade begins to wrap itself up, today’s Diversions catches up with Port O’Brien’s Van Pierszalowski as he runs down some of his favorite albums of the past ten years. The bay-area [...]