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The Minus 5 :: The Gun Album
Resident 5’er (Scott McCaughey) is back with a whole slew of guests on this seventh Minus 5 album . Check it: Kelly Hogan, Peter Buck, Colin Melloy, John Wesley Harding, the Wilco crew, Sean […]
Tweedy & Minus 5 :: Neutral Milk Hotel (cover)
DOWNLOAD:MP3: Jeff Tweedy & Minus 5 – King of Carrott Flowers Pt. 1 —————* a thanks to mike for the mp3
50 Years Of Harry Nilsson’s The Point
It was a tough sell to get greenlit. Following a slew of canceled meetings, Harry Nilsson managed to secure an airplane seat next to an ABC executive to finally pitch his idea for an all-ages animated film. Like a true passion project, Nilsson feverishly sold his concept of an unconventional children’s fable based around fictitious characters with pointed heads (and an archetypal “outsider” protagonist). Fifty years on, it’s hard to imagine the musician’s legacy without it.
Starflyer 59: Hey, Are You Listening?
While Starflyer’s early, reverb-drenched albums, named Silver and Gold for their monochromatic album covers, fit neatly into the shoegaze movement, it didn’t take long for Martin and assorted company to outgrow that mold, blooming into one of the truly essential—if largely unknown—forces in American indie rock. Young In My Head is a vital edition to that catalog.
The Mendoza Line :: Post-War
“We liked bands like the Mekons or Alex Chilton, that kind of vibrated on that strange frequency where you weren’t sure if this was entertaining all of the time, or if the feeling between the band and the audience was more agreeable or adversarial. And that just doesn’t scale commercially …”
Scott McCaughey :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
There is something of the recently deceased Harry Dean Stanton to Scott McCaughey . Just as Stanton was to pictures for decades, McCaughey is that cool, mysterious guy in music that shows […]
Peter Buck :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck isn’t especially geared toward nostalgia. Since the pioneering alternative group disbanded in 2011, Buck has operated at a prolific clip. He’s released a string of vinyl-only solo […]
The Baseball Project: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails
It’s a well-known fact that there has never been a bad song recorded about baseball. Not one. I’m even willing to include John Fogerty’s synth-clapping “Centerfield” (ed. brave) and every last one […]
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Originating in 2005 and based in Los Angeles, Aquarium Drunkard is an eclectic audio journal focused on daily reviews, interviews, features, podcasts and sessions. Digging globally, AD bridges contemporary sounds with psych, […]
Re-united R.E.M. :: Country Feedback 2006
photo credit: spotted This past Saturday night at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, a re-united R.E.M took the stage to perform Country Feedback, after the Minus 5 show, including original drummer […]
Brion Gysin :: Junk
Brion Gysin rubbed elbows with William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. The new version of his 1983 album Junk is something of an archeological expedition: it mixes alternates and an instrumental alongside an acoustic demo and a handful of tracks released in Gysin’s lifetime to create a record that never was. It’s an interesting, if short listen that mixes the ideas flowing out of New York with Gysin’s poetry and French singers.
Simply Saucer :: Cyborgs Revisited
In the summers of 1974 and 1975, one of the great Canadian cult rock ‘n’ roll groups left their mark on musical history. Yet despite how far ahead their electronically enhanced songs may have sounded at the time, the scorching recordings captured on Simply Saucer’s Cyborgs Revisited would not be released until 1989, thanks to the tireless efforts of their champion Bruce “The Mole” Mowat. Formed in the humble hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, these sci-fried proto-punks created a sound fusing Hawkwind, The Kinks, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, and the omnipresent Velvet Underground.
Videodrome :: Sling Blade (1996)
Like its lead character, Sling Blade walks a fine line between mishandling sentimentality and portraying somber reality. But its characters are never caricatures, transcending tropes with an often excruciating amount of empathy and depth, none more so than Billy Bob Thornton as the tortured Karl Childers.
C.I.A. Débutante :: “The Punch” / “The Garden”
A subterranean entity which has been releasing records since 2016, C.I.A. Débutante exist in their own dusted lane where the distinction between no-fi rock and bedroom-synth music blurs into a fun-house-mirrored mirage. On their single “The Punch” b/w “The Garden,” they maintain their uncompromising sonic universe while gesturing toward recognizable rhythms.