We catch up with Phil Cook on the eve of the release of his beautiful new instrumental record, All These Years. Through an unwavering smile, he talked about the importance of a fertile cultural landscape, how the label he just started is anything but, and why he decided to release a solo piano album now.
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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)
Outré California. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
34.1090° N, 118.2334° W
The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Pacific rim bivouac. 34.1090° N, 118.2334° W ~ The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio. Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand.
This week, live oaks and weeping willows…
The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard every Wednesday at 7pm PST with encore broadcasts on-demand via the SIRIUS/XM app. SIRIUS 558: Broadcast – Echo’s […]
Arnold Dreyblatt and The Orchestra Of Excited Strings :: Propellers In Love
Earlier this year, the fine folks at Superior Viaduct reissued renegade composer Arnold Dreyblatt’s 1986 LP Propellers In Love, a work of intonated minimalism performed with his Orchestra of Excited Strings. Seeing […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 468: Jana Hunter – […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2016 Year In Review
Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2016.
Videodrome :: In Appreciation of Quest for Fire
(Welcome to Videodrome . A monthly column plumbing the depths of vintage underground cinema – from cult, exploitation, trash and grindhouse to sci-fi, horror, noir and beyond.) Every so often, I […]
Phil Cook :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On Southland Mission , Phil Cook has hit his stride. The record, which found him weeping upon listening back to demos alone in a cabin in Gailax, VA is a testament to the […]
Phil Cook :: Southland Mission
The last time we heard from Phil Cook, he was serving up an EP entitled This Side Up , a collection of four instrumentals gracefully mingling country funk boogie with warm folk […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2014 Year In Review
Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2014.
Hiss Golden Messenger :: Lateness of Dancers
Since the dawn of the Great Recession, M.C. Taylor has emerged as one of America’s most potent songwriters. Formerly of hardcore outfit Ex-Ignota and alt-country band The Court and Spark, […]
Mark Capon of Asheville, NC’s Harvest Records: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Just over ten years ago, in the spring of 2004, two recent college graduates drove to Asheville, NC, to look into opening a record store there. Neither Matt Schnable nor […]
Hiss Golden Messenger :: Saturday’s Song
M.C. Taylor’s Hiss Golden Messenger albums weave a lot of layers into the songwriter’s work — folk, blues, gospel, touches of psychedelia, boogie, and raga — but with “Saturday’s Song,” […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2013 Year In Review
Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2013.