Aquarium Drunkard

The Graham Bond Organisation :: Early In The Morning

Satisfied '75 — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:47 +0000

This one’s 2am with a matte black finish. The Organizsation’s take on the traditional blues holler done up in the hands of mid-sixties young blues freaks and jazzbos. A tonic by the way of The Graham Bond Organization’s The Sound of 65. MP3: The Graham Bond Organisation :: Early in the Morning

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

Satisfied '75 — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:50:51 +0000

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 293: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ The Buff Medways – Troubled Mind ++ Condo Fucks – Gudbuy T’Jane ++ Richard Swift – Drakula (Hey Man!) ++ The [...]

Glenn Jones / Chuck Johnson / Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 6: Origins Of American Primitive Guitar

Satisfied '75 — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:01:02 +0000

It’s been more than half a century since John Fahey made his first recordings, kicking off what he called the “American Primitive” or Takoma School of acoustic guitar playing — a movement that today appears to be as vibrant and vital as ever. Fahey still casts a long shadow, of course, but the music is [...]

Henry Flynt :: Graduation

Satisfied '75 — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:24:03 +0000

Reading about Henry Flynt can be a little intimidating. The guy is described as an “avant garde minimalist” and “anti-art activist,” and is often mentioned in the same breath as LaMonte Young, Tony Conrad and the Fluxus movement. Flynt himself says: “”I aspire to a beauty which is ecstatic and perpetual, while at the same [...]

Hiss Golden Messenger :: Haw // Golden Gunn :: S/T

Satisfied '75 — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:06:53 +0000

A clutch of North Carolina albums have been on my mind of late. Hiss Golden Messenger’s Haw is the third corner of a triangle that started with the solitary winter blues of 2010’s Bad Debt and more full-flowered folk-rock of Poor Moon in 2011. The three albums cover a similar surface area, a haunted little [...]

Deerhunter :: Monomania

Satisfied '75 — Mon, 13 May 2013 14:30:08 +0000

New York, New York: that’s one hell of a shadow you cast. The classic image of the city — that dark and terrifying Sodom where lawlessness and creativity join in a thrilling dance, the place where anything awful is possible and where people get off on that very possibility — it looms over the psyche of [...]

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

Satisfied '75 — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:45:00 +0000

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 292: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ Apple & The Three Oranges – Curse Upon The World ++ Bill Withers – Better Off Dead ++ The Dirtbombs – [...]

Serge Gainsbourg / Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: French TV, 1983

Satisfied '75 — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:30:17 +0000

weeeeiiiirrrrddd. Hawkins’ “Constipation Blues” with Serge Gainsbourg . Indeed, an inspired pairing.

The Lagniappe Sessions :: Mikal Cronin

Satisfied '75 — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:00:07 +0000

Lagniappe (la·gniappe) noun ˈlan-ˌyap,’ – 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. The Lagniappe Sessions return with Mikal Cronin, whose sophomore solo LP and Merge Records debut, MCII, lands at your favorite record store today. Five months into 2013, I can tell you it’s [...]

Richard Hell :: I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp

Satisfied '75 — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:20:40 +0000

Autobiographies, like most non-fiction, are tricky. Their subject matter require inherent interest — maybe even passion — marginalizing most audiences. The best autobiographies circumvent that demand by having a lot in common with good fiction writing: an engaging and original voice and insight that transcends the surface narrative and turns the specific into the universal. A [...]

Kendra Smith Presents The Guild of Temporal Adventurers

Satisfied '75 — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:01:42 +0000

Kendra Smith wasn’t kidding around when she called her 1994 solo album Five Ways Of Disappearing. Aside from some very low key performances in the late 90s, she’s pretty much vanished from the music scene. Or any other scene you’d care to name. Smith is rarely mentioned these days, which is understandable; aside from her [...]

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)

Satisfied '75 — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:45:50 +0000

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 291: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Whitefield Brothers – Rampage ++ JD & The Evil’s Dynamite – Beer (So Nice, Right On) ++ Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenza [...]

Tom Waits :: Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour (Spoken Word)

Satisfied '75 — Thu, 02 May 2013 17:15:19 +0000

For fellow Tom Waits freaks, the pairing of Waits guesting on Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour is something like manna. The following five tracks find Waits calling in to Dylan’s show, commenting on various subjects, reveling in the everyday bizarre. Fantastic. Listen/stream, HERE.

Sevens :: Caitlin Rose – I Was Cruel

Satisfied '75 — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:00:20 +0000

(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) It’s a hard lesson to realize what terrible things you’re capable of doing. We like to think the best of ourselves, but there are relationships that send us into dark places within ourselves in word and deed. “I Was [...]