Aquarium Drunkard

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

Satisfied '75 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:00:40 +0000

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 232: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Trailer Trash Tracys – Candy Girl ++ Frankie Rose – Know Me ++ Crystal Stilts – Shake The Shackles ++ White [...]

Videodrome: Cherry Wainer & Don Storer—Peter Gunn

Satisfied '75 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:54:09 +0000

Just like last time, today’s Videodrome is a clip from a German TV show. Specifically, the show Beat! Beat! Beat! No, not the Beat Club… but the show did have a Shindig/Bandstand style “variety” format where mostly U.K. and American rock bands would play a few songs to smiling, bopping teenagers. I caught this video [...]

AD Presents :: Rebirth Brass Band @ The Echoplex – 2/12

Satisfied '75 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:48:57 +0000

It’s Mardi Gras season. Saturday night Aquarium Drunkard Presents Rebirth Brass Band at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to AD readers via email (you can also purchase tickets here). To enter for a pair, leave a comment below with your name and favorite artist to come out of [...]

Father John Misty :: The AD Interview

Satisfied '75 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:20:40 +0000

Josh Tillman has been writing, recording and releasing albums for a decade now. Like Captain Beefheart and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy before him, it was announced last month that future Tillman output would be released under the guise of Father John Misty. A new beginning? Indeed. If past Tillman releases mined the intricacies of greys and [...]

Mary Weiss & Reigning Sound :: Don’t Come Back

Satisfied '75 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:03:00 +0000

A bunch of us drove from L.A. to Long Beach last month for night two of Reigning Sound‘s two night run at Alex’s Bar. To say it was exactly the kind of sonic punch in gut we were looking for would be an understatement. I’ve since been revisiting Dangerous Game – the Reigning Sound-backed Mary [...]

Beach Boys :: Unknown Harmony – 1968, A Capella

Satisfied '75 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:30:40 +0000

Looped a capella track (reportedly) culled from a 1968 studio session known in fan circles as “Unknown Harmony.” I copped this five or so years ago via the fan-made compilation You’re Welcome: A Beach Boys Sequel to SMiLE. From what I gather, the source material is thought to be clipped from the isolated vocal track [...]

Marc Bolan :: BBC Documentary

Satisfied '75 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:42:52 +0000

Born Marc Feld in 1947, this hour long BBC documentary traces Marc Bolan’s life and career from his London mod beginnings to his death in 1977, two weeks shy of his 30th birthday. Have a watch, then go listen to Unicorn.

SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show

Satisfied '75 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:08 +0000

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 231: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Bosques – Heya ++ Screaming Lord Sutch – Flashing Lights ++ The Girls – Chico’s Girl ++ Eddie Beram – Riot [...]

A Place to Bury Strangers :: Onwards to the Wall

Satisfied '75 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:50:16 +0000

What do we expect from our beloved artists who are so deeply rooted with a singular, albeit explosive, sound? At this point in their career A Place to Bury Strangers are unbeatable at creating the most devastating psychedelic rock out there. I mean, who really wants these guys to transition into a lighter version of [...]

Tracking the Cover :: We’ve Got To Get Ourselves Together

Satisfied '75 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:26:34 +0000

Delaney & Bonnie had a lot of friends. So there’s no surprise that an early D&B album cut entered the repertoire of both The Staple Singers and The Flying Burrito Brothers before the duo commercially released their own recording. “Get Ourselves Together” was never anyone’s single, but there was something about this song that transcends [...]

Aquarium Drunkard: SXSW Day Party – March 15th (Artist Lineup)

Satisfied '75 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:30:15 +0000

SXSW party sneak peak over — stay tuned for more details shortly. – AD

The Aping of Bob Dylan :: Mouse / A Public Execution

Satisfied '75 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:32:17 +0000

It was somewhere in New Mexico, while out in the desert on a road trip listening the old Nuggets compilation, that a bunch of us got to listing our favorite Dylan homages/ripoffs. Specifically the track “A Public Execution,” by the sixties garage-rock band Mouse, from Tyler, TX. Of course Stealers Wheel came up – their [...]

Clifton’s Corner :: Volume Nine – Blues Heaven (Pt. 2)

Satisfied '75 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:39:12 +0000

(Volume nine of Clifton’s Corner. Every other week on the blog Clifton Weaver, aka DJ Soft Touch, shares some of his favorite spins, old and new, in the worlds of soul, r&b, funk, psych and beyond. – AD) What’s commonly considered to be “blues” tends to be pretty cliche’d. Unfortunately, the forces of commerce and [...]

Randy Newman :: WPLJ FM – New York City – August, 1971

Satisfied '75 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:18:47 +0000

Twenty-three track radio session Randy Newman cut while in New York City in August of 1971 for WPLJ FM. Stripped down, solo piano. The session serves to both highlight material culled from Newman’s first two albums (1968′s s/t and 1970′s 12 Songs) as well as to showcase tracks from his next full-length, 1972′s Sail Away. [...]