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. Download the Aquarium Drunkard session with Melody's Echo Chamber, HERE. The latest Sidecar podcast - Transmission 10 - can be found HERE. SIRIUS 278: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane [...]
Two gigs coming up in NOLA at One Eyed Jacks. The Blues Explosion on the 20th (tickets) and Calexico on the 24th (tickets). The JSBX burned the house down at fest two years back...this should be no different. To land a pair, leave your name, an email (in the email field) and which show you [...]
Harlem River Drive was a short-lived but righteous group of musicians brought together in 1970-71 by Puerto Rican pianist and bandleader Eddie Palmieri. Veritable king of the Latin dance floors, by the end of the 1960s Palmieri was restless, out to top himself, and looking to push beyond the boundaries of the music he had [...]
Astral blues. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Green swamp fuzz from the 1970s. Direct download, below. Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first nine transmissions can be found and downloaded, here. MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 10 Intro (Bob Brown "I'm Bolieve" [...]
Yeah, the party line on the Velvet Underground is that the band was almost completely ignored during the 1960s, their flowers of darkness vibes passed over in favor of flower power. But as it turns out, plenty of people were listening - including this one guitarist you may have heard of, a guy called Jimmy [...]
Wrapping one's head around the music of Wooden Wand, the ongoing project of idiosyncratic singer/songwriter James Jackson Toth takes some effort. With over 100 releases to his name, from spiraling freak-out ragas and avant-garde experimentation to classic Asylum Records-style folk pop – Toth skips through styles like a zealous host swapping out LPs on the [...]
In a lengthy, revealing interview with Pitchfork, Christopher Owens mentioned that he thought the songs he’d written for Girls’ 2011 album Father, Son, Holy Ghost were capable of winning Grammys. If he only meant that those songs were among the best of the year-or even of the era-then he certainly would have been correct. But [...]
“Where did it begin?” asks Lonnie Holley in his liner note. “We had songs with us all the time. Humans had songs even if they weren’t doing anything but moaning, they had MUSIC.” Just Before Music is aptly titled since Holley restrains himself from too much conventional musicality—melody and that sort of thing. There is scarcely [...]
This Friday, during the second hour of the Aquarium Drunkard show, we’re airing the AD session Melody's Echo Chamber laid down for us at Red Rockets Glare Studios last Fall while in Los Angeles. We're debuting it here, first - those of you sans satellite radio, can download/stream the tracks below. And for those of [...]
The Besnard Lakes return with “People of the Sticks”, the band’s first glimpse of brilliant light taken from their forthcoming album, Until in Excess, Imperceptiple UFO, coming April 2 through Jagjaguwar. That’s quite an intriguing title as husband and wife duo Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas have spent the past two albums convincing fans about [...]
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. Turquoise Wisdom takes over the reins during hour one - you can download his set, HERE. . . SIRIUS 277: Jean Michel Bernard – Generique Stephane ++ Lee Hazlewood - [...]
"Folks, help me welcome a young lady that we really think is going to make it big. She’s got the stardust in her eyes. She’s got silver bells in her voice. And you’d think she has electricity in her fingers the way she plays that guitar...” – Johnny Cash, The Johnny Cash Show, June 14, [...]
Imaginational Anthem Volume 5 is the first volume in this long-running series not compiled by Tompkins Square label boss Josh Rosenthal but by young guitarist Sam Moss, and refreshingly offers some curveballs. The most rewarding contributions to this series have consistently been those that venture furthest from contemporary solo guitarist clichés – colonialist ethno-meandering, Takoma [...]
There's a collection of unreleased Townes Van Zandt recordings from 1971-72 coming out in a few weeks. I haven't heard a note of it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and call it one of the best releases of 2013. The years 1968-1973 were Van Zandt's peak period, with classics pouring out [...]
Samuel Yirga is a talented, young jazz pianist from Addis Ababa. His music is indebted to the “Golden Age” of Ethiopian music, that funky mish-mash of Western jazz and East African folk styles that was popular in “swinging” Addis before the 1974 Communist revolution. However his style is even more cosmopolitan, grabbing at all sorts [...]
Originally by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, this poppin’ rendition by The Uniques belongs to the band’s lead singer, Keith “Slim” Smith. His full voice had soul, and his falsetto sounded unhinged, unpredictable, manic—in a word: exciting. Bunny Lee’s production bounces with pep, and The Uniques’ harmonies are unusual, tightly responding to Smith’s lead. During [...]
Despite David Byrne and St. Vincent gracing the decommissioned altar of the Church of St. John the Baptist, despite Win Butler and the Strokes’ Nik Fraiture running a charity basketball game in McGill’s shoebox-sized gym, despite even a homecoming set by Grimes, the most-hyped performance at Pop Montreal this September was the premiere of new work [...]
Turquoise Wisdom here with another installment of my Sad Seasons mixtape series for AD. This time around we're thinking about winter. ps- I have officially joined the future and started a 'lil website to regularly post jams from my record collection, that's here: playitasitlathes.com - and I'm also now here: @turquoisewisdom and soundcloud. Onward! zc/tw Download: [...]
Lagniappe (la·gniappe) noun ˈlan-ˌyap,’ – 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Aquarium Drunkard's Lagniappe Sessions return with Tashaki Miyaki. Here, the ethereal Los Angeles dream-pop three piece lays down a resonating, haunting rendition of The Flamingos "I Only Have Eyes For You", coupled with [...]
A portrait in black and white, indeed. 1988, 1 hour, 59 minutes. Perfect.
An Aquarium Drunkard
Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead (from Tomorrow's Harvest)
Julia Holter - World (Official Video)
Washed Out - Paracosm (Official Album Trailer)
She & Him- I Could've Been Your Girl
Action Bronson - "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" (Official Video)
Daft Punk - Lose Yourself to Dance (Simøne Remix)
Sexy Track // “Devil Or Angel” // Lou Doillon
New Diarrhea Planet – “Separations”
Birthday wishes from Ray Stevens
HAERTS: “All The Days”
