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The Drin :: Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom The Drin, from Cincinnati, sheathes unyielding staccato rhythms in the undulating ooze of dub. Stark drum beats push electro-shocked funk/soul vamps into denatured, machine-like fury, while guitars scream and basses rumble and one Dylan McCartney chants blankly about worms and dooms and poisons.  Today My … Continue reading The Drin :: Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom

Transmissions :: James Yorkston and Nina Persson Welcome back to the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast. This week: Nina Persson of The Cardigans and James Yorkston join host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss The Great White Sea Eagle, their low key and homey collection of folk rock. Transmissions ::James Yorkston and Nina Persson Created in collaboration … Continue reading Transmissions :: James Yorkston and Nina Persson

Sole Inspiration :: Life A ripping slice of late 60’s psychedelic Texas soul, Sole Inspiration’s “Life” is a Saturday night jam for Sunday morning sorrows. Recently dug up by Numero Group, the track bursts out the gate with a righteous organ that bellows across the holy blood cries of front man & songwriter Juan Gonzalez’s existential … Continue reading Sole Inspiration :: Life

C.I.A. Débutante :: “The Punch” / “The Garden” A subterranean entity which has been releasing records since 2016 on labels such as Siltbreeze and Ever/Never, Australian-French duo 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. What I’ve heard of Nathan Roche … Continue reading C.I.A. Débutante :: “The Punch” / “The Garden”

Chico Lessa :: S/T Chico Lessa’s debut record, a post-Tropicalia jazz-funk private press release from 1982, has just been reissued by the Madrid-based label Vampisoul. It retains influences from the popular Brazilian funk of the early 1980s, from the then-somewhat-defunct Clube da Esquina scene (whose conductor Wagner Tiso is a center feature of the record), … Continue reading Chico Lessa :: S/T

Soft Machine :: Live At Jazz Bilzen Dig into this priceless footage of Soft Machine performing an early take of Robert Wyatt’s magnum opus, “Moon in June”. Shirtless and haphazardly composed, the clip is a reminder of Wyatt being a tour-de-force behind the kit prior to his tragic accident (that opened the doors to a remarkable solo career). … Continue reading Soft Machine :: Live At Jazz Bilzen

Television :: Tell A Vision A reluctant farewell to Tom Verlaine, who helped define (and then quickly transcended) the NYC punk scene of the 1970s, inspiring countless groups through the decades. Marquee Moon, Television’s epochal debut LP, changed the rock ‘n’ roll game entirely, wedding dangerously sharp-edged riffs with cosmic solos, Blake-ean reveries with hard-boiled noir. It … Continue reading Television :: Tell A Vision

Journey To Inner Space With The Groundhogs Built on stones laid down by John Lee Hooker, Tony “T.S.” McPhee’s The Groundhogs were labeled “post-blues” by the rock & roll press of the late ’60s and ’70s. The band was farther out than Cream, and they tapped into an end-of-flower-power darkness like a less disdainful The … Continue reading Journey To Inner Space With The Groundhogs

Transmissions :: James McNew (Yo La Tengo, Dump) This week on Transmissions: James McNew of Yo La Tengo and Dump. For decades now, he’s been a prolific source of engaged independent rock music—the kind we like here at Aquarium Drunkard. As past work like I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your … Continue reading Transmissions :: James McNew (Yo La Tengo, Dump)

Thomas Almqvist :: Nyanser Listening to Thomas Almqvist’s Nyanser, a profound and overwhelming sense of déjà vu sets in, an emotional sense of nostalgia and remembrance. After a moment, it dawned on this listener that the album’s closing number, “Sortie” was mimicking the album’s introductory melody—whereas previously heard starkly, on Almqvist’s resonating guitar strings and cherubic … Continue reading Thomas Almqvist :: Nyanser

Eddie Chacon :: Step By Step We last heard from synth-soul maestro Eddie Chacon last fall, when he was rolling around town spreading the spaced-out gospel in the Sissy Chacon-directed clip for “Holy Hell.” He’s back with “Step By Step,” another low-key groover boasting a captivating, duck-forward video directed by Sissy and Brandon Bloom. “Listen … Continue reading Eddie Chacon :: Step By Step

Videodrome :: Lady In A Cage (1964) (Welcome to Videodrome. A recurring column plumbing the depths of vintage and contemporary cinema – from cult, exploitation, trash and grindhouse to sci-fi, horror, noir, documentary and beyond.) Lady In A Cage (1964) belongs to a collection of low-budget, black-and-white films released during the early sixties that sought to … Continue reading Videodrome :: Lady In A Cage (1964)

Bobbie Lovesong :: On The Wind After catching our attention when it first appeared on Bandcamp back in 2021, Bobbie Lovesong’s debut gets a welcome rerelease on vinyl via Woodsist. A work of both solitude and harmony, On The Wind is an “hallucinatory sonic love letter” to Taos, New Mexico, where Lovesong (aka Madelyn Strutz) … Continue reading Bobbie Lovesong :: On The Wind

Transmissions :: Beauty Pill Our 2023 season is officially underway. This week on the show, Chad Clark of Beauty Pill. He and his bandmate Erin Nelson joined AD in March last year, and on January 20th, Ernest Jenning Record Co. releases Blue Period, a double LP compilation featuring music Clark recorded for the legendary punk … Continue reading Transmissions :: Beauty Pill

The Tropicals :: Urubamba Originally released in 1972, The Tropicals’ Urubamba was, until recently, a deeply rare collection of the experimental library sounds of Italian composers Giancarlo Barigozzi aka Ginazzi & Oscar Rocchi aka Chiarosi. An album delighting in all manners of jazz, funk, fusion, easy-listening, and Afro-beat, it saw its first ever reissue last month in celebration of … Continue reading The Tropicals :: Urubamba

No Neck Blues Band :: (More) Letters From The Earth In this current era of hyper-accessibility and media oversaturation that the No Neck Blues Band (NNCK) ever existed at all feels like a waking dream. The group appeared in the early 90s from the shadows of lower Manhattan at a time the underground was retreating … Continue reading No Neck Blues Band :: (More) Letters From The Earth

Colin Wilkie & Shirley Hart :: Wild Goose Against the backdrop of bucolic sixties folk album artwork (see: man standing against pastoral backdrop, close-up portrait, artist walking down a path, maybe there’s a stone wall), Tilman Machalski’s melting psychedelic geese in flight over a triptych of rainbows has every ingredient of ‘please examine this record … Continue reading Colin Wilkie & Shirley Hart :: Wild Goose

Neil Young :: Even More Honey Slides Will the well ever run dry when it comes Neil Young live jams and rarities? God, I hope not. In recent years, Young has begun sporadically posting a selection of complete live gigs on his Archives site, spanning the from the late 1960s to the late 2010s. It’s … Continue reading Neil Young :: Even More Honey Slides

James Waudby :: On The Ballast Miles James Waudby has a very light touch. He plays a fluid, nimble guitar, shading dancing flourishes with subtle melancholy and punctuating blossoming flurries of notes with sudden piercing blues bends. If it all sounds a bit complicated, never fear. He makes it sound as natural as sky and … Continue reading James Waudby :: On The Ballast Miles