January 2013
11 posts
Bonny Billy and The Picket Line -- Funtown...
This slideshow requires JavaScript. The discography of Will Oldham — a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, a.k.a. Bonny Billy, a.k.a. Palace Brothers/Songs/Music — as a singer, songwriter, producer, and collaborator is so largethat it gives me anxious fits.… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Blitzen Trapper -- Furr
This slideshow requires JavaScript. A couple of years ago, I made a list of fifteen albums that I thought I’d be listening to for the rest of my life and posted the list on Facebook. The final slot was filled by Blitzen Trapper’s third album, Furr.… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 15th
Blind Faith -- Blind Faith
This slideshow requires JavaScript. I don’t like Eric Clapton. I didn’t live through the late sixties, when his fast-fretted work with Cream got people tagging “Clapton is God” on the walls of the London Underground, and I wasn’t around in 1970 for View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 14th
The Black Keys -- thickfreakness
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Look at what ten years have done to The Black Keys. The two-man blues of thickfreakness, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney’s second album, sounds like it was scraped off of a rusted flatbed, a product of The White… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 11th
Delia Bell -- Delia Bell
This slideshow requires JavaScript. My record collection used to be much larger. In addition to the albums I was picking up on my own, I used to also haul around every single record that either of my parents had ever bought, too. While Rachelle and… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 10th
The Beatles -- 1967-1970
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Do we have the strength for one more Beatles album in us? No? Well, me neither. But The Beatles 1967-1970is the very last one we’ve got–promise–and we might as well slug our way through it, in the name of… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 9th
The Beatles -- Hey Jude
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Released in 1970 as a stopgap between Abbey Road and Let It Be, Hey Judeis a collection of singles that manages to reach as far back as “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “I Should Have Known Better.” The album’s compiler,… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 8th
The Beatles -- Abbey Road
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Maybe it wasn’t just Beatles fatigue. I’m better rested than I was late last week, when the first few tracks of Abbey Road sent me reaching for The Big Chill’s two soundtracks, and my ears should have been more… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 7th
V/A -- The Big Chill and More Songs from The Big...
This slideshow requires JavaScript. I slid my dollar copy of Abbey Roadout of its sleeve this morning and noticed a half-inch-thick scratch across side one and my very first thought was lined with gratitude. I’ve got Beatles fatigue, and I’m… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 4th
The Beatles -- The Beatles (The White Album)
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Steve Jobs stole the label name and the visual aesthetic, Charles Manson stole “Helter Skelter,” and Sgt. Pepper’s stole the limelight, but the sloppy and overlong The Beatles(b.k.a. The White Album) is the very… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Jan 3rd
December 2012
11 posts
Dec 18th
Much-needed rest
Due to last night’s media event and tonight’s Japandroids show, Twenty-Eight Club will be on a miniature break. Coverage will resume on Monday. View Post shared via WordPress.com
Dec 13th
The Beatles -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club...
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Those are indeed the correct images. My copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, whose artwork remains iconic forty-five years after its release, is covered in an old dust jacket, with the title… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Dec 12th
The Beatles -- Revolver
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Well and this time the market failed Capitol. Having already placed “I’m Only Sleeping” and “And Your Bird Can Sing,” and “Doctor Robert” on Yesterday and Today, the label elected not to include them on Revolv… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Dec 11th
The Beatles -- Rubber Soul
This slideshow requires JavaScript. In the United Kingdom, Rubber Soul’s punning title was made more apparent by album-opener “Drive My Car,” whose warm keys and beep-beep chorus were meant to be a lighthearted rock ‘n’ soul parody. Capitol, the… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Dec 10th
The Beatles -- Beatles '65
This slideshow requires JavaScript. A few minor thoughts on what is justifiably a minor Beatles album. Beatles ’65 was culled together from the downbeat Beatles for Sale(which didn’t see U.S. release until 1987), a few singles, and a smattering… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Dec 7th
The Beatles -- 1962-1966 (The Red Album)
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Several years ago, I interviewed Matthew Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces, and we somehow ended up talking about Brian May’s guitar solo in “We Will Rock You.” He told me to, without replaying the song in my… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Dec 6th
The Beastie Boys -- Licensed to Ill
This slideshow requires JavaScript. So it’s not the strongest debut in the history of music. But it’s not the worst, either, and maybe shouldn’t be left out of the pro-side of the discussion when arguing about The Beastie Boys’ legacy. Sure,… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Dec 5th
The Beach Boys -- Endless Summer
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Why oh why have the Beach Boys’ early records become something that we have to defend? Is it because of our parents, who grew up landlocked in the sixties, and floated on that wave of harmony out to a kind of… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Dec 4th
Dec 3rd
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Liars :: WIXIW →
I wrote up Liars’ killer WIXIW for the ole Aqua Drunk.
Dec 3rd
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November 2012
18 posts
Nov 30th
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The Round Bus →
The fine Canadian gentlemen of The Barnstormer asked me to help them talk about college football this week. Then they started asking about things I don’t know anything about, so I moved the conversation back to LSU football. They still deemed it publishable. Link in the headline.
Nov 30th
Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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Neil Young :: American Stars 'n Bars →
I wrote up Neil’s classic heartbreaker, American Stars ‘n Bars, for the ole Aqua Drunk today. Head on over. (Image of Neil with Rick Danko stolen from When You Awake.)
Nov 29th
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The Band -- The Last Waltz
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Allow me to commit a bit of light heresy: I don’t particularly care for The Last Waltz. Which isn’t to say that I hate it (though it was brutally panned by no less than Levon Helm himself), but that I don’t… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Nov 28th
Chet Atkins -- The Other Side of Chet Atkins
This slideshow requires JavaScript. Well, that’s certainly a relief. Yesterday’s run-through of Chet Atkins’ treacly From Nashville With Lovehad me worried about my ability to appreciate the guitar-playing legend. I worry every now and then that… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Nov 27th
Chet Atkins -- From Nashville With Love
This slideshow requires JavaScript. My records are organized alphabetically by artist, then chronologically by release date. I own two Chet Atkins records–1968’s From Nashville With Love and 1960’s The Other Side of Chet Atkins, both of which… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Nov 26th
Nov 22nd
Asleep at the Wheel -- Comin' Right At Ya
This slideshow requires JavaScript. I know it’s not fair of me to expect what I expect out of Asleep at the Wheel. They’re an extraordinarily good band, they truly are, and both times I’ve seen them live I’ve enjoyed them immensely. Rachelle and… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Nov 21st
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Nov 20th
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Arcade Fire -- The Suburbs
I love the way that Arcade Fire packaged The Suburbs. I love the gatefold design and the foil-stamped back cover. I love the clean design of the dust sleeves, and the contrast between the neatly set,… View Post shared via WordPress.com
Nov 20th
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Nov 16th
Permanent Construction
If you visited yesterday, you might have noticed that the site has changed. I imagine it will continue to do so for a little while. Please bear with me as I figure out what I want this to look like. View Post shared via WordPress.com
Nov 16th
Nov 15th
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Parquet Courts :: Light Up Gold (sic) →
Despite the missing hyphen in that album title (which seriously gives me the fits), this is likely to be one of my favorite records of the year.  (image ganked from Noisey)
Nov 1st
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Minutemen :: Glory of Man/Corona →
Posted some excellent Minutemen live works on AD today.
Nov 1st
October 2012
8 posts
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Ty Segall's Year of the Dragon →
In which I listen to everything Ty Segall’s put out this year (so far) and inexplicably end up comparing him to Cavern Club-era Beatles.
Oct 29th
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Oct 29th
Oct 28th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 12th
Oct 8th
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Matthew E. White/Levek →
In which I profile two of my favorite records of this quickly diminishing year. If you haven’t already, make sure you check out Mr. White’s incredible performance of “Brazos,” from this year’s Hopscotch Fest.
Oct 3rd
September 2012
3 posts
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CATCH-UP →
Whoa, couple of link-posts to do here. First up, I finally got around to reviewing Avec pas d’casque’s Astronomie for Aquarium Drunkard, which review vous pouvez lire ici. And earlier this evening, we posted the excellent francophone bluegrass/Cajun/québécois-folk group Canailles’ “Bien-être.” Be on the lookout soon for a twin post on Matthew E. White and Levek...
Sep 28th
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Sep 11th