Aquarium Drunkard

1 week ago | aquariumdrunkard.com | Justin Gage

Once championed to eclipse the likes of June Christy and Chris Connor, Beverly Kenney was found dead a few months after the release of Born To Be Blue (1959), wearing only a pink nightgown and surrounded by empty bottles and scattered pills. With this in mind, the album takes on a haunted quality, and Kenney becomes an enigmatic figure whose legacy exists in the twilight of myth and verity.

1 week ago | aquariumdrunkard.com | Justin Gage

Sometimes the evil, streaming giants that monopolize our ear space have a silver lining. Such was the case the other day when I was notified of a new release by Guru Guru. These undersung OGs of Krautrock are, astonishingly, still going: core member Mani Neumeier retains the reduplicated mantle and continues to tour. But this new release is actually vintage: the 1971 Bremen Concert. A live recording . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons.

1 week ago | aquariumdrunkard.com | Justin Gage

Shudder to Think's art rock masterpiece Pony Express Record. With roots in Washington D.C.s legendary post-punk scene the band started out from the onset as a square peg in a round hole. Not unlike Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica there was little to prepare the listener for the band's forward thinking vision of the future . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

2 weeks ago | aquariumdrunkard.com | Justin Gage

With Prodigal Son, fingerstyle rambler Liam Grant continues his investigation into lineage and place with quite possibly the rawest, loudest acoustic guitar recording you’ll hear all year. Casting aside delicate precision, Grant offers up unwieldy and elemental excursions that reach from the well-trod terra firma and wreath themselves into a knotty concentric circle inside the heart of contemporary guitar soli . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons.

2 weeks ago | aquariumdrunkard.com | Justin Gage

The winding path that took Maynard Ferguson from Canadian-musical-child prodigy to Hollywood hired-gun, Birdland mainstay to featured performer under Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic, to Timothy Leary and Ram Dass roommate on the psychedelic Hitchcock estate in Millbrook, NY, to the grounds of a school founded by the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti in Madras, India led to England. And back to the big band sound . . . Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons.