Aquarium Drunkard — It’s been 10 years since Raymond Raposa’s Castanets released Cathedral, a powerful work of skeletal folk and dread. Since then The songwriter has been consistent – releasing a string of Castanets albums, each one stretching out in strange and ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Take a soulful trip from the handclappin’, hopscotchin’ sidewalks of New York with Shirley Ellis, down to New Orleans to do the Te-Ta-Ta with K-Doe and on up to Memphis for some soul stew from Otis and Sam & Dave. Through the unbeknownst particip... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Just over ten years ago, in the spring of 2004, two recent college graduates drove to Asheville, NC, to look into opening a record store there. Neither Matt Schnable nor Mark Capon had ever visited the peaceful Western North Carolina city. Two days i... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Ghana / Nigeria / Jamaica / Senegal & beyond. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. This is transmission fifteen. Direct download, below. The first fourteen transmissions can be found and downl... more info

Stereogum — In our Walkmen cover story, Hamilton Leithauser talked about how Frank Sinatra was a big influence on him in the lead-up to 2012′s Heaven and his recent solo album Black Hours — he even bought the same vintage mic that Sinatra had used to record ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Fade out of the humidity and into this. Looming ominously, the following one hundred and thirty eight minutes are a product of their time: rising sea levels, sweltering temperatures, dense fog and waves of radiation. Governed equally by the spiritual... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — We wrote about this set last month, here, but if you find yourself in Los Angeles this weekend come see/hear it in action. This Sunday, from 6-9pm, AD presents Light In The Attic Records’ latest foray into the bootcut funk and soul that is Country ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Los Angeles: This Thursday night, July 17th, Aquarium Drunkard presents Ryley Walker at the Echo. Advance tickets available for purchase, here. We’re giving away a few pairs to AD readers. To land them, leave a comment with your name and an email a... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Happy birthday, America. Ease back as some of country’s finest gals lay down upbeat barn-stompers, heartbreaking tearjerkers and twangy classics. Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Country Soul Sisters – A Mixtape Tammy Wynette – Tonight My Baby’s C... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — It’s been half a decade since we were treated to an LP from San Francisco’s Skygreen Leopards. Having taken some time earlier this year to collaborate with Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance) as New Bums, longtime collaborators Donovan Quinn a... more info