The internet is an increasingly goofy place — formerly great websites gutted, excellent writers/creators put out of work, horrible user experience, enshittification wherever you look. The algorithm...

Aquarium Drunkard presents our annual Year in Review, an unranked sprawl of our favorite music from 2021.

Looking back to look ahead. It’s our Year In Review 2022. As always, our list is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

As always, and unranked and sprawling list of 200 or so of the best listens of 2020, as selected by Aquarium Drunkard.

Well, that was fast. Decade is just about over, and as it draws to a close, its highs look awfully high in the rearview. Presented here, an unranked sprawl of 100 records that stuck with us, managing...

As you probably know, Bob Dylan turns 80 years old today. As such, here's a mix (approximately 80 minutes for Bob's 80 years) of unreleased gems, stretching from 1973 to 2019, including studio...

...a brilliantly raw snapshot, a weirdo masterpiece that trades the celebratory nature of most live albums for uncertainty, experimentation and feral wildness. To celebrate Time Fades Away’s golden...

The musician thinks year-end top-10 lists are too small to capture life’s bigness.

Silent Ways offers an immersive submersion into the depths of "In A Silent Way." Composed by Joe Zawinul and made famous as the title track of Miles Davis' first all-electric LP, it's a song that...

When I call up the reggae legend, Lee “Scratch” Perry, The Upsetter, to talk about his new album Rainford I reach him on a grainy WhatsApp audio connection. He’s in Jamaica and he’s in bed, “looking...

Dig this. Jesse Jarnow on "The Giant's Harp," Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter's mysterious novel set in the expanded "Terrapin Station" universe and how it connects to a lost suite of 1968-1969...

Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth offers a a guide to his favorite gems from the Sonic Youth Archives on Bandcamp.

Can (Irmin Schmidt, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay) live in 1975, pushing wildly toward collective ecstasy.

From the same dusty Case Logic binder that recently brought you Bob Marley & The Wailers @ The Record Plant, here are two shows of curve-flattening funk from 1977.

We may still be a ways away from gathering in a crowded bar to catch a little live music — but in the meantime, enjoy this downright miraculous 17-minute clip of R.L. Burnside in 1974. Filmed in...

A long traded compilation, Shit, Shower & Shave, recorded in 1989, is the sound of the band while on tour with Tom Petty who later, infamously, ripped off Westerberg’s “rebel [...]

This could easily be the best ten minutes of your day—early Funkadelic laying it down hard at Boston’s Sugar Shack in 1972. This show was allegedly the first to feature the newly assimilated Collins...

Rare footage of Karen Dalton live at the Golden Rose Pop Festival in Montreux in 1971. Backed up by a sympathetic band for a four-song set, this 14-minute video reveals just what a tragedy it is that...

In R.E.M.’s earliest days, it fell to Mitch Easter to harness the raw power and jangly energy of the Athens, Georgia quartet.

This is the story of the Trees Community, a group of NYC outsiders who formed a monastic order in the ‘70s, playing avant-garde spiritual folk music.

Well, that was fast. Decade is just about over, and as it draws to a close, its highs look awfully high in the rearview. Presented here, an unranked sprawl of 100 records that stuck with us, managing...

Pavement’s debut long-player hits its 30th anniversary in April. To celebrate its lasting appeal, here’s a version of the album re-created from live tapes cherry picked from over the years, from the...

Tokyo-based songwriter Shintaro Sakamoto joins us to discuss The Feeling of Love, steel guitar, and Allen Ginsberg.