i got a bit obsessed with the modern lovers this year & attempted to assemble a complete-as-possible 1970-1974 live chronology. it's far from complete, but found lots of fun stuff, including a setlist for what might be the 1st gig & ads for their shows in bermuda. jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-...

Sun came out in LA! 🌞

It’s a Doom & Gloom 2025 Bootleg Roundup! Get up to speed. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8038186...

The first soundboard tapes of the entire Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour have arrived!

Just in time for your seasonal festivities … a complete collection of R.E.M.’s holiday fanclub singles, spanning from 1988-2011. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8037384...

A well-traveled bootleg, but good to have it added to the Neil Archives.

the complete yo la tengo hanukkah setlists, back to 2005. jessejarnow.com/category/ylt/

Desert noir + freeform drifts from pedal steel guitarist Rick Pedrosa (AKA The Far Sound). Recommended!

Kicking off momentarily — radio free aquarium drunkard — winter solstice 2025 edition www.dublab.com

Tomorrow night on @dublab.bsky.social — a winter solstice edition of Radio Free @aquariumdrunkard.com. Tune in, true believers! www.dublab.com/schedule/1g2...

Just in time for the last-minute shoppers ... new VU boot just dropped.

A Spinal Tap bootleg??? Kind of — This Is The 4.5 Hour Workprint. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8033763...

50 years ago tonight — the only known tape of Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Northern California Bar Tour. She's hot! doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1857495...

West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w... With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.

This time of year always gets me into a minimalist solo piano mood ... a few faves (thread):

It's LUNA live in LA at the tail-end of last year — fusion-y funk (!), “Marquee Moon,” a fun, all-VU encore and much more.

Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 36 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/17/a... Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.

Don't touch my bikini!!

Forty years ago tonight — the Replacements at the Roxy! A Bob Stinson birthday bash ...

NO MORE GREAT AGAIN www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL0D...

Yo La Tengo, “Gimme Some Money” 12/15/25. Bowery Ballroom

Will there be a 1975 Dylan "copyright" collection this year??? I'm ready to hear this. #Jooooeeeeeeey

An hour's worth of SML searching for the magic of the moment in Brooklyn earlier this year.

Hoping/praying for a Kaplan/Martsch “I Heard You Looking” blowout

Thirty years ago — Sonic Youth plays a couple west coast xmas alt-rock radio shows ... listen in! doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/1894729...

I caught Max Walker-Silverman’s new film Rebuilding over the weekend and really enjoyed it — the terrific Jake Xerxes Fussell + James Elkington soundtrack didn't hurt, either. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com

Bob Dylan meets the drum machine circa 1985 (via Mike Campbell’s recent memoir)

A decade ago, Bob Dylan performed a concert for just one person in the audience. It was part of a Swedish social experiment about what it's like to experience group events alone. I talked to that one person about what it's like to see Dylan sing just for you.

John Fahey plays a "Post-Erection Special!" [sic] gig in Berkeley, shortly after Blind Dick Nixon was elected president of the United States in '68. Ad from the Berkeley Barb...

HBD TV m.youtube.com/watch?v=cuSm...

Relive a magical night in the Mile High City — Bitchin Bajas + Prairiewolf, 10/13/25.

If you’re looking for local gifts from Colorado … (my wife’s biz) www.coloradocraftedbox.com

60 years ago tonight, the velvet underground at summit high school in new jersey, opening for the myddle class, both acts' 1st proper shows. rob norris’s classic “i was a velveteen” (from kicks #1) suggests the VU had just been fired by cafe wha?, so maybe an earlier gig? great local coverage, too!

Was playing this record so loud just now that a framed picture fell off the wall.

Marvelously minimalist moves & grooves from Natural Information Society a few months back in Brooklyn.

SNOCK DOC. Check out a homespun short film that gives us a highly personalized snapshot of the late/great Michael Hurley circa 2009.

Live music options in NYC, December 1965

Been listening to Michael Hurley all day today. I recommend it.

And the @aquariumdrunkard.com album of the year goes to … just kidding we don’t do that kind of thing. Our year end list is a massive unranked blob of great music, just as the good lord intended. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

A lot of sweet 2025 tunes from Centripetal Force to enjoy here — including a demonic previously unreleased live collab between Prairiewolf and Luke Schneider! Grab it.

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a... Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

Spiritual, soulful and guaranteed to put a spring in your step — Malombo's Sangoma! doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8023798...

Aquarium Drunkard's Year in Review 2025 is out. For years, @aquariumdrunkard.com put out my favorite year-end music list and this year I had the privilege of contributing to it! Read the whole thing because there's so much 2025 music waiting to be discovered. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

The AD list is up. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

Some year-end lists congratulate you for having liked all the right things this year. The list @aquariumdrunkard.com buries you alive like an avalanche.

I’ve crunched the numbers and the best band is still …

A friend just sent this pic of me and another pal on Halloween, late 1980s. All kids went through a heavy Marx Brothers phase back then, right???

Now playing — this one is absolutely demented.

Coming soon . . .

Bandcamp Friday is coming up this week, and it's a great opportunity to scoop music for yourself ... or others! Thoughtful music gifting is a tradition I've always enjoyed. Odds are I am not alone. This Friday. 20% off w/ the code givethegift It'll also help fund the ist round of 2026 releases!