Epitonic saki Session: The Orwells and Father John Misty

Father John Misty (aka J. Tillman, formerly of Fleet Foxes) joined us with Chicago friends (and Creative Control alums) The Orwells on Monday, October 29 at saki for an Epitonic saki Session presented by the folks at Aquarium Drunkard!

Here are some photos from the event. Stay tuned for the full sessions on Epitonic!

 Father John Misty

The Orwells

Be Our Friends :: Your saki-Oriented Weekend Plans!

Creative Control, Santah, Brother George, Burlington, Psychic Twin, Old Style Light, Netherfriends, 1972, Everything Is Terrible!, BIGCOLOUR, 312 Urban Wheat Ale, Father John Misty, The Orwells, Aquarium Drunkard. You have 100,000 ways to show saki how much you love us this weekend. Comedy, new records, live music, costumes, the 70s. And half of these events involve gratis beverages. There is no reason not to be our friend this weekend.

Friday, October 26th :: 8pm at saki | A Very Creative Control Halloween w. Joe McAdam, Soft Candy, Chad Briggs, Rebecca O'Neal, Martin Morrow, Think Tank, Jamie Campbell, Joe Fernandez, Kris Simmons, & Angela Vela. We will also be giving away two pairs of passes to see Kyle Kinane courtesy of Up Comedy Club.

Friday, October 26th :: 9pm at Burlington | Santah You're Still A Lover Release Show II w. Psychic Twin & Brother George. Old Style Light hosted bar 9pm until it runs out. saki is releasing the vinyl version of YSAL next month! Pre-order the vinyl here. 

Saturday, October 27th :: 8pm at saki | 197BOO! Halloween Party: Netherfriends, Everything is Terrible!, BIGCOLOUR (as Can). Beverages provided by 312 Urban Wheat Ale. Attendees will be transported back 40 years to an alternate version of 1972, one seen through the eyes of the record store canon.

Monday, October 29th :: 6pm at saki | Aquarium Drunkard presents: Father John Misty and The Orwells. Free, all-ages in-store.

In-Stores w/ Xiu Xiu, Handsome Family, Orwells, MORE

So many rad in-stores coming up at saki. Want to see a full list? Yes. Remember, all shows are free, all-ages, and feel free to bring a beer or two if you're >21!

Saturday, September 1. Marble Lion w/ Special Guests. Montreal band Marble Lion plays their first state-side show with us! 5pm.

Tuesday, September 4. Epitonic saki Session: Xiu Xiu. 12:30pm.

Thursday, September 13. Epitonic saki Session: The Handsome Family w/ Daniel Knox. Quite a combo of our favorite gothic baritones. Handsome Family plays their favorite murder ballads from the past 4 centuries. 6:30pm.

Saturday, September 22. Terra 5 & Cochise Soulstar. 4pm.

Monday, October 29. Aquarium Drunkard presents: Father John Misty w/ The Orwells. Psyched to see some of our favorite 2012 releases live, in our store, for free! 6pm.


Those are some kick-ass free shows, y'all.

Handsome Family, Daniel Knox, Father John Misty, The Orwells to play saki

Some of our absolute favorite folks will be rolling through saki to play free, all ages shows! We are extremely honored.

The Handsome Family + Daniel Knox

Thursday, September 13 | 6:30pm

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Aquarium Drunkard presents: Father John Misty + The Orwells

Monday, October 29 | 6pm

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Mike McGonigal, YETI, and the Lord's songs

Aquarium Drunkard talks to YETI publisher Mike McGonigal about his magazine, his work with Mississippi and Tompkins Square records, his love for African-American Gospel, and the future.

"Earlier this month we caught up with YETI publisher Mike McGonigal, the man behind one of our favorite compilations of the year — the Tompkins Square release This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982. A continuation of sorts to McGonigal’s initial collaboration with the label, 2009′s Fire In My Bones, the collection is a three-disc aural journey into the various corners of African-American gospel. Among other things, the below touches on YETI‘s beginnings, record hunting, tracking down source material and future reissue plans.

Aquarium Drunkard: How long have you been doing YETI now?

I started YETI around 2000. Now we do two issues a year plus publishing original books by the likes of Luc Sante and Erik Davis. I’d done a ‘zine called Chemical Imbalance from 1984-1993; I started that when I was sixteen years old with money I made mowing lawns in the neighborhood. Within a few years it was getting an international distribution and each issue had a hard vinyl 7” record with unreleased music from the likes of Sonic Youth, Opal, Faust and the Mekons.

AD: How did the project initially get started.

Mike McGonigal: I started to work on YETI in 1999, a year after moving to Seattle to work as a music editor for Amazon. A co-worker helped fund it initially. I spent much of the 1990s as a low-level hack writer, scribbling wherever I could for ten cents a word and also supporting myself as a bookstore clerk, museum guard, bicycle burrito delivery boy and a grant writer for a non-profit arts organization. When I found myself at a “real” job, even though I was often working ten to eleven hours a day at the job, I found I still wanted to do my own fanzine. I really missed that curatorial thing, the satisfaction I got from putting together an entire issue of a magazine myself—just stuff that my friends and I were interested in, no other considerations aside from that.

YETI hasn’t exactly taken off but there’s steady interest, I guess you could say? Initially there were CDs in each issue. With the new YETI, #12, out next week, actually, we’ve returned to that format – each issue will now bt 8” by 8” and have a 7” single with each one (though I might do a full color issue with a DVD inside it as well). This 7” has the last unreleased Fred McDowell tracks from the initial recording session he had with Alan Lomax, and Grouper covering Dead Moon, and a killer cover of a Duane Eddy song done on a boom box in the early ‘90s by Tiki Men. It’s a perfect little record I feel so honored to be able to release it!" 

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Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band Cover Nirvana's "Stay Away"

... and they really work it out.














http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2011/09/26/charles-bradley-the-menahan-street-band-stay-away/

Charles Bradley is playing Metro on February 18th and we've got a guest list spot with +1 to give away. The first person to buy a Charles Bradley release from saki gets it!

Aquarium Drunkard & The Shakes

Here's another reason to love Aquarium Drunkard.

"The Shakes, from the small town of Athens, AL are a slice of the real; an unhinged, and as of yet unsigned, blues-based soul outfit fronted by a woman armed with a whole lotta voice and a Gibson SG." more

Thanks for the heads up. That's some good stuff.

Ladies...please.

Ah... Sparkle Moore. Under-appreciated princess of wild, raucous, obscuro rock n' roll. An acquired taste perhaps, but a fine vintage nonetheless. It wasn't too long ago that I praised the folks at Aquarium Drunkard for their wonderful blend of "then and now." This post from late last month is more evidence to their credit.

Now, Rockabilly was and is, like a lot of music, male dominated, but that doesn't mean that there never were or never will be "kittens" who could hang with the "cats." Wanda Jackson's more hell-cat than kitten and it makes alot of sense that her name came up in the aforementioned AD article. Though, I wonder, just as I did when I got my very own copy of Ace's Good Girls Gone Bad (Weird, Wild, And Wanted), why one particular lady was left out.

Dubbed "the female Elvis", teen-queen Janis Martin could rock, roll, and bop with the best of them. A personal favorite, "Bang Bang" comes to mind. "Two Long Years" is another side, among others that deserves to be highlighted.