It's that time again, after some intense listening, whittling, and compiling the RSTB Favorite Albums of 2021 list is here. So much good music this year, it was truly hard to choose. #bestalbumsof2021 bit.ly/3DGfCQa

Great end of year as usual from RSTB. Get on and buy some of these. ravensingstheblues.com/favorite-album… via RavenSingsTheBlues

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Day off listening #2….F.J. McMahon’s ‘Spirit of the Golden Juice’….A pretty beautiful and fascinating album, considered a true ‘lost classic’…It brings to mind Gene Clark, Skip Spence’s ‘Oar’ and maybe surprisingly Lou Reed’s ‘Loaded’ VU period…Great album ❤️

Looking back to look ahead. It’s our Year In Review 2023. As always, our list is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb. Year in Review :: 2023: aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/11/aqu…

Forever one the greatest live performance documents - MC5 @ Wayne State. RIP Wayne Kramer youtu.be/dfDoUIh23Wg?si…

The Flying Burrito Brothers, looking suitably cosmic. 1969.

A drive through downtown L.A. during the 1940s. The 101 before it was the 101. Just after crossing the LA river.

New LP out officially, pick one up, or judge me from afar theredspinksandpurples.bandcamp.com/album/unwishin…

5 is alive! Thanks to all the great musicians & humans who helped us bring this to ya, and to RavenSingsTheBlues for the killer review! Listen:

John Martyn :: Rockpalast 1978 aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/03/10/joh… ... but the real highlight is when Martyn turns on his trusty Echoplex pedal for a thrillingly dubbed out version of “Big Muff,” which effortlessly conjures up the adventurous textures of One World.

Tippi Hedren on the set of The Birds, 1963

Dadawah :: Peace And Love aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/29/dad… That this sublime slice of life-affirming music is considered reggae is incidental in the same way that Alice Coltrane’s Journey In Satchdinanda is considered jazz. . .

Van Morrison , bassist Tom Kielbania, and Janet Planet together, on Green Street in Cambridge, Mass - rehearsing and writing the songs for Astral Weeks album

Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson and James Taylor in the 1973 film: Two Lane Blacktop by Monte Hellman.

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