Drinking from Puddles

    Live on Drinking From Puddles for 06/09/10 it's Typhoon !!     It will most likely be the most musicians ever on the program at one time! From their myspace: "The seven core members of Typhoon (17 total contributors sing, play upright b... Read more

Haley Bonar returns to Drinking From Puddles on 05/05/10 !! "I could listen to Haley Bonar sing anything. It helps that her songs are usually well-crafted, and that the production is meticulous, but for me, it's all about the voice. It's light without being weak, airy wi... Read more

Although I already owned Punk Rock records, and had gone to a couple shows in the late 1970's, it was seeing the Urgh! festival concerts in Los Angeles in 1980, and especially the hometown heroes of the fest 'X', that would make Punk music the focus of my life for the fo... Read more

Quasi return to Drinking From Puddles just a day after the release of their fantastic new recording  American Gong !!Now a trio, of some of the most played musicians in the over two decade history the program (both as Quasi, and as members of the bands Heatmiser, Donner Par... Read more

Live on Drinking From Puddles for 12/09/09 it's Eternal Tapestry !! "Eternal Tapestry is not a band that does anything in modesty. On its new vinyl-only LP, The Invisible Landscape, the trio—Nick Bindeman on guitar and vocals, Dewey Mahood on guitar, and Jed Bindeman on dru... Read more

Alela Diane performs Live on Drinking From Puddles 10/21/09 !!   "There's a powerful weariness to 25-year-old Alela Diane's voice as it dips and curls its way through her second album, woozy pedal steel glinting and shimmering all about her, hollow-hooved percussion trailing... Read more

Samantha Crain Performs Live on Drinking From Puddles tonight !!           "I will give in to the dark clouds/I will sing with the fog in my throat," begins Samantha Crain on her debut LP. The line seems half-true. Her voice is gorgeously odd — all fulsome, shape-shifting... Read more

Haley Bonar performs Live on Drinking From Puddles !!   Haley Bonar is twenty-four years old, and already on her fourth album. Her new album, Big Star, is a watershed moment for her—a record like a Cormac McCarthy short story: simple on the intake, but revealing universal tr... Read more

Shoeshine Blue will perform on Drinking From Puddles on 08/12/09 !!   "Shoeshine Blue has really found his voice musically and lyrically as well. That strolling 6/4 time with those scruffy, blues lick vocal melodies. I think more than any other songwriter I’ve seen and met... Read more

Tara Jane O'Neil performs on Drinking From Puddles !!   "TARA JANE O'NEIL : A WAYS AWAY (klp207) may 5 2009 The work of TJO has always innately crossed genres and boundaries- like several genies emerging from a single lamp. Every singer wants to be a painter, every guitarist... Read more