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Dexter + Franz :: Panoramic Highway
While Panoramic Highway draws on a wide array of influences spanning geography and time, it's anchored by the sounds of Marin County’s coastline, where…
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Felt :: Be Still (The Beach Boys)
Toward the tail end of their ten-album run in the eighties, English jangle pop outfit Felt had sights on 1968's understated Beach Boys classic Friends for the…
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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Leah Senior
Australian singer-songwriter Leah Senior turns to two selections from the British folk guitar tradition for this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions…
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Kings of Convenience :: Quiet Is the New Loud
The muted hues, the subdued texture of the light, the encroaching dusk. There’s a sort of unspoken beautiful melancholy to autumn that has nothing to do with…
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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Broadcasting from Le Guess Who? festival, Utrecht, Netherlands — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. West…
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Billy Boyo :: Zim Zim
Soundsystem check. A lost star of early ’80s dancehall, Billy Boyo was just fourteen when he recorded Zim Zim in London in 1983. One of the era’s great young…
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Transmissions :: Derrick Bang on Vince Guaraldi
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions with your host Jason P. Woodbury. We've entered the holidays, aka the official "Vince Guaraldi Season." This…
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La Ola Nocturna: Experimental Songs & Deviant Pop from the Spanish 80’s
La Ola Nocturna is the third installment of Bongo Joe’s highly successful series on experimental pop in post-Franco Spain, and the first to chart the wave…
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The Clientele :: Suburban Light
It can be difficult to verbalize exactly what autumnal records are capable of eliciting. One thing is undeniable: October and November are the months for The…
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Steve Gunn :: Sundowner
A long neglected album dates to the beginning of Steve Gunn’s career, when it seemed that the guitarist might become a Takoma-style picker rather than the…
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Chrome Chasm :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The Houston-based trio known as Chrome Chasm features three veteran improvisers doing what they do best — improvising. Together, guitarist Tom Carter…
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Miles Davis: Europe ‘71
Across the Miles Davis electric era there’s no greater divide than that between 1972’s On the Corner and what came before it. But the signposts are there if…
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Jason Dungan & Johan Carøe :: Routine
Copenhagen-based composers Jason Dungan (Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe join forces on Routine, a quietly transportive collection of ambient folk and new age…
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Panamint :: S/T
Panamint began as a studio experiment between longtime collaborators Anna St. Louis and producer Jarvis Taveniere, who reunited to put Taveniere’s new Los…
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Sam Gendel :: Advanced White Trash
In his classic book Mythologies, French thinker Roland Barthes criticizes plastic because it can be molded into anything—cheap, colorful surfaces open to…
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Ana Palindrome :: A MAN A CURE
Cork trio Ana Palindrome make a hypnotic blend of art-pop, droning vocals, sawing fiddle, and glitchy folktronica on “A MAN A CURE,” their first release for…
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The Aquarium Drunkard Show (The Halloween Edition)
Trick or treat. Broadcasting from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery … The Aquarium Drunkard Show. The Halloween edition, Wednesday night / 7pm California time…
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Boards of Canada :: Hi Scores
Earlier this year, Boards of Canada unexpectedly released their fifth album Inferno, a case of an influential artist demonstrating that their style remains…
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Transmissions :: Shabazz Palaces
Our guest this week on the show, Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces and Digable Planets, is used to swimming in waters where science fiction weirdness and…
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All Hallows’ Aquarium Drunkard III
The music of autumn comes in many shades, but none of them without a little smoke and shadow. The days are growing shorter, the air a little cooler, and it is…
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Willis Alan Ramsey :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
More than 50 years after releasing one of the great cult albums of the early ’70s, Willis Alan Ramsey remains an enigma: a singular songwriter whose…
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Surprise Chef :: Frogs In A Pond
Like the best giallo scores, Surprise Chef's Frogs In A Pond finds beauty in the uneasy marriage of the sinister and the seductive. Its analog warmth and…
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders :: (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
This Halloween when the usual horror soundtrack fare begins to feel a little too familiar, there is Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Released in 1970, Jaromil…
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Videodrome :: Psycho II (1983)
About midway through Psycho II (1983), you realize you’re not watching a horror sequel, but a carefully constructed character study. Psycho II isn’t really…
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A La Altura: Visionary Mexican Music 1977-1999
Experimental music history is still, in large part, a Euro-American project. Rare are the efforts that highlight Latin American pioneers like Beatriz Ferreyra…
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Chris Lyons :: New Love for the Old Flame
After a pair of excellent albums fronting his New Orleans quartet Silver Synthetic, last year's Painters Street saw musician and vocalist Chris Lyons venturing…
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Jimmy Webb :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Jimmy Webb has written some of the great songs in the modern American songbook. After turning 80 in August, he's releasing Yours For The Taking: The Found…
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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)
Broadcasting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. 34.1090° N, 118.2334° W The…
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Ghost Dubs :: Oblique
On his second album as Ghost Dubs, German producer Michae Fiedler pares his beats and grooves further back, reducing his already minimal palette to the stark…
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Transmissions :: Joe Casey of Protomartyr (2026)
This week on Transmissions, we're speaking with return guest Joe Casey of Protomartyr. The band's new album, Hotel Usona is a timely meditation on our empire…
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Fela Kuti & Africa ’70 :: Live in Berlin (Berliner Jazztage, 1978)
No retreat. No surrender. Filmed at the Berliner Jazztage on November 4, 1978, with Tony Allen still at the kit, this 87-minute document captures Fela Kuti and…
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Introducing Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard: Longform Listening. Worldwide. 24/7.
A Continuous Broadcast from Aquarium Drunkard. Hand-curated. No playlists. Nothing to scroll. Nothing random. Everything intentional. Transmitting from the…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Soundtrack, Angelo Badalamenti)
Mid-October approaches, and the owls are not what they seem. The best records belong to a particular hour, season, or state of mind. The soundtrack to David…
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Booker Stardrum :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Jazz grip. Booker Stardrum’s work spans solo recordings, electronic experiments, and collective improvisation. In 2026, he’s released his fourth solo album…
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RFAD :: October 2026
Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler…
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PAINT :: Whip of an Ear
No one is making music quite like PAINT, the project of musician and Allah-Las guitarist Pedrum Siadatian. If a song title can be prophetic, it's "Illusion of…
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Piero Umiliani :: Il Corpo
Piero Umiliani’s Il Corpo is the sound of something beautiful beginning to sour. Released in 1974, the soundtrack finds the Italian composer in familiar…
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Transmissions :: Richard Thompson (2026)
Hippies, Thugs, and Heroes finds guitarist Richard Thompson sounding as savage, lyrical, and eloquent as ever. This week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions…
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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Beefheart & McQuinn
Beefheart & McQuinn’s Midtown Downtime arrived earlier this year as a ten-song distillation of folk-rock’s softer, more unhurried pleasures. Think. close…
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Sunlight/Water :: A Skygreen Leopards Sampler
Fog lifting off San Francisco’s Victorian rooftops, twelve-string guitars catching the morning light, and the ghost of a California that exists somewhere…
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Offworlding: Ambient House, 1992-1997 (A Mixtape)
For a fleeting moment in the early-to-mid 90s, ambient house consummated the perfect synthesis of dance music groove and cosmic expanse. Emerging from the…
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Axis: Sova :: Flowerage
Chicago guitarist Brett Sova slips further from psychedelic overload and closer to new wave song structure in this fifth full-length. This second album with a…
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CAN :: Karussell der Jugend, Soest 1970
No blueprint. Filmed by West German television in November 1970 at the Karussell der Jugend festival in Soest, this 84-minute document captures CAN with Damo…
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The Wicker Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Part folk record, part pagan fever dream, The Wicker Man’s soundtrack is so steeped in sex, fertility, ritual and ancient melody that listening to it feels…
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Hawkwind: Do Not Panic (BBC Documentary)
A proper trip inside the Hawkwind mothership. This 2007 BBC documentary traces the band’s journey from the Ladbroke Grove underground through Space Ritual…
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Emily A. Sprague :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In an album as lyrically economic as the startlingly beautiful Cyano, the latest solo release from Emily A. Sprague—familiar to many as the thoughtful anchor…
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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)
Broadcasting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. Uruguay. United States…
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Teenage Fanclub :: Do Not Dare To Dream
Few bands have aged like Teenage Fanclub. On their thirteenth record, the everlasting Scottish outfit embraces more of a soft focus on acoustics while…
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Transmissions :: Peanut Butter Wolf
This week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, Peanut Butter Wolf of Stones Throw Records. We hooked up for him to spin the yarn about how ST went from a small…
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Antonio Adolfo :: S/T 1972
Antonio Adolfo hated his 1972 solo debut. Intensely. He banned it from his official discography and denounced it whenever it resurfaced online. Yet the…
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Jess Williamson :: A Mile South of Heaven
Jess Williamson's Shooter Jennings-produced sixth solo album, A Mile South of Heaven, is a desert curiosity shop’s worth of inspirations: Williamson pulls…
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The Beach Boys :: Radiant Radish
True story: in the late ’60s, Brian Wilson opened a short-lived health-food store called Radiant Radish in West Hollywood. Untrue story: there was a Beach Boys…
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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Squirrel Flower
The nom-de-tune of Chicago-based songwriter and guitarist Ella O’Connor Williams, Squirrel Flower’s debut Lagniappe Session comes on the heels of her latest…
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The Sagegazers :: A Mixtape
The Sagegazers is an ongoing project devoted to the strange and beautiful world of privately released ambient, electronic, and New Age cassette music of the…
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Andy Boay :: Doomed
Andy Boay returns with an opus crafted with ecstatic care: a journey of reverbed vocals and guitar noodles, a lo-fi love letter, a bedroom SMiLE, and its own…
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Jeremy Cunningham :: Passing Fires
Jeremy Cunningham makes music that seems to be perpetually slipping out of its own frame. On Passing Fires, the Chicago drummer moves from free-jazz and skronk…
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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)
Broadcasting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. Inspired alliances and loose…
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Dur-Dur Band :: Volume 3 (1988) & Volume 4 (1989)
The latest archival installment from the Somalian hotel band shows an unwieldy group streamlining their sound in the studio, dialing up the hooks, battening…
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Transmissions :: Johnny Marr
Certain people play guitar in a way that is immediately recognizable, no matter the context. Our guest this week on Transmissions, Johnny Marr, is one such…
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Future Sounds Of Jazz Vol. 16
Future Sounds of Jazz Vol. 16 is both a forecast and a wormhole. Across two discs, Michael Reinboth and Michael Rütten move through jazz, dub, electronic…