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Jan & Dean :: Save for a Rainy Day
Far removed from Jan & Dean's halcyon early days as surf-rock "California sound" architects, Save for a Rainy Day was a valiant attempt at a concept album…
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Transmissions :: Dust-to-Digital
Since 1999, Atlanta label Dust-to-Digital has created lavish boxsets, books, and collections of gospel, folk, blues, field recordings, and other sounds…
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Nick Hakim :: I Can See
A patient, deeply atmospheric work developed over more than five years, Nick Hakim's I Can See finds the in-demand producer and songwriter distilling his…
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Wild Havana :: Wild Havana (1977)
In 1977, a Dutch multi-instrumentalist named Johan Smit tried to synthesize his adventures in 1970s music. Drawing on kraut, prog, jazz-funk and the ethnic…
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Wau Wau Collectif :: Teranga
Originating in 2018 when Swedish music archaeologist Karl Jonas Winqvist brought together a group of local musicians, producers, and poets in the Senegalese…
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The Durutti Column :: Renascent
In Ocean of Sound, David Toop describes ambient music as being more about a smell than a sound. Renascent, the first The Durutti Column record in over fifteen…
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland :: Light of the Heavens
Recorded shortly after his 1986 cult classic, Keyboard Fantasies, “Light of the Heavens” is a nearly lost relic by Beverly Glenn-Copeland. Existing in the same…
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Twisted Teens :: Florida Water Blues
The punk rock, blues-garage band known as Twisted Teens is moving at warp speed through music history straight on through to the future. This latest, Florida…
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Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family :: Na Teef Know De Road of Teef
Long obscured by Afrobeat lore and rescued from obscurity by Daptone Records in 2009, Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family's Na Teef Know De Road of Teef rides…
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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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Transmissions :: Awake, My Soul
Describing the sound of Sacred Harp singing can be difficult. Arcane, otherworldly, and overwhelming, it’s a unique a cappella form of shape note Christian…
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Dog Days of Aquarium Drunkard III
No season inspires ritual listening quite like late summer. As the days flatten into heat haze and evenings linger just a little longer, familiar records…
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Twenty Years Inside The Eraser
Listening with the hindsight of twenty years, The Eraser has lost none of its curved-glass cut and glimmer. Yorke was still riding high on a generational…
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Diversions :: Spiral Galaxy’s “Cosmic” Influences
The world of Spiral Galaxy extends far beyond music. To mark the release of II, Plastic Crimewave and Sara Gossett look to visionary illustrators, forgotten…
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Big Black :: Two Moonlins And Mother
Before Pharoah Sanders, before Blazing Saddles, before Muhammad Ali's training camp, there was "Two Moonlins And Mother." Big Black's compact boogaloo gem…
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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. Slow dissolve. Kosmische…
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Vin Gordon with Lee Perry and The Upsetters :: Musical Bones
Recorded at the height of the Black Ark with Lee "Scratch" Perry at the controls and The Upsetters firing on all cylinders, Musical Bones gave legendary…
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Charlie Hunter Quartet :: Natty Dread
The Charlie Hunter Quartet's track-by-track cover of Bob Marley's 1974 classic Natty Dread probably shouldn't work, but somehow the sublimely talented soul…
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Transmissions :: Erin Osmon
This week on the show, we welcome Nashville-based music journalist, critic and author Erin Osmon, to discuss her tremendous book, Won't Back Down: Heartland…
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The Visitors :: My Good Friends
Issued in 1977, My Good Friends captures a moment when eastern Nigeria's musicians folded highlife, funk, soul, and psychedelia into something restless and…
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The Box Set: An Appreciation, Vol. 3
The initial standard for a compact disc was 74 minutes. Legend has it the length was decided upon in order to fit all of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony onto a…
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Echo Upstairs :: Estranhos Lugares Para os Olhos
For years, Brazilian shoegaze has felt like a borrowed climate. Estranhos Lugares Para os Olhos suggests otherwise, recasting the genre's familiar wall of…
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Choose Life: The Trainspotting Soundtrack at 30
Thirty years on, the Trainspotting soundtrack remains one of the defining musical documents of the 1990s. Equal parts mixtape, time capsule, and gateway drug…
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The Babe Rainbow :: Acid and Honey
Hovering and almost ethereally weightless, Acid and Honey delivers the kind of saltwater-soaked psychedelia as only crafted by Byron Bay's The Babe Rainbow…
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Ryuichi Sakamoto :: Beauty
Guided by an adherence to a philosophy of "outernationalism", Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's overlooked 1989 record Beauty concluded a pivotal decade of…
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No Endtroducing: DJ Shadow’s Debut at 30
Filled with percussion pillaged from obscure funk cuts and interjections from early emcees like T La Rock and Kurtis Blow, Endtroducing rummages through the…
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The Afterlives of Dub, 1995-2025 (A Mixtape)
Once again, it's dubwise summer. This is the season for tight rhythms, faded melodies and infinite echo. But rather than serve up another collection of classic…
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Transmissions :: Mouse on Mars on Lee “Scratch” Perry
This week on Transmissions we're joined by Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, Mouse on Mars, calling in from Germany to discuss creating Spatial, No Problem with…
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DIY Festivals, Coast to Coast :: Ghost Canyon, Fly Around Fest & Open Melody
Beyond the festival-industrial complex, a different ecosystem is quietly thriving. We check in with the organizers behind three fiercely independent…
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Michael Brook :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Ambient guitar pioneer Michael Brook joins us to discuss his 1992 classic Cobalt Blue, which has recently been re-issued by label 4AD with new art and a…
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Horse Lords :: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
Horse Lords return with what may well be their strangest and prettiest album yet. Here the Baltimore-Berlin quartet adds Protestant hymn-singing, swamp boogie…
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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. Trees. Gardens. Fireplaces…
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Aaron MF Olson :: Songs Album II
Starkly naming a record Songs Album II is only an appropriate detour for a musician and composer like Aaron MF Olson. Sharing a sensibility with fellow "song"…
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Transmissions :: Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Hornsby is on the mic—and at the piano—for this special episode of the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast, joining us to discuss his latest album…
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Alden Hellmuth :: Tether
The second album from Alden Hellmuth doesn't deal in aura, vibe or chill. Instead, the evocatively named NYC alto saxophonist brings in a remorseless funk…
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You Make The Choice :: On 30 years of Dusk at Cubist Castle
What remains of the worlds that made records like this possible? On the 30th anniversary of Dusk at Cubist Castle, we gathered voices from the Aquarium…
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Jacob Ungerleider :: Congratulations
Jacob Ungerleider's solo debut, Congratulations, finds unexpected lift in melancholy. Richly arranged yet remarkably unforced, these finely crafted pop songs…
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Panda Bear & Sonic Boom :: A ? of WHEN
Following the timeless Reset, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom return with A ? of WHEN, another playful act of musical curiosity. Steel drums, pedal steel, and harp…
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Joe Gibbs & The Professionals :: African Dub All-Mighty: Chapter 3
Released in the year of clashing sevens (1977), African Dub All-Mighty: Chapter Three captures Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson—The Mighty Two—in their finest…
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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35)
Coffee cooling beside the speakers. Broadcasting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time…
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Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Eight
Long nights. Windows open. The Tour de France on mute. World Cup madness. Summer crate. Records that only make sense once the mercury climbs above eighty. It's…
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The Tomeka Reid Quartet :: Dance! Skip! Hop!
The Tomeka Reid Quartet has been together for twelve years. And it shows. Released earlier this year via the Richmond, Virginia based Out Of Your Head Records…
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Transmissions :: Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye’s creative output is kaleidoscopic: he’s a founding member of the Patti Smith Group, bringing his slashing guitar style to classic records like…