More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Seven tracks, five countries, twenty-eight minutes. For Terry Callier, RIP. Direct download, below; subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, […]
Month: November 2012
Tamaryn :: Tender New Signs
As year-end lists begin to bubble up among the Internet, Tamaryn will continue to be sidelined as a shoegaze line item, a band that puts its sound and mystery between themselves and the listener. But […]
Esther Phillips :: Alone Again, Naturally (1972) / Use Me
Check the players: Ron Carter on bass, Maceo Parker on Tenor Sax, George Benson and Cornell Dupree on Guitars, and Billy Cobham and Bernard Purdie on drums. Damn. Via Esther Phillips 1972 LP, Alone Again, Naturally . MP3: […]
Max Roach With The J.C. White Singers :: Motherless Child (1971)
I suppose descriptors such as “scarce” and “rare” are pretty subjective in 2012, and for most of us, bar the most hardcore of collector-masochists, that is a good thing. But there was a time, and […]
The Modern Lovers :: Stonehenge Club – Ipswich, MA, 1970/1971
Aside from the essential Precise Modern Lovers, live documents of Jonathan Richman’s first musical forays are few and far between. But this recording surfaced just a few years back, capturing Jonathan Richman, Jerry Harrison, David […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Notes: Yoon Nam, of Jet Lag Radio , in my guest selector this […]
George Cromarty :: Grassroots Guitar
George Cromarty had already experienced a weird brush with fame before he recorded his debut album in 1973. As co-writer of the song “Plastic Jesus,” he and collaborator Ed Rush are probably the only people […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Jet Lag – A Mixtape
Over the past couple of years I’ve been irregularly highlighting some of my favorite voices online (and beyond), inviting them to guest DJ my show on SIRIUS XMU. For those of you sans satellite radio […]
Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 7) — Podcast / Mixtape
The Velvet Underground :: The Boston Tea Party – January, 1969
More often than not, most of what you read concerning the Velvet Underground will inevitably note how woefully underappreciated the group were during its brief lifespan. But the VU were superstars — and not just […]
The Allah-Las :: S/T
The first thing you hear on the Allah-Las’ self-titled debut LP sounds like a distant wave, or maybe a spring reverb amplifier head being jostled about in the studio. Whatever it is, it hardly feels accidental. […]
Jessica Pratt :: S/T
The only thing visible on the cover of Jessica Pratt’s debut album is her face bursting out of an antique blackness in bright contrast. The image is zoomed in so closely it suggests that the world only […]
Calvin Love :: The Aquarium Drunkard Session
This Friday, during the second hour of the Aquarium Drunkard show , we’re airing the session Calvin Love laid down for us at Red Rockets Glare Studios last summer while in Los Angeles. Love’s debut lp, New Radar , dropped last week via Autumn […]
Brian Eno Interviewed On KPFA’s Ode to Gravity, February 1980
Go ahead and clear the next two hours. In 1980, Berkeley radio KPFA’s “Ode to Gravity” host, Charles Amirkhanian, sat down with Brian Eno to discuss the various aspects of his recording career up to […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Today, during the first hour, I aired the latest AD […]