B-side to Sweet Breeze’s 1972 “Slow Change-Up” 7″, via Willpower Records. Sweet Breeze :: Good Thing
Month: May 2015
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. SIRIUS 390: Jean Michel Bernard […]
Going Greek :: Field Recordings from Epirus, 2014
I don’t know about you, but some of the most moving and mindblowing music I heard last year was Lament For Epirus , a collection of late 1920s recordings by the Greek violinist […]
Barbara Dane :: I’m On My Way
Late last year, you may have caught our coverage of Barbara Dane’s “When I was a Young Girl,” a somber cut off her 1962 album Anthology of American Folk Songs. With its nod to Harry […]
Daniel Bachman :: River
While previous Daniel Bachman records have been great, River feels like the American Primitive guitarist’s first masterpiece. One might’ve expected that for his first LP on the adventurous Three Lobed label, […]
Peru Bravo: Funk, Soul & Psych From Peru’s Radical Decade
Peru Bravo : a new 15 track compilation of funk, soul and psych caught in the grip of Peruvian General Juan Velasco Alvarado ‘s unflinching military dictatorship between 1968-75. An underground aural tale of a culture […]
The Lagniappe Sessions: Jerry David DeCicca
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. On the heels of his debut solo […]
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. SIRIUS 389: Jean Michel Bernard […]
Sun Ra :: Space Is The Place (40th Year Anniversary Edition)
Happy birthday, Sun Ra . Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, the avant-jazz pioneer would be 101 years old today. Keeping with the cosmic, Harte Recordings has released a commemorative 40th Year […]
Joanna Gruesome :: Peanut Butter
You may be forgiven for assuming that the five Welsh musicians who call themselves Joanna Gruesome play a generalized, Rat-Finkish version of anti-indie-snobbery punk rock. A Garbage Pail kid come to life […]
Aquarium Drunkard: Sidecar (Transmission 16) — Podcast/Mixtape
California rain. A totem. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. This is transmission sixteen. Direct download, below. The first fifteen transmissions can be […]
Ultimate Painting :: Green Lanes
It’s been less than a year since Jack Cooper and James Hoare released their self-titled debut as Ultimate Painting . That album’s gentle, slightly tinted melodies seemed to come to the duo […]
Jim O’Rourke :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Chances are Jim O’Rourke’s name is somewhere in your record collection. As a musician and producer, he’s worked with some of the most important artists and bands of the last three decades: […]
Tashi Dorji :: Appa
Describing Tashi Dorji’s music makes it seem pretty esoteric. The Bhutan-by-way-of-North Carolina guitarist creates improvised solo guitar pieces made up of skittering runs, buzzing strings, gamelan-like harmonics and other possibly […]
Jamaican Snapshots :: Winston Cooper (AKA Count Machuki)
Welcome to the fourth installment of Jamaican Snapshots – a recurring column illuminating Jamaican artists whose music largely flew under the radar outside of genre enthusiasts. Winston Cooper a.k.a. Count Machuki : known as […]