Summer, 2004–a hotel room after dark. Joanna Newsom weaves a plastic ribbon between the strings of her harp. She flicks a few chords that, muted as they are, sound like they’re coming from an 8-bit […]
Month: June 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 394: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The […]
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath :: Eclipse At Dawn
“Most of the guys in the band come from England and the rest of them come from South Africa – which is a wonderful place to come from…” Ronnie Scott chortles as way of introduction […]
Houndstooth :: No News From Home
The year is just about half spent, but I feel safe calling Houndstooth’s “Borderlands” the finest bittersweet breakup ballad of 2015. The gentle lilt of Katie Bernstein’s voice as she sings of a “burned out […]
All Roads Lead To Red: A Pedal Steel Mixtape / Tribute
Pedal steel ace Orville “Red” Rhodes (1930-1995) was one of LA’s most in-demand session players during the late 1960s and early 1970s, lending his laid-back licks to hits by James Taylor, Linda Rondstadt, and The Carpenters. But Red […]
Meg Baird :: Don’t Weigh Down The Light
It’s been five long years since Meg Baird’s last solo album, but the singer-songwriter (formerly of the late/great Espers) is back with Don’t Weigh Down the Light , a deeply satisfying effort that feels like an instant psych-folk classic. Baird […]
Rickie Lee Jones :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
With a career that stretches back to her 1979 self-titled debut, Rickie Lee Jones has been creating music that transcends the every day while wholly embracing every ounce of its being. Her emergence from the […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 393: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The […]
Shaft’s Old Man: An Imaginary Soul Jazz Soundtrack – A Mixtape
Consider Shaft’s Old Man: a soul jazz soundtrack to an imaginary black 60s spy film that never was. Our third in a series of ongoing collaborations with Copenhagen based DJ/record collector Peer Schouten. Split into seven sections, use your […]
Alceu Valença :: Molhado de Suor (1974, Reissue)
One of two new Brazilian reissues coming out this summer via Sol Re Sol Records — Alceu Valença’s Molhado de Suor . Originally released on the Brazilian label Som Livre in 1974, the lp has been out of print on vinyl for […]
Candi Staton :: He Called Me Baby
A tale of transfiguration, Candi Staton’s rendering of “He Called Me Baby” was originally penned in 1961 as “She Called Me Baby“, via country and western singer/songwriter Harlan Howard. Not the song’s first r&b interpretation, […]
The Gospel According To Nina Simone
She begins in mid-flow. Sitting down at the piano, effectively taking the reins from her band, the first thing she says into the microphone is ‘So…‘ One simple word, an aside to every single soul […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. The Lagniappe Session with Ought can be downloaded,
Prairie To Pine: A Vintage Saskatchewan Mixtape
Hypnotic valleys and loping forests. Country funk from a Ukrainian wedding band and haunted folk from a group of high school students. Loners and the lovesick. The fried and fuzzed. Welcome to another all-vinyl dispatch […]
RIP Ornette Coleman / Ornette Coleman Sextet – Free Jazz (1of 3)
RIP Ornette Coleman, the sayer of the unsayable, an artist who devoted his life to pursuing pure sound. We’ll never see the likes of him again. Germany, 1978. Ornette Coleman – sax, violin; Ben Nix […]