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 475: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The […]
Month: March 2017
Anna Makirere :: Tiare Avatea
Originally issued on cassette in the Cook Islands in the early 1980s, this totally wonderful reissue via Little Axe Records contains the complete recorded works of teenaged singer Anna Makirere. Come for the gorgeous, solar-powered harmonies, stay for […]
Longing and Looking :: Jessi Colter’s Heavy Praise
Jessi Colter takes a sip of wine. She’s ordered a white, something not too tart. Apologizing, she tips a carafe and adds a liberal splash of water to her glass. She tastes again. It’ll work. […]
Miracle Legion :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
There are a solid three ways you could have come to be a fan of Miracle Legion: directly through the band’s output in the mid-80s through mid-90s; through singer Mark Mulcahy’s solo music; or via […]
Eivind Opsvik :: Overseas V
Oslo-born, New York-based bassist and composer Eivind Opsvik launched his Overseas series all the way back in 2003. An in-demand session player — he’s appeared alongside Anthony Braxton, Mary Halvorson, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, […]
Vic Chesnutt :: Everybody Hurts (R.E.M.)
2017 is shaping up to be a great year for fans of Vic Chesnutt as New West Records is slowly re-releasing, in gorgeous expanded color vinyl editions, most of his albums originally released on the now defunct […]
The Incredible String Band :: Radio Unnameable – NYC, 1968
Imagine dialing around on the radio and stumbling across this utterly fried live session from The Incredible String Band late one night in 1968. Transmitted via Bob Fass’ legendary Radio Unnameable show, this is some seriously psychedelic free-folk, with […]
Jon Spencer: Garage / Proto-Punk Companion – A Mixtape
“You play that Blues Explosion album from last year a lot, so check this out.” That was Rob Green, a guy I clerked with in an Athens, GA record store in 1995. The record CD […]
Julius Eastman :: Femenine
“… wild, grand, delirious, demonic, an uncontainable personality surging into sound ,” wrote Alex Ross in his January essay about Julius Eastman for The New Yorker. Though he died in 1990, Eastman’s work has steadily amassed a following in the years since. In 2016, the […]
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Daniel Bachman / Second Session
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Guitar journeyman Daniel Bachman returns with his second Lagniappe Session. Fresh off […]
There Is No Such Thing As Nowhere :: Marfa Myths 2017
“You have to really want to be here,” Keith Abrahamsson says, overlooking the small West Texas town of Marfa. We’re sitting on the deck of a stone and adobe house just off Highway 90, positioned atop […]
Ryo Fukui :: A Letter From Slowboat
Everyone loves a good origin story. No matter the creative discipline such tales make even the most potent work seem more revelatory. Enter the late Japanese jazz pianist Ryo Fukui . An autodidact, Fukui taught himself piano […]
Helen Oakley Dance: The Dances of Bittersweet Hill
Helen Oakley Dance was a pioneering record collector, jazz writer, producer and promoter. During the 1930s, she promoted the first jazz “concert”, where pop music was first played to listen to rather than as a reason 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. SIRIUS 474: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ The […]
Jason Molina :: North Star Blues Session – Belgium, 2003
Jason Molina (Songs: Ohia / Magnolia Electric Co) died March 16th, 2013. It’s impossible to overstate the depth and virtue of his songs or the way he poetically expressed the human condition. We originally ran […]