Welcome to the February (just under the wire) installment of Aquarium Drunkard’s recurring Transmissions podcast, a series of interviews and audio esoterica from Aquarium Drunkard. We’ve got an introspective episode for you. First, we sit down […]
Month: February 2018
Azar Lawrence: Plays ‘Bridge Into The New Age’ / Thursday Night
Thursday night, Aquarium Drunkard presents an evening with spiritual jazz giant Azar Lawrence as he performs his 1974 masterwork Bridge Into A New Age in its entirety + Elementals. Pre and post DJ sets by Daniel T , Pheel and Tasty Wavs. […]
Jimi Hendrix & Curtis Knight :: July 17, 1967 / PPX Studio Session
July 17, 1967 – After making the decision to quit (after only seven dates) as the opening act for the Monkees on their U.S. tour, Jimi Hendrix got together with his old bandmate and friend, […]
The Music of Shangri-La Suite (Mondo Boys) Performed Live: Los Angeles, February 26th
Tonight in Los Angeles: Aquarium Drunkard presents the music of Shangri-La Suite. Join us tonight as Mondo Boys perform their original score to the film alongside special guests and collaborators at Gold Diggers in East Hollywood. Evening kicks […]
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 513: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Ty […]
Hollow Hand :: A World Outside
So many records, so little time. Here’s one from 2017 we weren’t hip to until the tail end of the year, Hollow Hand’s “A World Outside”. Recorded in mono straight to a Tascam 4-track in […]
Songs By Pat Ament :: Grapefruit Records Reissue
Despite a notoriously terrible memory, I’m really good at remembering hearing things for the first time, and I have always been able to associate my initial encounters with certain records with times, places, and people. […]
The Damnation of Adam Blessing :: S/T / Second Damnation
Bong-rattling riffs, Cream-y vocals, a ridiculously locked-in rhythm section and killer covers of “Morning Dew” and “Last Train To Clarksville”? The Damnation of Adam Blessing should’ve been bigger than Grand Funk! Things didn’t work out […]
Denny Doherty :: Watcha Gonna Do
Watcha gonna do? – often heard when people appear to be shit out of luck or otherwise down and out. But this time it was the title of Denny Doherty’s first solo album after The […]
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 512: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane ++ Die […]
Ilyas Ahmed :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On his new record Closer to Stranger , Portland guitarist and singer Ilyas Ahmed picks up the threads that run through his numerous solo records and collaborations with Liz Harris of Grouper and Dreamboat (with Matt Carlson […]
Trummors :: Breezin’
Laurel Canyon shuffle and languid harmonica. Trummors new single off last year’s great Headlands lp is now beautifully accompanied by a video, courtesy of the band’s friend Amy Scott — director of the Hal Ashby memoir […]
Electronic System :: Skylab (1974)
Space is the place. Speaking of cinematic in scope , enter “Skylab”, released in 1974 via the Belgium group Electronic System’s lp, Tchip.Tchip (Vol. 3). A fourteen and half minute instrumental glide that renders the rest of the […]
Brigid Mae Power :: The Two Worlds
Music is mood; atmosphere. And the environs must be right. Brigid Mae Power knows this, as she struggles to finish her statement on female oppression, “Don’t Shut Me Up (Politely)” in the bright ambiance of […]
Laura Ballance :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Superchunk’s What a Time To Be Alive kicks off with a charging rush. “There’s a crooked line that runs through every crease in this map,” singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan seethes, singing over a frenzied “Running on Empty” beat […]