Welcome to the April edition of the Aquarium Drunkard podcast, coming in from West of the Rockies. On this program, we explore the late night radio theater of the late Art Bell.
Month: April 2018
Bandcamping :: Spring 2018
As a digital institution it’s hard to beat Bandcamp. It’s ridiculously easy to use, it puts money directly into artists’ (and labels’) pockets and there’s a seemingly endless amount of music to discover there – […]
Warren Sampson :: Traveller
Following up the excellent Planetary Peace reissue from last year , the Love All Day label comes through yet again with another virtually unknown private press ambient masterpiece. Warren Sampson’s
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can now be heard every Wednesday at 7pm PST with an encore broadcast on-demand via the SIRIUS/XM app. SIRIUS 519: Jean Michel Bernard — Générique Stephane […]
Marc Ribot :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On YRU Still Here, the third album from guitarist Marc Ribot, bassist Shahzad Ismaily, and drummer Ches Smith’s Ceramic Dog combo, absurdist rage is made explicitly political, and flamenco is transmuted into scathing punk funk. […]
Daniel Bachman :: Feast of The Green Corn (Tascam Version, 09)
This track was recorded in the kitchen of 1405 Winchester St. in Fredericksburg, Virginia sometime in October or November of 2009, about a year and a half before Daniel would self-release his first LP Apparitions at the Kenmore Plantation under […]
Craig Smith :: Love Is Our Existence (Maitreya Apache Music)
Los Angeles’ Craig Smith, aka Maitreya Kali , is one of the greatest songwriters of the 60s, though his work is known (consciously) to only a small but devoted cult. Craig wrote several big hits for MOR […]
Luther Fujifilm :: Supra
Chew on this lo-fi piece of purple, pastiche Prince cut with some Dwight Sykes vibes. Luther Fujifilm :: Supra
Kid Millions: 5 Unstoppable Jams Featuring Oneida’s Superhuman Drummer
On the eve of the release of Oneida’s masterful Romance last month, word came through that the long-running experimental rock group’s drummer John Colpitts (who plays under the name Kid Millions) had been in a serious car accident. […]
Drinks :: Hippo Lite
Marfa, TX: Earlier this month, in what appeared a makeshift rehearsal space, Bradford Cox (Atlas Sound / Deerhunter), Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, White Fence’s Tim Presley and Cate Le Bon live broadcasted an impromptu, lengthy jam […]
Wye Oak :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, Wye Oak synthesizes the disparate strands that have run through its discography over the last decade into one solid form. Synthesizers hum, electronics whirl, guitars mutate […]
Sly Stone :: The Casio Garage Demos
Society is intrigued with reclusive artists, the ones who achieve some measure of success only to seemingly shun the fame and notoriety that accompany it, quickly disappearing from public view. There’s practically a cottage industry […]
Beverly Copeland :: Good Morning Blues (1970)
With vox akin to Linda Perhacs, Beverly Copeland dropped this one in 1970. Soul deep, Copeland’s vocals are sparsely accented by acoustic guitar and trumpet, riffing on the stirring black hound of depression that woefully does not […]
Alfredo Thiermann and Tres Warren :: Land In The Sky
On Land In The Sky , Alfredo Thiermann (formerly of the Chilean krautrock band Fî¶llakzoid) and Tres Warren (the
Jazz Dispensary Presents: Soul Diesel (Volume II)
Jazz Dispensary returns with another crucial clutch of tracks, this time in the form of Soul Diesel Vol. 2 , an organ-driven set of jammers being released, appropriately enough, on 4/21 for Record Store Day. Like the original Soul Diesel comp, […]