One from the Transmissions vaults: a roundtable conversation with three indie rock lifers: Robyn Hitchcock, Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate). The talk was recorded in August 2018 at Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona.
Month: February 2021
The Pink Noise :: Economy of Love
The Pink Noise’s Mark Sauner has always sounded equal parts totally wired and terminally bored. His latest finds him teaming with members of U.S. Girls and The Submissives.
Psychedelic Sangha :: Sounds from the Bardo Volumes I and II
Music and spoken word swirl in Psychedelic Sangha’s Songs From the Bardo series of sonic meditation mixes, featuring Erik Davis, Prana Crafter, Jessica Angima, Scott Metzger, Tony Leone, Jeff Hill, and far out visuals.
Daniel Norgren :: Live
Live albums don’t usually offer casual listeners a great entry point, but Daniel Norgren’s Live, recorded just before the lockdowns of last year, not only presents his best songs, but also widens the scope of the Swedish blues interpreter’s music sounds like.
The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Outré California. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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Painted Shrines :: Heaven And Holy
Painted Shrines is the new creative partnership of Jeremy Earl (Woods) and Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards). While the project sounds fresh and enlivened, the pair are no strangers to collaboration (most prominently on the 2011 Woods release Sun and Shade). The debut lp, Heaven and Holy, is the product of a one week recording session at Donaldson’s coastal, Northern California studio.
Yasmin Williams :: Transmissions
On Yasmin Williams’ second lp, the newly released Urban Driftwood the Virginia-based guitarist creates expansive acoustic music. Playing guitar, kalimba, percussion, and kora, she pulls from disparate musical strands—including the smooth jazz she heard growing up—into music that feels spiritually connected to New Age music, Windham Hill guitar, and the work of contemporaries (and collaborators) like William Tyler, Marisa Anderson and Daniel Bachman, who calls her “a guitarist for a new century.”
Apifera :: Overstand
With Overstand, Israeli quartet Apifera generate fantastical and otherworldly recordings. Like the dreamy cover suggests, the impossible flirts with the possible in these dreamy fusions of funk, psychedelia, and jazz.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney :: The Hall of Death
Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney return with a fiery new song featuring Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar and announce the long-awaited sequel to 2005’s Superwolf titled, naturally, Superwolves.
Neil Young :: A Few Honey Slides
This hour of Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard features a sampling of that good stuff: live cuts, b-sides, demos, outtakes, rarities and beyond, stretching from 1969 to 2020. There’s even a dance mix thrown in there for all the Cinnamon Girls out there. Fry up a few honey slides and enjoy.
Tommy Guerrero :: Sunshine Radio
Skate legend Tommy Guerrero’s latest trove of instrumental grooves is called Sunshine Radio. Blending global jazz and funk flavors, it feels like a standout in his discography, a swift, reliable 40 minutes of positivity—street music for the soul as much as soul music for the street.
The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
You can download the Pastiche Beach mix, aired during the second hour. via our Patreon.
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The Weather Station :: Transmissions
Tamara Lindeman joins us this week on Transmissions for a conversation about Ignorance, her lush and sweeping new album as The Weather Station. Lindeman is the kind of songwriter who dares to write about big topics, like identity and global climate change, but the new album finds her exploring those concepts over deeply rhythmic jazz and pop-influenced compositions. It’s out Friday, February 5 on Fat Possum Records. Lindeman joined us from her home in Ontario, to discuss the pandemic, the information overload of daily life, and how she’s come to embrace the performative side of artistic practice.
Cactus Lee :: Texas Music Forever
Austin’s Cactus Lee and Cincinnati-based animator Mark Neeley saddle up and ride worn-out cowboy movie archetypes into new territory in the video for “Locked Up In Lockhart,” a single off of Cactus Lee’s recently released Texas Music Forever.
Unearthed, Vol. 14 :: The Boarding House
Consider this one a sequel to the Unearthed series’ two other Bay Area bootleg deep dives — Sausalito Haze and Pacific High. The Boarding House, located at 960 Bush Street in San Francisco, had a good run in the 1970s as one of the city’s premiere nightclubs, presenting a killer mix of music and comedy (such stars as Robin Williams and Steve Martin had early successes here) seven nights a week, in a very intimate setting. For this mix, we’ve gathered together a typically eclectic blend of folk, reggae, jazz, country, punk and rock, all recorded live at the Boarding House.