No April fool’s, here. Via Gold Diggers in East Hollywood, Calif. USA, AD presents Steve Gunn in concert.
On Thursday, April 1st, Steve Gunn will premiere his first fully produced streamed concert. Presented by Aquarium Drunkard, this solo set will see Gunn debut new material alongside fan favorites. The set will stream via Noonchorus and kick off at 8 PM local time.
Further adventures from the Elkhorn crew. First, the self-titled new outing from Drew Gardner, the electric half, who’s joined by Ryan Jewell and Andy Cush for a set of laid-back instrumental workouts. Then, Elkhorn’s live gem Southern Star, recorded early in 2020.
Rare footage of Karen Dalton live at the Golden Rose Pop Festival in Montreux in 1971. Backed up by a sympathetic band for a four-song set, this 14-minute video reveals just what a tragedy it is that live K.D. footage is so rare.
On “Implosion-Explosion” Colleen explores the space between the internal and the external, juxtaposing her uncanny voice over a flooding Ace Tone organ and rhythms coaxed from a 1969 Elka Drummer One drum machine—a model favored by Cluster and Harmonia in the ’70s—and dubbing the situation out to beautiful effect.
“En Plein Air” is the latest single from Sven Wunder via Piano Piano Records. It’s the first from his new LP, Natura Morta, which is due for release in June of this year.
Presenting Heaven on Earth, a four-hour (!) Kevin Ayers megamix by David Mittleman of Observations of Deviance, a weekly “all-vinyl, freeform program that harkens back to the early days of underground FM radio.”
Simone Schmidt of Fiver discusses their activism and musical work with groups like One Hundred Dollars, The Highest Order, and Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition, which celebrates and expands on the outlaw country visions of artists like Willie Nelson, Gene Clark, and Johnny Paycheck.
Skylab. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. Get lifted.
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A vinyl-only 13 track survey of blues, gospel and folk traditions recorded throughout the south, Hospitality shines a light on Furry Lewis, Robert Nighthawk, Othar Turner, the Pettis Sisters and host of others. Recorded by George Mitchell, the vibey set spans 1962 through the mid-eighties, and feels like you’re in the next room…if it were a Merigold, Mississippi juke.
This week on Transmissions, Warren Defever of Third Man Records and His Name Is Alive joins us for a loose ramble about decades in the record making business, his lack of adherence to genre, and what it’s felt like to revisit the tapes he made in the ’80s.
Known for their handmade instruments and avant-pop approach, Brooklyn duo Buke & Gase join forces with NYC rhythm ensemble So Percussion for A Record Of, which documents their difficult to classify sounds melded together.
Nashville’s Styrofoam Winos self-titled debut jumps from dusky ballads to easy-going boogies. In his Bandcamp blurb, Simon Joyner compares the Winos to Yo La Tengo, and he’s on the money: it’s a warm and welcoming record.
Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus go way back. They joined us for a long, freewheeling conversation about their traditional music roots and their new collaborative album These 13, an ode to the Mississippi Delta and country blues.
David Nance knows his way around a cover, having previously recorded and released reimagined versions of Lou Reed’s Berlin, the Stones’ Goat’s Head Soup, Doug Sahm And Band, and Beatles For Sale—all of which disappeared faster than you can say NO RETURNS ON THE MERCHANDISE. Now he gives Bonnie Raitt and Mindy McCreedy the treatment. Better get these while they’re hot.
Sonic cartographer Bobby Lee expands the map of his improvisational soundscapes on Origin Myths, his new album and follow-up to last year’s Shakedown in Slabtown. Recorded straight to four track with no subsequent tampering, the album embraces what label Tompkins Square describes as “The Bob Ross school of philosophy … imperfections allowed to stand; knowing that nothing is ever truly finished.”