Jimmy Jumpjump and animator Al Jarnow join us to discuss the rollicking new Sloppy Heads album Sometimes Just One Second, The Grateful Dead, Gary Panter, and more.
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Transmissions :: A Conversation With Jesse Jarnow
For this episode of Transmissions, we’re joined by author, WFMU DJ, and historian of all things “heady,” Jesse Jarnow. With society in a state of monumental flux, it felt like the perfect time to ring Jesse up to discuss the radical possibilities of the current moment, science fiction, various dystopian and utopian happenings and jam culture’s ahead of the curve embrace of live streaming tech.
Transmissions Podcast :: Jesse Jarnow’s Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America
Welcome to the sixth episode of AD’s Transmissions podcast , our recurring series of in-depth conversations. In this episode, Jason P. Woodbury sits down with Jesse Jarnow, host of WFMU’s The Frow Show , to discuss his recent […]
Pass The Hatchet :: On Yo La Tengo’s Guitar Sculptures
When Yo La Tengo shifts into “guitar sculpture” mode, you’d be forgiven for thinking the idea is simply to make as much noise as possible. But closer inspection reveals Alexander Calder-like complexity, a commitment to movement and grace. The band’s sculptures aren’t static objects made of hard materials like traditional sculpture, but instead are always shifting and moving. The following is a sampling—though not all—of Yo La Tengo in this zone. They are presented chronologically and unranked. After all, this isn’t Guitar Player magazine.
Bandcamping :: Winter 2025
With the promise of spring still a long way off, we’re finding solace in sound. From ambient excursions to garage rock raveups, check out a few recent/recommended releases that will heat up even the chilliest of winter nights.
David Grisman :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Mandolin legend David Grisman spoke with AD about jazz, mandolin, his long partnership with Jerry Garcia, when Bob Dylan hit him up for lessons, and the new edition of the Garcia/Grisman jazz collection, So What, on vinyl for the first time.
Aquarium Drunkard :: Mailbag, Vol. VI
Long time reader, first time caller? Welcome to Mailbag, our monthly column in which we dig in and respond to your questions. Got a query? Hit us up at aqdmailbag@gmail.com. In this month’s bag: a grip of essential mixtapes, jazz tomes, and overcoming listening burnout.
Skydance :: The Fusion of Jazz & Animation
Faith Hubley’s experimental short film Skydance opens with a simple message: “Reaching for life in the cosmos.” Animated in Hubley’s unmistakable visual style with sound provided by playwright and musician Elizabeth Swados, Skydance blended jazz and animation. A further blurring of the lines between mediums can be experienced with a new book edition of Skydance, published by Anthology Editions. Part abstract art book, part storybook, it’s a remarkable 2D adaptation of Hubley’s one of a kind film.
Philomath: The Aquarium Drunkard Journal | Issue 01, Spring 2022
Presenting Philomath: The Aquarium Drunkard Journal. Issue 01, Spring 2022. Featuring contributors include Tim Presley, William Tyler, Willy Vlautin, Devendra Banhart, Jesse Jarnow, and Jason P. Woodbury. Art by Denis Boudart, printed in collaboration with Cereal Box Studio. Only available at our Patreon.
Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter Nine
Back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard Book Club: Chapter Nine, featuring poetic music writing by Hanif Abdurraqib, Dead insider Steve Parrish, the lyrics of Robyn Hitchcock, John Higgs on William Blake, and the underground comix of Gary Panter.
The Last Next Place: Sanjay Mishra and Jerry Garcia, 1994-1995
(…the latest entry of ‘blanks and postage’—author jesse jarnow’s irregular column for aquarium drunkard highlighting the fringe and beyond.) Sanjay Mishra’s colleague warned him about the corporate spies and that he should […]
Lost Live Grease, Recovering the Hampton Grease Band
The importance of the Hampton Grease Band is almost always reduced to factoids. Mainly that their sole album, 1971’s Music To Eat, was allegedly the second worse-selling double-LP in Columbia Records’ history, after an instructional yoga set.
The Hampton Grease Band deserve better. The Hampton Grease Band were the South’s first freaks, and still their most incredible.
Cosmic Pedal Steel Situations :: Winter 2020
Pioneers like Daniel Lanois and Chas Smith paved the way in the 1980s, but the past several years have seen a very welcome pedal steel ambient scene emerging from the underground. Here are just a handful that have caught our ears from artists like Susan Alcorn, Barry Walker Jr., North Americans, Heather Leigh, and more.
Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter One
Warren Zevon once said “We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.” But even if your towering “too read” can’t guarantee immortality, those pages can make life feel even more worth living. Welcome to the inaugural Aquarium Drunkard Book Club. This installment finds Tyler Wilcox guiding us through a few of his recent reads. Enjoy. More soon.
Blanks & Postage: Kyle Barnett and the Record Cultures of Wild Midwest
Despite a plot that takes place a century ago, nearly every twist of Kyle Barnett’s new scholarly work Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry feels acutely connected to the present. With a big picture historical view, Barnett maps how the unsettled and undefined chaos of American music coalesced into the modern world of record labels and genres with all their racist complexities and romantic myths.