It’s time for Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard. This month, resident DJ Chad DePasquale opens up with New Happy Gathering, an hour of psychedelic sunshine pop, gauzy summer folk, and experimental outsider blues. Next, Jason Woodbury’s Range and Basin offers private press synth hymns, fried jammers, and future soul. Then, Doom and Gloom from the Tomb with Tyler Wilcox with sunbaked solar summer jazz from the ’60s and ’70s. And to close Aquarium Drunkard animator Mark Neeley presents Patchwork Radiant, an hour of music spanning jazz, symphony pop, mellow heat and more. Airs on dublab, Sunday, June 18, from 4-8 Pacific.
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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: May 21, 2023
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: April 16, 2023
Coming in hot like mercury. Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard. Gentle drifts, upward shifts, and who knows what else in between. This month, resident DJ Chad Depasquale digs up a blend of funk, country, soul, and folk music—let yourself wander with New Happy Gathering. Next, Jason Woodbury’s desert sojourn Range and Basin after the end of the world. Then, Doom and Gloom from the Tomb with Tyler Wilcox. Some old stuff, some new stuff. All golden! And to close, a special mix from James Adams, a special presentation of Pretty Good Stuff: Bob Dylan in Japan. Airs on dublab, Sunday, April 16, from 4-8 Pacific.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: March 2023
Coming through the haze, it’s Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Up first, New Happy Gathering offers an overcast hour of South African jazz, Japanese surf guitar psych, Hungarian pop, and outsider Americana. Then Range and Basin drops in with spoken word sci-fi mysticism, jazz, funk, and live recordings. Then, Doom and Gloom from the Tomb brings a mid-’60s Blue Note extravaganza of moody post-hard-bop. And to close, SUSS brings us a special hour-plus broadcast of influences, icons, and outliers from the Ambient Country scene. Tune in Sunday, March 19 from 4-8 PM Pacific time via dublab.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: February 2023
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard, every third Sunday on dublab. This month, New Happy Gathering bundles a collection of new digs (current and archival) and heartfelt farewells to some recently lost legends. Then, Range and Basin offers a jazzy, soundscapey trip into the Sonoran Desert. To follow, Doom and Gloom sprawls out with an hour of neo-classical, library music, post-post-rock, retro-futurist situations, and recent jazz. To close, Sick Sad Motherslug with Ana Gavrilovska of Maggot Brain Magazine drifts out into cosmic expanses. Tune in Sunday, February 19 from 4—8 PM Pacific on dublab.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: January 2022
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard, every third Sunday on dublab. This month, New Happy Gathering showcases an alternately upbeat and somber hour of jazz & dream pop, Range and Basin leans into long instrumentals and new age, and Doom and Gloom starts the year off right with an Honey Slides mix of dark all-electric Neil Young rarities. To close, Grey on Gray, an all-vinyl hour long slide to close out the last year and open up a new one. Fireside GORP-jazz, new age, and beyond. 1969-2022. Tune in Sunday, January 15 from 4—8 PM Pacific on dublab.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: December 2022
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard, every third Sunday on dublab. Up first on our four-hour broadcast, The New Happy Gathering Holiday Party: An hour of samba, lounge, jazz, funk, soul & abstract music. Then Range and Basin, an hour of mostly instrumental tunes selected by Jason P. Woodbury. A “loner folk” excursion from Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb. To close the show out, Christmas Jambree: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape Selected by Dev Sherlock. Tune in Sunday, December 18 from 4—8 PM Pacific on dublab.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: November 22
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard, every third Sunday on dublab. Up first on our four-hour broadcast, Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, sliding into Jason P. Woodbury’s Range and Basin and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. To close the show out, a special airing of an episode from our weekly podcast: a chat with iconoclast, Jim Jarmusch. Tune in Sunday, November 20 from 4-8 PM PST on dublab.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: October 22
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard, every third Sunday on dublab. Up first on our four-hour broadcast, Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering, with chilly winds of gospel, country, soul & folk. Then, Jason P. Woodbury takes over with Range and Basin, synth folk, Spanish psych, jazz, and piano meditations. Then, Tyler Wilcox pops in Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, with an hour of Robyn Hitchcock deep cuts, demos, rarities, b-sides and live material spanning his entire career. And to close, Autumn Sweater, woodsmoke, buffalo check and the crunch of broken pine needles underfoot. Tune in Sunday, October 16 from 4-8 PM PST on dublab.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard On Dublab :: September 2022
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard, every third Sunday on dublab. Up first on our four-hour broadcast, Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering, drifting between the seasons with folk, country, ambient & rock. Then, Jason P. Woodbury takes over with Range and Basin, with comic book free jazz, avant-western and ecstatic gospels. Then, Tyler Wilcox pops in Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, with a bunch of solo acoustic Takoma School situations—mostly new-ish stuff, but some dips into the past. Then to close, Tom Scharpling of The Best Show presents The Best Drunk Aquarium Show. Tune in Sunday, September 18 from 4-8 PM PST on dublab.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab :: August 2022
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard is floating in through the window every third Sunday on dublab. It’s late summer and we’re swimming in it. Up first on our four-hour broadcast, Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering, with torrid August tides of psychedelic rock, post-punk & DIY pop. Then, Jason P. Woodbury takes over with Range and Basin, dropping synth minimalism alongside sophisti-pop and spiritual epics. Then, Tyler Wilcox pops in Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, offering a selection of sweet new sounds from 2022. To close, Jarrod Annis with Ephemeral Frequencies, a hazy hour of dubbed out zoners. Tune in Sunday, August 21 from 4-8 PM PST on dublab.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: July 2022
Coming in clear and loud: Airing every third Sunday of the month, Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard returns for four hours of freeform tunes on dublab this week, on July 17 from 4-8 PM Pacific, with New Happy Gathering, Range and Basin, a Doom and Gloom from the Tomb Pavement deep dive, and an hour of country funk from Jocelyn Romo of Heaven and Earth Magic.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard On Dublab :: June 2022
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard returns for four hours of freeform melodies and modulations this Sunday, June 19, airing this month from 7-11 PM Pacific, following a series of special Juneteenth broadcasts. Up first is New Happy Gathering with an hour of psychedelic dub, drum machine funk, outsider art-rock, subterranean techno-punk, and more. Then Range and Basin, featuring meditative drifts, far-out synth scapes, desert rock, and psych pop. Then, Doom and Gloom from the Tomb offers a mix of sunset sounds from the first half of 2022.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: May 2022
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard returns on May 15, from 4-8 PM Pacific. Four hours of freeform sounds from the Aquarium Drunkard crew.
Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: April 2022
It’s time once again for Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab on April 17 from 4-8 PM, four hours of freeform sounds from AD selectors. Up first, a springtime stew of dusty country rock, luminous folk, and boogies with New Happy Gathering. Then, trancers and dancers with Range and Basin, early ’70s West Coast zones from Doom and Gloom From The Tomb, and to close, First & Last, a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press.