This week on the show, something different: an extra-sized Transmission that’s been locked in the vault for years, a two-hour talk with singer/songwriter Damien Jurado. Jurado’s songs are worlds meant to be lived in, full of strange characters in dream states, caught between the static on flickering TV channels, and with this episode, the penultimate, which is a fancy word for “second to last” of our 10th season, we explore those worlds with the man himself.
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Richard Swift :: 4 Hits & A Miss
“If the freedom doesn’t kill you/Well then man, I think the politics might.” Richard Swift cracks that line in “The Original Thought,” the opening number of 4 Hits & A Miss-The Essential Richard Swift, a 50-minute, 14-song collection that serves as a primer or introduction to the late songsmith. Lovely, charmed, oddball, and often ha ha funny, this playlist presents Swift as a pop wizard/joker/wisecracking oracle, tap dancing the line between sarcastic wit and transcendental wisdom.
Art Time :: Richard Swift Remembered
On the fifth anniversary of Richard Swift’s passing, those who worked closest with him speak to what made his process so magical. Includes remembrances from Jonathan Rado (Foxygen), Damien Jurado, Jessie Baylin, Luke Lalonde (Born Ruffians), Greta Morgan (Springtime Carnivore), Laura Burhenn (Mynabirds), and Kevin Morby.
Going Deep With Damien Jurado
On May 1st, Damien Jurado releases his 15th studio album, What’s New, Tomboy? Ahead of its release, he joins AD in the Dutch city of Nijmegen to share a new song and discuss how songs find him as opposed to the other way around, how he personally connects the Circle Jerks, Little Richard, and Space Ace, and the record he’d most like to see reissued.
The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)
Outré California. It’s Wednesday night. The Aquarium Drunkard Show.
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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2018 Year In Review
Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2018. Let it blurb. – AD
Damien Jurado :: Allocate
At the conclusion of the majestic Maraqopa trilogy, and four consecutive records with Richard Swift behind the boards, Damien Jurado returns to a previous form on his upcoming, self-produced […]
Damien Jurado :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
2016 was a good year for Damien Jurado fans. In addition to Sub Pop Records reissuing two of his sought after early albums, Rehearsals for Departure and Ghost of David , Jurado released the final album […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2016 Year In Review
Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2016.
Damien Jurado :: Qachina (via Visions of Us on the Land)
Damien Jurado’s next full-length, Visions of Us on the Land , hits March 18th via longtime label home Secretly Canadian. It’s Jurado’s 13th album, and marks the artists fourth collaboration with producer Richard Swift. As partnerships […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2014 Year In Review
Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2014.
Damien Jurado :: Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son
For most of his career, Damien Jurado’s records have been low key, sturdy things. There were stylistic outliers, sure — the crashing indie rock of 2002’s I Break Chairs and […]
Aquarium Drunkard :: 2012 Year In Review
Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2012. Go nuts. Cheers — AD Josh Tillman did more than […]