Robert Stillman :: 10,000 Rivers

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We live in a world birthed from the techno-utopian visions of people like Apple founder Steve Jobs, who's the subject of East Kent composer and The Smile collaborator Robert Stillman's remarkable new album 10,000 Rivers. Synthesizing a web of jazz, smooth '80s sounds and modern classical into a whole that works as a provocation, humanizing investigation, and critique all at once . . .

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Miguel Góes :: Pequenas Lembranças

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Miguel Góes debuts his solo project with one of Brazil's most exciting new cosmic jazz releases, Pequenas Lembranças. In this short but erudite instrumental work, you can hear the post-bop psychedelia of Yusef Lateef and Pharoah Sanders, the pop circuses of Van Dyke Parks and John Cale, the ethnological classical of Bartok and Debussy, as well as figures from the contemporary West Coast scene of atmospheric jazz, alongside Carlos Niño or Fabiano do Nascimento . . .

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Dry Cleaning :: Secret Love

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Produced by Cate Le Bon, Secret Love is the London four-piece’s third and best album to date -- a volatile concoction of hot and cold, rough and smooth. Intellectually rigorous and physically moving, there's a simmering tension in even the coolest temperature lyrics . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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New year, new you. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 20 :: New Year’s Eve (1970s)

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We’re back with a seasonally appropriate Unearthed mix of dusty live tapes, this one made up entirely of recordings made on various New Years Eves throughout the 1970s. As with any good NYE party, it’s equal parts awesome, boozy and occasionally chaotic. Hit play at 10:30pm on December 31 and you can time it just right to hear JJ Cale welcome you to 1976 . . .

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Oregon/Elvin Jones :: Together

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The eclectic instrumental quartet Oregon didn’t have a drummer, and didn’t need one, letting Collin Walcott’s hand percussion punctuate their inventive collective approach to rhythm and timekeeping. But in 1976, they teamed up with one of the most titanic drummers in jazz, Elvin Jones, for an album that could have marked a major departure for each party. Instead, the pairing allowed both to branch out and sample new realms while doing what they did best. Together, recorded in one day, may not be a flat-out masterpiece, but it does capture the unlikely convergence of two disparate . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Radio Holiday Nog Spectacular :: Christmas Eve 2025

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Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

Tonight, suit up, it’s Aquarium Drunkard’s annual seasonal spectacular . . .

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Fripp & Eno :: Evening Star

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The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” in honor of the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975. Fifty years on, you can hear large swaths of the ambient genre echoing through Evening Star: The cosmic calm of Steve Roach’s classic 1988 album Structures From Silence. The neo-classical predilections of Eluvium and Stars of the Lid. The billowing atmosphere of Wolfgang Voigt’s music under the name Gas. The cracked nostalgia of Fennesz’s Endless Summer. Kyle Bobby Dunn’s commitment to drones that . . .

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Dave Palmer Trio – Happy Holidays! :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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On Happy Holidays!, The Dave Palmer Trio brings together their collective world-class musicianship to deliver tasteful jazz interpretations of holiday classics. The result is a record that sounds both spontaneous and timeless, performed and arranged with an emphasis on the trio’s penchant for swing-oriented, composition-driven jazz. We spoke with Palmer about the making of Happy Holidays!, his favorite Christmas albums, jazz artists he’s been digging, and the Philadelphia music scene . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: December 2025

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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. For the winter solstice, Chad kicks things off with a wintry instrumental mix of jazz, neo-classical & chamber folk. Tyler follows it up with an hour of mostly new jams, with various versions of Eno’s “The Big Ship” floating in between. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape)

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The holidays, West Indies style. With the expansion of record distribution from the UK, the US, and Canada during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable surge, mirroring developments in Jamaica. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from the early 60s through the late 70s . . .

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Dollar Diamonds :: Holiday Edition

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Sadly, the sled has sailed for $1 Xmas albums. You can't even grab an Andy Williams or Perry Como album with bells on it for a buck anymore. For all you non-believers, here's this month's Dollar Diamonds that are not Christmas albums, but “sound” like Christmas albums (if you don't think about it too much . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 36

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Via the British Film Institute, the latest edition of author Michael Atkinson's 88 page intricate and layered analysis of David Lynch's Blue Velvet, unpacking the paradoxical nature of both the film and its legacy. Evan Dando's new auto-biography, tracing the musician from his sweater-punk days in Boston to the commercial success of Ray and beyond. The new, 700-page doorstop that is The Complete Johnny Cash, Gary Lachman's unlikely journey from scrappy rock & roller to one of the premier authors concerning esoterica, and more . . .

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Transmissions :: Cochemea

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This week’s conversation with Cochemea Gastelum brings our season to a close. The saxophonist and bandleader joins us to discuss his beautiful LP Ancestros Futuros, out now on Daptone Records. Mining his Indigenous roots, soul jazz, and funk, it's a fantastic album, and it completes a trilogy that began with 2019’s All My Relations, continued with 2021’s Baca Sewa, and now concludes . . .

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