The Lagniappe Sessions :: Elijah Wolf

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Elijah Wolf kicks off the Lagniappe Sessions for 2022. Recorded alone in his Brooklyn apartment at the end of last year, before digitally landing in Los Angeles, London and upstate New York for additional accompaniment, the four covers find the folk artist tapping into 70s stalwarts and contemporaries, alike . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club: Chapter 12

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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. Featuring the occult roots of rock, John Sinclair's prison writings, Bowie comics, Anna Kavan's dystopian road novel, and the nature writing of J.A. Baker . . .

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William Parker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Music flows out of bassist, composer and bandleader William Parker like a river. There are few musical formations that the artist has not tried. From solo, to duo, to trio, to small ensembles, to large ensembles, Parker is constantly moving, evolving and changing, following the flow of the music. While Parker, who turns 70 on January 10, 2022, has recorded and performed with some legendary musicians (e.g. Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Peter Brötzmann) his own voluminous discography, and his manifold compositions, will be his lasting legacy . . .

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The Soundcarriers :: Wilds

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A welcome return to ring in the new year, Nottingham, England quartet The Soundcarriers have emerged from an eight year hiatus following their 2014 long player, Entropicalia. Multi-instrumentalist Paul Isherwood describes Wilds as summing up a number of the band’s eclectic influences, a body of work which can be channeled back to an early infatuation with the soundtrack to John Barry's Midnight Cowboy (a central signifier of the group’s highly cinematic feel . . .

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Do You Fall? …And The Evolution Of WEEED

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Portland, Oregon's WEEED started off the last decade playing deep fried metal and freaky psychedelic boogies, but have grown, deviated, and ventured into zones beyond. Here, a look at the band's discography, which encompasses everything from metal to psychedelia, jazz, kosmiche, jazz, and folk rock . . .

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Picastro :: I’ve never met a stranger

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Toronto’s Picastro first emerged in the mid 1990s as the slowcore indie-rock outlet of songwriter Liz Hysen. In the intervening decades, she has welcomed a rotating cast of collaborators, released a pair of albums with Polyvinyl, and maintained a cult following through a steady drip of downcast songs with shivering orchestral flourishes. On her latest covers EP, I’ve never met a stranger, Hysen is accompanied by a gang of local luminaries that includes members of Mas Aya, Marker Starling, and Badge Époque Ensemble . . .

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

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Dub/roots reggae especial. 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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New Transfigurations: Recent / Recommended 21st Century Guitar Music

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A handy roundup of some recent and recommended releases from the guitar underground, ranging from classic Takoma School fingerpicking to otherworldly ambient excursions . . .

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Videodrome :: Lions Love (1969) and Agnes Varda’s Los Angeles Happening

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Welcome to Videodrome. A recurring column plumbing the depths of vintage and contemporary cinema – from cult, exploitation, trash and grindhouse to sci-fi, horror, noir, documentary and beyond . . .

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Jennifer Castle :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Late last month, on the Winter Solstice, Jennifer Castle re-released a live recording from the Music Gallery in Toronto from 2006, the first recorded output of her now treasured career, and a document harkening back to the early days of when she recorded under the name Castlemusic and played with a wild and rambling sense of discovery and abandon, allowing the spirit of her own poetry to lead her fingers on guitar.

We recently caught up with Castle to discuss the re-release, her musical origins, the omnipresence of the personified world in her music, her connection between singing . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Castle Dogs | A Mixtape

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Castle Dogs is a sixty minute slow boil of post-punk and new/no-wave, mixed live from Uncle Tio's collection and dubbed to tape exclusively for Aquarium Drunkard. Each tape features exclusive artwork and an instant photo of the tracklist. Play at full volume.

We are giving away six copies of the cassette via the AD instagram...head over there to land one. Actual dogs not included . . .

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Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto :: After After

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A hypnotic and heady serving of instrumental psych-funk, "After After" burns slow and low. We happened upon this nasty eight minute piece of work over the break and immediately placed the groove on repeat for the next hour. That said, ad infinitum could be the move as well. Try it . . .

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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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The Aquarium Drunkard Radio Holiday Nog Spectacular

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Go ahead and dip heavily into that Charles Mingus eggnog. It’s the holidays, you’ll need it. Tonight, suit up, it’s Aquarium Drunkard’s annual seasonal spectacular.

Wednesday night, 7pm California time and on-demand. Via the satellites . . .

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The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album

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Imagine songs like “Merry Christmas, Baby” or “Christmas Day,” but with new titles and lyrics removed from Christmas, delivered on a record that didn’t bear a kitschy cover of the band putting ornaments on a tree. If this was the case, would the Christmas Album get the respect it deserves . . .

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