Color Green :: S/T EP

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In anticipation of their forthcoming full-length, slide into Color Green's self-titled ep from last year; a laid back twenty minute ride harnessing the spirit of peak-era 70s coast and canyon. Bootcut tall tales dripping with pedal steel, lilting harmonies and an aching sense of wonder. Something they use to call 'cosmic American music . . .

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Nanci Griffith :: Last Of The True Believers

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Nanci Griffith walked a very fine line that can be difficult as an artist. Her songs contained politics just in the very nature of being about humans and humanity. But while it was obvious that some of her songs were about her own experiences, so many others were about the people out there that she met, knew or otherwise saw. And that widescreen view of what life is about is a huge part of what made her music endearing and relatable across generations. Sometimes empathy can be some of the most radical politics of all . . .

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Whitney K :: Cowboy City Rockers

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Following the gentle cacophony of low-key album opener, "Good Morning", Whitney K's Two Years formally announces itself with a Velvets chug on "Trans-Canada Oil Boom Blues" -- but hold on, hoss, it's a few tracks deeper in that we find the heart of the album, "Cowboy City Rockers . . .

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James Matthew VII :: Stoned When I Pray

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Drawn from studio sessions recorded across North America with a variety of collaborators, the haphazard devotion of James Matthew VII’s overlooked 2019 full-length Stoned When I Pray is on full display throughout the title track’s five glorious minutes.

File next to Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn’s recent batch of pitch-perfect cosmic country platters (which Matthew VII has contributed to)—exquisite and ecstatic . . .

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Workin’ Man’s Band :: Dead Ahead

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Dead waters run deep. Ripping out the gate, “Dead Ahead” sets a breakneck pace complete with blazing pedal steel and extremely necessary cowbell. Regarding the lyrical content, there’s plenty of smoking and drinking and unsuccessfully getting home. The endless highway, indeed . . .

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Captain Beefheart :: Observatory Crest

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If there is indeed a season for every song, Beefheart's "Observatory Crest" is unequivocally late summer. Particularly late summer in Los Angeles. A bright spot via the Captain's oft-maligned lp, Bluejeans & Moonbeams, "Crest" hangs in a liminal space somewhere between revisiting a journal entry and bittersweet nostalgia . . .

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Vintage Music Experience :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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The algorithm often lets us down, but sometimes it truly works, like in the case of Vintage Music Experience, a wondrous YouTube channel dedicated to sharing rare free jazz. Sergei Minakov joins us from Russia to discuss his love of music . . .

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Beachwood Sparks :: Sandbox Sessions

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As the eponymous Beachwood Sparks debut celebrates 20 years, some fascinating rarities have surfaced including this particularly intriguing nugget: a recently unearthed tape consisting of unreleased studio tracks (recorded prior to the first album . . .

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

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Country feedback. 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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Sam Evian :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Sam Evian on building the early '70s inspired Time to Melt, which aspires to address the strife of the present and also sound good while making dinner . . .

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Madrigal :: S/T (1971)

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Madrigal’s self-titled album, reissued via Subliminal Sounds in 2017. A slice of early 70s lo-fi, basement DIY, experimenting with oscillating drones, drum machines, vox, electric guitar and bass. Or: haunted, subterranean folk music as heard through a slab of dilapidated drywall . . .

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Nathan Salsburg :: Transmissions

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This week on Transmissions, Alan Lomax Archive curator and guitarist Nathan Salsburg joins us from his place in rural Kentucky to discuss his new album of Hebrew devotional music, Psalms, conceptions of the divine, life as a new parent, and much more . . .

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Always Crashing In The Same Car (A Mixtape)

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Matthew Specktor's Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, & Los Angeles, California blends "autobiographical vignettes and incisive cultural deep dives." Today, the author joins us with a companion mixtape of songs that helped inspire the book . . .

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Brian Eno & The Winkies :: A Year With A Collapsed Lung (BBC Sessions + Live 1974)

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For a minute there after leaving Roxy Music, Brian Eno was poised to become one of the era’s most glam-tastic superstars. He's captured here venturing to outer regions with the Winkies . . .

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Help Yourself :: Old Man

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Culled from their 1971 s/t album, "Old Man" remains a top contender for best fake CSNY. No shade, it's great. With multi-part harmonies, interweaving guitar tangle, and a straight-up, preemptive sixth sense nod to Neil's own "Old Man" from a year later, its near seven minute runtime is completely satisfying . . .

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