The Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show

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Weird times, strange signals. Reverberating from the hills of Glassell Park, California, welcome to episode eleven of the Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show.

Feat: Karen Small | Emy Jackson and the Smashmen | Los Surfs | Heinz | The Guilloteens | The Revels | Les Classels | Kemeko Matsudaira | Royals Monarchs | The Tarantulas | Crazy Elephant | Re Maik | Los Rockin Devils . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Johanna Samuels

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For her Lagniappe Session, Johanna Samuels looks back, calling on nostalgic childhood sounds. There’s Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate”, the Beatles’ “Yes It Is”, and The Only Ones (by way of Yo La Tengo) “The Whole of The Law”. All careful, attuned, and respectful interpretations . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: May 2022

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard returns on May 15, from 4-8 PM Pacific. Four hours of freeform sounds from the Aquarium Drunkard crew . . .

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M. Takara :: Tigre Triste

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Whether ordering glitchy breaks and riffs, or sampling the noise of kitchen utensils and of a cavaquinho (the traditional mini-guitar of samba), M. Takara's Puro Osso produces a certain ambience both reminiscent of Tom Zé and the electronic prayers found in the work of Boards of Canada (or, more recently, in Kara-Lis Coverdale or Ana Roxanne . . .

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First & Last: Japanese Private Press, Vol. 4

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This fourth volume of First And Last features a menagerie of tunes for the early days of summer (with seven of the twelve songs culled from EPs), from psych-pop to breezy bossa nova, wrapping up with a grip of introspective folk . . .

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Haruomi Hosono :: Music For Films 2020-2021

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Slowing down? If you've paid even half attention to the prolific vocation of Haruomi Hosono you know it's not in the cards. Long before Shoplifters made waves at Cannes, composition work had long been a staple of the musician's repertoire . . .

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

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Outré California. 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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Kolumbo :: Imperial Bikers MC

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Sonic chameleon Frank LoCrasto is set to release his next lp, Gung Ho, under the guise of Kolumbo, a nom de tune originally reserved as an outlet for LoCrasto's excursions into the aesthetic worlds of Arthur Lyman, Roger Roger, Esquivel, Martin Denny, and others . . .

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David Michael Moore :: Flatboat River Witch: 1994 – 2015

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At age seventy-one, David Michael Moore is a Genuine American Freak. An artist and woodworker, living in Rosedale, Mississippi, its mighty river flowing half a mile from his home, Moore has been quietly recording a potent, homespun Americana—tinged with eastern tonalities and new-age ambient passages—for the past three decades. A compendium of these unique and eccentric sounds comes to us in the tape Flatboat River Witch: 1994 – 2015, released via the Bloomington-based Ulyssa imprint . . .

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Sarah Martin of Belle and Sebastian :: Transmissions

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Welcome back to Transmissions, today on the show we’re joined by Sarah Martin of Glasgow's Belle and Sebastian. The legendary Scottish indie band has a new album out now on Matador, A Bit Of Previous. Martin joined host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss the new record, the band’s history, that infamous scene in High Fidelity, the Belle and Sebastian cruise and much more . . .

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Velly Joonas :: Stopp, Seisku Aeg!

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An enigmatic figure in Estonian music, Velly Joonas is a diverse and prolific audiovisual artist who has worked within many mediums, including painting, poetry, and a surprisingly diverse set of musical genres. “Stopp, Seisku Aeg!” was recorded as a demo for the amateur band Vstretša to support a performance permit application as an example of what they would play. Joonas suggested covering “I See Red!” by Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA, rewriting the lyrics herself in Estonian for Vstretša’s version. The result is a funky, soulful jam, blending synths, strings, and Joonas’s ethereal voice into a . . .

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Alice Coltrane :: Yogaville 1993

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Beautiful Alice Coltrane artifacts keep popping up, whether in official guise (last year’s Turiya Sings collection) or unofficial bootleg situations (the astonishing Berkeley 1972 double LP). Somewhere in between is this recently unearthed video of Coltrane performing at the Yogaville complex in Buckingham, Virginia, in the 1990s . . .

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Lyle Lovett :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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It's been a decade since the last time Lyle Lovett released a new album, and 12th of June works as both an introduction as much as it does to catch up on the ten years passed. "I wanted this to be a proper introduction to me and the Large Band if people haven't heard us, or just something that feels familiar to people that do . . .

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The Staples Jr. Singers :: When Do We Get Paid

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Luaka Bop continues to do the lord’s work: following last month’s release of Pastor Champion’s fervent gospel, they're now reissuing the ultra-rare 1975 record, When Do We Get Paid, by teenage family gospel band the Staple Jr. Singers, who traveled the Delta and the Bible Belt, and pressed their own copies of their sole record to be sold and shows and on their front lawn . . .

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Bob Dylan :: Pretty Good Stuff | Ep. 15 – Live Time Out Of Mind

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Dylan’s Time Out of Mind turns 25 this year. Produced by Daniel Lanois, the album won three Grammy Awards and provided a new batch of songs—meditations on love and loss—that Dylan almost immediately began to work into his Neverending Tour setlists. This episode of Pretty Good Stuff explores those live versions of the songs from Time Out of Mind, with performances stretching from a week after the album’s release to the edge of the pandemic, when Dylan temporarily paused his relentless touring schedule. Rediscover how Dylan turned the studio masterpiece into a killer batch of road . . .

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