You’ve heard Karen Black sing in Five Easy Pieces and Nashville. Now, her real life songs are revealed via the Cass McCombs-assisted Dreaming of You (1971-1976), featuring select studio and demo recording from the late actor, restored from their original tapes . . .
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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.
Now showing: Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy-adventure Time Bandits -- the first installment in his “Trilogy Of Imagination” series . . .
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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our recurring column of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading, featuring Matthew Specktor on Los Angeles, Alan Licht's sprawling interviews, Rosemary Leary, Jeanne Thornton, and more . . .
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Taking both inspiration and their name from a tune culled from Ian Matthews 1970 lp, Later That Same Year, Sylvie is comprised of Los Angeles friends and musicians Ben Schwab, Sam Burton, and Marina Allen . . .
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Sketch for summer.. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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Few albums have captured the bleak, messy boredom of the pandemic better than the Sleaford Mods’ 'Spare Ribs', a collection of jaundiced rants about days at home, politically-motivated ignorance and, as usual, the posing incompetence of Jason Williamson’s musical peers.
We caught up with Willimanson at home to discuss the new record and more . . .
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This week on Transmissions: Anika. Best known for her work with Geoff Barrow and Mexico City's Exploded View, she returns with Change, an album of subtle electronic pop, driving bass lines, and lyrics that veer from quixotic to inspiring. Anika joined us for a discussion about her time as a journalist, the shifting state of reality, and crafting an album amidst a global pandemic . . .
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Though only ever released in Japan and in sore need of reissue (affordability not being among the virtues of an original copy), Green Line sits easily alongside the most progressive jazz albums of the early 70s, many of which featured the work of the quartet’s alumni—namely Sharrock’s uncredited appearance on ‘Yesternow’ for Miles Davis’ A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Vitous’ early fusion-defining tenure with Weather Report, and Marcus’ collaboration with Japanese jazz-rock outfit Jiro Inagaki and Soul Media . . .
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On “Sanctuary,” the closing song on Hiss Golden Messenger’s ninth album, Quietly Blowing It, Mike Taylor sings: “Feeling bad, feeling blue, can’t get out of my own mind, but I know how to sing about it.” And thankfully, he does. For over a decade now, Hiss Golden Messenger has provided us with music that heals. Taylor's songs stress the importance of growth, empathy, and grace, and acknowledge the formative inevitably of pain, weakness, and loss. And despite the self-effacing title and a past eighteen months plus of potent darkness, this new work only strengthens Taylor’s . . .
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Here's our own reimagining of The Velvet Underground & Nico, featuring obscure takes on the VU, spanning from the 1960s to the 1990s. Some of these renditions are fairly faithful to the source, while others are decidedly irreverent, finding some truly weirdo approaches to these very sturdy songs. Synth-pop, goth, glam, industrial, grunge, garage ... it's all here, and more . . .
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El Chico takes Hamilton’s swinganova reworkings of the old songbook to new heights, with the added sound of Hungarian psychedelic-jazz troubadour Gabor Szabo’s acoustic guitar... the results of this confluence are romping and ragged . . .
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Carlos Niño picks up on frequencies. In return, he transmits them back out into the universe. He's built a vast body of work via radio broadcasts, intergalactic jams, and completely free sonic excursions. Openness requires listening, and Niño is an expert listener. “Frequently, I would say I’m doing some version of supercomputing, where I’m completely free in the moment and I’m also bookmarking sections I know I want to get back to," he told us when he was a guest on our Transmissions podcast. For his first Lagniappe Session, he turns his ear to . . .
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Sweltering Sunday on Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. July 18 from 4—8 PM Pacific. Hour one features selections from Arthur Magazine's Golden Apples of the Sun compilation, a 2004 record curated by Devendra Banhart. In hour two, Range and Basin with Jason P. Woodbury reflects on death and heat. In hour three, Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, presenting selections from James McNew of Yo La Tengo and Dump. And to close, Playing Dumb, a 45 RPM mix by DJ Donald Five Pennies, aka the late Richard Swift . . .
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In Iraq, Nico Walker received seven medals and commendations for valor. In Ohio, he robbed ten banks and shot heroin. In prison, he wrote a book, Cherry, and in Hollywood, it was turned into a major motion picture. None of this really matters though in the end times . . .
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Ryan Walsh brings us a look at Till The Stroke of Dawn: A Discography of New England Garage Bands from the 1960s. Compiled by Aram Heller of Stanton Park Records, this 64-page publication from 1993 took on the massive, laborious, pre-internet task of trying to paint a complete musical picture of a time and a place . . .
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