Three albums in, the band has made a bold, surprising statement in Mirror II, an album that showcases three very different songwriting sensibilities and significantly expands the scrappy, jittery aesthetic that the Goon Sax has presented up to now . . .
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No static at all. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. Wednesdays. 7pm California time, and on-demand.
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Via Swedish label Sing a Song Fighter—who put out one of our favorite albums of the year so far—Dina Ögon’s “Efter Natten” is a woozy, twinkling cut of lounging r&b . . .
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This week on the show, Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. His new album is called The Veiled Sea, out this week via Three Lobed Records. Six Organs records can often sound very different from each other—think quiet acoustic sketches or long, blown out psych epics—but this one is a whole new thing entirely, with wild glam inspired solos over wild riffs—plus there’s a Faust cover. Chasny stopped by to discuss the new album, his work with Comets on Fire, his trio with Sir Richard Bishop and Chris Corsano, Rangda, the dubious “freak folk” term . . .
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In this conversation, Brian Harnetty and Dao Strom talk about how the intersections of sound, language, music, memory, history, place, and practices of “listening”—to the past, to the present—fuel their respective interdisciplinary practices . . .
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Songs about weather, colors, bathroom habits, dancing, and animals endowed with the ability to speak abound; a spirited masking of the album’s key concern—thwarting the physical, emotional, and cultural aging process. Innocent enough initially, the longer one examines the work the more distorted and intricate the subjects become . . .
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Boy and girls, the return of Pretty Good Stuff: Dylan historian James Adams’ hour-long program diving deep into the depths of all things Dwarf Music. This installment, all California: 1965-2019 . . .
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While we cannot speak to the French political climate of 1970, we can attest that RK Nagati's "De l’Orient à L’Orion" is sublime. Penned and performed by Tunisian singer Kamel Rauf Nagati, and most recently culled from Mobilisation Générale: Protest & Spirit Jazz from France 1970-1976, "L’Orion" clocks in at a languid 5 minutes, dripping with a seemingly effortless blend of era-appropriate jazz-funk as refracted through an eastern lens . . .
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Wooden Shjips / Moon Duo mastermind Ripley Johnson has knocked out three Rose City Band LPs in as many years — and they just seem to be getting better, as Johnson refines and perfects his approach . . .
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We’re rapidly approaching the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s debut single, the epochal “Radio Free Europe,” released on July 8, 1981. The band has a few things in the works to celebrate, but in the meantime, let’s dip into the band’s live archive . . .
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Joe O'Connell of Elephant Micah on the folkloric myths of Vague Tidings and how a DIY communal tour of Alaska, complete with run-ins with a black bear, inspired the album . . .
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Never-ending summer Sunday on Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. June 20th from 4—8 PM Pacific. Hour one belongs to D. Norsen, bringing us an all-new episode of RFAD favorite Cadence. In hour two, Range and Basin with Jason P. Woodbury, with hard rock and out-there pop. In hour three, Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, with an hour of summer solstice jazz. And to close things out, Aquarium Drunkard brings an hour of dub reggae . . .
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Musician and writer Jeffrey Silverstein. His new EP of gently cosmic guitar music is called Torii Gates, and he's the head behind the wonderful It’s So Easy (When You Know What You’re Doing), a tribute to the late cult folk musician Ted Lucas, featuring AD favorites like John Andrews & the Yawns, Julianna Barwick and William Tyler, Barry Walker Jr., Amelia Courthouse, and more. He’s also a teacher and a runner. We get into it all on this special bonus episode of Transmissions . . .
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Powerful sounds from Pakistan. Here emerges JAUBI, a largely instrumental sextet based in Lahore, with their debut album Nafs at Peace. A captivating range of ideas gleaned from recording sessions where "nothing whatsoever was written down...no sheet music and no song titles, which allowed the six musicians to forget about their worldly issues . . .
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With Spiritualized's Lazer Guided Melodies, recently reissued by Fat Possum, Jason Pierce imbued the songs with an overwhelming sense of freedom and relief. It not only pointed a way forward, it laid out a path Pierce has followed ever since . . .
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