Teenage Fanclub founders Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley on keeping magic alive in the recording studio, why their tour might require extra practice and playing with Alex Chilton, Edwyn Collins, Jad Fair, Frank Black, and De La Soul, and more . . .
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Earlier this month word broke that guitarist Bob Petric of Ohio underground legends Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments had passed away. Longtime admirer and friend Jerry Dannemiller joins us for a look back at Petric's propulsive guitar work . . .
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Few artists today release music under a moniker more indicative of their sound than Olive Ardizoni's Green-House. Their engaging electronic compositions are Planet Earth-ready, replete with overlays of flowing brooks, gleefully singing birds, and humming tranquility. “The intention of this project is to facilitate the connection between humans and nature,” Ardizoni says, “instead of perceiving nature as something that’s separate from us . . .
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Time traveling from circa 1977, Marius Cultier arrives with the humid, summer vibe control on lock. An atmosphere that pairs well with the remnants of slushy ice at the bottom of a highball of dark rum . . .
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Born Everaldo Marcial in Sao Paulo, Brazil, ÉVÉ fled the countries military dictatorship in 1974 to settle in France. Recorded in Paris, and released in 1979, Canto Aberto is his sole recording. Long out of print, the album's just been reissued via the Parisian jazz label, Komos Records . . .
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On Distractions, Tindersticks take on Neil Young's classic "A Man Needs a Maid," bringing a nocturnal grace to it. With soulful harmonies locked in, it's an epiphany of a cover. If you've ever wondered how danceable a Neil Young song could be, now you have your answer . . .
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Hot on the release of the latter's Mr. Chill and a brand-new collection of Utah Philips covers, Lou Turner and Dan Wriggins discuss music, Friendship, and the poetry of Louise Bogan, Lucinda Williams, and James Schuyler in this special and intimate Aquarium Drunkard conversation . . .
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Snapping at the heels of last year’s Eastern Flowers and Wabi Sabi lps, prolific polymath Sven Wunder returns this June with his third full-lengh, Natura Morta. In anticipation, Wunder recorded the following vinyl mix for AD, via his home studio in Sweden, leaning into aesthetic influences and inspiration . . .
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Chuck Johnson's The Cinder Grove is a positively gripping experience from start to finish, full of tones and zones that spark the imagination and encourage deep listening to every note, every descending chord progression, every solar flare melody . . .
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On No Such Thing As Free Will, LA-via-Istanbul artist Deniz Cuylan flanks his fingerpicking with subtle touches of piano, clarinet and cello. Reaching all the way back to a childhood infatuation for Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 as a guiding inspiration, the resulting musical patterns recall the repetitious, minimalist compositions of Steve Reich or Nils Frahm, but sit adjacent cosmic pastoralism too . . .
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No static at all. 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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Durham songwriter al Riggs returns with a new country music album, I Got a Big Electric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep. They joined us to discuss the album's concept, finding your own way into traditional music, and of course, Robert Altman's 1980 movie Popeye . . .
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Over the last decade, brothers Bill and Turner Ross have quietly built one of the most singular and idiosyncratic careers in contemporary, non-fiction cinema.
We recently connected with the Ross brothers to talk about their unconventional approach to crafting this film, their comfort navigating the thin, blurred line between documentary and the traditional feature and what they've got spinning on the stereo during lockdown.
"Our films follow a consistent ethos: Don’t talk about it, be about it . . .
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Crazy Horse's Frank "Poncho" Sampedro joined up with Neil Young in 1973 and remained firmly in place until 2014. He joins Aquarium Drunkard's Tyler Wilcox for a look back at his time in the Horse—at times dosed, at times dazed, but always tapped into the mythic rock and roll spirit that drove the band . . .
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From the lush, exciting outskirts of "left field" this series likes to summon, the band plucked for us Mac Miller's '2009' and Danzig's 'Am I Demon.'
...re-imagining ‘2009’s lovely strings and piano and ‘Demon’s classic riffage. Worthy and original results, to be sure . . .
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