Iceage :: Vendetta

Danish rock & roll band Iceage return with a swaggering crime drama humor on the booming and bluesy "Vendetta." It's the Sonic Boom-produced second single from the forthcoming Seek Shelter, out May 7 . . .

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Fletcher Tucker :: Transmissions

Northern California mysticism with Fletcher Tucker. His latest album of ritualistic folk music is called Unlit Trail, a record settled deep into the sacred nature of existence. Tucker joined us to discuss Star Trek, animism, family, the Esalen Institute, human potential, and the deep history of his instruments and home in Big Sur, California . . .

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Transfigurations 2021 :: Recent + Recommended 21st Century Guitar

A survey of genre-expanding guitar soli from Yasmin Williams, Rob Noyes, Mason Lindahl, Adeline Hotel, Steffen Basho-Junghans, and more, each expanding what you can do with six (or 12) strings . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Alabaster dePlume

The Lagniappe Sessions blast off in 2021 with Alabaster dePlume--the man behind one of our favorite lps of last year. The following three covers find the artist paying tribute to friend and contemporary, Jaimie Branch, a traditional Russian love song, and the incomparable Arthur Russell . . .

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Robyn Hitchcock/Howe Gelb of Giant Sand/Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate :: Transmissions

One from the Transmissions vaults: a roundtable conversation with three indie rock lifers: Robyn Hitchcock, Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate). The talk was recorded in August 2018 at Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona . . .

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Psychedelic Sangha :: Sounds from the Bardo Volumes I and II

Music and spoken word swirl in Psychedelic Sangha's Songs From the Bardo series of sonic meditation mixes, featuring Erik Davis, Prana Crafter, Jessica Angima, Scott Metzger, Tony Leone, Jeff Hill, and far out visuals . . .

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The Pink Noise :: Economy of Love

The Pink Noise’s Mark Sauner has always sounded equal parts totally wired and terminally bored. His latest finds him teaming with members of U.S. Girls and The Submissives . . .

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Daniel Norgren :: Live

Live albums don't usually offer casual listeners a great entry point, but Daniel Norgren's Live, recorded just before the lockdowns of last year, not only presents his best songs, but also widens the scope of the Swedish blues interpreter's music sounds like . . .

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

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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Painted Shrines :: Heaven And Holy

Painted Shrines is the new creative partnership of Jeremy Earl (Woods) and Glenn Donaldson (Skygreen Leopards). While the project sounds fresh and enlivened, the pair are no strangers to collaboration (most prominently on the 2011 Woods release Sun and Shade). The debut lp, Heaven and Holy, is the product of a one week recording session at Donaldson's coastal, Northern California studio . . .

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Yasmin Williams :: Transmissions

On Yasmin Williams' second lp, the newly released Urban Driftwood the Virginia-based guitarist creates expansive acoustic music. Playing guitar, kalimba, percussion, and kora, she pulls from disparate musical strands—including the smooth jazz she heard growing up—into music that feels spiritually connected to New Age music, Windham Hill guitar, and the work of contemporaries (and collaborators) like William Tyler, Marisa Anderson and Daniel Bachman, who calls her "a guitarist for a new century . . .

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Apifera :: Overstand

With Overstand, Israeli quartet Apifera generate fantastical and otherworldly recordings. Like the dreamy cover suggests, the impossible flirts with the possible in these dreamy fusions of funk, psychedelia, and jazz . . .

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney :: The Hall of Death

Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney return with a fiery new song featuring Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar and announce the long-awaited sequel to 2005's Superwolf titled, naturally, Superwolves . . .

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Neil Young :: A Few Honey Slides

This hour of Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard features a sampling of that good stuff: live cuts, b-sides, demos, outtakes, rarities and beyond, stretching from 1969 to 2020. There's even a dance mix thrown in there for all the Cinnamon Girls out there. Fry up a few honey slides and enjoy . . .

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Tommy Guerrero :: Sunshine Radio

Skate legend Tommy Guerrero's latest trove of instrumental grooves is called Sunshine Radio. Blending global jazz and funk flavors, it feels like a standout in his discography, a swift, reliable 40 minutes of positivity—street music for the soul as much as soul music for the street . . .

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