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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Tamara Lindeman joins us this week on Transmissions for a conversation about Ignorance, her lush and sweeping new album as The Weather Station. Lindeman is the kind of songwriter who dares to write about big topics, like identity and global climate change, but the new album finds her exploring those concepts over deeply rhythmic jazz and pop-influenced compositions. It's out Friday, February 5 on Fat Possum Records. Lindeman joined us from her home in Ontario, to discuss the pandemic, the information overload of daily life, and how she's come to embrace the performative side of artistic practice . . .
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Austin’s Cactus Lee and Cincinnati-based animator Mark Neeley saddle up and ride worn-out cowboy movie archetypes into new territory in the video for “Locked Up In Lockhart,” a single off of Cactus Lee’s recently released Texas Music Forever . . .
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Consider this one a sequel to the Unearthed series’ two other Bay Area bootleg deep dives — Sausalito Haze and Pacific High. The Boarding House, located at 960 Bush Street in San Francisco, had a good run in the 1970s as one of the city’s premiere nightclubs, presenting a killer mix of music and comedy (such stars as Robin Williams and Steve Martin had early successes here) seven nights a week, in a very intimate setting. For this mix, we’ve gathered together a typically eclectic blend of folk, reggae, jazz, country, punk and rock, all recorded live at the . . .
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Over 14-minutes of deep jazz rock, Kid Congo Powers & The Pink Monkey Birds "He Walked In" offers a dance with the dead in the desert. It's the first taste of the forthcoming Swing From The Sean DeLear ep available February 19 on In the Red Records. Watch its visionary video here . . .
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In the late '80s, Montréal poet, filmmaker, painter, and musician Princess Demeny recorded a series of electronic avant-garde and new wave recordings. Now, from Séance Centre Records commemorates her "New York Grief" with a 7" single . . .
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(…the latest entry of ‘blanks and postage’—author jesse jarnow’s irregular column for aquarium drunkard highlighting the fringe and beyond.)
Sanjay Mishra’s colleague
warned him about the corporate spies and that he should be careful. The call
for an appointment had come from Washington, DC’s Four Seasons hotel, and only
corporate spies stayed there. It had to be somebody from DuPont, maybe Exxon.
“We’re sending them to you, can you deal with it . . .
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The first taste from bassist Pino Palladino and guitarist/producer Blake Mills' Notes With Attachments swirls with careful band interplay, treated saxophone and lush harmonics. It's the sort of song you're tempted to start over before it even finishes . . .
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Creative expression and religious witness abide side by side in Natalie Bergman's music. On her solo debut Mercy, the Wild Belle vocalist marries psychedelia and gospel, drawing inward to fill her ghostly psalms with beauty and power . . .
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This week we're happy to welcome Margo Price to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions for a talk about the music industry, her creative partnership with husband Jeremy Ivey, the politics of country music, and the cannabis business . . .
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One more stroll down Destiny Street? Sure, why not? Ever since its release in 1982, Richard Hell has been dissatisfied with his second and final album with the Voidoids. The double-disc Destiny Street Complete is likely his last attempt at getting it right, presenting the original album, a re-do, a remix, and raw demos . . .
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Los Angeles singer-songwriter Pearl Charles makes Californian country music that at once recalls the burnt orange horizon of a Mojave sunset and the navy tint of the Pacific Ocean. Charles' previous efforts have also pulled from the sounds of the '60s and '70s, but while they drew from the agitated sensibilities of garage and surf rock, her second full length Magic Mirror puts an outlaw spin on nocturnal disco, sounding something like the Band producing ABBA . . .
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With a new career-spanning collection in tow, guitarist Gary Lucas joins us for a discussion about his work with Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley on his Grace album, and teaming up with Arthur Russell and...Vin Diesel . . .
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