Transmissions :: North Americans

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Our guest this week is Patrick McDermott of North Americans. His latest is called Roped In and its blissed out guitar-scapes. This is the final episode of this season. We're going to take a break but don't you sweat it, we'll be back early in 2021 with more strange conversations for our strange times . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: December 20

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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab, every third Sunday of the month. Our December broadcast airs December 20, from 4—8 PM PT. Our guest this month is Phish designer Julia Mordaunt . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2020 Year In Review

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Here it is, our Year in Review. As always, unranked and sprawling . . .

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Transmissions :: Psychic Temple

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This week, we're joined by returning guest Chris Schlarb of Psychic Temple and Big Ego, his studio in Long Beach. His latest is called Houses of the Holy, a four-sided double-album, featuring a different band on each side: Cherry Glazerr with garage pop, the Chicago Underground Trio with their jazz inflection, psych warriors the Dream Syndicate, and rapper and producer Xololanxinxo. Schlarb took some time out of his holiday season to speak with us about the creative ethos driving his work . . .

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Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams :: Plastic Bouquet

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After fortuitously coming across the music of the Kacy & Clayton and realizing they were a current act, not some glorious dissipation from the past, the New Zealand musician and actor Marlon Williams soon found himself 8,000 miles away from home, recording a collaborative album in the middle of a brutally cold winter on the Canadian prairies . . .

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The AD Picture Show (Holiday Special)

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Here’s a little something extra in your stocking this season–the inaugural AD Holiday Special. Covered in tinsel and lights, falling down your digital screens like department store fake snow.

Feat: Wizzard | T. Rex | Ahmad Jamal Trio | Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band | Tom Waits | The Pogues & more . . .

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Makoto Kubota :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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When asked what he’s most proud of in his five decade career in music, the answer doesn’t come easy for Makoto Kubota. The prolific Kyoto-born singer, songwriter, and producer has never been one to look back at his past work, and like his longtime friend and collaborator Haruomi Hosono, Kubota remains eternally humble, preferring to let the music do the talking. Until now.

We had a long, wide-ranging conversation with Kubota, lasting until the wee hours of the morning. Below are excerpts from the four hour chat—one of very few interviews with Kubota that has . . .

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Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy :: Make Worry For Me

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An embarrassment of riches from the Will Oldham universe of late. In addition to the ad hoc Instagram performances that began as quarantine commenced, the artist has recently been dropping a bevy of covers in collaboration with friend and labelmate, Bill Callahan. Want a taste? Their take on Steely Dan is particularly choice.

But hold up, the year isn’t over yet. This week finds Oldham once again sliding into his Superwolf suit with running partner, and guitar guru, Matt Sweeney . . .

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Joe Sembene :: Le P’tit Quinquin

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A futuristic and dissonant islandic take on a French traditionall, “Le P'tit Quinquin” stands out in its own distorted lullaby idiosyncrasy, as reggae rhythms momentarily drop out into gritty post-punk dub . . .

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The New Vocabulary of Funkadelic (1970)

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Before there was P-funk or even a Parliafunkadelicment thang there was Funkadelic. Funkadelic: a musical phenomenon perfectly encapsulated within its name; an aural synthetic, formulated on the hustle. Nick Mitchell Maiato weighs in on this culturally daring masterpiece . . .

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Daniel Hecht :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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With his 1973 guitar soli gem Guitar Daniel Hecht kicked off a counter culture adventure that has seen him travel the world. It's being reissued by Morning Trip Records. Hecht joins Jesse Locke to unpack his more fantastic than fiction story . . .

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

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Present future. 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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Alex Maas :: Luca

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On his debut solo album Luca, Alex Maas abandons the trademark tension and release of his band the Black Angels, embracing instead plush compositional warmth drawing from doo-wop, '60s West Village folk, and a gothic temperament . . .

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Transmissions :: Ken Layne of Desert Oracle

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This week on our show, Ken Layne, author of Desert Oracle Volume 1: Strange and True Tales From the American Southwest. He joins us for a far-reaching conversation about the allure of the weird, conspiracy theory and literature, the disenchantment of modern life, and of course, venturing into the spiritual wilderness represented by the desert . . .

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Lost Live Grease, Recovering the Hampton Grease Band

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The importance of the Hampton Grease Band is almost always reduced to factoids. Mainly that their sole album, 1971’s Music To Eat, was allegedly the second worse-selling double-LP in Columbia Records’ history, after an instructional yoga set.

The Hampton Grease Band deserve better. The Hampton Grease Band were the South’s first freaks, and still their most incredible . . .

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