Together as Jahara Massamba Unit, Madlib and Karriem Riggins pay homage to what they call "Black Classical Music," the avant-garde sounds of Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and Ornette Coleman . . .
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Last April, Australian rock singer Nick Cave, of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, announced the launch of Bad Seed TeeVee, a YouTube channel of live concert footage, studio outtakes, interviews, promo videos, and other band miscellanea, broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week . . .
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In their hobbit hole crammed with tape machines and fussy vintage gear Canadian DIY pop group Freelove Fenner create mellow miniatures that sparkle with Broadcast-lite beauty and never outstay their welcome . . .
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Pioneers like Daniel Lanois and Chas Smith paved the way in the 1980s, but the past several years have seen a very welcome pedal steel ambient scene emerging from the underground. Here are just a handful that have caught our ears from artists like Susan Alcorn, Barry Walker Jr., North Americans, Heather Leigh, and more . . .
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A week or so prior to the US election our pal (and International Anthem founder) Scottie McNiece and I were discussing the nuances of one of our favorite albums of 2020 — Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1. A sort of audio balm, the lp’s tones and textures have been a constant companion throughout this pandemic. As McNeice helped birth the project, we asked him to check in with the artist on our behalf . . .
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Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983 – 1987 gathers 28 gemlike tracks from bands that are mostly now forgotten. Some of the artists went on to commercial success, but that was clearly never the goal. We caught up with the comp's curator, Mike Sniper, to learn how he found this music, what it means to him and why the world needs more bands, even now in the age of isolation and self-recording . . .
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22° halo. 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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Jack Name moves in the shadows. Born John Webster Adams, the perennial chameleon's fourth album, Magic Touch, breaks in stark contrast from his previous solo work. Dialing back the multi-layered production, yet eschewing none of the soul, this latest offering finds the artist naked and at the fore. The following, his first Lagniappe Session, only compliments this approach . . .
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On her new LP Play at Night Masma Dream World blends electronics and ritual to build a shadow world of sound. She joins us to discuss her global history, DJing, and the spiritual qualities of frequencies . . .
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The impact of Jerry Jeff Walker’s first decade in Texas is still reverberating around the state.
Consider the following mix, a compendium, both a primer and a celebration of the late artist . . .
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Whether she’s making wistful folk music with Upstate New York act Florist or letting her Eurorack do the talking on her eponymous releases, a sense of gentleness permeates everything Emily A. Sprague creates. Recorded shortly after the pandemic hit, her latest, Hill, Flower, Fog, is a meditative exercise in sanity and patience . . .
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Toronto’s Badge Époque Ensemble are a tireless assembly line of lysergic mood music, with November’s Self Help marking their third release in just over a year.
For their Lagniappe Session, Badge Époque picked a pair of unsurprisingly idiosyncratic songs to interpret from Henry Mancini in 1961 and Mica Levi’s 2013 Under The Skin soundtrack . . .
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Jennifer Castle's Monarch Season indeed feels accompanied by the sounds of nature, room tone, and—as is often the case with Castle—the omnipresence of the moon overhead. On Angels of Death, Castle credited it as a member of the band. Here, it exists in many forms: a light, a mystery, and a muse. The moon, for Castle, is a performer and an audience alike . . .
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John Jeffrey serves Moon Duo’s metronomic drummer, but he steps out from behind the kit for Passage, his spiritual jazz meets post rock solo debut . . .
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The first hour of tonight's show highlights our Black Friday release, Jesus People Music, Volume One :: The End Is At Hand.
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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