Catching Up With Bill MacKay

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Locust Land, is Bill MacKay's first album since 2019. It’s a mix of folky vocal melodies and transcendent instrumental reveries, intricate in execution but sublimely easy to listen to. We caught up to talk about MacKay’s life in guitar; the way that structured, sung songs and open-ended improvisations can say the same things in different ways, and how he hopes his music will land with people . . .

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Dole :: The Speed of Hope

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Some records, leave you content with just listening to the songs. Others, they get under your skin and into your blood. They demand to be played over and over and over. You start to wonder about its origins, how it was made. You want to go back in time and watch it all come together. This is the case with The Speed of Hope by Belgian post punks Dole . . .

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Elijah McLaughlin & Caleb Willitz :: Morning Improvisations / Evening Abstractions

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Guitarist Elijah McLaughlin sets aside his 12-string for an electric guitar on this outstanding new collaboration with visual and sound artist Caleb Willitz, plus a clutch of midwestern head music ringers. The result is an endlessly inventive, restlessly mutating work of improvised music, which moves between jazz, psych, post-rock, ambient and Americana. But more than that, it is also a love letter to the Chicago experimental music scene . . .

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Transmissions :: Amen Dunes

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This week on our podcast, Damon McMahon of Amen Dunes joins Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions to discuss the spiritual vastness of his beat-driven album, Death Jokes. Stacked with samples of artists like Lenny Bruce and J Dilla, it doesn't reveal itself quickly, but reveals more with each listen . . .

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Clarissa Connelly :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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As thoughtful in her articulations about her artistry as she is imaginative in her tremendously vivid arrangements, Clarissa Connelly is a compelling conversationalist. Today, she joins AD to discuss her new album, World of Work, the power of dreams and the ongoing discovery of magic to be found in her music . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Chet Sounds

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Last fall saw the release of the Sydney, Australia based DIY artist Chet Sounds' sophomore LP, Changes Happen to Everyone, Everywhere. At a dozen tracks, it's a lo-fi glossy and groove-laden trip across 70s-am pop, yacht rock, private press outsider folk, library funk, and Rundgren-esque psychedelia. For this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions we catch up with Chet (Tucker) as he works his way through a grip of disparate favorites, ranging from a mid-60s fantasy sit-com theme, to reinterpreting Judee Sill and the undisputed majesty that is Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade . . .

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Winged Wheel :: Big Hotel

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Winged Wheel was already a supergroup of sorts. With the band’s second LP they’ve gotten even super-er. Big Hotel brings the whole gang back together: Cory Plump (Spray Paint, Expensive Shit), Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Damiana), Fred Thomas (Tyvek, Idle Ray) and Matthew Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo). But it also adds two serious ringers to the mix — Sonic Youth’s mighty sticksman Steve Shelley and Water Damage’s similarly mighty Lonnie Slack . . .

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Jack Name :: Fabulous Soundtracks

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Fabulous Soundtracks isn’t a concept album per se, but it’s structured like a series of “soundtracks” for 10 distinct real life experiences. Each refracted through Jack’s mind and his senses, these commonplace occurrences come out the other side like a shimmering dream . . .

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Michael A. Muller :: Mirror Music

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Mirror Music is billed as a solo record, but Balmorhea’s Michael Muller is fully in collab mode here, drafting some of the best in the biz to help him craft a collection of hauntingly gorgeous sonic landscapes . . .

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Broadcast :: Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009

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Long-rumored since the death of the inimitable Trish Keenan in 2011, the “final” Broadcast album has materialized as Spell Blanket, a megalithic collection of songs and sketches culled from Trish’s extensive archive of 4-track tapes and MiniDiscs recorded during the group’s post-Tender Buttons period (2006-2009). Its 36 tracks mostly nestle somewhere between that unadorned masterpiece and the rough-hewn assemblage of Mother Is The Milky Way, though it fully showcases the myriad of facets—aside from their earliest, dreamiest era—that made the group so special . . .

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Jackie West :: Close To The Mystery

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With a glowing aura, Close To The Mystery's twelve tracks cycle through with dashes of dreamy Julee Cruise balladry, the rugged glamour of early Roxy Music, and the artful experimentation of Arthur Russell. A loaded treasure of soulful art pop . . .

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

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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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Miles Davis: Four More from Brazil, 1974

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50 years ago this month, the Miles Davis octet traveled to Brazil for three-night stands in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo – a stretch of gigs featuring the same personnel that recorded the Dark Magus live set at Carnegie Hall earlier that spring. While Dark Magus documented guitarist Dominique Gaumont’s incendiary first night with the band, the tapes from Brazil capture Miles’ well-oiled three-guitar lineup in full flight; Gaumont layering waves of feedback between flights of Hendrix-inspired indulgence, Pete Cosey supplying gobs of heavily modulated riffs and theatrics, and rhythm ace Reggie Lucas abandoning . . .

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Ferlin Husky :: Boulevard of Broken Dreams

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A lost record from 1957, Ferlin Husky’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams would be right at home on the jukebox at The Bang Bang Bar from Lynch’s Twin Peaks. These are transmissions from the dark side of mid-century Americana, echoing across forgotten county line roads and empty chrome diners . . .

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Transmissions :: Jim Jupp (Belbury Poly & Ghost Box Records)

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This week on Transmissions, Jim Jupp, co-founder of Ghost Box Records, which has mined TV soundtracks, vintage electronics, psychedelia, pop, and supernatural folklore for decades, issuing music by Broadcast, Pye Corner Audio, The Advisory Circle, and Jupp's own band, The Belbury Poly, who released the jazzy, psychedelic concept album The Path last year. This week on Transmissions, Jupp joins us to discuss his storied label, plumbing the nostalgic depths, the evocative spaces of The Twilight Zone, fairy lore, extraterrestrial, and yes, the lure of "hauntology . . .

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