Bridget St. John :: Paris, 1970

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Via French television, check out this terrific 13 minutes of Bridget St. John performing three songs solo in Paris, the songwriter’s crystalline guitar and singular vocals captured perfectly. Do we talk about St. John enough? Sure, she’s had plenty of boosters over the years (John Peel was a huge fan), but in our mind she deserves to be mentioned alongside Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, John Martyn and others as one of the great English songwriters of the late 60s/early 70s. I’m also going to put her up there among the very best heads of hair of . . .

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Videodrome :: Out Of The Blue (1980)

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Out of the Blue (1980) marks Dennis Hopper's return to the director's chair after a decade of exile, transforming what was intended to be a light-hearted coming-of-age drama into a domestic tragedy about wayward youth during the apex of the punk scene . . .

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Bert Jansch & Finn Kalvik :: Norwegian Television (May 7, 1973)

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It's officially Bert Jansch season. Recorded live in the spring of 1973 for Norwegian television, the following twenty-eight minute session finds the Scottish troubadour in the company of Norwegian folkie Finn Kalvik. The set kicks off with the pair collaborating on Jansch's own "Running From Home" (via his 1965 s/t LP) before sliding into an alternating guitar pull between the two musicians. Koselig . . .

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Terry Stamp :: Blue Redondo

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At some point during the recent hype cycle surrounding the Hard Quartet’s debut LP, Matt Sweeney popped up on our feed singing the praises of Terry Stamp’s Blue Redondo. Stamp, formerly of the English hard rock group Third World War, recorded Blue Redondo after he relocated to El Segundo, CA, in the late 1970s. Each of its 12 tracks are rough gems, hard-bitten but sweetly rendered loner folk bolstered by Stamp’s blues-soaked guitar and vocals, not to mention the occasionally eccentric production touch . . .

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David Pajo :: Scream With Me

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In 2004, in a break between a string of Aerial M albums and the first Slint reunion tour, David Pajo found himself at loose ends, sleeping on friends’ couches and wondering what to do next. In Brooklyn during this period and, for once, luxuriating in the rare pleasures of an empty apartment, he struck on the idea of Misfits covers. He’d been a fan since early adolescence . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: November 2024

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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. This month, Wilcox leads things off with a selection of dusted late November vibes; DePasquale follows it up with an hour of psychedelic blues, gospel, and soul. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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Smoke Bellow :: Structurally Sound

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“I come crashing down like sunsets gleam,” Meredith McHugh sings in the opening minutes of Structurally Sound, the fourth and final album from Smoke Bellow. The Baltimore via Australia duo of McHugh and Christian Best do, in fact, break up in spectacular, brilliant fashion here – joining forces one last time on guitars, synths, percussion, bass, and vocals for an ecstatic record of funky angular post-punk, damaged motorik-infused disco, and minimalist art-rock . . .

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Smokey Robinson :: Just My Soul Responding

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Barely a year removed from his final performance with The Miracles, Smokey Robinson delivered Smokey, his first album stepping out on his own. Driving solo, Robinson pushed his sound sonically and topically. The politically and morally charged, “Just My Soul Responding” is the pinnacle of that push . . .

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Jeff Parker on ETA :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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"With the ETA band, there were all these other experiences dealing with music that people were composing. So, when we would improvise, all of that other stuff was informed in what we were doing." Visionary guitarist Jeff Parker joins us to discuss The Way Out of Easy, recorded live at his residency at ETA . . .

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

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Drop in. 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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Bridget St John :: Curl Your Toes

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How many songs can you think of where the songwriter has a philosophical interaction with a
burrowing mole? If the answer is none, then now it is one. This is one of the many charms to be relished in Bridget St John's rousing “Curl Your Toes." After studying in France for a time in the late '60s, St John found herself floating around in the English folk atmosphere with many scene-makers of the time. She soon met musical champion and promotional extraordinaire John Peel and went on to release her fully acoustic debut album, Ask Me No Questions . . .

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Bob Holmes (SUSS, numün, Ambient Country) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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One of the ambient country scene’s biggest proponents for almost a decade now has been Bob Holmes, whose work with SUSS, numün and the Ambient Country podcast — among many other efforts — have spread the gospel far and wide. Holmes’ latest project is Across The Horizon, a collaboration with Northern Spy Records that brings onboard various like-minded artists drawn “from the wide landscape of instrumental music” (including Luke Schneider, Marisa Anderson, William Tyler and more) to curate a series of digital releases that will culminate next year in a double LP compilation of stellar sonic explorations . . .

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Transmissions :: Pat Irwin (Suss, B-52s)

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Welcome to the penultimate episode of our ninth season, featuring Pat Irwin of Suss. You may remember him from last year’s Suss talk, with his bandmates Jonathan Gregg and Bob Holmes, but he’s back for a solo talk this time, which allowed us to dig into his wild life in music, from his time in the the late ‘70s New York No Wave scene with The Raybeats and 8-Eyed Spy, to his work with Southern freak icons The B-52s, and his long career crafting music for TV and animation, including shows like Rocko’s Modern Life . . .

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Gray/Smith :: Heels in the Aisle

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More supremely groovy sounds from Gray/Smith, the drums/guitar duo made up of  L. Gray (guitar and vocals) and Rob Smith, who you know from their time in the underground trenches with No-Neck Blues Band, Pigeons and many more. At first, Heels in the Aisle comes across deeply laid-back, the songs coalescing out of nothing, drifting together effortlessly. But that might be an illusion . . .

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Ava Mendoza :: The Circular Train

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You might have spotted Ava Mendoza on Bill Orcutt’s Four Guitars tour earlier this year, a meeting of four exceptional players of diverse backgrounds: Wendy Eisenberg from jazz and art song experiment, Shane Parrish from the finger-picked blues-drone world, the unclassifiable Orcutt, and Mendoza, a bold expander of the electric blues rock universe. She’s played with everyone—William Parker, Nels Cline, Matana Roberts, and Fred Frith among others—and led free-jazz, noise-rock, blues-encrusted Unnatural Ways through two albums, blending McLaughlin and Son House-ish textures. The Circular Train expands on this syncretic vision . . .

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