Rendezvous With The Sun, pt. 2. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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Joe Pera of Joe Pera Talks With You and Skyway Man join us on Transmissions to discuss their work together and SM's new psych-folk opera The World Only Ends When You Die . . .
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Growing’s music can be loosely defined as drone or ambient, but their body-vibrating towers of tone soar and scorch in ways often missing from those placid genres. By letting their guitar and bass buzz out into vast expanses, they are muscular but not quite metallic, hulking but never harsh . . .
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This week Ty Segall's hard rock trio Fuzz releases its latest slab of monolithic riffs, III. We convened Segall, Charles Moothart, and Chad Ubovich to weigh in on three other records by trios, Nirvana's grunge classic In Utero,, Sonny Sharrock Trio's no-wave shredder Dance With Me Montana, and Akuma no Uta by Japanese rockers Boris . . .
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Black to Comm’s Marc Richter has been making electronic music since the early 00s, piecing found sounds into intricate, multilayered compositions.
We caught up with the composer as he talks about his beginnings in music as a young man in the Black Forest region of Germany, the experiences that pointed him towards electronics and the art and artists who have inspired his latest work . . .
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Earl Freeman was a bassist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and artist. We spoke to Adam Lore from 50 Miles of Elbow Room and Michael Klausman from Wry Press about Earl Freeman: Poems and Drawings, the origin of the project, and the man himself . . .
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On his forthcoming EP You Are Here, Los Angeles-based Lodge 49 composer and songwriter Andrew Carroll offers up a cinematic set of psychedelic pop songs—think Pet Sounds re-envisioned as a soundtrack to a lost noir gem, its character lurking in shadows cast against golden California light. Tonight on Range and Basin, part of the monthly Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard broadcast on Dublab, he joined host Jason P. Woodbury to share an advance listen of his new songs, which are presented here for advance listening ahead of their release October 30th . . .
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Originally aired October 18th, this edition of Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on Dublab features an episode of Chad DePasquale's New Happy Gathering in the first hour, followed by Range and Basin, Doom and Gloom From the Tomb, and Personal Sky . . .
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Oliver Coates' Skins n slime is not an easy listen by any means. The record resolutely chooses to veer off-track, taking a sharp turn from its predecessor Shelley’s on Zenn-La’s experimental dance influences, into barren and decaying sonic surroundings. Except, that is, when moments of pure, keening beauty snake their way through the minuscule cracks Coates has left open, like delicate plant tendrils in search of a ray of sunshine . . .
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Kevin Morby fled the midwest as a young man. What's brought him back and how has it inspired his new album, the accepting and fervent Sundowner . . .
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Sonhos Secretos, or Secret Dreams in English, alludes to the quiet aspirations of those that made these independent and privately released recordings as well as to the fact that many of these tracks have long remained essentially a secret. It's also, to some extent, a reference to a certain dream-like quality that permeates this collection . . .
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On her excellent solo debut Thread, Sally Anne Morgan (Black Twig Pickers/House and Land) proffers a Blakean blend of the earthy and the cosmic, reveling in mystical folk traditions . . .
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Like most of us, Yo La Tengo have had a weird year. But the long-running band is making the most of things with two fresh releases: some things old, some things new, some things borrowed, some things blue . . .
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The release of the new collection Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland continues a wave of new appreciation for the pioneering folk, electronic, and experimental composer's celestial and enveloping songs. Glenn-Copeland joins us to discuss science fiction, aliens, and picking up broadcasts from the universe . . .
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Together as Los Days, Tommy Guerrero and Josh Lippi have crafted a top notch desert oasis soundtrack with Singing Sands, offering compositions that evoke lazy afternoons in the cantina, sinister antagonists on the prowl, and the expanses of the cosmos, inner and outer . . .
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