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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On the sprawling Houses of the Holy, Chris Schlarb assembles a four-pronged augmented Psychic Temple, recruiting rockers Cherry Glazerr, legendary jazz combo the Chicago Underground Trio, the psychedelic Dream Synidcate and rapper Xololanxinxo for a journey of moods and styles . . .
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Warren Zevon once said "We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." But even if your towering "too read" can't guarantee immortality, those pages can make life feel even more worth living. Welcome to the inaugural Aquarium Drunkard Book Club. This installment finds Tyler Wilcox guiding us through a few of his recent reads. Enjoy. More soon . . .
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Thurston Moore scarcely needs an introduction, nor do we need a specific reason to want to chat with the 62-year-old artist. There is, though, a hook for this particular chat: the release of By The Fire, a new studio effort by the Thurston Moore Group. Recorded in London, the album is all radiant heat and kaleidoscopic arrangements which join together in oozing consort and tickling friction. Shooting through this mass of sound are lyrics, written by Moore or transgender poet Radieux Radio, that are rich with poetic detail and reveal a deep craving for experience and human connection . . .
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Wednesday, October 14th--live from the fabulous 40 Watt Club in Athens, GA--Aquarium Drunkard presents a conversation with Pylon's Vanessa Briscoe Hay and Michael Lachowski, in anticipation of the forthcoming Pylon Box vinyl retrospective.
Moderated by our friend Andrew Reiger (Elf Power), the free event kicks off at 8pm Eastern. Tune in here, or view the simulcast via AD channels . . .
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The past 18 months have found our ears trained on Brazil's burgeoning contemporary music scene. To name a handful, Ana Frango Elétrico, Tim Bernardes, Sessa, Kiko Dinucci, Catavento, and O Terno's records have all soundtracked our Los Angeles HQ.
São Paulo singer-songwriter Chico Bernardes is the latest to join this loose cadre, whose debut lp remains ripe and in steady rotation. For his Lagniappe Session the 20-year-old multi-instrumentalist reflects on early inspiration (Grizzly Bear), and local sonic compatriots (Sophia Chablau and Téo Serson . . .
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Running just over 26-minutes in length, Karl Blau's Live From the Void arrives exactly as advertised: a live show presented within complete isolation, "performed for an audience of zero, in an abandoned amphitheater somewhere on the East Coast.” It's a naturalistic offering: chirping birds, rustling leaves, and flowing waters provide the record’s only sounds other than those imparted by Blau himself . . .
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Some of the songs of Nick Mitchell Maiato's Pino Carrasco were bound for One Eleven Heavy's third album. But when the pandemic wrecked plans, he pivoted, shaping the album on his own while in quarantine in Spain. The result is an idiosyncratic and jammy gem. He joined us to speak about its weird genesis . . .
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Practice mudita. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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On Philadelphia, the debut album of softly awe-inspiring sophisti-pop from Joseph Shabason, Nicholas Krgovich, and Chris Harris, the trio bond over hey also bonded over a shared love of Japanese New Age, Japan, and Arthur Russell . . .
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