The Lagniappe Sessions :: Little Wings (Second Session)

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Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.

California avatar Kyle Field has been recording and performing as Little Wings since the late 1990s. This year saw the release of not one, but two long-players from the perennial project: the all-covers record, Ropes In Paradise . . .

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Ryley Walker :: A Roundup

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It’s been a busy decade for singer-songwriter Ryley Walker – is he the hardest working man in indie rock? Maybe. This year has been typically action-packed, even if he hasn’t released a new solo album. Read on for a roundup of recent Ryley action . . .

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Jaimie Branch :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Jaimie Branch has been playing the trumpet since the age of nine, working the possibilities of her instrument to recreate the music that lives in her head. Her latest album Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise delivers challenge and experiment in the context of irresistible swing . . .

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Sam Wilkes :: Live on the Green

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Though he’s fully capable of unrolling long, bejeweled runs on his instrument, Wilkes uses Live on the Green to showcase his skills as an arranger and producer. He tends to use his bass the way Lonnie Liston Smith used his piano in Pharoah Sanders’ group, announcing the changes and providing a safe space from which his fellow players can launch, while also perfuming the atmosphere . . .

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Bob Dylan (featuring Johnny Cash) :: Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15

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Compared to some recent Dylan archive releases, the 15th volume of The Bootleg Series looks a little slim – just three discs! But if you think of Travelin’ Thru as a prequel to 2013’s Another Self Portrait, it brings us to a total of six discs dealing with Bob’s late 1960s/early 1970s period. Set entirely in Nashville, Vol. 15 isn’t quite as revelatory as Another Self Portrait – but it’s plenty revelatory . . .

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Tindersticks :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Catching up with AD, Stuart Staples shed some light on the process behind this new record, the importance of looking forward, why he doesn’t like his music in TV shows, the music he comes from, and more . . .

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Miles Davis :: In A Silent Way

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In a year loaded with albums turning fifty, few have retained the genre-defying staying power and influence of In A Silent Way. Recorded during a single three-hour session in July 1969 with producer Teo Macero, the album marked a decisive and definitive turn for both Miles Davis and the future of jazz. Meditative, moody and minimal in approach, this was the calm before the storm as the following year would witness yet another reinvention of Davis with the release of Bitches Brew . . .

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

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand. This week we are running through the first two hours that comprise our Decade feature . . .

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Jaw Breaker :: On the Sickening Beauty of Darcy “chik white” Spidle

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A pair of collaborations with Bill Nace and Xuan Ye find chik white's jaw harp sounding simultaneously natural and unnatural, alien and intimate, beautiful and sickening in all of its gobbing glory . . .

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Moon Duo :: Stars Are The Light

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Over the course of the past decade, San Francisco's Moon Duo has drifted among the clouds, emitting bursts of spacey shoegaze and mellow psych. The duo’s latest, Stars Are the Light finds them headed toward an icy disco party somewhere further out than previously traveled. Parkas required . . .

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Simon Joyner :: Pocket Moon

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Working in tandem with producer/guitarist Michael Krassner, Pocket Moon features ace contributions from drummer Ryan Jewell, multi-instrumentalist Joshua Hill and guitarist Max Knouse, among others. Together, the ensemble creates an easygoing but rich tapestry, subtly and sensitively boosting the roughhewn melodies and ruminations. The overall result is one 2019’s best LPs – and a career highlight for Joyner . . .

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Transmissions Podcast :: Whitney/Don Slepian/Nick Cave’s Ghosteen: A Discussion

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Boys and girls, All Hallows’ Eve is here, and you’re tuned into the October edition of the Transmissions podcast. The veil is thin and we're back with another round of discussions and digressions. In this episode, Chicago's Whitney discusses Forever Turned Around, the group's sophomore lp. Then, New Age pioneer Don Slepian takes us back to the early '80s. And to close out, a long ramble about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' haunted instant classic, Ghosteen . . .

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SIRIUS/XMU :: The Aquarium Drunkard Show (Halloween Edition)

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Broadcasting from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery … The Aquarium Drunkard Show. The Halloween edition, Wednesday night / 7pm California time. SIRIUS/XM ~ Channel 35 . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: Decade / 2010-19

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Well, that was fast. Decade is just about over, and as it draws to a close, its highs look awfully high in the rearview. Presented here, an unranked sprawl of 100 records that stuck with us, managing to break through the noise of an increasingly distracting age, and stick around in our heads . . .

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse :: Colorado

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So we didn’t exactly get Year of the Horse, part II in 2019. But we did get another Neil Young and Crazy Horse album, Colorado, released a little over 50 years after Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere introduced the world to this extraordinary pairing. Amazingly, three out of the four musicians who made that epochal 1969 LP are still onboard – and together they still sound like no one else . . .

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