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

Accoutre. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand.

Tonight: Music from Gal Gracen, Little Wings, Bill Callahan, Guano Padano, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Steve Gunn, Six Organs of Admittance, Cass McCombs & beyond . . .

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On Primal Loneliness :: Chris Brokaw In Conversation With Sandy Dvore

Chros Brokaw's End of the Night’s lonesome nocturnal mood is mirrored perfectly by the cover art, created by legendary Hollywood artist Sandy Dvore. Dvore’s resume is, to say the least, outrageous. His work has graced the sleeves of albums by Frank Sinatra, Buffalo Springfield, Judy Garland, and countless more. An in demand visual artist, Sandy was responsible for a host of iconic TV title sequences—The Partridge Family, anyone . . .

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The Replacements :: Dead Man’s Pop

"There are Replacements fans who only like the first two albums, or only like the middle three, or whatever. The range is pretty broad. So on one level, doing a deluxe edition of [Don't Tell a Soul] might not make sense. But the other thing I'm finding out is that it's a lot of people's favorite, or one of their favorites, or in a lot of cases, it was their entry point to the band."

Dead Man's Pop ... we dig in deep . . .

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Flo & Eddie :: Capitol Theatre (10/29/75)

Real life human muppets on acid. Two nights before Halloween, forty-plus years ago, plastic-fantastic freaks (truly) Flo & Eddie exorcized all manner of demons and lesser deities at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ. Throughout the performance the pair talk shit about Carl Douglas's "Kung Fu Fighting", ape Mick Jagger, the Jefferson Airplane, the late Jim Morrison's poet shtick and much, much more. The Turtles this is snot . . .

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World Spirituality Classics Vol 2 :: The Time For Peace Is Now (Gospel Music About Us)

Collecting rare 45s released by small labels in the 1970s, Luaka Bop's World Spirituality Classics Vol 2: The Time For Peace Is Now (Gospel Music About Us) is a compilation that prizes the galvanizing spirit of gospel music as much as explicitly evangelical aims . . .

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I’ve Been Born a Million Times, But I Am Never Dead: Jim Sullivan (1972)

On October 25th, Light in the Attic will release two follow-ups to the label's reissue of Jim Sullivan's mythic U.F.O.: a collection of solo acoustic performances titled If Evening Were Dawn, and a reissue of Sullivan's self-titled 1972 lp, originally released by Playboy Records. Taken together, these three records represent the entirety of Sullivan's recorded work, all leading up to his vanishing—a rock & roll mystery that endures to this day. The new edition of Jim Sullivan features liner notes by Aquarium Drunkard editor Jason P. Woodbury and art by our own . . .

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Kurt Vile :: Bottle Back (Documentary)

Earlier this week the troubadour released the mini-doc Bottle Back, capturing footage of Vile and co. hunkered down at a verdant and remote homestead in the Catskills, NY. Featured players include guitar-guru Matt Sweeney and the ever-awesome Canadian group, the Sadies . . .

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Erik Davis on High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies

High Weirdness is author Erik Davis' most heroic effort yet: a more than 400-page immersion into the lives of Terence McKenna, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Anton Wilson, figureheads of American weirdness. With these three serving as a psychic trinity to orbit, Davis is free to address the shifts in consciousness that occurred on the American West Coast in the 1970s: "I'm interested in the drift of the counterculture . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Ararat Valley Jazz Orchestra – A Mixtape

Jazz-funk and big band rarities from the Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia from the 1970s and 1980s; tracks recorded in Yerevan, Soviet Armenia and Moscow, USSR. Armenia has been without the symbolic mountains of Ararat and Sis since the latter stages of the Armenian Genocide and during the inception of the Armenian SSR ... think of these records as “the sound of Armenia on the other side of Ararat . . .

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Tobacco City :: Blue Raspberry

Tobacco City, the musical project of Chris Coleslaw and Lexi Goddard, leans ably into traditional country blues and honky-tonk shuffles. Reminiscent of Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons in their most incandescent . . .

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

Different doors to the same house. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Avant-Garde Got Soul Too :: An Observations of Deviance Mixtape

~spiritual jazz, free improvisation, experimental electronics, ethnographic oddities, and world-wide psychedelic funk~

And now something far out. Avant-Garde Got Soul Too is a mixtape by David Mittleman, host of Tucson's KXCI independent radio's Observations of Deviance, a weekly "all vinyl, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio . . .

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Bremer/McCoy :: Utopia

Here's one we've been waiting for: instrumental Danish duo Brewer/McCoy's forthcoming lp, Utopia. On their Luaka Bop debut, the pair continue to hone the myriad, meditative jazzscapes explored over their previous three albums. A nuanced, walled garden of sound, strains of dub, ambient and neo-classical coalesce throughout . . .

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David Kilgour And The Heavy Eights :: Bobbie’s A Girl

He may be 40 years into his career, but a new David Kilgour album (whether with The Clean or the Heavy Eights) still feels like a gift. Bobbie's a girl, his latest, is another exquisite offering from the New Zealand guitarist-singer-songwriter — one that seems a bit modest at first, but reveals its immense charms the deeper you dive into it . . .

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Major Stars :: Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy

If you're in need of a fast-acting dose of unadulterated rock action, look no further than Major Stars' latest slab. This long-running Massachusetts psych collective seem to just be getting better with age, finding new ways to kick out the old jams . . .

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