We don't listen to music for precision—we listen for the moments raw humanity breaks through via sound. Guest contributor Matt Hanson reflects on the "barbaric yawps" that course through rock & roll, soul, and the blues . . .
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For their latest, All Or Nothing, Shopping worked with producer Nick Sylvester to amp up the hedonism and beef up their often skeletal songs. In this interview we talked about the band’s new sleeker, synth-augmented sound, the balance of individual autonomy and group voice and why nobody in Shopping wants to be compared to your standard “starter-pack” of post-punk bands . . .
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Outré California. More tales from the pacific rim. The Aquarium Drunkard Show. SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand . . .
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Michael Gira lived a thousand lives before Swans. He grew up in Los Angeles during the 1960s with absent parents. He was constantly snagged by the cops for misdemeanors, eventually winding up in Germany with his father to avoid any further heavy handed law enforcement. It was in Germany where he ditched his dad and wound up in Israeli jail a year later for selling hashish after hitchhiking across Europe with some hippies. He turned sixteen in a jail cell. When Gira saw punk rock for the first time back in L.A. it was massively influential experience . . .
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On December 29, 2019, folk singer Norma Tanega passed away at the age of 80. Here, writer Erin Osmon reflects on how Tanega embodied joy, wit, and freedom . . .
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When a 20-year-old hippie-punk going by the name Sunfrog found his way from Detroit to the Nevada Test Site in 1988 to protest nuclear weapons, he did not anticipate meeting a Beat legend and Rainbow warrior like Diamond Dave Whitaker -- the man responsible for introducing a young Bob Dylan to both Jack Kerouac’s On The Road and Woody Guthrie’s Bound For Glory . . .
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With a coastline of 840 some odd miles in California, it should come as no surprise that many of the artists we revere at Aquarium Drunkard seek refuge and inspiration in the Pacific blue with a surfboard underfoot. Enter new column devoted to the surf: Dawn Patrol. First on the list - Kyle Field aka Little Wings . . .
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In August 2017 I visited Gothenburg, Sweden for the second time in my life. The first time was 12 years earlier when I had spent a grand total of six hours poking around the area immediately outside the train station before catching my next train. This time around I’d be spending several days there, playing as part of a festival and meeting, in person for the first time, Matthias Andersson.
Matthias spotted me getting off the train. He is very tall, handsome and walks with a distinct limp he acquired from a serious illness a few . . .
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Our semi-regular bootleg mix series returns in 2020 with another selection of murky and magical sounds: Fillmore West-ready boogies, mystical mantras, bloozy workouts and deeply stoned jams, plenty of Dead-adjacent action . . .
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Tokyo-based composer and guitarist Leo Takami’s new album, Felis Catus and Silence, sees release next month via Unseen Worlds. An enthusiastically imaginative blend of new age sounds, Takami shapes Windham Hill-inspired guitar compositions with elements of jazz, minimalism, classical music, Japanese gagaku, and ambient textures . . .
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Decade begins. The Aquarium Drunkard Show. SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand . . .
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As the nights turn colder and quieter, like clockwork an internal alarm shifts our headspace towards the sounds of 1970's UK folk rock. Pastoral aural blankets of snow ... a soundtrack of interior warmth giving way to a reflective, yet vivid inner world of quietude, reflection and self-discovery. As a genre, it's come to encapsulate what winter represents. / j romo
Third Ear Band - Stone Circle ++ Dando Shaft - Rain ++ Keith . . .
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It’s looking more and more likely that Neil Young will release Homegrown in early 2020. Of course, it’s easy to be skeptical—Neil has been teasing this long-lost 1975 masterpiece for the past decade at least. But there appears to be a test pressing, which is promising! First, a little background from some of the key players . . .
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It's 2020, and while nobody's saying there isn't a place for "Blinded By The Light," to pigeonhole the nuanced greatness that was Manfred Mann solely on their FM radio classic-rock-staple (and Springsteen cover), is egregious. We overheard said blasphemy over the holidays. So (!), case in point -- "One Way Glass," via the newly christened group's 1969 eponymous debut. Lots to dig into here, but this brassy and chugging tough . . .
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On this episode, we sit down with educator, synth pioneer, and all around genuine soul Don Muro. Then, Josh Neas offers a personal reflection on Dead Man's Pop, the 2019 Replacement boxset that creates a kind of alternate timeline version of the band's 1989 lp Don't Tell a Soul . . .
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