Gal Gracen :: Fantasy Gardens

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Vancouver’s Gal Gracen latest release, FANTASY GARDENS, is a work brimming with empyreal bedroom pop and kaleidoscopic fantasia. Recorded in Vancouver, Ho Chi Minh City and on Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu, this record would have fit in neatly with Underwater Peoples’ mean streak of lo-fi releases in the late '00s. Self-described as a collection of "elysian pop ballads dressed in a new age aesthetic," there’s a wholly imaginative sonic world to get lost in here -- one equal parts exotica and art rock . . .

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What The Mantles Did Mattered

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Beloved in the Bay Area but seemingly uninterested in breaking out of it, working-class garage-rock band The Mantles quietly called it quits last year. Their end is a well-earned conclusion of a romantic saga, but it’s also another lost canary in the coal mine of independent rock . . .

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

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Time is elastic, let's stretch. 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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Jake Xerxes Fussell:: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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The son of folklorist Fred C. Fussell, Jake Xerxes Fussell spent his youth documenting the sound and feel of blues singers and indigenous fiddlers. The younger Fussell carries on curatorial work with Out of Sight, his latest lp. AD caught up with him to explore how the scope of traditional music is not limited by region or provenance . . .

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A Future History Of: The Elephant 6 Recording Co. (A Documentary)

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It’s fitting that filmmaker Chad Stockfleth's documentary chronicling the Elephant 6 collective is only available to view via VHS. While tendrils of the loose collective would certainly extend into the new millennium, the roots and spirit of the affair very much reside in the firmament of the late 1990s.

A grainy hour and forty one minutes, A Future History Of: The Elephant 6 Recording Co. paints the screen with color . . .

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Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band :: Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, Sept 1978

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Celebrate the Boss's 70th today with a listen to one of the greatest New Jersey nights ever. This three-hour Passaic epic has been bootlegged endlessly over the decades, but Bruce and co. finally saw fit to release it officially in cleaned-up form this month via Nugs.net. Start to finish, it's the kind of performance that will turn even the hardiest Springsteen skeptics into true believers . . .

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Robert Stillman :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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"There’s a part of me that feels like music is about form and experimentation and learning and working with materials, and then there’s another part of me that knows that music’s just got to be this intuitive, continuous sort of spirit work . . .

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Ana Frango Elétrico :: Promessa e previsões

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Ana Frango Elétrico hails from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Released last week, her new record, Little Electric Chicken Heart, marks the artist's third album in just 18 months. Biographical information online may be scant, but, no matter -- the music speaks for itself . . .

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Transmissions Podcast :: Devendra Banhart/Kristin Hersh/Bill Orcutt

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Equinox edition. Welcome to the September episode of our monthly Transmissions Podcast, our series of conversations with musicians and artists about why—and how—their art exists. This time out, Aquarium Drunkard founder Justin Gage sits down at AD HQ with Devendra Banhart to spin selections and discuss his new album, Ma. Then, Jason P. Woodbury joins Throwing Muses founder, solo artist, and writer Kristin Hersh backstage to discuss future sounds from Throwing Muses and Don’t Suck, Don’t Die, her book about her friend, the departed Vic Chesnutt. And to close out, Jason rings . . .

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Gong Gong Gong :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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On its debut album, Phantom Rhythm, guitar and bass duo Gong Gong Gong draw on the buzzy rock ‘n’ roll bedrock of Bo Diddley and the mesmerizing solos of West African desert blues, twisting up music traditions like Henry Flynt and 75 Dollar Bill, expanding into vast and enveloping territories that sound like a desert rave after sundown . . .

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

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Equinox especial, crossing the celestial equator, heading southward. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W

You can download the Pastiche Beach mix, aired during hour two, via our Patreon, HERE . . .

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The Zombies :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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It’s common knowledge amongst armchair pop music historians that The Beatles album Rubber Soul inspired The Beach Boys’ creative genius Brian Wilson to raise the bar for the group’s seminal sleeper album Pet Sounds and that album, in turn, galvanized The Beatles to respond with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. That’s usually where the factoid ends, but there’s another iconic album that emerged from this friendly transatlantic competition that perfectly encapsulates the zeitgeist of late-sixties pop-psychedelia and continues to inspire musicians around the world: The Zombies’ Odessey & Oracle . . .

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All This is a Record of My Search :: An Appreciation of John Cohen, by Nathan Salsburg

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Musician-folklorist-documentarian-artist John Cohen died September 16 at the age of 87. Here, archivist and guitarist Nathan Salsburg offers a remembrance of his life and work . . .

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Molly Sarlé :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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With her debut solo lp Karaoke Angel Molly Sarlé of Mountain Man has built a monument to her own movements, a West Coast to New York to Appalachia travelogue, but also an internal map vivid with detail and feeling . . .

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Blanks and Postage: Bob Dylan, Totally Normal Buddy

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(welcome to ‘blanks and postage’ — author jesse jarnow’s monthly column for aquarium drunkard highlighting the heady, askew…and beyond . . .

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