Rich Ruth :: Calming Signals

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Calming Signals is the latest ambient offering from promising Nashville, TN-based composer, Rich Ruth. On the album’s mesmerizing opener, “Coming Down,” a squall of guitars and bleary synthesizers weave in and out of hypnotic swells of bass and escalating saxophone. Eventually the groove crumbles and the roar intensifies, though there is still serenity to be found amidst the clamor . . .

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Olden Yolk :: The AD Interview

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Speaking with Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer of Olden Yolk feels like a great conversation with friends where one alleyway of thought leads into another. It’s a feeling similar to their latest album, Living Theatre, a gorgeous record that funnels a broad collection of musical influences, but also ends up sounding like some of the best of Yo La Tengo’s gentler moments . . .

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Lower Dens :: The AD Interview

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Earlier this summer, Lower Dens' Jana Hunter stopped by AD hq in Los Angeles as the guest selector on our SIRIUS/XM show. Several months out from the release of the group's fourth LP (The Competition, September 6th), the conversation reflected on Hunter's solo beginnings, the formation of Lower Dens and the project's subsequent sonic evolution over the past ten years. Also discussed were the intervening years between 2015's Escape From Evil, Hunter's experience with gender dysphoria, and coming out the other side . . .

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Blanks And Postage: How To Weird Your Mind

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Several recent books provide counterpoints to Michael Pollan’s best-selling How To Change Your Mind. “Psychedelics for normies” in writer Alison Hussey’s memorable phrase, Pollan’s 2018 book almost instantly transformed the dialogue around the substances with its clear and direct arguments about their miraculous power to heal trauma. Only on occasion, though, does it entertain a present or future in which psychedelics might be used meaningfully outside the medical model, or acknowledge the ways that’s occurred in the past. How To Change Your Mind is a skeptical book, and draws some of its power from this . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 7 :: Rocky Mountain Time

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Welcome to the seventh installment of Unearthed, a series of thematic mixes that travel deep into dusty vintage zones to dig up bootleg gold.

For the latest Unearthed, we've gathered together a totally eclectic sampling of Mile High sounds, ranging from lowdown blues crawls to futuristic synth-pop, from blazing funk-rock to jangly Britfolk . . .

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Talk Show / Aquarium Drunkard: In Conversation With Author Timothy Denevi on Hunter S. Thomson / Los Angeles / August 15 @ Gold Diggers

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TALK SHOW returns tonight - August 15 - at Gold Diggers in east Hollywood. 8pm / Free.

Your host Justin Gage in conversation with Timothy Denevi, author of 2018’s FREAK KINGDOM: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American . . .

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

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If you ask me my name, it's High-Low-Jack in the game. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm PST, Wednesdays + on-demand . . .

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Eamon Fogarty :: I Am The Cosmos (Chris Bell)

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Covering former Big Star guitarist Chris Bell's 1978 ballad "I Am the Cosmos," progressive art-rocker Eamon Fogarty manages to thread the needle, honoring the original's ache while also tearing it apart via a Sonny Sharrock-style free jazz freakout . . .

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Boots In Transit: An Appreciation of the Dead on Cassette

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Author’s note: this article originally appeared in 2012 on a now-defunct website called Dead Journalist. It has been salvaged, edited and updated for Aquarium Drunkard. - j jackson toth . . .

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Oren Ambarchi :: Simian Angel

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AD contributor Tyler Wilcox has spent the last few weeks trying to wrap his head around Oren Ambarchi's latest, a collaboration with famed Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista. But Simian Angel is slippery — it sounds different every time you spin it. New details emerge, textures shift, grooves come undone. What feels soothing and meditative on one listen seems to skirt the edges of disquieting dissonance on the next . . .

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Tyvek :: Changing Patterns of Protective Coating/Deadbeat Beat :: How Far

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Two new releases from the Detroit underground, Tyvek's Changing Patterns of Protective Coating and Deadbeat Beat's How Far, trade in surrealism and inspired scuzz, showcasing the bruised vibrancy of the city's experimental punk scene . . .

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Don’t Forget To Die: A Few Reflections on David Berman

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August 7th, tragic news broke that David Berman, poet and leader of Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, had passed away. A chronicler of despair and beauty, Bermans' work casts a long shadow. Here, Wooden Wand's James Jackson Toth reflects on his singular stature and remembers the man . . .

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

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It's Wednesday night, and we're setting your Penfield Mood Organ for 11. Sliding of the coast of California, weird tales from the pacific rim -- The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XM. Channel 35, 7pm PST, Wednesdays + on-demand . . .

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Did the Needle Just Skip :: 30 Years of Oh Mercy

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As Bob Dylan's swampy and haunted classic Oh Mercy turns 30 years old, producer and musician Daniel Lanois reflects on the strange magic he helped create in New Orleans, driven by a willingness to explore seemingly contradictory spaces: "I wanted to make sure that that the music was trying to destroy the singer at the same time as support him . . .

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Terry Allen :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Terry Allen is a maker of things. A sculptor, illustrator, playwright, collagist, and, perhaps most famously, a singer and songwriter who, over the last five decades, has amassed an extensive catalog of avant-country gold. His 1975 album Juarez, a striking and brilliant concept album that plays as a kind of sunburned, southwestern Badlands, and 1979’s sprawling Lubbock (On Everything), a rollicking and wry send-up of Allen’s West Texas hometown, are rightly held up as unimpeachable masterpieces of proto-americana music. Each have recently received extensive reissues by the North Carolina label Paradise of Bachelors, who will . . .

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