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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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~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

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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

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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

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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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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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