Catching Up With Juan Wauters

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If Juan Wauters didn’t exist, New York would have to invent him. The Uruguayan-born musician moved to the city with his family as a teenager and has called Queens his home ever since. As a songwriter — first with his punk band The Beets, and, since 2014, as a solo artist — Wauters exemplifies a strange kind of charm that seems distinct to New York: His work is smart, flinty, and not naive to the worst ways of the world. His records are recorded quietly and with sparing instrumentation, as if he’s trying his best to respect a sleeping . . .

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Rob Stoner :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Journeyman bassist Rob Stoner has played with nearly every rock & roll legend you could name, from Bob Dylan to Chuck Berry and Link Wray. Today at AD, he shines a light on the fact, fiction, and myth of Martin Scorsese's Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story. "He's always trying to put people on, to put people off his trail . . .

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Mack Porter :: Peace on You

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Sheathed in obscurity following its 1972 release in Italy, Peace on You – the sole long-player from Ghana’s Mack Porter – is a true outlier gem of blues, soul, and psychedelic rock. With its dramatic David Axelrod-esque arrangements and Porter’s blurry, mirage-like lines between Hendrix soul and doomy Sabbath riffs, the record exists on a plane of rarity entirely its own . . .

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Sandro Perri :: Soft Landing

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Last year, Sandro Perri returned with In Another Life, his first proper long-player in the better part of a decade, and a self-proclaimed experiment in “infinite songwriting.” Now Perri has turned around with something of a companion piece: an extension of his immeasurable pop sensibilities in the form of an album entitled Soft Landing . . .

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Ruth Garbus :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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We recently caught up with singer-songwriter Ruth Garbus to delve deeper into the gorgeous, greyscale world she spins on her new lp, Kleinmeister. Garbus’ hyper-specific lyrics are rendered timeless when delivered in her expressive mezzo-soprano and supported by the thrum of her signature rhythm guitar playing. This latest record highlights these two forces at their most bare, and draws upon a diverse array of influences . . .

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Rolling Stones :: Jah Is Not Dead (1979)

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How you like your Stones? Late seventies debauched and nasty? Us too.

Dig this: Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Disco (outtakes '75-'79). '...a very selective sampling of Ron Wood era outtakes, focusing on the band’s half-formed funk/disco/jam persona...long, unedited basic takes of songs that were finished and released between ’75 and ’81 . . .

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Screamin’ Jay Hawkins :: The Bizarre Years

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A new collection from Real Gone Music, "Screamin' Jay Hawkins: The Bizarre Years," plucks selections from his albums for the imprint, confirming that right up until the very end, Hawkins was interested in theatrical provocation, gross-out humor, and wild antics . . .

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Tinariwen :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Tinariwen's eighth album, "Amadjar," was conceived on the road. Following an appearance Taragalte Festival in the Moroccan Sahara, the group traveled to Mauritania trailed by their French production team, in a camper van. Songs were put together during this road trip in a traditional Tamasheq manner, built up via conversations and playing around campfires . . .

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

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Tide times. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time. Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Shintaro Sakamoto :: Boat

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Japanese singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shintaro Sakamoto continues to mold his muse, via the release of the "Boat" 7". Even better news? Sakamoto is slated to hit the US next month with a handful of live dates on both coasts. A rare stateside treat . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Mikal Cronin (Third Session)

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California singer-songwriter Mikal Cronin returns with his third Lagniappe Session. If by design, coincidence or otherwise, Cronin's temporarily adopted home of Idyllwild, CA (nestled in the San Jacinto Mountains east of Los Angeles), seems to have bled into the relaxed atmosphere of the following covers. Put a glass to the wall and listen in, as Cronin transmutes a late 90s pop-radio staple, paints a Replacements tune in Moog and brass, and salutes the late, great Blaze Foley . . .

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Weeping Bong Band :: II

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A loose-knit Western Mass/Upstate NY psych supergroup featuring members of Wet Tuna, Tower Recordings, Pigeons, Viewer, and Crystalline Roses, Weeping Bong Band transports listeners to some extremely spacious zones on their second lp . . .

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Transmissions Podcast :: Lower Dens/Rain Phoenix

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Welcome to a late summer edition of the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast. On this episode, we’ve got two talks taped at AD HQ in Los Angeles . . .

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

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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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