Hot Sick Vile And Fun: New Sounds From San Francisco (A Compilation)

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Sonny Smith is back, this time with a compilation of “great and weird new art happening in San Francisco” on his Rocks In Your Head Records label. Hot Sick And Vile Fun primarly showcases a bumper crop of current day groups that reside in a sort of San Francisco meets Flying Nun vein (Galore, Cindy, Rays), though there are some unexpected and welcome moves . . .

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

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Outré California. Weird tales from the pacific rim. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm PST, Wednesdays + on-demand.

Tonight -- from our vault in LA, two hours of music culled exclusively from a decade of Aquarium Drunkard sessions . . .

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The Song I Hate: Battery Park NYC, July 4th 2008, or Occupy the Sprawl. Extend the Technique . . .

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The arrival of Sonic Youth's Battery Park NYC comes as an opportunity to consider a moment when a previous era was still visible in its twilight—a recent past nevertheless obscured by its break with the present—and to consider what, if any, possibilities for a future of music in opposition . . .

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Mitchell Froom :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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But Froom is also a musician in his own right, and earlier this year he released an album and an EP, both projects designed to help revisit and develop his sense of the studio. The Monkeytree EP features a handful of compositions put together with David Boucher, and the Ether full-length took Froom on a working tour of his synthesizers, exploring a past sense of the future. "There's a layer of plastic over it," Froom says, describing the alternate-timeline vision of what lay ahead . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Six Organs Of Admittance

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For more than two decades, Ben Chasny’s Six Organs of Admittance has taken on many forms, from full-band blowouts to spectral acoustic balladry, from esoteric approaches to free-form explorations. Wherever he goes, he’s always worth following. For his debut Lagniappe Session, Ben has re-imagined three Melvins songs, paying righteous tribute to the long-running Washington state rockers . . .

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Royal Trux :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Aquarium Drunkard spoke with Jennifer Herrema via Skype back before the tour was canceled and in an hour-long interview discussed returning to Royal Trux after an eighteen year hiatus, the somewhat contested recording story behind White Stuff, their almost unbelievable stint on Virgin Records in the 90s, intense bargaining over streaming their back catalogue, and the proclivity of Burger Kings in the U.K . . .

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Tone Scientists :: Tiny Pyramids (Sun Ra)

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This one slipped out quietly as the b-side of a one-off 7" in 2018 - Tone Scientists' cover of Sun Ra's "Tiny Pyramids." True to the 1974 Arkestra original, the ad hoc group ride a heavy Pungi-like groove throughout. With percussion buoyed by jazzist Vince Meghrouni and Tortoise's John Herndon, session producer Mike Watt fills in on bass duties with Pete Mazich on keys. Saturn music endures . . .

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Falco :: Urban Tropical (Extended)

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It’s much, much easier to make a case for the B-Side of Falco’s smash-hit “Rock Me Amadeus” as a bizarro, hopped up seven-minute odyssey than it is to convince anyone that it’s, you know, actually good. And yet, the new wave scat-rap of “Urban Tropical” is more than good. It’s the jam -- a jam with the added bonus of eliciting a collective (if predictable) response of: “THAT Falco?” That Falco, indeed . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Fontaines D.C. / Los Angeles, September 26

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Los Angeles: Aquarium Drunkard Presents Fontaines D.C. at the Teragram Ballroom, September 26. Montreal, post-punk favorites Pottery are the support. This bill will sell out, get 'em now . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Erin Rae

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Erin Rae writes and performs folk music. Folk music highlighted by supremely elegant singing and rich lyrical imagery. Her songs are not the immediate sort; rather they slowly envelop the listener like a dense mountain fog on a humid Tennessee morning. Her work is nothing if not sturdy; classic stories and melodies that will be around long after the big machine has washed away, when we’re all back to just playing music for one another . . .

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Alice Clark :: S/T

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Play this one loud. Brooklyn’s own Alice Clark -- side one, track two, via her self-titled 1972 longplayer. It’s a rendition of Petula Clark’s “Looking At Life” and a meteor of phosphorescent gospel soul. Cool, dewy webs of brass and a jazzed-up orchestra lay down a spacious, welcoming canvas for Clark’s raw power . . .

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Joan Shelley :: Cycle

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The second song released from her upcoming lp Like the River Loves the Sea, Joan Shelley's "Cycle," feels suspended in mid-air, a tale of a romance that keeps finding back itself where it started. "The best music would be a conversation with the divine..." says Shelley. "These songs are partly that conversation, at times through the lens of lovers . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 6 :: 1969 Blend

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

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Khruangbin :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Upon first learning that Khruangbin's next album would be a dub version of their last album, I was confused. I already imagined Khruangbin as a dub version of some imaginary, intermediary group. That’s how otherworldly they seemed. But aside for some atmospheric overdubs, the entirety of their recorded output was recorded live as a trio in a barn in Texas. They’ve fixed that with this latest release, Hasta El Cielo, which finds their most recent album receiving a thorough dub-oscopy with no amount of echo, reverb or heavy low-end spared . . .

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Strand of Oaks :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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On Eraserland, Timothy Showalter dismantles the rock & roll mythology he's devoted much of his Strand of Oaks discography to celebrating. He joins Aquarium Drunkard to discuss ego construction, omniscient narrators, and how the new album both ended and began a new chapter for his longrunning band . . .

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