Dawn Patrol :: Little Wings

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With a coastline of 840 some odd miles in California, it should come as no surprise that many of the artists we revere at Aquarium Drunkard seek refuge and inspiration in the Pacific blue with a surfboard underfoot. Enter new column devoted to the surf: Dawn Patrol. First on the list - Kyle Field aka Little Wings . . .

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Enhet För Fri Musik’s Det finns ett hjärta som för dig & Gothenburg, Sweden

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In August 2017 I visited Gothenburg, Sweden for the second time in my life. The first time was 12 years earlier when I had spent a grand total of six hours poking around the area immediately outside the train station before catching my next train. This time around I’d be spending several days there, playing as part of a festival and meeting, in person for the first time, Matthias Andersson.

Matthias spotted me getting off the train. He is very tall, handsome and walks with a distinct limp he acquired from a serious illness a few . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 8 :: Pacific High

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Our semi-regular bootleg mix series returns in 2020 with another selection of murky and magical sounds: Fillmore West-ready boogies, mystical mantras, bloozy workouts and deeply stoned jams, plenty of Dead-adjacent action . . .

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Leo Takami :: Unknown

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Tokyo-based composer and guitarist Leo Takami’s new album, Felis Catus and Silence, sees release next month via Unseen Worlds. An enthusiastically imaginative blend of new age sounds, Takami shapes Windham Hill-inspired guitar compositions with elements of jazz, minimalism, classical music, Japanese gagaku, and ambient textures . . .

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All Things Are Quite Silent :: A Mixtape

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As the nights turn colder and quieter, like clockwork an internal alarm shifts our headspace towards the sounds of 1970's UK folk rock. Pastoral aural blankets of snow ... a soundtrack of interior warmth giving way to a reflective, yet vivid inner world of quietude, reflection and self-discovery. As a genre, it's come to encapsulate what winter represents. / j romo

Third Ear Band - Stone Circle ++ Dando Shaft - Rain ++ Keith . . .

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Neil Young :: Mexico

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It’s looking more and more likely that Neil Young will release Homegrown in early 2020. Of course, it’s easy to be skeptical—Neil has been teasing this long-lost 1975 masterpiece for the past decade at least. But there appears to be a test pressing, which is promising! First, a little background from some of the key players . . .

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Manfred Mann Chapter Three :: One Way Glass

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It's 2020, and while nobody's saying there isn't a place for "Blinded By The Light," to pigeonhole the nuanced greatness that was Manfred Mann solely on their FM radio classic-rock-staple (and Springsteen cover), is egregious. We overheard said blasphemy over the holidays. So (!), case in point -- "One Way Glass," via the newly christened group's 1969 eponymous debut. Lots to dig into here, but this brassy and chugging tough . . .

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Transmissions Podcast :: Don Muro/The Replacements, Dead Man’s Pop

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On this episode, we sit down with educator, synth pioneer, and all around genuine soul Don Muro. Then, Josh Neas offers a personal reflection on Dead Man's Pop, the 2019 Replacement boxset that creates a kind of alternate timeline version of the band's 1989 lp Don't Tell a Soul . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Radio Holiday Nog Spectacular

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Go ahead and dip heavily into that Charles Mingus eggnog. It’s the holidays, you’ll need it. Tonight, suit up, it’s Aquarium Drunkard’s annual seasonal spectacular . . .

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

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No candy canes just yet. The Aquarium Drunkard Show. SIRIUS/XM radio ~ Channel 35. Wednesdays / 7pm California time + on-demand . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2019 Year In Review

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Once again, our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2019 . . .

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Blanks And Postage: Like A Road Leading Home – The Elusive Sarah Fulcher and the Less Elusive Jerry Garcia

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Of the many improvisers to regularly share a stage with Jerry Garcia, almost none were women. A new archival release from 1973 brings attention to one of Garcia’s least known collaborators, Sarah Fulcher, who was far more than a back-up vocalist during her roughly half-year with Garcia and Merl Saunders’s unnamed club band. By turns mysterious, confusing, and divisive among Grateful Dead tape collectors, Fulcher was a jamming member of a jamming band. And while recordings don’t always capture her voice sympathetically, listened to with more modern ears, Sarah Fulcher is a fearless improviser . . .

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Elevated Rail :: Ancient to the Future

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Jazz may have been invented in New Orleans, but you could argue it didn’t take flight until settling in Chicago after the Great Migration. From there, it’s pretty easy to make a case that it didn’t fully achieve lift off until Sonny Blount’s arrival in the city in 1946 and subsequent name change(s). By the time Le Sony'r Ra was leading the Space Trio in ‘52, the entire dynamic of what could be considered Jazz was shifting. After he, then known as Sun Ra, moved the eternally-inspiring Arkestra to New York . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: The Districts

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Save the date: March 2020 -- the return of The Districts via their fourth lp, You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere. Gearing up for the release, the Pennsylvania based quartet donned their Santa caps for this month's installment of the Lagniappe Sessions unpacking a bag of covers ranging from OMD, Tusk era Fleetwood Mac, Psychic TV & more . . .

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