The Lagniappe Sessions :: Hand Habits

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Hand Habits, the working sobriquet of Meg Duffy, first entered our sphere in 2015 backing Kevin Morby at a house party. Their weapon of choice is the guitar, an instrument they wield with aplomb. However, to focus too heavily on this one attribute is to miss the greater whole of the songwriter . . .

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Tim Presley’s White Fence :: Phone

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The artists that tend to intrigue and hold our attention are rarely one dimensional. They build worlds. They create myths. Often they savvy the importance of both—for themselves as well as their audience. Tim Presley understands this. Having followed his work for more than a decade, through various permutations of his craft/muse, he continues to evolve via his paintings, his music, and his very presentation of the self.

2019 introduced the artist's latest incarnation, appending his full name name to the existing cloak of White Fence. See: become a member or log in.

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Bandcamping :: Winter 2019

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Our quarterly Bandcamping roundup is back for 2019. As a digital institution it’s hard to beat Bandcamp. It’s ridiculously easy to use, it puts money directly into artists’ (and labels’) pockets and there’s a seemingly endless amount of music to discover there -- new, old and in-between. Of course, that endlessness can be a little overwhelming, so here are 10 recommended releases to dig into. words / t wilcox

Michael O’Shea - S/T: A necessary . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Jonathan Wilson (Sawmill, Volume 1)

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Sawmill, Vol 1 is a collection of traditional songs and a few songs I have written, all recorded live to cassette on acoustic and nylon classical guitar. This is a handpicked selection for Aquarium Drunkard from that collection . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Guide to ECM Records: The New Millennium

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Welcome to the third installment of the Aquarium Drunkard Guide to ECM Records: The New Millenium. Writer James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand) explores the label's contemporary output, that of "a boutique label in the guise of a music industry behemoth . . .

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The Cosmic Range :: The Gratitude Principle

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The Cosmic Range’s second LP finds the Toronto-based collective exploring all sorts of zones: dense Bitches Brew-worthy jams, soothing astral travels, freeform freakouts, Afrobeat groovers. Miles Davis called this stuff “New Directions in Jazz” back in the day. And while the approach is not so new anymore, it’s still fresh. Led by multi-instrumentalist Matthew “Doc” Dunn, the band is familiar to some as the backing group on US Girl’s 2018 release In A Poem Unlimited. But as adventurous as the sonics were on that stellar LP,  . . .

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Modern Nature :: Supernature

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Following the sudden disbandment of Ultimate Painting, Jack Cooper returns with a new, three-song EP under the name Modern Nature. Joined by keyboardist Will Young, drummer Aaron Neveu (Woods), cellist Ruper Gillett, and saxophonist Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers), Cooper tell us: “The band is so new, it's hard to say who's in and who isn't. Every song we record or musician we gain, another door seems to open on a route that's . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 4 :: Jerry Garcia & Friends at the Matrix, 1966-71

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The array of sounds Garcia made at the Matrix is dizzying, from garage rock to jazz fusion to bluegrass to cosmic funk…and beyond. Download and enjoy . . .

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Jay Bolotin :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Listening to Jay Bolotin's mysterious songs, it's easy to hear why people like Mickey Newbury, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, and other Music City luminaries lauded the Kentucky native's work . . .

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Crème De Menthe // A Sound Collage

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If you've been around a minute, you'll remember the original iteration of the AD Transmissions podcast, a format we phased into our present (more "traditional") model in 2016. But this? It's a return to the sound collage framework . . .

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Kevin Morby: Live At Gold Diggers

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In 2013 Kevin Morby released his first work as a solo artist, Harlem River. As a debut, the record laid the foundation of an aesthetic framework he's continued to mine and augment over three consecutive albums. Morby's songwriting routes itself in traditional structures, yet pulls from a wide palette -- ranging from the linear to the abstract. It was the latter that was on display last month in Los Angeles . . .

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Joe Tossini & Friends :: If I Should Fall In Love

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...I dropped the needle, disappeared into the couch and let saccharine waves of perverse lounge cascade over me. I may have even closed my eyes (poetic license). I have no idea of the artist’s intent, or what they were aiming for, as I’d already tossed the accompanying press materials. But often this is a good thing. The record works fine as-is. Whatever it is . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Bonny Doon

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Bonny Doon's pace is like the Mitch Hedberg joke, "I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin' and hook up with them later." Hedberg's delivery, like Bonny Doon's, belied craft: it might be a joke about . . .

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Tonstartssbandht: Livin’ In Hope

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Nestled neatly at the end of Mexican Summer’s compilation, A Decade Deeper, celebrating the label’s first ten years of “living, breathing, and believing,” is a new all-time jammer from Orlando’s Tonstartssbandht. The cover, "Livin' In Hope," finds brothers Andy and Edwin White harmonizing in grand spaciousness about a journey from the country to the city. It transports the listener to a zone of languid Arcadian gospel-psych. Lyrically rooted in . . .

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

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Tonight and on-demand. An alternate history of popular music if, say, Yaphet Koto, The Electric Piano Underground and Tim Maia reigned supreme . . .

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