All One Song :: Rosali on “I Don’t Want To Talk About It”

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This week is going to be slightly different. This week, we’re talking about a song that was not written by Neil Young. Nevertheless, it’s a song that is very much a part of the Shakey multiverse: Danny Whitten’s “I Don’t Want To Talk About It,” which appeared on Crazy Horse’s debut LP in 1970. Here to guide us through the impossibly lonesome landscapes of “I Don’t Want To Talk About It” is singer-songwriter Rosali Middleman — or just Rosali if you prefer. She’s been a longtime fixture over at Aquarium Drunkard. But even . . .

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Kenny Barron :: Lucifer

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Word that pianist Kenny Barron's 1973 debut as leader Sunset to Dawn was getting a welcome reissue this year sent us back to some of his other releases from that period. Most intriguing among them is his ultra-rare, never-reissued 1975 fusion experiment Lucifer, an album that mixes acid funk, sensitive balladeering, synthesizer experiments and queasy psychedelia. Practically impossible to acquire but eminently worth hearing, Barron never sounded as freaky as he does here . . .

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Up In My Mind: An August Mixtape

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One hundred and twenty-seven minutes of strange and mercurial music – slow burning, sprawling, smoggy, and ephemeral. 60s Kenyan folk and Thai garage rock; late 70s drum machine gospel from Inkster, Michigan, and private press psych from the Pacific Northwest; mid 80s Congolese electronic soul and Senegalese art-funk; Zambian highlife circa 1991 and experimental computer music made in a juvenile detention center in modern day Albuquerque. The same Hawa Daisy Moore mp3 files that were used in the inaugural Blue August Moon eleven years ago – the crackling tropical oasis showing signs of increased deterioration. These are just some of . . .

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You’re Future’s In Space: Eddie Harris on Atlantic (A Mixtape)

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From the late 60s through the mid-70s, Eddie Harris indulged in a string of progressively freakier, beautifully executed records that smeared boundaries, blew minds and sold poorly. This mixtape collects two and a half hours of the most adventurous moments from those heady Atlantic days . . .

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Prairiewolf :: Upslope Brewing Company, Boulder, CO (7/5/25)

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While Phish was playing a three-day run at Folsom Field at the University of Colorado this past Fourth of July weekend, the cats in Prairiewolf were playing an epic two-hour set at a brewery on the other side of Boulder. A pristine recording of the show catches them unspooling their already-potent album tracks into stretched-out improvisational odysseys . . .

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Various Artists :: Maybe I’m Dreaming

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With twenty selections culled from private press relics only, Maybe I'm Dreaming is a grab bag that feels as congruous as it does eclectic. From the Anthology Recordings diggers who brought you essential previous compilations like Sad About The Times, this collection is a self-described conscious detour, pairing synth-driven gems and reggae rhythms with rootsy AOR folk rock. Like a mixtape from a reliable old friend, Maybe I'm Dreaming feels curated with purpose and delivered with a panoramic reach . . .

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Blake Mills & Pino Palladino :: That Wasn’t A Dream

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That Wasn't A Dream, the new album by Blake Mills & Pino Palladino, was recorded in a series of live sessions at Sound City Studios, and works like a redux jazz version of Mills atmospheric, cinematic, dream-like aesthetics, best showcased in his 2023 slow indie gem Jelly Road . . .

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Sunking :: I Don’t Like My Telephone

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A spin-off of adventurous jazz fusion band High Pulp, sunking prioritizes brief, transient grooves and restless rhythms. On their third album, the trio enlists guest vocalists from their native L.A. scene and cuts down on their previous sprawl. Hazy, chewy, curious and cool, sunking has made an album for endless weird summers, ideal for indoor living, tiny twilights and evening escapades . . .

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Vish Khanna of Kreative Kontrol :: “The Creative Motivation Remains the Same”

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This week, music journalist Vish Khanna published the 1,000th episode of his long running Kreative Kontrol podcast, a fascinating conversation with the ever-prolific Ty Segall. And while lesser broadcasters might take a few weeks off for a leisurely victory lap, Khanna instead just got to work putting the finishing touches on episode 1,001 (also published this week). Khanna joins us to discuss the milestone . . .

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Catching Up With Adrian Sherwood

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While collaboration has been a hallmark of Adrian Sherwood’s storied career, he is currently stepping out on his own with a full-length The Collapse of Everything and an EP The Grand Designer, his first solo efforts in 13 years. We recently connected with him to discuss this new work, his ever-evolving set of studio tools, his history in music and his lifelong commitment to learn and grow . . .

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

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Tropical orientation. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. No static at all.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Silver Synthetic

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Tracked in New Orleans at Bruisey Peets’ Lake Vista compound on a Tascam 388, for their debut Lagniappe Session Silver Synthetic add their steady brand of choogle to Coney Island Baby era Lou Reed, some late '70s Chris Spedding and, naturally, give a nod to the mount Rushmore of the genre via JJ Cale's "Wish I Had Not Said That." Hit with a near city wide black out while recording, the band packed their car full of gear and went looking for electricity. The lights were on at Funky Nola LLC, where they finished out the tunes . . .

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All One Song :: Ilyas Ahmed on “Arc”

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Welcome back to All One Song: A Neil Young Podcast. We’re spending the summer talking to some great musicians and writers about their one favorite Neil Young song. Or at least one of their favorite songs. Here this week to examine the mysteries and magic of Arc is Ilyas Ahmed. The Portland, OR-based musician has been making consistently fascinating music for well over two decades now, whether all on his own or in close collaboration with fellow travelers like Grouper, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Golden Retriever, Dania Shihab and many more. He also serves as guitarist in Grails, an . . .

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Ryan Davis :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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We caught up with Davis in the run-up to the release of his new LP New Threats from the Soul to discuss his first band State Champion, the different struggles he faced in making the two albums, the comedy in his songwriting, and more . . .

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Fruit Bats’ Spelled in Bones at 20

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Twenty years ago this month, Chicago songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eric D. Johnson dropped his third album under his Fruit Bats moniker. Spelled in Bones took the charming indie folk melodies and landscape painting lyrics of his earlier work and spun them into a swirling, hook-laden power pop masterpiece. The album, with its sepia-tinged memories of youth and lost love and its apprehensions of fate and the future, found Johnson staring adulthood in the face. Two decades on and it has lost none of its punch . . .

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