Protomartyr: No Passion All Technique

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2012's No Passion All Technique set up Protomartyr as purveyors of midwest existentialism and raging post-punk. Newly reissued and expanded, revisiting the album reveals how much about Protomartyr was in place from the very start. "I thought, 'Here's my chance to get this all out," says frontman Joe Casey . . .

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O Terno :: atrás/além

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atrás/além, O Terno’s 2018 masterwork. The Sao Paolo-based trio’s latest full-length is brimming with psilocybin-friendly arrangements, cavernous grooves, and Tim Bernardes’ intoxicatingly soulful tenor. Not to mention cameos from Shinataro Sakamoto and Devendra Banhart . . .

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

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Lots of coast, lots of canyon. The Aquarium Drunkard Show / SIRIUS XM, channel 35. Wednesdays. 7pm California Time.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Stevie Wonder: Musikladen, 1974 / German Television Broadcast

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If you weren't looking for something reeall funky, WALK AWAY RIGHT NOW. Laid down for German television in 1974, in the midst of one of the strongest four-album runs ever, Steve Wonder and his band (Wonderlove) go hard. Reference aside, ignore the below setlist. This 31 minute performance is very much it's own thing..something to get lost in, as evidenced immediately, via the opening jam . . .

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Transmissions Podcast: Foxygen/Rozi Plain/Juan Wauters

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Welcome to the April edition of the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast—your monthly installment of conversations about music. This episode: Jonathan Rado of Foxygen unpacks "Seeing Other People," Rozi Plain talks Sun Ra, and Juan Wauters on "La Onda de Juan Pablo" and "Introducing Juan Pablo . . .

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From the Eagle Mall to Terrapin Station: A Skeleton Key to Robert Hunter

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Dig this. Jesse Jarnow on "The Giant's Harp," Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter's mysterious novel set in the expanded "Terrapin Station" universe and how it connects to a lost suite of 1968-1969 Dead tunes by Jerry Garcia . . .

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Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico :: Le Bataclan, Paris 1972

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“This is a song about copping drugs in New York...”

Taste the whip. Captured in January 1972, a year and half following Lou Reed's hard exit from the Velvet Underground, we find ourselves at Le Bataclan theatre, Paris, France. The occasion marked a semi-impromptu reunion of the former VU bandmates. For a night, anyway. Recorded via the club's soundboard, and broadcasted on the French television program, Pop2, the fourteen track setlist finds the trio pulling from their individual solo catalogs, as well as vintage VU chestnuts ("The Black Angel's Death Song . . .

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Jerry David DeCicca: Bruce Springsteen’s “Hello Sunshine”

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Songwriter Jerry David DeCicca has never been shy when it comes to Bruce Springsteen. Whether that means discussing the artist’s work through the lens of mental health care or offering up a fine rendition of the Boss balled “If I Should Fall Behind” for Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions series, DeCicca’s Springsteen fandom runs deep . . .

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Iggy Pop :: Fire Girl (Demo)

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Despite its status being Iggy Pop’s best selling album, the 1986 David Bowie produced Blah-Blah-Blah has not fared near as well in terms of posterity. Critically speaking, anyway. Big on sleek 80’s era production, Pop has largely distanced himself from the work in subsequent years. And while some of the criticism of the now dated production is not without merit, there are some gems to be had in this largely forgotten album. Tracks such as “Isolation” and “Baby, It Can’t Fall” benefit tremendously from Bowie’s backing vocal arrangements (despite Wikipedia’s . . .

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John Coltrane :: Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings

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Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings compiles every song Coltrane cut as a bandleader in that pivotal year, and captures him at a crucial stage in his journey, his first true attempt to will his sax into new territory . . .

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1970s Japanese Jazz Mixtape 3 / Jazz-funk, Soul Jazz, Fusion & Beyond

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These are not to be missed. The culmination of the Osaka based selector Dckn's three-part exploration mining the various sub-strains of Japanese jazz in the 1970s. And be sure to dig into volumes one, and two . . .

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Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society: Mandatory Reality

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Slow down. That's the message that pulses, softly, insistently, and repeatedly, through the runtime of Mandatory Reality, the new album from composer and bassist Joshua Abrams and his group Natural Information Society: "For me, it gives the musicians the opportunity to slow down, to try and take the approach of savoring what we're building together. If we can get to that space, you notice the focus broadens and zooms in at the same time . . .

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Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars: Sewele

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The record has a kind of strange outsider art beauty about it that’s welcoming and inviting in its eccentricity. Big buoyant rhythms humming about streaks of strange nocturnal neon splendor. The Stars’ spaced-out soul mingling casually with their earnest and lo-fi approach to highlife garage rock . . .

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Craig Finn’s I Need a New War: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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I Need a New War brings to end the trilogy Craig Finn started in 2015 with Faith in the Future and continued with 2017's We All Want the Same Things, a triptych sidestepping the hard rock glory of Finn's band the Hold Steady in favor of quieter, more introspective sounds and stories. Finn's always written about hard luck characters, but increasingly, his lens centers more on the aftermath of the action than the action itself . . .

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