Michael Nau :: No Quit

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If you’ve spent any time listening to the Aquarium Drunkard show via satellite lately, you’ll know that Michael Nau’s “No Quit” has brought us continued respite from the quickly thickening air and ever-rising temperatures. The Cumberland, MD-based maestro's latest is the perfect summer elixir; his ethereal tenor kite-flying atop a gust of blown-out of organ, synthesizer and percussion. Like a lost Richard Swift gem. Is there any bigger compliment . . .

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Akron/Family :: Collected Recordings

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It’s been six years since Akron/Family went on an indefinite hiatus. Following the release of 2007’s epic Love is Simple, founding member Ryan Vanderhoof quit amicably to live in a Buddhist Dharma commune, while the band ventured on into even more psychedelic and experimental territory.

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Catching Up With Lou Barlow

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Lou Barlow has turned the last decade into something of a renaissance period. After the successful (and really good) reunion of the original Dinosaur Jr. lineup, Barlow also reignited the long dormant Sebadoh in 2013. Now the trio is back with their second album since reuniting, Act Surprised . . .

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Neil Young + Stray Gators :: Tuscaloosa

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Intentional or not, Neil Young picked a rather poignant time to release a live album recorded in Alabama—and given his prickly history with the state (and with the South at large), Tuscaloosa feels like it’s arriving in the same way that so much of Shakey’s career has: just when we need it . . .

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland :: La Vita

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Our fascination with Beverly Glenn-Copeland is no secret, from the jazzy folk of his 1970 debut to his 1986 minimalist electronic masterpiece, "Keyboard Fantasies . . .

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

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More tales from the pacific rim. Outré California.

The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. Wednesday's / 7pm PST & on-demand.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Heat Wave (Volume 3) – A 7″ Mixtape

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Several years back, Los Angeles collector and dj Daniel T told us about a regular series he was starting with fellow head, Wyatt Potts. It became Heat Wave -- a weekly dj night in east Hollywood focusing on (often rare) slices of international funk, soul, disco and beyond. It's grown (a lot) and is now a second home to a global coterie of visiting DJs from the likes of S. America, Europe and Asia. But this week is different. It's just the resident founders and they're only spinning from their 7" collection . . .

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Craig Leon :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Craig Leon spent the '70s helping define the sound of New York City's punk and experimental explosions. His new album, The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon, features new recordings that return to the celestial focus of his album 1981 album "Nommos," blurring distinctions between minimalism, electronic folk, and New Age . . .

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Private Pressers: Warren Winter’s Band / Merry Airbrakes / Bill Bissett & th Mandan Massacre

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Rescued from the underground! Check out a handful of highly recommended private press gems, recently reissued.

An oddball masterpiece, lost in the 1980s — Warren Winter’s Band’s Crossbar Hotel casts a melancholy eye on the “me” decade. Masterminded by songwriter Edward Winterhalder (Warren Winter is a pseudonym of sorts), the album might strike you as a bit normie on first listen, thanks to its almost-slick production values. But give it a little more attention . . .

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Bill Evans: Evans In England / Wes Montgomery: Back On Indiana Avenue

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Hot on the heels of last year’s revelatory Eric Dolphy release, Resonance Records returns this spring with two essential sets of previously unheard jazz bliss, all presented with characteristic care and love . . .

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Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (Documentary)

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For those interested in the potent alchemy that was the brew of bandleader, philosopher, player and poet, Sun Ra, filmmaker Robert Mugge’s documentary "A Joyful Noise" is essential. Released in 1980, the hour long film captures Sun Ra’s Arkestra performing in Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Baltimore, along with behind the scenes footage of the players at rest, rehearsal and in interview.

Stream the film, in its entirety, below . . .

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Connan Mockasin: Auckland, New Zealand, April 2015 / Sundae Session

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Over the past decade the Kiwi artist (née Connan Tant Hosford) has called California, England, and, at present, Japan home. One thing that hasn’t changed? Hosford’s singular fealty to a sound that can only be described as his own. There have been numerous imitators since, yet Mockasin’s homegrown surrealist psychedelia, and exploration thereof, has remained both constant and in flux . . .

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Future Language: The Dimensions of VON LMO

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Lori Felker’s documentary about no wave/space rock weirdo Von LMO is a true labor of love. Like many other music docs about obscure or forgotten acts, it began from Felker’s fandom, but unlike most of the others, this film acknowledges its subject’s faults and often even calls into question whether he’s worthy of celebration. I’m glad Felker kept going because Von LMO’s flaws are as fascinating as his strengths . . .

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Aaron Beckum :: Obsolete

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Los Angeles, lo-fi cosmic country, newcomer Aaron Beckum has the pyramids on his mind. It’s here, in a metaphysical Egypt, the crooner drowns a platitude of sorrows in terra-cotta whiskey amongst the monument's 2.3 million stone blocks…all the while counseled and kept company by Sphinx. Naturally . . .

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