Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard every Wednesday at 7pm PST with encore broadcasts on-demand via the SIRIUS/XM app.
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In addition to his music projects (Holy Sons, Om, Grails, Lilacs & Champagne), the tireless Emil Amos has been cranking out one of the most captivating podcasts of the past few years. With Drifter’s Sympathy, Amos tells “disturbing and often humiliating stories about growing up in a small town in the ‘90s,” while outlining the “birth and trials of the ‘outsider,’ the classic loner archetype in all cultures and literature . . .
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For fans of adventurous rock and roll in the 1980s, there was no better place to be than Maxwell's. The Hoboken, NJ club (which closed its doors for good in 2013) consistently hosted the best and brightest artists of the era, often before they graduated to much larger venues. For our latest Unearthed bootleg mix, we've gathered together some choice audience tapes recorded at Maxwell's between 1980 and 1990. There's visionary jangle, guitar freakouts, breezy balladry and much more. And if this whets your appetite for more, get thee to the McKenzie Tapes site (where several . . .
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Lagniappe (la·gniappe) noun ˈlan-ˌyap,’ – 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus.
Since 2012, Trummors have released three psychedelic, yet breezy, albums of dusty country rock aided by a who’s who of West Coast players. Anchored by cosmic mainstays David Lerner and Anne Cunningham, the crack teams they regularly recruit hearken back to a time when an album's support cast was frequently become a member or log in.
Ear pop candy. Here's one we've been playing on the radio show for past the 18 months...yet somehow failed to pimp here on the ye olde information superhighway. Let's remedy that right now. While we don't have the Jackettes CV in front of us (pretty sure they are from Florida), here are some sonic contemporaries: imagine a frothy swirl of early Dr. Dog, Richard Swift, Foxygen and Whitney. Tastes good, no . . .
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Forsyth digs into the genesis of his hometown project, Jerry’s On Front — a small storefront performance space in Philadelphia housed in a building he renovated over the past couple of years . . .
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On April 12, Mama Bird Recording Co. releases Damien Jurado's 14th album, In the Shape of a Storm. Ahead of its official release, Aquarium Drunkard is pleased to share a full stream of the album, accompanied by AD's own Jason P. Woodbury's essay about the new album . . .
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Accompanied by his dad and brother, along with Vietnamese musician Minh Nguyen, IC-01 sheds yet a another light on Nielson’s evolving muse. Still psychedelic? Indeed, but here the seven eponymously titled tracks mine a different vein, eschewing Nielson’s preternatural pop instincts for a mercurial amalgam of free jazz, atmospheric space funk, ambient and more . . .
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In the late 1970s, after getting his financial house in relative order, David Bowie had a firmer grip on his studio recordings than many of his contemporaries. While Bob Dylan’s outtakes and demos would keep trickling out on bootlegs for years, the “unofficial” Bowie releases, 1976-2016, with some exceptions (see below), are greatly confined to concert tapes . . .
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Seeing Stars, the second salvaged Please album, is the real gem of the two—a surprise stunner of organ-driven, hyper-melodic psych-pop that would feel right at home on Jagjaguwar or Sacred Bones today . . .
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If you were to tell someone in the United States that you cut your teeth as a musician playing weddings, they would probably have a very specific idea of what that meant. And it wouldn’t sound anything like Mdou Moctar . . .
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Outré California. It’s Wednesday night. The Aquarium Drunkard Show.
34.0522° N, 118.2437° W
New music from Cate Le Bon, Yves Jarvis, Jessica Pratt, Michelle Blades, Michael Nau & more. Onwards . . .
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Mac McCaughan – cosmic synth master?! Those aren’t words I expected to write about the Superchunk/Portastatic frontman in 2019, but here we are. New Rain Duets, his just-released collab LP with Mary Lattimore, showcases Mac’s impressively adventurous synthesizer textures alongside the cascading shimmers of Lattimore’s effects-laden harp. Recorded live at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC, the end result is kinda like a dream team-up of Terry Riley and Alice Coltrane . . .
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Elkhorn, the powerful instrumental duo of Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner are back with two slabs of transcendent goodness. Only this time around, they’re not just a duo. On these simultaneously recorded / individually released LPs, Sheppard and Gardner have brought along two ringers: the enigmatic guitar slinger Willie Lane and the freakishly talented percussionist Ryan . . .
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Buckle up, kids - this thing takes no prisoners. Hailing from Tokyo, the Dynamite Masters Blues Quartet (DMBQ) do exactly as their name suggests: conjure up some seriously punishing wizard psych, and then blow that shit up. Dig this visually apt piece for "No Things," culled from the band's 2018 double lp, Keenly, released become a member or log in.