Scott Hirsch: No No

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“I think of Lost Time Behind the Moon as Scott’s masterpiece, because everything I know about him is in these songs, the groove and the wonder.” — MC Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger)

Scott Hirsch’s HGM bandmate hits the nail on the head regarding the Ojai-based singer/songwriter's new solo album, the follow-up to his 2016 slow-groover, Blue Rider Songs. Hirsch is, as forbearer Doug Sahm was and always will be, about finding the groove. On his new long player, Hirsch carries the musical and spiritual ethos of Sahm . . .

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The Moore Brothers: Winters

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Over the past two decades, The Moore Brothers have quietly built up an unassailable discography. Greg and Thom Moore haven’t quite broken through in a major way, but they’ve picked up some high-profile fans along the way; Pavement’s Spiral Stairs released their 2001 debut on his Amazing Grease label. Joanna Newsom brought them onboard her 2009 opus Have One On Me and subsequent tour (and she returned the favor by contributing harp to the Brothers’ Aptos LP).

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David Byrne :: The Catherine Wheel, ’81

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Revisiting David Byrne's score to "The Catherine Wheel" (1981). Like Remain In Light and Bush of Ghosts, Byrne rides a similar aesthetic groove, mining funk, African poly-rhythms, processed vocals and the avant-garde, all underscored by a potent sense of urgency . . .

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Ronald Langestraat :: Searching

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It's Friday morning and this shit is funky. Ronald Langestraat: Searching. 27-minute eccentric fusion / funk / lounge jewel. Unearthed and released last November -- 34 years after Langestraat cut it to a four-track tape recorder in his living room . . .

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The Beach Boys :: 20/20 Sessions

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In the final weeks of 2018, Beach Boys fans were treated to something unexpected: a rare copyright term limit, digital-only, release of three collections from their vaults. The emancipated material includes the Friends Sessions, the live performances that document Beach Boys On Tour. and I Can Hear Music: The 20/20 Sessions.

While all possess their individual highlights, it’s this final volume that particularly stands out . . .

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JJ Cale: Pacific High Recorders, San Francisco, California, December 12, 1971

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Breeze along to one of the earliest live recordings of JJ Cale out there. This Pacific High Recorders gig (broadcast on the Bay Area’s KSAN-FM) features JJ and band playing a deliciously laid back set a few months prior to the release of the singer-songwriter-guitarist’s classic debut LP, Naturally . . .

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It’s Hard Up North: The Photography of Michael Chapman

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On True North, Michal Chapman's sounds are sparse but deep. And there's a similar quality to his photos from the early '60s. There's a dark beauty at work in them, and a curious quality that makes them—like his masterful songs—feel alive. "I only ever worked in black and white," Chapman says. "I have no interest in color. I think it’s one step away from reality . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show / Radio

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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.

Tonight: We revisit Loose Fur, Lumerians, Sibylle Baier, Julien Gasc, Microphones, Jessica Pratt and more . . .

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Cosmic Pastoral: William Tyler on New Age, Windham Hill, and Emerging Sounds

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The Windham Hill sound was inviting and warm, but nonetheless idiosyncratic, a hallmark of a moment when mainstream commercial success and the lack of traditional pop forms didn't negate each other . . .

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Transmissions ​​Podcast :: Twin Peaks/Desert Oracle/Sarah Louise

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Welcome to our first podcast of the year, featuring discussion of Twin Peaks, Sarah Louise's new album, and Desert Oracle's Ken Layne on the upcoming alien invasion. Our podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, MixCloud, and TuneIn . . .

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Maston: Tulips, 45 RPM & Psilocybin

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This is the story of taking mushrooms, unintentionally playing a record mastered for 45 RPM at 33, and discovering its shadow self . . . and then discussing the experience with its architect. Sonic examples, for the curious, included . . .

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Billy Swan ‎:: Don’t Be Cruel (Slow Version)

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Billy Swan’s cover of the King’s “Don’t Be Cruel,” the Missouri native takes the fuzzed-out swing of Elvis’ original. Turning it upside through a lounged and syrupy lens. Doubling the song’s length to over four minutes, Swan takes his time with the lovelorn piece – letting the groove guide the way . . .

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Chris Cohen: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Like his work with Deerhoof, Cass McCombs, Ariel Pink, and Weyes Blood, Cohen's gentle psych-pop has always rewarded paying close attention. But Chris Cohen finds the songwriter addressing his world with more candor than ever before . . .

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Sonny & The Sunsets :: A Bigger Picture

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After last year's streamlined solo album, San Francisco's favorite son returns with the forthcoming Hairdressers From Heaven, the first Sunsets album since 2016. Produced by James Mercer and Yuuki Matthews of The Shins, Hairdressers is also the first on Sonny's new Rocks In Your Head Records label. The album's first clipping, "A Bigger Picture," is pure Sonny & The Sunsets—a sunbaked pallet of instrumentation and voices carrying along an evocative tale both playful and scathing ("Past the Krispy Kreme where the lonely cops meet and share their Nutty . . .

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Deerhunter: Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared

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A "science fiction album about the present,” Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? finds Deerhunter at the mesa of their dream pop playground . . .

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