Pacific rim. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .
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This week on Transmissions, a return guest, the great comedian, writer, actor, and podcaster Joe Pera. This talk is a blast, covering everything from the beauty of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport to representations of Catholicism in science fiction to Joe’s experience seeing the late Mitch Hedberg live. Close your eyes and settle in: here’s an episode of Transmissions you might be able to doze off to . . .
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Pavement albums often invite their own retrospection. Stephen Malkmus sprinkled the first two LPs with clues to his anxieties around his musical reception, but on their third album, Wowee Zowee, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, Pavement is light on the lyrical breadcrumbs. Contemporary critics so badly wanted to read the album as a self-conscious turn away from success. But in reality, it was Malkmus and co. doing exactly what put them on the precipice of success in the first place: leaning into their own artistic self-assurance . . .
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Sixteen tracks spread over two continents, it's springtime at the Pink Cloud Motel. Hyacinth and citrus with the windows rolled down half mast -- shades of palm fronds, fresh cut grass, 501 cutoffs, Modelo and watery domestics. Late check-outs encouraged . . .
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DeCicca’s records are always good, but this one is especially striking. The writing, the playing, the singing, the arrangements, all work together in an unshowy but very satisfying way. A high note in an already impressive career, these songs interleave the sweet transitory pleasures of living here on earth with an awareness of the unknowable beyond . . .
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Speaking of Will Oldham ... just when you thought ye olde world wide web had become, staid, predictable and boring, one happens upon something like this: The Will Oldham Live Show Archive. Made available via Bandcamp, and free to download, dig into various vintage Palace Brothers / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy live gigs dating back to the '90s . . .
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A scary 32 years ago Londoners Seefeel unleashed their (predominantly) instrumental masterwork Quique on the Too Pure imprint. Effortlessly straddling post-rock and electronic realms might not seem a huge deal today, but back in 1993 it felt almost miraculous. Masters of balancing repetition with subtle, sparkling bejeweled details, Seefeel hit their peak on the album and 32 years later it still sounds timeless. The 2025 reissue comes in several guises – a standard vinyl reissue of the album as it was released in 1993 and a reissue of the 2007 redux edition boasting no less than nine additional tracks including . . .
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Via Agadez, Niger, Etran De L'Aïr touch down in Los Angeles later this month at the Teragram Ballroom. 100% Sahara Guitar, indeed. Maya Ongaku supports. We have five pairs of tickets saved for AD members . . .
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“What they want you to be — yesterday’s hero, yesterday’s ghost,” Dean Wareham sings on his latest record, That’s the Price of Loving Me, released this spring on Carpark Records. But the album’s 10 masterful tracks prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Wareham isn’t fading away anytime soon. Bolstered by chiming guitars, sweet string arrangements and gorgeous backing vocals from Luna bassist Britta Phillips, it’s another masterpiece in a career full of them, stretching all the way back to Dean’s days with Galaxie 500 . . .
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Outré California. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .
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This week on Transmissions, two punk rock lifers drop in: Sally Timms and Jon Langford of The Mekons. They have a bracing new album out this week called Horror and they join host Jason Woodbury to get into it all: supernatural financialization, Judge Dredd, the breakdown of politics and why you should "save your pessimism for happier times." Tune into this all-new Transmission . . .
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Drifting between lo-fi, country-inflected jangle pop and dazed, DIY garage rock, Sepe sounds like a basement bound troubadour, sauntering over fuzzy, home-recorded guitar, bass, and drums. The new recording project of LA-based Brandon Sepe (The Pesos, semi trucks, seventies tuberide) debuts with “Georgia,” the first tune shared off his forthcoming album, National Accessory, which lands in June on Universal Freeing Object . . .
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Things are very bad, but then again, they always have been. That’s Horror’s argument in a nutshell, the 26th album from the legendary Mekons, a Leeds-born gaggle of instigators of punk rock anarchists that has been doing business for half a century now . . .
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A Good Band Is Easy To Kill documents the final tour of indie-pop band Beulah in the fall of 2003. Although in many ways an early-aughts time capsule from over twenty years ago, the documentary showcases how little has changed for touring indie bands and the tribulations of life on the road . . .
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With more-than-welcome new jams from Tortoise hitting this month, it's a good time to dig back into the band's extensive live collection on Archive.org. If you're looking for somewhere to start, you can't go wrong with this 1996 gig at Bimbo's in San Francisco. The David Pajo-era lineup of Tortoise starts out soaring with a gorgeous “Gamera” and pretty much stays at a beautiful elevation for the rest of the show . . .
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