Burning Spear :: Marcus Garvey

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Of all the reggae cornerstones hitting their 50th anniversary this year, you’d be hard pressed to find another that hit with the same gale force of Burning Spear’s Marcus Garvey. Part reggae master class, part history lesson, Marcus Garvey introduced Winston Rodney’s impassioned wail to the world, establishing Burning Spear as one of reggae’s foremost emissaries and educators. Simply put, this is one of the heaviest, deepest roots sets ever laid down . . .

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Floating Action :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Over the last 20 years, Seth Kauffman has quietly released more than a dozen albums of languid, slightly exotic indie rock once clunkily described as “Appalachian Beck.” He plays and sings every note tracked in his basement studio with a DIY touch that renders the hallmark Floating Action sound characterized by slightly-off-kilter groove and woozy warmth. With a new LP dropping next month, we caught up with Kauffman at home in North Carolina to discuss all things Floating Action . . .

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

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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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Tom Carter and Pat Murano :: Songs of Eliphas Levi Zahed

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Charalambides guitarist Tom Carter and No-Neck Blues Band synthesist Pat Murano have been collaborating for over a decade, Each of their albums tend to find the duo exploring the liminal spaces of spiritual esoterica. Their latest collaboration is devoted to the philosophy of nineteenth-century French occultist Eliphas Levi, who influenced every seeker from Madame Blavatsky to Aleister Crowley and practically invented the modern language of ritual magic. Carter and Murano channel Levi's thought into a searing, beautiful work of psychedelic dissonance . . .

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All One Song :: Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) on “Vampire Blues”

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Welcome back to ⁠All One Song⁠, A Neil Young Podcast presented by Aquarium Drunkard. We’re spending the summer talking to a few of our favorite artists and writers about their favorite Neil Young song. This week, we’ve got someone very special: Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth. Steve spent about 25 years behind the drum kit for Sonic Youth as the band radically redefined and reimagined rock and roll. He’s easily one of the greatest drummers of the past four decades, as heard on such classics as Sister, Daydream Nation, Washing Machine, Murray Street and beyond. His style . . .

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Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Three

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Volume three of Yesternow. The comments are open. Who are you? Where are you? How are you? Justin runs down some favorites of late including thoughts on the late Anthony Bourdain, Adrian Sherwood's 1997 dub remix Echo Dek, Cold War jazzists, distance running, LA area listening bars, and more . . .

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Sally Anne Morgan :: Second Circle The Horizon

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Sally Anne Morgan hasn’t missed with a solo album since her 2020 debut, Threads, and her fourth and latest, Second Circle The Horizon, only further solidifies her position as a purveyor of traditional music distilled through a modern, experimental lens . . .

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Adam Amram :: To The End

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There is an indescribably New York character to the latest Adam Amram LP, To The End on California’s Nudie Records. Somehow, the album embodies the easygoing yippee humor of Arlo Guthrie, dry wit of Lou Reed, folk exploration of Richie Havens, and the literary curiosity of Dylan or the like–all without being bound by any of it . . .

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Fortunato Durutti Marinetti :: Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter

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Fortunato Durutti Marinetti states the sequel to his 2023 jubilant sophomore record Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean is a homage to Anne Carson's book Eros: The Bittersweet. Marinetti calls this style "poetic jazz rock," drawing on the chillness of Donald Byrd and the expansiveness of Robert Wyatt. We'd call it apocalyptic ballroom indie, or: music to imagine yourself slow-dancing as the ship sinks . . .

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Rebecca Schiffman :: Before the Future

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Rebecca Schiffman’s fourth album kicks off with a nine-minute epic — a nervy opening move in these days of ever-decreasing attention spans. But it’s a gamble that pays off beautifully, as Before the Future’s remarkable title track unspools like a bittersweet indie flick from the 1990s . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 34

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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading. In this month’s stack: author Dan Nadel tackles the weird, wild and complicated life and career of iconoclast illustrator of the underground R. Crumb, Marcus J. Moore's deep dive into the D.A.I.S.Y Age of De La Soul and beyond, Lucinda Williams' secrets, Micajah Henley's 33 1/3 rundown of the Clash's 1980 triple LP, Sandinista!, R.E.M. and more . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: July 2025

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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. This month, Chad kicks it off an hour of minimalist indie rock & lo-fi art pop and Tyler follows him with some semi-summery moods. (And they’re both paying tribute to the recently departed Brian Wilson and Sly Stone.) Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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Floreana :: Diamond Head (Beach Boys Cover)

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As part of When You're Calling Me, an upcoming tribute to the Beach Boys Friends LP coming soon on Passing By Records, Floreana (AKA LA-based musician Victoria Mordoch) tackles “Diamond Head,” one of the album’s two exotica-flavored instrumentals. In her hands, it’s a great dot-connector, taking us from Les Baxter to Stereolab to today’s ambient jazz scene. And she gets there in under two-and-a-half minutes. Something tells me Brian would be pleased . . .

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Videodrome :: Vampire’s Kiss (1988)

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From Hollywood A-list leading man to B-movie cult favorite, from Oscar winner to Razzie nominee, Nicolas Cage has made a career out of disappearing into his characters. But characters can just as easily disappear into Cage. Vampire’s Kiss is an exemplary example of the aforementioned, where Cage’s eccentricities become so pronounced that both the actor and character implode inward, forming a caricature that occupies the liminal space between meme and reality . . .

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MJ Lallo :: Before Brazil

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The ether has been particularly swampy as of late, but the strange alien sounds of the California-based MJ Lallo have been helping us wade through the thick and uncertain fog. Dig “Before Brazil,” off the vocal artist, poet, and composer’s self-released 1988 album The Channeled Voice - with just her vocal, albeit heavily modulated, and a drum machine, she conjures a hazy club outing that blends dance music, exotica, and new age in a deeply intoxicating and idiosyncratic fashion . . .

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