M. Sage :: Tender / Wading

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The Colorado-based M Sage resides in the liminal zone, finding endless inspiration in the in-between. Between natural and digital, stillness and motion, silence and noise, innocence and experience, waking and dreams. These aren’t binaries, mind you — because fuck a binary — but blends. And on his latest LP, Tender / Wading, Sage delights in exploring these blends, blurring the edges, eagerly and earnestly mixing the colors into something brand new . . .

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Shrunken Elvis :: S/T

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Shrunken Elvis—the Nashville based trio of Spencer Cullum, Sean Thompson, and Rich Ruth—ignite a mind-meld of pedal steel, synths, and guitars on their self-titled debut, a slyly adventurous and immersive album that fuses languid soundscapes and kosmische vistas with elements of krautrock, spiritual jazz, and ambient & electronic music. Embracing touchstones such as Harmonia, Alice Coltrane, Pat Metheny, and Ashra, to name a few, the trio embark on sonic excursions that move through pastoral, tropical, and celestial realms . . .

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Door of the Cosmos: Sun Ra’s On Jupiter and Sleeping Beauty

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Between 1978 and 1982 Sun Ra parked his roving musical spacecraft at New York’s Variety Arts Studios for a series of rigorous and inspired marathon sessions between frequent gigs in the city. On the heels of their stellar Lanquidity reissue, Strut continues their deep dive into this phase of Ra’s career with the twin 1979 masterpieces On Jupiter and Sleeping Beauty, offering a fresh glimpse at some of the most revered and beautifully spacious music the Arkestra ever cut . . .

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Dollar Diamonds :: Volume Two

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There’s a lot of great records out there that can still be had for very little money. You just have to crouch down and give them a chance. How is it possible that these 2-sided slices of the human spirit can exist among us, in some cases, for over 50 years and still only be $1?

Welcome to Dollar Diamonds, Volume 2. This month: Johnny Rivers, Linda Hargrove, Garland Jeffreys, John Kay, Mac Davis, Diana Trask and more . . .

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Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Five

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Otoño. Autumn. Fall. In this installment: Mojave seeker Ken Layne's Desert Oracle. The return of PTA. Auteurs and the genesis, evolution and eventuality of a character. Karl Childers. The definitive history of Talking Heads. Richard Lloyd's near photographic memory, and more . . .

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

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Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. All songs tonight courtesy of the Lagniappe Sessions, all of which are available to download directly at AD.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Raul Seixas :: Gita

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A direct product of the Paul Coelho-sponsored introduction to alternative religion and mind-altering drugs, Raul Seixas' Gita finds the Brazilian musician further embracing mysticism through a bigger infatuation with Aleister Crowley (the pre-chorus of "Sociedade Alternativa" is a direct translation of "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law") and Eastern philosophy (Hindu book Bhavagad Gita) in what eventually became his best-selling album and first gold record . . .

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Transmissions :: Dan Wriggins (Friendship)

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Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, Dan Wriggins of the Philly band Friendship. Earlier this year, the band released its fifth album, ⁠Caveman Wakes Up⁠. Fans of the roots-informed indie rock of Wednesday and MJ Lenderman—frequent collaborators with Friendship—will find plenty of busted and bruised glory in these songs, which fall on the shaggy end of the alt-country spectrum. But for us, it’s Wriggins’ wry and sly lyrics that really seal the deal. Take “All Over the World,” in which a landscaper experiences “the beating heart of God/ laying down . . .

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Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin :: Ghosted III

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On their third album, the trio of Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin continue to condense and refine their approach, with the rhythms as mesmeric, the riffs as repetitive and the tones as mysterious as ever. But Ghosted III also breaks up the pattern, with more songs, shorter tracks and delicate shifts in approach. Minimal jazz, avant-rock, experimental groove, modal funk -- whatever you want to call it, it’s mutating before our very ears, and growing stranger and more powerful with every installment . . .

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Guinga :: Delírio Carioca

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Guinga's Delírio Carioca offers an alternative history of MPB, like an anti-bossa nova: what if samba had not dissolved into cool jazz but rather formed a deep new assemblage with the orchestral soundtracks of Mancini and Morricone. What if instead of having slowed and reduced the drum ensembles of samba and translated them into a particular style of plucking and intonation, MPB had retained much of the quality of samba's parent-genre, choro—the frenetic percussive fills, the elaborate counterpoint, the counterintuitive progressions . . .

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WITCH :: Sogolo

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Where 2023's Zango emphasized the Zamrock band WITCH's fuzzy, blues-based roots, the reunited group's newest record takes a more experimental turn. The jittery, psychedelic sound of Sogolo defies the expectations of those who might have hoped for a more faithful reconstruction of the band's early days, opting instead to traverse the realms of reggae, freak-folk, desert blues and more. Frenzied percussion flourishes accentuate the unhinged guitar riffs of “Kamusale” and “Nadi,” while African folk rhythms guide later tunes like “Set Free” and “Nibani . . .

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Ratboys :: Light Night Mountains All That

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By now, Ratboys is as reliable an institution in indie rock as Culver’s is for hamburgers, or as humid days at the lake are for bug bites. “Light Night Mountains All That,” the new single from the Chicago-based band, is the first music released since 2023’s phenomenal LP The Window, and represents a decade of creative duo Julia Steiner and Dave Sagan releasing music under the moniker . . .

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1981 :: A Post-Punk Compilation

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Long live the old, weird internet. Out of all the genres, post-punk has always felt like the hardest to pin down. What the hell was / is it? I’m not sure I could tell you. But I can tell you that the Musicophilia blog’s massive 1981 box set of mixes is perhaps the best representation of the wild burst of creativity that was happening in the underground at the time. While the original mp3 downloads of the box set have since been replaced at Musicophilia with streaming options, we have uploaded the original files for posterity . . .

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Denis O’Donnell :: The Snow in Brooklyn

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Denis O’Donnell has been at the forefront of the Austin, Texas country movement since 2006. On his latest release, The Snow in Brooklyn, O’Donnell has recruited top notch jazz players and taken his songs to Bob Hoffnar and Andy Taub in NYC. Having roots in both Queens (O’Donnell’s grandfather owned an Irish pub under the elevated train) and Texas, O’Donnell is throwing his hat in the ring for both Austin and New York legend . . .

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Sir Richard Bishop :: Hillbilly Ragas

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From the first shimmering sallies of “They Shall Take Up Serpents,” it’s clear that Sir Richard Bishop has returned from the locales of North Africa and the Middle East to once again explore the shadowy, verdant valleys of blues-folk Americana, the intricate, scale-slanted reveries of India. In abrupt, percussive volleys of strumming and picking, Bishop stakes out a claim on the mystic yearnings of Takoma-style picking, inspired, as the title implies, equally by Appalachia and the sub-continent . . .

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