Transmissions :: David John Morris (Red River Dialect)

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David John Morris of Red River Dialect joins us to discuss his 2021 album Monastic Love Songs, 2022’s Wyld Love Songs, his time in a Buddhist monastery, how it augmented his approach to music, his podcast listening habits, the consistent spiritual longing of the creative process and, truthfully, so much more . . .

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The Bonk :: Greater Than Or Equal To The Bonk

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Following on from their excellent 2017 debut, The Bonk Seems To Be A Verb, the Dublin-based group led by Phil Christie continue to explore the boundless potential of experimentation and instinct with the equally cavalier titled Greater Than Or Equal To The Bonk . . .

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Youth Lagoon :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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With Heaven Is a Junkyard, Trevor Powers returns to the Youth Lagoon banner. Crafted with producer Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Adele, Gil Scott-Heron) after period of medical strife that robbed Powers of his ability to sing his signature lilt—thankfully only temporarily—the album finds Powers at his most generous and adventurous . . .

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Protomartyr :: Formal Growth In The Desert

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This is Protomartyr’s sixth album, arriving out of a maelstrom of uncertainty and loss. The sound has turned slower, weightier and more violent. Where the band began in a spiked Fall-ish spatter, its songs now move with a ponderous nearly metallic heft . . .

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Jimmy Whispers :: The Search For God

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The Search For God is best served on close listen, not succumbing to its musical simplicity and charm, but sitting with the simpler and harder-to-tackle questions it poses. Whispers doesn’t bathe much in metaphor, doesn’t water it down with lo-fi glam or frills. Instead, by trimming some excess and focusing on the song craft, Whispers takes a massive step forward. Like those who are subject to his words, we are left wanting more . . .

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Videodrome :: The Seventh Continent (1989)

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The Seventh Continent is classified as a family drama, but it’s undoubtedly a horror film, perhaps one of the most horrifying films ever made. It’s nihilism as an aesthetic, misanthropy as a philosophy, and construction as deconstruction . . .

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Joanna Sternberg :: I’ve Got Me

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I’ve Got Me is a collection of folk songs in every sense, from Randy Newman-inspired ditties, to dew-eyed ballads, to timeless finger-picked tunes of self-discovery, each with a wonderfully distinct point of view . . .

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First & Last: Japanese Private Press, Vol. 9

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Welcome to the ninth installment of First & Last, a series of mixes providing a glimpse into the world of Japanese private press, or 自主盤, pronounced “jishuban”, which loosely translates to “independent board . . .

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Douglas McCombs (Brokeback/The Sea and Cake/Black Duck) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Aquarium Drunkard speaks with Douglas McCombs about the formation of Black Duck, the approach they took for their album, the motivation behind his 2022 solo release VMAK . . .

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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.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Bar Italia :: Tracey Denim

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Bar Italia occupies a shifting, shadowy ground between sunny 1960s euro-pop and post-punk, leaning one way or another depending on who is singing. Yet while each member has a distinctive timbre and personality, the song circles nonchalantly around a common theme: what it’s like to watch youth slipping away . . .

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Nico Georis :: Cloud Suites

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“Get your head out of the clouds.” It’s an idiom often associated with parents, teachers, authority figures, or any sort of ‘straight folk.’ Ascribe to the mundanity of life, the endless rat race, the wheel of productivity. On Cloud Suites, California pianist and experimental composer Nico Georis offers a gentle rebuke of this sentiment with a dizzying array of stratospheric keyboard arrangements . . .

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Graves :: Gary Owens: I Have Some Thoughts

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Now taking on the mysterious role of "Gary Owens" (the young lap steel guitar player on the LP cover), Graves is the moniker of veteran indie singer-songwriter Greg Olin. While spending many years collaborating with fellow Northern California outsider musicians like Lee Baggett and Little Wings, Graves has very quietly released a steady stream of solo material dating back to the early aughts; the music's subdued folk touch accurately described as "a calmness that can't be faked" the last cycle around . . .

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Transmissions :: The Modern Folk

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Writing about The Modern Folk’s Modern Folk One in our AD 2022 Year in Review, we called it, “A blend of field recordings, astral zones, freak outs, leisurely jams, and rustique concrète from the ever-prolific Josh Moss.” That gives you a little sense of the kind of music Moss creates with his ultra-prolific recording project. Head over to his Bandcamp and you'll find dozens and dozens of releases . . .

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Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders :: Spacious Minds

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Freak lifer Jeffrey Alexander recently dropped Spacious Minds, a five track "EP" featuring a thirty six minute "Dark Star". Plug in and space your face . . .

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