The Lagniappe Sessions :: Jeffrey Alexander

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You can't Jeffrey Alexander down. Whether with The Heavy Lidders or Dire Wolves, he's been traveling the highways and byways the New Weird frontier for decades. Hot off the heels of this latest album Easy Portals, he drops by AD to share a grab bag of covers from various projects, featuring tunes by The Fall, Top Drawer, and Swedish psych legends International Harvester . . .

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

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To the other side of the sky. 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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Bandcamping :: Fall 2023

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There are plenty of bigger things to be depressed about these days, but for a certain stripe of music fan, the recent Bandcamp news was a particular bummer. If you haven’t heard, the platform was sold to Songtradr, a B2B music licensing service, who promptly laid off a healthy chunk of the workforce. While the ultimate fate of Bandcamp remains unclear, the future looks bleak.

What’s next? We’re not sure. But for the moment, we’ll continue sharing music via our Bandcamping column — especially as Bandcamp Fridays stay in place, offering artists a more-than-decent lifeline . . .

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Transmissions :: Moby and Lindsay Hicks (Moby Pod)

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Welcome back to Transmissions. This week on the program, we’re joined by electronic musician Moby and Lindsay Hicks. Together, they run Little Walnut, a production company responsible for documentaries like Punk Rock Vegan, music videos, and Moby Pod—a podcast dedicated to offering unique perspectives on music, animal activism, climate change, and beyond. This conversation with host Jason P. Woodbury demonstrates the way Moby and Hicks are brave and open in ways that aren’t common in our culture, rejecting the easy cynicism and guardedness that seems to rule the day. And while this talk does get a little . . .

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Modern Nature :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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“It’s a lot to take in… It’s impossible to see,” Jack Cooper sings on Modern Nature's No Fixed Point In Space. The limits of language fascinate Cooper, who spends much of the album guiding his collaborators, including members of The Necks, This Is Not This Heat, and Julie Tipppets, to a place where words aren't required. But sometimes language does come in handy, which is why we rang Cooper up at his space near Cambridge, UK, to discuss the album, how the natural world informs his creative process, and the nebulous zone between composition and improvisation . . .

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Scott Walker :: The Drift

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For those who celebrate Halloween by seeking out sounds that thrill and chill, few records are as consistently terrifying on a purely auditory level as Scott Walker's The Drift . . .

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Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980​-​1990

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Some excellent spooky season jams on the latest compilation from Strut, Senza Decoro: Liebe + Anarchia / Switzerland 1980-1990. Curated by Turkish-Swiss producer / DJ Mehmet Aslan, the collection traverses a diverse, free-form musical landscape splintering off from Europe’s post-punk scene. Trick or treat, indeed . . .

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Videodrome :: Race With The Devil (1975)

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While being a low-budget exploitation film, Race With The Devil transcends its genre trappings and sets itself apart from other drive-in movies of the 1970s. It understands that true horror — the kind that gets under your skin and lingers with you long after the credits roll — doesn’t come from blood and guts, but from the universal fear of the unknown: not knowing who to trust or who is out to get you . . .

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Woods :: Perennial

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As is the case in pretty much any situation, the late David Berman said it best when describing Woods as his very own “jangle merchants” around the time they served as his backing band on Purple Mountains. Songwriters Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere have created something spellbinding, impressive and lasting with Perennial, their 12th record . . .

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Chuck Johnson :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Whether composing for film or creating records of windswept, spectral pedal steel, Chuck Johnson imbues his music with a sense of mystery and dynamic tension. His latest album is Music From Burden of Proof a soundtrack to Cynthia Hill's HBO docu-series exploring Stephen Pandos' investigation into the 1987 disappearance of his sister, Jennifer Pandos . . .

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Trick Or Treat: Vintage Halloween Mixtapes

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Spooky season is officially here. As such, we are uploading each volume of the Grey Haas compiled Trick Or Treat mixtape series for AD patrons (they begin with Volume five). Choice vintage Halloween spookers . . .

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En Attendant Ana :: Principia

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It’s always a great feeling when a band hits its stride — and that is the feeling you’ll get when you spin En Attendant Ana’s third LP. Principia makes good on the promise of the Parisian quintet’s earlier work while expanding and enhancing their overall sound, centered on Margaux Bouchaudo’s terrific vocals. There’s a pleasing swagger to the album’s 10 tracks, a confidence mixed with playfulness, whether the band is approximating mid-period Stereolab on “Same Old Story,” getting beautifully wistful on “Fools & Kings,” or — sweetest of all — crafting a towering motorik anthem on . . .

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Kuku Sebsibe :: S/T

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A marvelous collection of Ethiopian pop from the early 1980s. The Addis Ababa-born Kuku Sebsibe’s beautiful vocals float over classic Ethio soul/jazz backing — elegant keys, breezy brass and melodic bass all wafting through the mix. Though it leans towards the gentler side of things for the most part, things do get fairly funky from time to time. Released on the excellent Little Axe label, it feels like a necessary breath of fresh air . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show (The Halloween Edition)

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Broadcasting from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery … The Aquarium Drunkard Show. The Halloween edition, Wednesday night / 7pm California time. SIRIUS/XM ~ Channel 35 . . .

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Cactus Lee :: Caravan

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On Caravan, his sixth album in four years (not accounting for the crackling Live from the Dry Creek Cafe), Cactus Lee’s Kevin Dehan showcases an incredible and exponentially focused growth in songwriting, an ascent as fast as you can hear his band now play. Expanding out from the lo-fi homespun beginnings of his now classic early efforts, Dehan has embraced a bigger and more studio-based sound that, in part, now reflects the live show that has become so integral to the world of Cactus Lee . . .

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