Theee Retail Simps :: Live On Cool Street

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Montreal’s Retail Simps know their rock ‘n’ roll history and how to mess with tradition. On their second album, the quintet led by Celluloid Lunch label boss Joe Chamandy keeps the party raging with deep fried nuggets of garage-punk funk. Whether they’re revving up into frenzied guitar freakouts or coasting through slower paced strummers, Chamandy blows out his vocal chords at every step . . .

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Neil Young & The Stray Gators :: Scope Arena, Norfolk, Virginia, January 29, 1973

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As a followup to the Time Fades Away (Again) collection we shared earlier this year, break out the Jose Cuervo and get into one of the best audience tapes from Neil Young's somewhat ill-fated early 1973 North American tour.
"Neil was pretty strange on his big tour," former road manager Leo Makota told Rolling Stone. "[He] was trying to get a certain sound out of the band that he apparently could never find. The band would jam at soundchecks in the afternoon and sound great. Then they'd come in and do the show at night and never . . .

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Famous Mammals :: Instant Pop Expressionism Now!

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Swell Maps are the obvious reference point for Famous Mammals—especially since they’ve already paid tribute to Nikki Sudden—but you can also describe them as a toned-down Homosexuals, or someone’s idea of a dream band with Mark E. Smith sharing the mic with Trish Keenan . . .

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No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man: Tent City Roller

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At this point in our story, Sunburned Hand of the Man morphs into a many-headed hydra with varying manifestations in the loft and on each tour. To get through this vague period of 5-8 years, we focus on the band’s tour stories. We learn how a years-long period of heavy touring was kicked off with a family-band excursion to play a wedding in Alaska. After a conjunction of high-profile press coverage, Sunburned suddenly found themselves in high demand on the international festival circuit. So we focus on stories of their extended tour of Europe . . .

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On the Duo Format (An Interview Series) :: Steve Gunn, Rick Brown, and Jim White (Pt.1)

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Steve Gunn, Rick Brown (75 Dollar Bill) and drummer Jim White join Aquarium Drunkard to discuss the lasting appeal of the two-piece band in improv and experimental music . . .

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Prewn :: Through the Window

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The songs are good, but the singer overshadows them, making strummed blues folk unpredictable and mesmerizing with the sheer intensity of her delivery. You could go right back to Karen Dalton for comparisons or stop more concurrently with Joanna Sternberg, but these singers are idiosyncratic in different ways. Prewn is a band that sounds like nothing else, brash and ballsy then achingly vulnerable, but always in thrall to strong feelings . . .

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Arnold Dreyblatt :: The Aquarium Drunkad Interview

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Maverick composer Arnold Dreyblatt joins us from his Berlin home base to discuss his visual art background, collaborating with Megafaun and Jim O’Rourke, the enduring rhythms of Bo Diddley, and his latest album, Resolve . . .

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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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Amon Düül: A Young Person’s Guide 005

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Based on sheer musicality, Wolf City could be the strongest record Amon Düül would ever make. The ensemble’s second record of 1972, released just a couple months after its predecessor, removes theatrics, limits improvisation, and its blistering riffs shake the very foundations of psychedelia. Things get quaking in wavering slink. The entire world begins to reverberate around the serpentine exchange of acoustic and electric guitar interplay. A false chorus ushers in a fiddle led freak-out and synthesizers begin to malfunction before heading into a lull . . .

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Transmissions :: Will Sheff (Okkervil River)

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Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, so glad to have you here once again. Our guest this week is Will Sheff, known for his solo work and years with the indie rock band Okkervil River. In this conversation, Sheff and host Jason P. Woodbury cover a wide stretch, examining how the indie rock landscape has changed and evolved over decades, exploring the spiritual core at the heart of his music, and hearing stories about his interactions with luminaries like Roky Erickson and Jason Molina . . .

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The Tony Williams Lifetime :: Emergency!

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Before the Mahavishnu Orchestra lit the inner mounting flame, before Chick Corea returned to forever, even before Miles Davis ran the voodoo into the great electric beyond, The Tony Williams Lifetime was melting minds and faces with their incendiary double-album debut, Emergency . . .

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Amancio D’Silva :: Konkan Dance

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Amancio D’Silva, a Bombay-born, UK-based jazz guitarist and composer, cut his teeth playing with fellow musicians from the English jazz scene, releasing two albums of his own in the late sixties—Integration and Hum Dono with saxophonist Joe Harriott—leading up to his visionary Dream Sequence album, released in 1972 under the collaborative moniker Cosmic Eye. Imagined as an unofficial sequel to that album, though something tighter and more controlled . . .

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Ruth Garbus :: Alive People

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Ruth Garbus finds the extraordinary in the most mundane objects, the noise of traffic, the feel of a rubber ball in the hand, the comfort of two small squares of dark chocolate and one or two vials of red wine. These quiet songs, sublimely introspective yet recorded with friends in front of a live audience, have a still, luminous power . . .

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No Way Out :: Leaving the Nest

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In this week’s episode, we hear stories of Sunburned Hand of the Man’s earliest jamming and meet more members of the band. We learn that, after jamming namelessly for a year and a half, the band finally started using the Sunburned moniker. Then we tune in to learn about their earliest excursions playing outside the Charlestown loft, including their first show as Sunburned as part of an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. We hear how the interplay between these new locations and contexts provoked new modes of performance and artistic connections . . .

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Lance Bangs on The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

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In 2019, director Chad Stockfleth released a lo-fi, VHS-only documentary A Future History Of: The Elephant 6 Recording Co. Following that limited rollout, documentarian Lange Bangs—whose footage was used extensively in the film—came onboard with the folks behind 2020's Other Music doc, producer Rob Hatch-Miller and editor/producer Greg King, to streamline and expand the documentary. The resulting film, now titled The Elephant 6 Recording Co., sees official release on today. Bangs joins us to reflect on the Elephant 6 scene . . .

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