Posts

Bandcamping :: Summer 2026

BandcampingPosted on

A long, hot summer stretches out ahead of us. Whether you're chasing shade or the horizon, here's a stack of recent Bandcamp discoveries worth packing for the season. From ecstatic guitar minimalism and Fourth World obscurities to transportive ambient, jangle pop, and mystic folk, these are the records soundtracking our summer. Pour yourself an ice-cold lemonade and dig in . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Bandcamping

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

SIRIUSPosted on

Outré California. Broadcasting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

SIRIUS 892: Intro – Jerry Garcia 1976 Interview ++ Grateful Dead – Nobody’s Fault But My Mine (Live, 1973) ++ Alex Chilton – Jumpin’ Jack Flash ++ Muddy Waters – She’s Alright ++ Howlin’ Wolf – Smokestack Lightning (1969 version) ++ Sandy Bull – No Deposit-No Return Blues (edit) ++ Band of Gypsys – Machine Gun ++ John Lee Hooker – 713 Blues ++ Jerry Garcia & Merle Saunders – Keepers ++ Funkadelic – I Wanna Know If It’s Good To You ++ Sly & The Family Stone – Just Like A Baby ++ Pippo Caruso – Riff (Porca Società) ++ The Brothers Rap – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ++ East of Underground – Smiling Faces ++ Chubby Checker – Goodbye Victoria ++ Buddy Miles – Down By The River ++ Lee Moses – Hey Joe ++ Tony Owens – I Got Soul ++ Sister Gertrude Morgan – Let Us Make A Record ++ Little Ed & The Soundmasters – It’s A Dream ++ Arzachel – Queen St. Gang ++ Blackrock – Yeah Yeah ++ Black Merda – Cynthy-Ruth ++ The Ceyleib People – Dyl ++ Léon Franciloi – Vacances ++ Harvey Mandel – A Wade in The Water ++ Pink Floyd – The Nile Song

Posted on SIRIUS

Harmonia :: Live 1974

HarmoniaPosted on

Recorded at a converted German railway station with pristine sound quality, Live 1974 is an essential snapshot of Harmonia in their purest form. The legendary kosmische trio consisting of Neu!'s Michael Rother and Cluster's Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, the concert's free-flowing and elongated jams are improvisational and void of the studio material from their '74 studio debut Musik von Harmonia. Anchored by pulsating motorik drum machines, the soundscapes feature intoxicating arrays of synths and electronic organ and Rother's transcendent guitar textures . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Harmonia

Transmissions :: Annahstasia

Annahstasia PodcastPosted on

Annahstasia is one of the most exciting singer/songwriters in the modern folk scene, blending the soul jazz of Terry Callier with Nick Drake’s hushed chamber folk, with her magnificent voice way out front in the mix, sometimes recalling the fullness of singers like Odetta or the jazzy sway of Hejira-era Joni Mitchell. On this week’s show, she joins us to discuss the spaciousness and quietude required to get into a creative zone, the influence of Terry Callier, blazing her own trail as a self-described “Black girl playing her guitar," and her latest release, a live . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Annahstasia Podcast

Maisy Owen :: Dark on a Sunny Day

Maisey OwenPosted on

On her debut Dark on a Sunny Day, Nashville songwriter Maisy Owen lets poison seep through the sweetness. Pristine country-folk songs bloom into quietly devastating portraits of unhealthy devotion, where the damage is easy to miss beneath the glitter . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Maisey Owen

Willie Nelson & Family :: Alliance Wagon Yard, Austin, TX (January 28, 1975)

Willie NelsonPosted on

There's live Willie Nelson, and then there's 1975 Willie Nelson. Captured for the Texas TV series "Lone Star Cross Country Music Hour" just months before Red Headed Stranger, this recently resurfaced set catches Willie & Family at their most intuitive: loose, conversational, and quietly radical . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Willie Nelson

Jackie West :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Jackie West The AD InterviewPosted on

Jackie West doesn't abandon the intimacy of Close To The Mystery on Silent Century—she simply gives it more air to breathe. Bigger guitars, wider arrangements, and a sharpened sense of purpose frame a conversation about evolution, instinct, and the strange life songs take on after they're finished . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Jackie West The AD Interview

The Lagniappe Sessions :: Erin Durant

Erin Durant Lagniappe SessionsPosted on

For her Lagniappe Session, Erin Durant turns to two touchstones: Judee Sill's “Jesus Was a Cross Maker” and Lucinda Williams' “Jackson.” Recorded between Topanga and Brooklyn with longtime collaborators Kyp Malone and Gabe Galvin, these performances move between close study and personal memory—stepping into Sill's world while reconnecting with the roads, literature, and landscapes of Durant's Louisiana upbringing through Williams' lens . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Erin Durant Lagniappe Sessions

Fiona Apple’s Tidal at 30

Fiona ApplePosted on

Fiona Apple was only 18 when she released Tidal in 1996. Three decades on, her debut remains a bracing introduction to a songwriter whose literary gifts, compositional confidence, and emotional authority were already unmistakable . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Fiona Apple

Jah Shaka Meets Aswad In Addis Ababa Studio

Aswad Jah Shaka Reggae/DubPosted on

In 1985, as digital dancehall was redrawing reggae's map, Jah Shaka and Aswad entered the studio to forge one of British dub's most singular statements—a devotional set of heavyweight rhythms, cavernous mixes, and Rastafarian sonics still resonating four decades on . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Aswad Jah Shaka Reggae/Dub

Beth Orton :: The Ground Above

Beth OrtonPosted on

Beth Orton's The Ground Above is a free-flowing mixture of electronic funk, spirit walking jazz, and ambient folk. Only Orton can make music as affecting as this, showing off an ear for the haunted and the heavy. Songwriting for Orton has always mirrored a sort of lucid dreaming—a therapeutic space where she can will herself to fly, but cannot control her monsters underground and the spirit to rise above them . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Beth Orton

The Hypos :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

The AD Interview The HyposPosted on

What began as an unhurried songwriting exchange between Greg Cartwright and Scott McMicken has steadily taken on a life of its own. With a second album, Silver, on the horizon, the principals behind The Hypos reconvene with Aquarium Drunkard to discuss instinct, collaboration, recording in sheds and proper studios, and the peculiar freedom that comes from keeping expectations at bay . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on The AD Interview The Hypos

Devo :: Nitrous Nightmare

DevoPosted on

It only makes sense that one of Devo's fabled first concerts was a Halloween party. Now, add in the part about how it was opening for Sun Ra and that the band had duped the radio station promoters by advertising themselves as a Bad Company cover band: quintessential de-evolution lore. A modern day rarity preserved only in physical form and absent from streaming via reissue label Futurismo, the raucous unearthed set features the elongated first performances of classic tracks like "Jocko Homo" in all of its grimy, twelve minute glory . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Devo

Transmissions :: Don Was

Don Was PodcastPosted on

Blue Note President, Was (Not Was) bassist, and legendary producer Don Was joins us to launch the new season of Transmissions to talk about one of his very first recording projects: Ted Lucas’ Impossible Love, an unheard album he cut with the cult Detroit songwriter in 1979, recently issued by Third Man Records . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on Don Was Podcast

This Heat :: This Heat

This HeatPosted on

This Heat ended up being called post-punk for lack of any better options, and though their music has many of the now-familiar hallmarks of that genre -- a heavy dub influence, a fascination with the streamlined metaphysics of German kosmische bands, particularly Can, and complex, heady concepts communicated via primeval methods-- it still stands apart, with something alien and unnamable at its core. Nearly a half-century after its release, This Heat's entrancing, horrifying and ecstatic self-titled debut still lands like a vision of the end of the world, or at least the end of a world . . .

Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered by its patrons. Keep the servers humming and help us continue doing it by pledging your support.

To continue reading, become a member or log in.

Posted on This Heat