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Tonight, suit up, it’s Aquarium Drunkard’s annual seasonal spectacular . . .
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For the darkest time of year, a wintry mix of stark sonic landscapes — jazz, ambient, acoustic and unclassifiable. Instrumental treks through the snow, hopefully with a mug of hot chocolate (or something stronger) awaiting you at your final destination . . .
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Christmas Evil may seem like a hokey slasher film done up in garland and wreaths, but it's a tragic character study that speaks directly to the motifs of the holiday season. With the thematic tissue of a Christmas film and the derangement of a horror film, filmmakers such as John Waters have referred to Christmas Evil as "the greatest Christmas film of all time . . .
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Off-piste. 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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Damon McMahon clears away the complications that befuddled his intricate, sample-heavy Death Jokes album to reveal the lucid, often beautiful melodies underneath. In what the artist has stated will be his last album as Amen Dunes, he circles back to the eerie simplicity of the song, and it works in a big way. With Death Jokes II, McMahon pares down the excess and focuses on pure melody. His voice does most of the work on this remix, in all its wobble-prone, echo-shrouded, vulnerable sincerity . . .
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Harkening back to a bygone era of multi-tracking techniques, Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar finds guitarist Joel Paterson paying tribute to Les Paul and Chet Atkins through the vessel of Christmas standards. Hang the mistletoe, crank up the Echoplex, and let the yuletide spirit roll . . .
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The Dreamers have always been John Zorn's most immediately appealing project. With The Dreamers, Zorn finally set aside the kabbalistic solemnity that suffused so much of his late 90s work in favor of the pulpier, less austere sounds of exotica, surf, lounge, library music and mod jazz. When Zorn's combo applied their considerable skills to classic holiday fare in 2011, they managed to make one of the greatest and grooviest Christmas albums of all time . . .
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Jazz in Los Angeles is blooming right now. Thanks in part to concert promoters like Yousef Hilmy of Minaret Records, people across the city are hearing a wide range of improvisational music styles in bars, stores, churches, and gardens that now moonlight as jazz venues. Sam Wilkes, a bass player, composer, arranger, and bandleader, is one of the most sought-after musicians in that scene . . .
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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. This month, Wilcox leads things off with a very wintry mix of stark sonic landscapes; DePasquale follows it up with an hour of baroque pop, post-punk & lo-fi soul. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .
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Incredibly, Terry Riley's 1980 mid-period classic Shri Camel had never been reissued on vinyl until last month. But Real Gone Music's new edition gives listeners a fresh opportunity to revisit what was arguably the studio culmination of Riley's solo organ-and-tape-delay performances of the 1970s. Over the course of four long movements, Shri Camel alternates between almost overwhelming spiritual intensity and mischievous humor and joy . . .
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Truly, many of Tony Rice’s latter projects cannot be classified within a set genre but instead exist within the universal realm of ‘Guitar Music.’ On Unit of Measure, the picker continues to bare this distinction despite a more deliberate leaning-in toward tradition. After venturing to nearly every corner of the traditional music scene (and beyond), the peripheral experiences converge as a creative catalyst to Rice’s untimely and final reinvention of Bluegrass music . . .
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Released in 1995, An Oscar Peterson Christmas finds the seventy-year-old jazz veteran comfortably gliding through fourteen Christmas standards. It’s cozy, warm, and familiar — everything one could hope for from a jazz record to soundtrack the holiday season . . .
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2024 Year In Review especial. Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.
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The Louisiana-born, Portland-based soul singer Ural Thomas comes across like the pastor of a titillating, subterranean sermon on “First Place Winner,” a dimly-lit slice of lo-fi bedroom funk culled from Mississippi Records’ forthcoming Nat-Ural, which compiles ten 8-track home recordings made between the late 80s and early 90s. Over frosty synths and clapping drum machines, his voice is distant, faded, and downright spectral . . .
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Can any year-end list be definitive? With so much music being released every single day—from marquee names to DIY home recorders to all points in between—it's impossible to truly keep up with it all. But the idea with our lists has never been to say "here's everything worth paying attention to." Rather, this is our humble attempt at casting a wide net and reeling in as much of the good shit as possible . . .
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