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CAN :: Karussell der Jugend, Soest 1970

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No blueprint. Filmed by West German television in November 1970 at the Karussell der Jugend festival in Soest, this 84-minute document captures CAN with Damo Suzuki, Michael Karoli, Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit, still exploring the possibilities of a sound that didn't quite resemble anything else. Repetition, interruption, groove and collective instinct. More than half a century later, the footage preserves the band before their influence had been mapped and their sound codified, when the music was still mutating in real time . . .

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The Wicker Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Part folk record, part pagan fever dream, The Wicker Man’s soundtrack is so steeped in sex, fertility, ritual and ancient melody that listening to it feels like stumbling upon something unearthed rather than recorded. Paul Giovanni’s songs create a world that feels simultaneously ancient and entirely invented—warm, earthy, erotic and communal, and perhaps all the more unsettling for sounding so beautiful . . .

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Hawkwind: Do Not Panic (BBC Documentary)

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A proper trip inside the Hawkwind mothership. This 2007 BBC documentary traces the band’s journey from the Ladbroke Grove underground through Space Ritual, Lemmy’s tenure, and their collision of rock, psychedelia, science fiction, and counterculture. Featuring interviews with Lemmy, Nik Turner, Michael Moorcock, Stacia and other Hawkwind alumni, it’s a window into a band where free festivals, naked dancers, cosmic poetry, motorways, and very loud amplifiers all somehow occupied the same universe . . .

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Emily A. Sprague :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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In an album as lyrically economic as the startlingly beautiful Cyano, the latest solo release from Emily A. Sprague—familiar to many as the thoughtful anchor of indie-folk outfit Florist—even the few words we’re given can feel like lifelines. “We have to take care of ourselves” is one such arresting declaration. That reminder of self-preservation runs through Sprague’s ethereal ambient work, where emotion is conveyed less through narrative or explanation than through the feeling embedded in her evocative melodies . . .

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

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

Uruguay. United States. Senegal. England. France. Ghana. Brazil. India. Egypt. Jamaica. South Africa. Japan. Italy.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Teenage Fanclub :: Do Not Dare To Dream

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Few bands have aged like Teenage Fanclub. On their thirteenth record, the everlasting Scottish outfit embraces more of a soft focus on acoustics while maintaining their patented lilting and jangly elixir. Full of their unwavering and clear-eyed harmonies, the perceptive Do Not Dare To Dream continues TFC's path of challenging the tired notions of "reinvention" when the formula is this scientifically cathartic . . .

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Transmissions :: Peanut Butter Wolf

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This week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, Peanut Butter Wolf of Stones Throw Records. We hooked up for him to spin the yarn about how ST went from a small backpacker hip-hop imprint to an Adult Swim-boosted powerhouse, and how, 30 years in, the label’s roster is as diverse as ever, featuring post-punk, electro, future-forward R&B, and art-soul October 16, 17, and 18th in Highland Park at the ⁠Stones Throw 30 music festival. In this career spanning conversation, Wolf takes us back to the label’s earliest days, discusses his own major label experiences . . .

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Antonio Adolfo :: S/T 1972

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Antonio Adolfo hated his 1972 solo debut. Intensely. He banned it from his official discography and denounced it whenever it resurfaced online. Yet the slightly off singing may be exactly what gives the self-titled LP its charm: there’s a Robert Wyatt or Scott Walker quality to Adolfo’s naturally dramatic timbre, with little bent edges creating tension against the jazz-inflected solos, basslines and gently cinematic arrangements. The result is a strange, beautiful record its creator wanted forgotten . . .

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Jess Williamson :: A Mile South of Heaven

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Jess Williamson's Shooter Jennings-produced sixth solo album, A Mile South of Heaven, is a desert curiosity shop’s worth of inspirations: Williamson pulls storytelling techniques from Lucinda Williams’ gravel-road realism, a dash of Leonard Cohen’s everyday spirituality, and the vocal delivery of so many worn-leather country starlets . . .

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The Beach Boys :: Radiant Radish

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True story: in the late ’60s, Brian Wilson opened a short-lived health-food store called Radiant Radish in West Hollywood. Untrue story: there was a Beach Boys album named after it. There wasn’t—but now, thanks to the enterprising retrogorilla YouTube channel, there is. Radiant Radish is a wonderfully strange reimagining of the Smile / Smiley Smile / Wild Honey / Friends era, rearranged into a new and surprisingly coherent whole. Eat your vega-tables . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Squirrel Flower

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The nom-de-tune of Chicago-based songwriter and guitarist Ella O’Connor Williams, Squirrel Flower’s debut Lagniappe Session comes on the heels of her latest LP, Say a Prayer to the Gods of Getting Going. Here, Williams takes on four songs that found their way into her orbit by different paths over the past decade: Tunnel of Love-era Springsteen, the Alex Chilton narcotica that is Big Star’s “Kanga Roo,” Guided By Voices’ “Awful Bliss,” and Joan Osborne’s “Lumina.” Williams notes on her selections below . . .

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The Sagegazers :: A Mixtape

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The Sagegazers is an ongoing project devoted to the strange and beautiful world of privately released ambient, electronic, and New Age cassette music of the 1980s and ’90s. Working from a collection of rare and often nearly undocumented recordings, the project uncovers a forgotten culture of synthesizers, home studios, spirituality, landscape, and imagination.

This mix offers a journey through that world, bringing together 15 recordings that reveal the remarkable breadth, intimacy, and imagination of this largely unmapped musical culture . . .

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Andy Boay :: Doomed

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Andy Boay returns with an opus crafted with ecstatic care: a journey of reverbed vocals and guitar noodles, a lo-fi love letter, a bedroom SMiLE, and its own thing completely: Doomed. Doomed shares the same creative DNA as its brilliant predecessor, 2025’s You Took That Walk For The Two Of Us: another painstakingly crafted cassette recording, with tape manipulation galore and self-harmonies aplenty . . .

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Jeremy Cunningham :: Passing Fires

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Jeremy Cunningham makes music that seems to be perpetually slipping out of its own frame. On Passing Fires, the Chicago drummer moves from free-jazz and skronk to electronics, funk, post-rock and pop, assembling a cast of improvisers, producers and singers who keep the music in motion. There are moments of muscular rhythmic interplay, strange electronic textures, children’s voices, whispered vocals and unexpected turns. It’s an album of restless curiosity, but never restlessness for its own sake: Cunningham’s drumming provides a steady gravitational pull as the music wanders . . .

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

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

Inspired alliances and loose connections. West Coast twilight, boot cuts, alternate takes, live excursions, stray transmissions and wayward frequencies.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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