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Mike D :: Thank You

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With Mike D's Thank You, ascribed. to the appellation Mike D 5D, we finally have a solo debut from a Beastie Boy. That’s changed with Thank You, the first solo work from Mike D, ascribed to the appellation Mike D 5D. Though he hasn’t been too far from music, producing records for Portugal. The Man and Soft Play, the album follows a long period of creative grief. But the work of his sons Davis and Skyler Diamond and their circle of friends have drawn the wildest Beastie back to writing and performing once again . . .

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Crying Laughing :: Talking

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Strange and turbulent times call for insistent new theme songs and rallying cries. On Talking, Baltimore’s Crying Laughing answer the call with necessary and emphatic instrumental anthems, driven by a twin alto sax attack and percussion that channels the snap and bounce of New Orleans rhythms. The result feels tightly interlocked, yet constantly in motion . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Maisy Owen

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For her debut Lagniappe Session, Maisy Owen turns to four songwriters who share her gift for making difficult things sound beautiful. From Rosa Lee Carson’s devastating “The Drinker’s Child,” written when Carson was just fourteen, to Townes Van Zandt’s “Snowin’ on Raton,” David Olney’s “Deeper Well,” and Amy Winehouse’s “What Is It About Men,” Owen follows a thread through country, folk and soul-pop songwriting, finding a sweetness in songs that are anything but sweet . . .

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Secular Music Group :: Volume 3

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Since emerging out of the wilds of Connecticut a few years back, SMG have released three LPs worth of rapturous sounds, each moment filled with pure melody, meditative rhythm and immersive textures, all captured wondrously on vintage 4-track ¼” tape. It’s like Gil Evans arranging an album by Natural Information Society, finding a perfect blend of gorgeously pastel hues and minimalist restraint . . .

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Diles Que No Me Maten :: Escrito en Agua

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The Mexico City based five-piece Diles Que No Me Maten conjure a languid and mournful psychedelia on their fourth album, Escrito en Agua, infusing krautrock and slowcore elements into a patiently unfolding album that sears with intensity . . .

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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.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Transmissions :: The Bird Calls

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Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions with Jason P. Woodbury. This week on the show, writer and musician Sam Sodomsky, who records and releases music—a lot of it—under the name The Bird Calls. His latest slice of literate folk rock and alt-country songcraft is called ⁠Take Leave⁠, and it was released on August 28 via Ruination Record Co. Take Leave rattles with downcast charm. Its songs are sly and full of knowing. Sam joins us to discuss, talk about his Springsteen fandom, dig into The Blue Nile, and more . . .

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Walt Dickerson :: To My Queen

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An unsung pioneer of the jazz vibraphone, the elusive Philadelphia-born musician Walt Dickerson is best known for his collaborative seventies album Visions with Sun Ra. With a dynamite quartet featuring a young Andrew Hill on piano and drummer Andrew Cyrille, 1962's career highlight To My Queen is a tender, lovingly crafted suite showcasing the vibraphonist's asymmetrical and self-proclaimed plush metallic tones . . .

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Way Dynamic :: Massive Shoe

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Laidback at an almost glacial pace, the silky music of Massive Shoe blurs the line of golden seventies AM pop. The nom de plume of Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist Dylan Young, Way Dynamic's third record features sparse arrangements and radiant subtleties in songcraft that are a little bit Chris Cohen, a little Nilsson/McCartney. With highlights like "Ibiza" and the effortlessly melodic "Miffed It", it's unsurprising that the timeless quality of Massive Shoe has already garnered appreciation across generational musicians . . .

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Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Old Beloved Path

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Jake Xerxes Fussell returns with another set of meticulously curated old-time songs played and sung with warmth and grace. The North Carolinian songwriter has a musicologist’s grasp of pre-war folk and blues; he is intimately familiar with multiple versions and interpretations of the songs he performs, reaching across decades, even centuries of history, to find the core of the music. And yet he uses this knowledge not to replicate the past but to reinterpret it, so that the songs live and breathe in his capable hands . . .

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Christer Bothen/Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin :: Serpentine

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The Ghosted trio haven't changed much over the course of three albums, turning out sleek, skeletal jazz with deft regularity. With the addition of Swedish multi-instrumentalist Christer Bothen, guitarist Oren Ambarchi, bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werliin deepen their groove while expanding their reach. Thanks to the addition of Bothen's bluesy bass clarinet and earthy donso n'goni, the Ghosted trio comes alive but stays haunted . . .

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Rão Kyao :: Malpertuis

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Rão Kyao's 1976 debut album Malpertuis can be seen as a direct offspring of Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended four decades of dictatorship and allowed the country to breathe again—especially in terms of its cultural outpouring, which had been heavily conditioned by a suffocating censorship and recurrent attempts at blocking any external influences that might instigate dangerous ideas of subversion . . .

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Upper Wilds :: Mercury

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Dan Friel is having a summer, what with the surprise resurgence of aughts noise mainstays Parts & Labor and now a fourth album from guitar-centric, astronomy-centric Upper Wilds. Yet while the double disc Parts & Labor veered occasionally towards proggy excess Mercury runs a ferociously tight ship. It’s loud as fuck, but nothing’s wasted . . .

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Bill Orcutt :: Four Louies Live

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Orcutt’s deconstruction of “Louie Louie” is a mash-up of Steve Reich’s 1970 minimalist milestones “Four Organs” with the rock staple. It finds a seam between experimental, avant garde repetition and the dumb but beautiful way that garage rock can hammer on a riff forever. The piece first emerged as a studio album on Fake Estates in 2024. This live recording revisits the piece in all its organ-stabbing, maraca-shaking glory . . .

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American Spring :: S/T (1972)

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Constantly meandering in copyright turmoil that renders it inaccessible, 1972's lone eponymous record by American Spring (sisters Marilyn Wilson and Diane Rovell, formerly of girl group The Honeys) is an obtusely captivating slice of baroque pop. A production of Marilyn's husband Brian Wilson along with consummate Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper, the source material culls tracks from the band's classic Sunflower as well as the The Shirelles, old country standards and the Goffin-King and Tommy Roe songbooks . . .

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