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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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Dur-Dur Band :: Volume 3 (1988) & Volume 4 (1989)

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The latest archival installment from the Somalian hotel band shows an unwieldy group streamlining their sound in the studio, dialing up the hooks, battening down the rhythms and keeping the grooves on point. Taking inspiration from Motown and disco as much as reggae and Afrobeat, the Dur-Dur Band kept the wild 70s alive even as the ugly 80s were taking over . . .

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Transmissions :: Johnny Marr

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Certain people play guitar in a way that is immediately recognizable, no matter the context. Our guest this week on Transmissions, Johnny Marr, is one such guitarists. A founding member of legendary indie band The Smiths, his sound is undeniable a blend of jangle, chime, bite, and attitude. He's back with a new album The Age Of Everything, which he joins us to discuss. Along the way, we also get into the global influence of The Smiths, discuss how Black American musicians inspired his sound, and share some of his less apparent influences, including Neil Young, who if you . . .

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Future Sounds Of Jazz Vol. 16

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Future Sounds of Jazz Vol. 16 is both a forecast and a wormhole. Across two discs, Michael Reinboth and Michael Rütten move through jazz, dub, electronic music, improvisation, and psychedelia with the intuitive logic of a late-night DJ set. The result is a strange, elastic universe of DJ Oil, Bitchin Bajas, Booker Stardrum, Nico Zam, Ilhan Ersahin, and Momoko Gill—and a reminder that the future of jazz remains gloriously undefined . . .

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Protomartyr :: Hotel Usona

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Protomartyr’s seventh album Hotel Usona (short for United States of North America) creates a fitting soundtrack as the country is pummeled by bad reviews. The Detroit veteran band envisions their homeland as a decrepit hotel where one of the TV channels is a live feed from Trump-Kennedy Center. The hotel is coincidentally located in Anacita, a fictional coastal town created by Casey for 2017’s Relatives in Descent. It’s the kind of place where the “liberal-minded close their eyes and dream of technology and kombucha . . .

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Lee Ranaldo :: Guitar-Centric Film Soundtracks

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As a member of Sonic Youth, Drift, and his many other musical detours, Lee Ranaldo has treated the guitar as a pure sound source, creating dynamic new expressions in rock & roll and the avant-garde alike. But Ranaldo's new project, a soundtrack to director Joris Postema’s "eco-doc" The System, presents a new side of Lee, that of a filmic composer. To commemorate the album's release, Ranaldo sent over notes about nine other guitar-centric soundtracks that serve as conceptual inspirations for The System . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Guide to Across the Horizon

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What, exactly, is Across the Horizon? It could be accurately described as a podcast, a radio show, an imprint or even a genre; it’s also resulted in a host of compelling collaborations and a series of songs that push at the boundaries of what could be considered ambient music. "It’s like watching a musical community grow in real time," says Bob Holmes. Here’s a look at 10 standout songs from Across the Horizon thus far — music that demonstrates the breadth of the series as a whole . . .

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Dungen :: Vidrig Vår

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On the veteran Swedish outfit's most pared down and elegant affair, Vidrig Vår showcases Dungen still operating on a psychedelic wavelength not found elsewhere. Built around bandleader Gustav Ejste's panoramic piano progressions, the ballad-centric record flows with the weightless springtime atmosphere of the band's organically cinematic orbit . . .

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Asher White :: Love Aggregates

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Asher White goes maximalist on Love Aggregates, building heavy doses of orchestral power pop from her bedroom. A fragmentary heartbreak album touching on dysphoria, precarious labor, Jerry Garcia, Citi Bikes, and Flatbush in the snow, it transforms intimate falsettos, arpeggiating guitars, and toy piano melodies into a luminous, redemptive vision of love . . .

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Those Were the Days of Miracle and Wonder :: Paul Simon’s Graceland at 40

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Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland exists in this weird state, an album that eternally evokes 1986, but always sounds so different from other albums of its era. It’s an collection that’s self absorbed, but also so relatable when the listener finds themselves hitting middle age. It brought world music to the forefront, but also presented a misleading picture. It’s a fascinating study in contrast and now, some 40 years later it’s an album we still can’t make up our minds about even as we listen to it for the hundredth time . . .

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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.

Subterranean nocturnes dissolve into the horizon. Somewhere between Tokyo, NYC, Caracas and outer space—electric jazz, Japanese fusion, polyrhythms, Rio groove, cosmic funk, library exotica and studio alchemy.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Love :: Four Sail

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For many, Forever Changes is where the Love story ends. Whether viewed as a retooled evolution of the band or simply that of Arthur Lee, Four Sail is an essential part of the Love discography. With a driving edge partly recalling the proto-punk energy of Da Capo with the modern hard rock zeitgeist of 1969, Lee's superb new lineup delivers the intentions behind "combining the east and west coast sounds with the European sounds, plus a few of my own ideas . . .

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