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Panda Bear & Sonic Boom :: A ? of WHEN

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Following the timeless Reset, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom return with A ? of WHEN, another playful act of musical curiosity. Steel drums, pedal steel, and harp loops from Mary Lattimore drift through an ever-shifting collage of samples and melodies, revealing themselves like sonic subtext. Optimistic without being naïve, it's a record that meets experimentation with open ears and a sense of wonder . . .

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Joe Gibbs & The Professionals :: African Dub All-Mighty: Chapter 3

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Released in the year of clashing sevens (1977), African Dub All-Mighty: Chapter Three captures Joe Gibbs and Errol Thompson—The Mighty Two—in their finest hour, mixing up a surreal and hypnotic set that still stands tall as a pillar of '70s dub. Working from updated Treasure Isle and Studio One riddims, Thompson transforms each track into its own sonic chamber of mystery, where thunder, synths, cuckoo clocks, telephones, and doorbells point toward the future of dub while remaining deeply rooted in its past . . .

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

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Coffee cooling beside the speakers. 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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Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Eight

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Long nights. Windows open. The Tour de France on mute. World Cup madness. Summer crate. Records that only make sense once the mercury climbs above eighty. It's July in LA . . .

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The Tomeka Reid Quartet :: Dance! Skip! Hop!

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The Tomeka Reid Quartet has been together for twelve years. And it shows. Released earlier this year via the Richmond, Virginia based Out Of Your Head Records, Dance! Skip! Hop! finds Reid, Mary Halvorson, Jason Roebke, and Tomas Fujiwara moving through five compositions where written form and improvisation become nearly indistinguishable . . .

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Transmissions :: Lenny Kaye

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Lenny Kaye’s creative output is kaleidoscopic: he’s a founding member of the Patti Smith Group, bringing his slashing guitar style to classic records like Horses; he curated the legendary rock & roll compilation Nuggets: Original Artyfacts of the First Psychedelic Era; he’s produced records for artists like Jessi Colter, Allen Ginsberg, and Suzanne Vega; and he’s written a number of books. Today, he joins us to discuss his first solo album, Goin’ Local, his first proper solo album, out July 17 on Yep Roc Records . . .

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Shigeru Izumiya :: Light & Shadow

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Shigeru Izumiya lived many lives: underground folk singer, subversive poet, experimental filmmaker, Studio Ghibli voice actor, cyberpunk and J-pop pioneer, and eventually a tarento—the Japanese term for omnipresent television personalities. Because of that multiplicity, his work was often overlooked. But Light & Shadow (1973) remains one of the strangest records of the Japanese folk-rock era, filtering prostitution, child abandonment, and the spread of syphilis through cartoonish arrangements, theatrical declamations, and moments of perfect pop consciousness . . .

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Object Hours :: Solved by Walking

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Driven by an unwavering pulse and two guitars that continually reshape the landscape around it, Object Hours' Solved by Walking binds its individual pieces into an inexorable forward march. What begins as muscular repetition gradually reveals unexpected beauty, carrying the listener from brute force to quiet transcendence . . .

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Nirosta Steel :: My Skyscraper

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Nirosta Steel's MY SKYSCRAPER arrives with the kind of mythology reserved for impossible records. Featuring Arthur Russell throughout, it resurrects an alternate history of experimental pop—one that still sounds stranger, freer, and more adventurous than much of today's underground . . .

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You-On :: New Side

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Few formats expose improvisers quite like piano and drums. On New Side, Jim White and Masami Tomihisa embrace that openness, conjuring eight spontaneous dialogues that drift between hushed lyricism, ecstatic clatter and moments of near-telepathic communion. An unlikely collaboration, New Side finds its own strange gravity . . .

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Bandcamping :: Summer 2026

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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 . . .

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

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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

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Harmonia :: Live 1974

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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 . . .

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Transmissions :: Annahstasia

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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 . . .

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Maisy Owen :: Dark on a Sunny Day

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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 . . .

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