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Seefeel :: Quique (2025 Reissue)

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A scary 32 years ago Londoners Seefeel unleashed their (predominantly) instrumental masterwork Quique on the Too Pure imprint. Effortlessly straddling post-rock and electronic realms might not seem a huge deal today, but back in 1993 it felt almost miraculous. Masters of balancing repetition with subtle, sparkling bejeweled details, Seefeel hit their peak on the album and 32 years later it still sounds timeless. The 2025 reissue comes in several guises – a standard vinyl reissue of the album as it was released in 1993 and a reissue of the 2007 redux edition boasting no less than nine additional tracks including . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Etran De L’Aïr, Teragram Ballroom | April 19, 2025

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Via Agadez, Niger, Etran De L'Aïr touch down in Los Angeles later this month at the Teragram Ballroom. 100% Sahara Guitar, indeed. Maya Ongaku supports. We have five pairs of tickets saved for AD members . . .

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Dean Wareham :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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“What they want you to be — yesterday’s hero, yesterday’s ghost,” Dean Wareham sings on his latest record, That’s the Price of Loving Me, released this spring on Carpark Records. But the album’s 10 masterful tracks prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Wareham isn’t fading away anytime soon. Bolstered by chiming guitars, sweet string arrangements and gorgeous backing vocals from Luna bassist Britta Phillips, it’s another masterpiece in a career full of them, stretching all the way back to Dean’s days with Galaxie 500 . . .

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

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Outré California. 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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Transmissions :: The Mekons

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This week on Transmissions, two punk rock lifers drop in: Sally Timms and Jon Langford of The Mekons. They have a bracing new album out this week called Horror and they join host Jason Woodbury to get into it all: supernatural financialization, Judge Dredd, the breakdown of politics and why you should "save your pessimism for happier times." Tune into this all-new Transmission . . .

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Sepe :: Georgia

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Drifting between lo-fi, country-inflected jangle pop and dazed, DIY garage rock, Sepe sounds like a basement bound troubadour, sauntering over fuzzy, home-recorded guitar, bass, and drums. The new recording project of LA-based Brandon Sepe (The Pesos, semi trucks, seventies tuberide) debuts with “Georgia,” the first tune shared off his forthcoming album, National Accessory, which lands in June on Universal Freeing Object . . .

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Jimmy Buffett :: Great Heart (Documentary)

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Chase Coble spent a decade working for Jimmy Buffett as one of his video editors/videographers archiving hundreds of hours of Buffet's near-constant daily video footage. Upon his death in 2023, Coble compiled the following 44 minute supercut glimpsing the world through Buffet's eyes. There's no concert footage, just the man he truly was, a human who walked this earth for a moment in time and was curious and high on life . . .

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Mekons :: Horror

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Things are very bad, but then again, they always have been. That’s Horror’s argument in a nutshell, the 26th album from the legendary Mekons, a Leeds-born gaggle of instigators of punk rock anarchists that has been doing business for half a century now . . .

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Videodrome :: A Good Band Is Easy To Kill (2005)

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A Good Band Is Easy To Kill documents the final tour of indie-pop band Beulah in the fall of 2003. Although in many ways an early-aughts time capsule from over twenty years ago, the documentary showcases how little has changed for touring indie bands and the tribulations of life on the road . . .

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Tortoise :: Bimbo’s, San Francisco, May 25, 1996

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With more-than-welcome new jams from Tortoise hitting this month, it's a good time to dig back into the band's extensive live collection on Archive.org. If you're looking for somewhere to start, you can't go wrong with this 1996 gig at Bimbo's in San Francisco. The David Pajo-era lineup of Tortoise starts out soaring with a gorgeous “Gamera” and pretty much stays at a beautiful elevation for the rest of the show . . .

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Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta :: Mapambazuko

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Peruvian artist, researcher, and sound experimentalist Alejandra Cárdenas, who records under the moniker Ale Hop, joins forces with Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta for the ecstatic Mapambazuko, released earlier this year on the Uganda-based label Nyege Nyege Tapes. Recorded in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, the album’s blend of soukous-infused guitar patterns and industrial-tinged electronics makes for an enthralling listen, where frenetic Congolese rhythms dash and dart across a terrain of glitchy, squeaking oscillations . . .

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Phi-Psonics :: New Pyramid

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Phi-Psonics is a spiritual jazz collective headed by Los Angeles-based composer and acoustic bassist Seth Ford-Young, whose prolific session work can be heard on releases such as the recent stunner by Takuro Okada. The uninhibited, meditative soundscapes of previous studio offerings The Cradle and Octava quickly made waves after catching the attention of Manchester jazz label Gondwana, flashing nods to A Love Supreme and a lush framework playing off of Ford-Young's Mingus-inspired upright bass, lifting woodwinds and the Wurlitzer piano of Mitchell Yoshida . . .

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Babe Rainbow :: Slipper imp and shakaerator

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“What is ashwaganda?” asks the first track of this reggae-jam-surf-groove opus, and fair enough, let’s look it up. Ashwaganda, it turns out, is an evergreen herb that smells a bit like wet horse, commonly prescribed for anxiety and stress. It's a good time all the way through, and maybe that’s enough for now. We’ve had plenty of floating anxiety over the last few years, why not a dose of floating good will . . .

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Veneno :: Veneno

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As the Amadors (notably unaccompanied by the rhythm section) run through a subtle blend of stroke tremolos, arpeggios, and golpes, they remind their elders that they have the utmost respect for their history, clarifying that, actually, there’s so much to get excited about—all of us—and remain so, even decades after the release of this astonishing, idiosyncratic treasure of Spanish rock culture, which surely deserves to be devoured by international listeners, with the same fervor that it is in Spain, at this point in history. Do yourselves a favor . . .

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Aux Meadows :: Draw Near

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“Still no reverb (mostly)” — a brief recording note found in the liners for Aux Meadows’ latest, Draw Near. And yet! These 11 gorgeously dusty instrumentals conjure up as many wide-open spaces as any echo-laden cosmic Americana group you might mention. This is the sound of musicians listening to one another, dreaming in real time . . .

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