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The Babe Rainbow :: Acid and Honey

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Hovering and almost ethereally weightless, Acid and Honey delivers the kind of saltwater-soaked psychedelia as only crafted by Byron Bay's The Babe Rainbow. With velvety warm basslines and drum machine rhythms, the band's seventh album continues down a recent path of ebullient reggae, R&B explorations and and a dose of warm, synth-coated waves. Meditative and explorative, such freshly applied studio textures reveal an assortment of dazzling mellow subtleties and coastal ambiance that register as the band's finest golden hour . . .

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Ryuichi Sakamoto :: Beauty

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Guided by an adherence to a philosophy of "outernationalism", Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's overlooked 1989 record Beauty concluded a pivotal decade of transnational works and collaborations. An audio patchwork tapestry that defies "world music" in its modern conventions, Sakamoto corralled countless collaborators for the sessions (a few including Brian Wilson, Sly Dunbar, Robert Wyatt, Senegalese vocalist Youssou N'Dour, and Arto Lindsay). A self-proclaimed cultural map including Okinawan folk songs and a Rolling Stones cover, Beauty is a spectacle to behold, reaching beyond any regional boundaries . . .

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No Endtroducing: DJ Shadow’s Debut at 30

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Filled with percussion pillaged from obscure funk cuts and interjections from early emcees like T La Rock and Kurtis Blow, Endtroducing rummages through the aboriginal dreamtime of hip hop just as it began its first period of slick commercial dominance. It also occasioned the creation of a new genre, trip hop, that quickly went on to mean something mostly different. But even though it used the past for parts and appeared at the close of the analog era, we're still catching up to it. Who knows what sickness lurks in the hearts of bins? The Shadow knows . . .

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The Afterlives of Dub, 1995-2025 (A Mixtape)

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Once again, it's dubwise summer. This is the season for tight rhythms, faded melodies and infinite echo. But rather than serve up another collection of classic Jamaican riddims, we decided to sketch out some of the afterlives of dub. Dub's impact on experimental music at the turn of the twenty-first century is incalculable. And every sound that soothed the Y2K soul, from post-rock to trip-hop to illbient to dub techno, owes something to roots reggae's downtempo electric stepchild. Over the past three decades, It has become one of the fundamental idioms of out music . . .

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Transmissions :: Mouse on Mars on Lee “Scratch” Perry

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This week on Transmissions we're joined by Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, Mouse on Mars, calling in from Germany to discuss creating Spatial, No Problem with Lee "Scratch" Perry. The two have been friends since they were kids. In 1993, they formed Mouse on Mars, drawing from electronic traditions, live instrumentation, breakbeats, and a propensity for collaboration with other artists, including Mark E. Smith of The Fall, members of the National, and Stereolab—who, hey now, provide our show’s theme song: “Flashes in the Afternoon." This week on Transmissions, Jan and Andi share memories of working on . . .

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Styrofoam Winos :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Spend a few minutes talking with Styrofoam Winos and it becomes obvious why Any River feels so effortless. There are no fixed roles, no designated leader, and very little interest in conventional band hierarchy. Just three longtime friends following songs wherever they lead. We sat down with Joe Kenkel, Trevor Nikrant, and Lou Turner to talk collaboration, improvisation, everyday poetry, and the enduring rewards of making music together . . .

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Anatolian Psych Out: Volume Two

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A continuation rather than a sequel, Anatolian Psych Out: Volume Two ventures deeper into one of rock's richest parallel histories. Seventeen selections from Turkey's extraordinary late-'60s and '70s flowering, where centuries-old musical traditions meet fuzz guitars, electric bağlama, and hypnotic grooves—music that remains as mysterious, transportive, and untethered by time as ever . . .

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Mark & Suzann Farmer :: Dreams

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You can practically taste the Chivas and smell the KOOL 100s smoldering in the ashtray. Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," refracted through a homemade four-track in rural Washington. Released barely a year after Rumours, Mark & Suzann Farmer's 1978 private-press version trades California studio polish for after-hours intimacy . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: July 2026

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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. This month, Tyler kicks it off with a mix of cosmic summer jazz, new and old. Chad follows with an hour of garage rock, psychedelic soul, outsider folk & more. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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DIY Festivals, Coast to Coast :: Ghost Canyon, Fly Around Fest & Open Melody

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Beyond the festival-industrial complex, a different ecosystem is quietly thriving. We check in with the organizers behind three fiercely independent gatherings—Ghost Canyon, Fly Around Fest and Open Melody—to talk curation, community, risk, and why the best music festivals still feel like beautifully assembled mixtapes rather than content farms . . .

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Michael Brook :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Ambient guitar pioneer Michael Brook joins us to discuss his 1992 classic Cobalt Blue, which has recently been re-issued by label 4AD with new art and a dynamic remastering job. Brook joins us in the midst of preparing to present the Cobalt Blue material live for the first time in years to discuss the record, his time on the road with John Cale, and the durability of floppy disc technology . . .

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Horse Lords :: Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!

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Horse Lords return with what may well be their strangest and prettiest album yet. Here the Baltimore-Berlin quartet adds Protestant hymn-singing, swamp boogie, early computer music and even robot funk to their signature brand of phase-shifting krautrock groove. It is an alluring, compelling mix that plays with themes of religious devotion and utopian longing. Fifteen years into their career, Horse Lords are still making some of the most radical, captivating music of our 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. Trees. Gardens. Fireplaces. Corridors. Birds overhead. Sun-faded. Handmade.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Aaron MF Olson :: Songs Album II

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Starkly naming a record Songs Album II is only an appropriate detour for a musician and composer like Aaron MF Olson. Sharing a sensibility with fellow "song" records by the likes of Jim O'Rourke or Van Dyke Parks, Olson's conscious definition of such is a moving panorama: lavish, engaging and downright clever at the same time. With its flowering avant-pop arrangements, twisting ballads and warmly inviting hooks move effortlessly alongside pastoral landscapes where exotica meets Americana . . .

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Transmissions :: Bruce Hornsby

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Bruce Hornsby is on the mic—and at the piano—for this special episode of the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast, joining us to discuss his latest album, Indigo Park, basketball chants, his work with The Grateful Dead and the Dead’s legacy, his taste in literary fiction, and much more . . .

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