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Fran :: Television

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Fran—the musical nom de plume of Chicago’s Maria Jacobson—returns with her first new piece of music since her hushed masterstroke, Leaving, one of our favorite albums from last year. On her new song “Television,” Jacobson drives a lilting, piano-led country ballad that conveys a distant, tilted domestic tranquility with a splash of barroom blues . . .

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Jim Glover :: No Need to Explain

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As we so often find with the relics of the 1960s, Jim Glover resurfaced in the eighties with a private press disc. Released under the one-off Fang Records, No Need to Explain finds the songwriter in true folky form with just a man, a set of strings, and his words at the microphone . . .

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Alex Izenberg & The Exiles

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Through numbly whispered vocals and mushy mellow vibes, Alex Izenberg & the Exiles attempt to distill from 1970s radio rock the elixir of heartbreak and its philosophical innards, mindfully administering the pharmakon of despair here and there: inexorable solitude and oneiric unveilings of being; emotional parallaxes of all sorts; love as a function of time and time as a function of love; and the good old fear of death . . .

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Thurston Moore & Eva Moore From The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University :: A Conversation

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On the occasion of his 66th birthday, Thurston Moore and his wife and creative partner Eva Moore drop in from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University to discuss collaboration and that time Henry Rollins grew out his hair . . .

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

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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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The Congos :: Heart of the Congos

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Hyperbole is near impossible when critiquing Heart Of The Congos, from the untouchable Lee "Scratch" Perry production to the unparalleled vocal harmonies, seamless flow and monumental influence on music within and outside of the realms of reggae. Yet it's also a record whose magic defies scrutiny. It is inscrutable, effervescent and like the ocean upon which the Fisherman toils, its beauty, power and impact shifts according to environmental factors and the mood of the observer . . .

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Transmissions :: Daniel Bachman

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This week on a far-ranging episode of Transmissions: guitarist, folklorist, and all-around-top-notch thinker Daniel Bachman. A songwriter and composer from Fredericksburg, Virginia, Bachman first began releasing records under the name Sacred Harp, before adopting his own name for a series of finger-picked classics. In the years since, Bachman’s music has grown more and more experimental, and also, it’s become more directly informed by climate change. He joins us to discuss . . .

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Lee Underwood :: California Sigh

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Ambient, post-fusion jazz, minimalism, field recording, electronic extravaganzas and musique concrete manifestos -- all could be sold as New Age with the right kind of window dressing and perhaps a little bit of sweetening. California Sigh, Underwood's self-released 1988 cassette now issued on LP for the first time by Drag City, dips slightly into field recording and electronic spheres, but otherwise sticks to another major venerable New Age pathway: solo acoustic guitar . . .

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Zepiss :: Natibel

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Departing his home for Paris, fashion designer and percussionist/trumpeter Edmony Krater sought to craft his own modern take on his native traditional music, assembling a band of local players and melding Gwo Ka with jazz fusion and psychedelic soul for the singularly awesome experience that is Natibel . . .

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Bandcamping :: Summer 2024

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We’re back in the thick of another wild summer — political unrest, insanely high temperatures, shark attacks, etc. For some aural AC, dig into a selection of highly recommended recent releases that run the gamut: private press folk from the 1980s to acoustic guitar Kraftwerk to sweet sounds from Senegal . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: July 2024

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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 features DePasquale’s sweet mix of psychedelic rock, samba, MPB, and highlife, followed by Wilcox's selection of rarities / demos / outtakes / faves by the legendary Linda Thompson. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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Videodrome :: The Last Party (1993)

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Shot during the contested 1992 presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, The Last Party is both an American time capsule and a disheartening case of déjà vu . . .

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Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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The quality of Jake Xerxes Fussell’s output has stayed remarkably consistent over his first five albums, but his confidence in his abilities as an interpreter and the audacity of his song selection continue to grow. The nine songs on his newest, When I’m Called, gather out of the vastness of the past few centuries of sung songs to talk to one another, elaborate on one another, and thread each other through with intertwined meaning . . .

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Herbie Hancock :: Fat Albert Rotunda

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A pivotal transitional piece for Herbie Hancock, there are some crucial factors that have kept Fat Albert Rotunda perpetually under the radar. And while Head Hunters this is not, Fat Albert Rotunda is more of a prophetic, transitional piece in the keyboardist's storied jazz-funk evolution than most realize on the surface. There's no mistaking that these arrangements are decisively more R&B than the electric, synthesizer-laced fusion sounds that would soon follow, making the record a peculiar bridge gap . . .

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Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention :: Whisky A Go Go 1968

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Have you heard from your Mothers lately? Not far into the unmitigated archival audacity of Whisky A Go Go 1968, Frank Zappa pauses to lay out the evening’s agenda: “The purpose of this evening is supposedly to make some recordings of The Mothers live, in person…It’s pretty hard to record what we do because it gets so loud and ugly.” Originally conceived as the basis of their first live album, Whisky A Go Go 1968 presents nearly three hours of unreleased recordings of the classic Mothers lineup offering a bizarre sonic smorgasbord to a hungry throng of . . .

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