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I Love Mystery :: Hiss Golden Messenger on the Hard-Earned Optimism of I’m People

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I'm People represents the beginning of a new era for Hiss Golden Messenger. The new project finds songwriter MC Taylor presenting a set of songs dedicated to, as he puts it in the album's biography, "Truth, lies, magic, faith.” It's a potent combo, and I'm People presents Taylor and his collaborators at his most refined, taking all the things that have made Hiss Golden Messenger recordings work so well in the past—country rock shuffles, indomitable boogies, soul and R&B flourishes, and heartland pop—and melting it all down to its core. We caught up . . .

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King Tuff :: Moo

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King Tuff’s Kyle Thomas reached back into his own past to make MOO, resurrecting an old Tascam 388 and dusting off a road-tested Gibson SG, even moving back to Vermont to shed the glitz of LA for the woolen-sweatered homeyness of his native Brattleboro. Funny thing, though. In rummaging through his own history, he tapped into a larger, longer narrative, making a raucous, rough-hewn country rock record that wouldn’t have been out of place in the mid-1970s . . .

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Julius Eastman, Vol. 5: Gay Guerrilla

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Written in 1979 and premiered in 1980, Gay Guerrilla is one of the best examples of Eastman's proto-minimalist compositions, made up of drones and phasing loops that gradually go in and out of sync to produce a hypnotic convergence of texture and timbre as he craftly modulates tempo and formal structure . . .

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Dollar Diamonds :: Volume Five

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Jerry David DeCicca returns with another set of records you can score for a dollar—including selections by Larry Hosford, George Benson, Roy Buchanan, and more. Plus, he responds your Dollar Diamond DMs . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Simon Joyner & the Nervous Stars

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Simon Joyner is this week’s guest on our Neil Young podcast, All One Song — but he’s not just that! With his friends the Nervous Stars, he also recorded a new Lagniappe Session for us … and it’s all Neil Young songs! What a gift. Simon, of course, is one of our greatest singer-songwriters, with a deep discography stretching back to the early 1990s. He’s one of those guys who just seems to get better with age; to wit, his upcoming album Tough Love is one of his very best, a deeply felt collection that feels timeless . . .

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All One Song :: Simon Joyner on “After The Gold Rush”

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Welcome back to All One Song. Today, our guest is Simon Joyner, discussing "After the Gold Rush." The Omaha-based singer-songwriter has a career stretching back to the early 1990s; you might call him a songwriter’s songwriter—at least he’s got a ton of peer admiration. To accompany his all Neil Young Lagniappe Session, he joins us to talk Shakey . . .

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Alan Braufman :: In Motion

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Saxophonist and flutist Alan Braufman continues his late era renaissance with "In Motion," a fidgety burst of vibraphone-forward post-bop from the forthcoming album Anthem of Peace, out May 15 on Valley of Search, a label founded by Braufman's nephew and producer, Nabil Ayers, and named after his 1975 debut. Swinging powerfully, the song joins previously released numbers like "Angels" and the title track in testifying to Braufman's continued zeal . . .

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Seefeel :: Sol.Hz

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Some bands emerge from long periods of dormancy by returning to first principles, reengaging with energy of their origins. British electronic/ambient/post-rock legends Seefeel have instead opted to continue forward, into a vanishing point of their own devising. The songs on Sol.Hz, their first full album since 2011, brim with negative space and elegant absence. Sole remaining members Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock have burned off the impurities of their sound until only the deliberate, distilled essence, the soul of Sol.Hz, remains . . .

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Bolbec :: Foutu Félin

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Sans any overarching pastiche, there are mood-bending elements harkening back to the orchestration of Piero Piccioni's iconic scoring, with fragments of a reoccuring piano waltz swagger and lofty excursions of incandescent soundscapes. Like an unearthed library relic or weathered OST recorded by a savant like Sven Wunder, Foutu Félin effortlessly fuels that ambition to get the hypothetical projector rolling . . .

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Spencer Cullum :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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On Spencer Cullum's latest release, the closing chapter to the Coin Collection series, Spencer’s focus has shifted from curiosity to frustration. In trying to make sense of what’s unfolding before our eyes today, it helps to go back to the past. That’s exactly what Cullum has done with his most recent work . . .

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Bandcamping :: Spring 2026

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Mayday, Mayday! The latest Bandcamp Friday hits on May 1, giving us all the chance to put some pennies (and hopefully more) into the pockets of those hard-working musicians out there, without any of those pesky fees getting in the way. A few recent recommendations are below — fill up your cart . . .

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

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Outré California. Via satellite, transmuting 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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All One Song :: Micah Nelson on “Change Your Mind”

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This week, Micah Nelson⁠ drops into Aquarium Drunkard's Neil Young podcast to talk "Change Your Mind." Since 2014, Nelson has served as one of Neil’s closest collaborators, playing guitar first in the Promise of the Real, then in Crazy Horse, and now in the Chrome Hearts. He’s toured all over the globe with Young, delivering epic, deep-cut heavy sets. During that time, he’s appeared on such records as The Monsanto Years, Earth, The Visitor, Fuckin’ Up, and last year’s Talkin to the Trees . . .

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Charles Mingus :: A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry

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An overlooked experiment from a remarkably ambitious late fifties period of bassist Charles Mingus, 1958's A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry doesn't actually include poetry in the traditional sense. Episodically exploring the Harlem-based narrator's relationship with jazz, the elongated "Scenes in the City" features spoken word vignettes by actor Melvin Stewart and was partially penned by Langston Hughes. In addition to the piece's music cues of Mingus and his band, the rest of the material drops the verbal experiments in favor of equality enticing tracks that went on to inform the seminal Mingus . . .

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Turner William Jr :: Vipérine

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It would be easy to write a verbose piece about the immersive nature of Turner William Jr.’s musicianship or drone on about the philosophical implications of the vipérine, a flower that is both at home on the shoulder of roadways and dry barren landscapes. But it seems much more important to state clearly, without metaphor or poetry, that Vipérine is a beautiful album, effortlessly weaving the rich presence of sacred music to the forward momentum of genre-agnostic artistry . . .

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