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Mark Stewart :: The Fateful Symmetry

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The incendiary artist Mark Stewart, the main creative force behind the Pop Group, died suddenly and unexpectedly in April 2023, shortly after completing this eighth solo album. It’s a fitting cap to a career that spanned more than four decades and brought together the most uncompromising threads of post-punk, dub, funk, dance and agit-punk . . .

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Tim Barnes’ Lost Words and Noumena

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Tim Barnes’ Lost Words and Noumena are vital musical statements and, most of all, a testament to the deep-rooted values held by this corner of the experimental music world: community, connection, and, most of all, friendship . . .

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Brightblack Morning Light :: BBC Maida Vale Session (October, 2006)

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Before its candle was extinguished, Brightblack Morning Light burned languid, hot and, indeed, bright. Formed in northern California by Alabama natives Nathan Shineywater and Rachael Hughes, the group released several long-players and a pair of 7"s before ultimately disbanding in 2009. The following session finds the pair at Maida Vale studios in west London, augmented by additional players in the autumn of 2006. Cut several months following the release of their now-classic s/t debut, the set works up and elongates four of the album's tracks. Slip in, ease back and listen for the green flash . . .

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Barry Walker Jr. :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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The Barry Walker Unit’s At the 13th Moon Gravity Well is very much a band effort, with Rose City bandmates Ripley Johnson (guitar) and John Jeffrey (drums) and Mouth Painter bassist Jason Wilmon joining Walker for a loose-limbed, thoroughly exploratory collection of live recordings taped last year at a local pub. With four instrumental tracks clocking in at over 40 minutes, this is deep, transportive stuff, giving Walker and co. a chance to stretch out and get loose, regularly finding moments of collective ecstasy. There’s groove mixed with freedom, melody crashing into dissonance. A total thrill from . . .

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Habibi Funk 031: A Selection Of Music From Libyan Tapes

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Habibi Funk’s latest compilation is a trip into the Libyan cassette scene of the 1990s. While the collected songs were crafted for clear commercial appeal, designed to soundtrack romantic singalongs during late-night ballads in pre-war Tripoli, the end result achieves something way more complex, accidentally or not, by folding African music back unto itself through a process of re-diasporization . . .

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All One Song :: Jeff Parker on “The Needle and the Damage Done”

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Our guest this week is Jeff Parker, best known as the guitarist for the long-running Chicago post-rock group Tortoise. Now Jeff might not seem like the most obvious All One Song guest — his and Neil’s styles feel miles apart. At least at first! But as we get into in our conversation, Jeff has found some serious inspiration in Young’s unique approach to the acoustic guitar. And the acoustic guitar is central to the song he selected to talk about: “The Needle and the Damage Done.” This haunting solo number from 1972’s Harvest remains one of . . .

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The Reds, Pinks & Purples :: The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed

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It has become a futile exercise to attempt using any other synonyms for "prolific" when it comes to the output of songwriter Glenn Donaldson. From the DIY outset of excellent Reds, Pinks & Purples debut Anxiety Art in 2019, we have been gifted a dizzying number of proper albums, EPs and various assorted outtakes (for those counting, that's over 200 songs in the six year stretch). With The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed, Fire Records collects fourteen rarities and previously unreleased tracks from the sprawling RPP archival vault . . .

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Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Two

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Greetings from Todos Santos, Mexico. I'm back down here for a few days having first visited during the pandemic era in August of 2021. We've been listening to this massive, humid, playlist that I compiled just prior to that trip on repeat via the bluetooth speaker on the beach: Lust For Listening. All heaters, summer crate style. Think: 88°F, salt water, Mexican lagers and mezcal. In my bag I've been re-reading a tattered copy of Graham Greene's prophetic 1955 expatriate novel, The Quiet American. The more things change, the more they remain the same . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Aux Meadows

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Aux Meadows, the Oakland-based trio of Steve Dawson (dobro, lap steel), Joe Imwalle (synths, piano) and Chris Royalty (guitar, bass), touch down for this latest installment of the Lagniappe Sessions. As noted in our Midyear Review, the group's latest LP, Draw Near, is one of our favorite records of 2025, a sentiment that is only reaffirmed by the following three covers. Here, the trio works up Another Green World era Eno, Sonic Youth's mid-90s high watermark "The Diamond Sea," and "the killer" himself -- Jerry Lee Lewis . . .

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Jeanines :: How Long Can It Last

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How Long Can It Last continues to expound upon Jeanines' specialty: short bursts of sunshine pop driven by jangly guitars and earworm melodies. At times, How Long Can It Last sounds like lost singles from Dolly Mixture and Marine Girls, bursting with teen-verve giddiness, textured by a homespun fidelity that adds an immediate intimacy to the recordings. At other times, the album recalls something Johnny Marr would have recorded for The Smiths with a sped up tape machine. A thirteen-track record that clocks in at just over twenty minutes, Jeanines don't waste any time. They enter their . . .

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Transmissions :: Bureau of Lost Culture (Bonus Episode)

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We hope you've enjoyed Tyler Wilcox’s All One Song series so far but we're back with, well, something different: it’s a bonus Transmissions conversation between host Jason P. Woodbury and musician, writer, and podcaster Stephen Coates, host of the ⁠Bureau of Lost Culture . . .

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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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Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic (1974)

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Living legend Willie Nelson will once again be hosting his annual 4th of July Picnic this year, more than 50 years after the Lone Star State tradition kicked off. For those of us who can't get down to Texas this Independence Day, this concert doc from '74 will have to do. Don't worry, it's about as good a time as you can have — you can practically smell the reefer, sun tan lotion and BBQ as tens of thousands of fans enjoy a weekend of the burgeoning outlaw country scene's best: Jerry Jeff Walker, Sammi Smith, Waylon . . .

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All One Song :: Chris Forsyth on “Lookout Joe”

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For his All One Song appearance, guitarist Chris Forsyth selected “Lookout Joe,” which first appeared on Tonight’s the Night just about 50 years ago in the summer of 1975. It’s a darkly humorous tune that has all the hallmarks of Neil’s Ditch era—that seedy swagger, a druggy vibe, Ben Keith’s wild pedal steel and backing vocals, and some dangerous guitar work. It’s a deep cut, but it’s a deep cut that’s very much worth getting into . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2025 Midyear Review

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The clock never stops, but sometimes music manages the impossible: slowing time for a moment. It's in those vibrational encounters with music that we find peace and we find ourselves. In the spirit of sharing the stuff that moved us, we're back with our midyear review. As always, the list is unranked and unruly; there's more than enough here to guide you into those rare encounters with deep time . . .

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