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Joan Shelley :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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We caught up with Joan Shelley on a summer Friday shortly after the Supreme Court upended Roe Vs. Wade, a weird and unsettled time for everyone, but perhaps particularly for a female artist in Kentucky with a new daughter. We talked about making art in a pandemic, the importance of collaboration and the difficulties of doing anything else when you have a young child, as well as the pleasures of listening to music all the way through, the way it was intended . . .

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Transmissions :: Glenn Jones

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Welcome to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. Our guest today on the show Glenn Jones, who joins us to discuss his new album Vade Mecum, out now on Thrill Jockey Records, as well as touch on and illuminate the complicated legacy of John Fahey. Both solo and as a member of Cul-de-Sac, Jones has been a force of creative energy in the world of solo acoustic guitar, guitar soli, or American Primitive music, a term we discuss in this chat . . .

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Oksana Linde :: Aquatic And Other Worlds

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Oksana Linde’s music is where she lets her dual passions of nature and music bleed together. Her compositions are inspired by both the wonder scientific observation generates and the questions it can’t quite answer, playing to imagined and perceived worlds. Treading a line between cognizant experimentation and blissful meditation is a rare craft to witness and it’s here in spades . . .

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Dehd :: Blue Skies

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On what is Dehd's best album to date, the band finds its most full creation: an album of happiness, reflection, and effusive exploration, Blue Skies is the Chicago band's triumphant entry from out of a pandemic world . . .

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The Cure :: Charlotte Sometimes (Soundcheck, 1982)

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The bootleg live version of "Charlotte Sometimes" from The Cure’s soundcheck at The Hammersmith Odeon could be considered the definitive version of the song. It's a perfect concoction of composition and environment, adding an additional ghostly layer to an already haunting song. The lo-fi recording quality and cavernous reverb from the empty venue perfectly plays into the song's eerie nature. It’s as if The Cure are performing to an audience of phantoms beneath the dim lights of an abandoned theater - is there a better way to hear The Cure than that . . .

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Ra Can Row :: Ra Can Row (1983)

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Heavy kosmische from America’s Rhine substitute: the mighty Ohio River. As if Ash Ra Tempel recorded at the Black Ark. For a one-off group of unknown Ohioans, Ra Can Row sounds remarkably contemporary for their time . . .

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Cedric “Im” Brooks :: United Africa

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...it’s “Silent Force” that rises out of the album like a thick encroaching mist. It’s a massive groove that wouldn’t be out of place on an Africa 70 record, displaying the full strength of Brooks’ tenor sax and the supple interplay of his ensemble as they funk hard over an insistent undercurrent of nyabinghi drums. With Brooks’ tenor backed by Jamaican session luminaries like Ernest Ranglin, Harold Butler, Boris Gardiner, and Tony Allen, “Silent Force” is an otherworldly melding of roots reggae, spiritual jazz, and African polyrhythms that transcends the narrow confines of genre. This is fusion . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: July 2022

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Coming in clear and loud: Airing every third Sunday of the month, Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard returns for four hours of freeform tunes on dublab this week, on July 17 from 4-8 PM Pacific, with New Happy Gathering, Range and Basin, a Doom and Gloom from the Tomb Pavement deep dive, and an hour of country funk from Jocelyn Romo of Heaven and Earth Magic . . .

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Lael Neale :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Singer/songwriter Lael Neale sits down at Schubas Tavern in Chicago to discuss her album Acquainted with Night, her collaborator Guy Blakeslee of Entrance Band, and where she's going next . . .

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Color Green :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Arriving July 22 via AD and Org Music, Color Green’s full-length debut is music of absolute forward motion, meant to be played from open car windows no matter the speed you’re traveling. The songs nod reverently to their forebears—from the Allmans-tinged sunshine of “Ill Fitting Suit” to the JJ Cale taillight lament of “Ruby”—before tossing up a wave and taking the whole show a little further down the road. With another record in the works and a road-tested band behind them, we caught up with Noah Kohll and Corey Madden as their Color . . .

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

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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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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Al Riggs

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For their first ever Lagniappe Session, North Carolina songwriter/singer/producer Al Riggs takes on songs by The Who, Liz Phair, and Hidden Cameras . . .

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Transmissions :: Vish Khanna

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Transmissions with Canadian podcaster, broadcaster, music journalist, and music lifer Vish Khanna. He’s the host of the long running and inspirational Kreative Kontrol, a podcast dedicated to creativity, which has featured talks with people like Will Oldham, members of Pavement, Sonic Youth, Warren Ellis of The Bad Seeds, Jeff Tweedy, Ian MacKaye, and many others. Khanna and host Jason P. Woodbury embark on a revealing conversation about niche music podcasting and creative process . . .

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Charles Stepney :: That’s the Way of the World (Home Demo)

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Step on Step presents soul and funk producer Charles Stepney alone and in the basement, working with drum machines and synths to craft sounds that feel remarkably modern. Take his embryonic version of "That's the Way of the World," an eventual hit for Earth, Wind & Fire: its lo-fi instrumental glory shines as brightly as a heart on fire . . .

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Weed & Molasses: Little Feat | Live at WLIR Ultrasonic Studios, April 10, 1973

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The band's live recording at WLIR in Long Island on April 10, 1973 is undoubtedly one of the great early Feat bootlegs, and perhaps only rivaled by the following year’s performance at the very same studio on September 19, 1974 (now officially released as Electrif Lycanthrope: Live at Ultra-Sonic Studios, 1974). Fresh from the recording sessions for Dixie Chicken, this 1973 set is red hot . . .

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