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Videodrome :: The Holy Mountain

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The Holy Mountain is offensive and grotesque in the same breath that it’s beautiful and transcendent, challenging all methods of interpretation and blowing the doors off meta-narratives in its rejection of form. It's as subversive and tripped-out as any contemporary piece of media, serving as a gateway drug into the hardcore realm of mind-bending world cinema . . .

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

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Sidereal Orientation. 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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Waylon Jennings :: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (Documentary)

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Look here, hoss. While re-reading Waylon Jennings’ 1995 autobiography (ably penned with an assist from Lenny Kaye) we happened upon this gem, the hour long 1984 documentary My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys. Show up for the interstitial solo performances from Jennings, but stick around for a peak into the lives of a uniquely American occupation. Giddy up, greenhorns . . .

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Aaron Kyle :: Here In The River

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LA based singer-songwriter Aaron Kyle has been releasing a steady stream of music for the past two decades. From the askew pop of his '00's project, Le Switch, to the countrypolitan guise of his most recent Geronimo Getty persona, the throughline was the storytelling. This remains the case on Kyle's new ep, Here In The River, the first output released under his own name. Aesthetically noir in approach, and sonically indebted to Los Lobos, Lhasa, and Tom Waits, it's also Kyle's best work to date . . .

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Clinic :: Transmissions

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Today on Transmissions: Ade Blackburn of Clinic. The Liverpool-based duo of Blackburn and Jonathan Hartley released a great record last year called Fantasy Island, full of skittering drum machines, cavernous sounds, and fuzzed out melodies, and this week sees the 20th anniversary of their sophomore album, Walking With Thee. Blackburn joins us to discuss his countercultural inspirations, the blending of rock & roll and the avant-garde, discuss the dub-influenced Higher Authorities, and chat about collaborating with Roky Erickson and John Cale . . .

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Sunforest :: Magician In The Mountain

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Released in 1969, what we have here is a tune that lyrically concerns itself with, and I quote, "imaginary elves," "castles in the air," and a "misty mountain forest"... all accompanied by Renn-Faire appropriate artwork. Still reading? Hope so, as instrumentally, this folk funks, getting particularly nasty just before the three minute mark. Swathed in reverb, the vox devolve, the drummer gets some, and shit breaks into what could only be described as someone taking a solo whistling through a blade of grass. So, you in . . .

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Etran de L’Air :: Agadez

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Endless energy courses through Agadez, the second album by Nigerian combo Etran de L'Air. It's named for the city the band calls home, long an important center for the Tuareg people, a traditionally nomadic group that has produced some transcendent guitarists, including Tinariwen, Abdallah Oumbadougou, Mdou Moctar, and Les Filles de Illighadad. All electrify Tuareg stylings, fusing folk tradition with rock & roll sensibility . . .

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Superchunk :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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For more than 30 years, Superchunk has made its wild, tuneful racket, hitching blistering guitar mayhem to graceful pop melodies. The band took a break in the aughts but has since caught a second wind, cranking out rollicking records that are imbued with wisdom . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: SXSW 2022

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We’re heading back to Austin for SXSW next month, throwing a party with Gold Diggers the night of Friday, March 18th. And, yes, that is indeed the zamrock W.I.T.C.H.

Featuring: W.I.T.C.H. | Steve Gunn | Cymande | Ada Lea | Kiwi Jr. | Marina Allen . . .

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Alice Coltrane :: 16mm Documentary

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Culled from a 1970 documentary created for a segment of the Black Journal television program, this unearthed 16mm color film finds Alice Coltrane between the albums Huntington Ashram Monastery, and Ptah, the El Daoud.

Captured three years after the death of John Coltrane, the piece begins in media res outside the Long Island, NY home the artist shared with her late husband and children. In a floating voiceover, Coltrane reflects on matters of the spiritual and beyond, as we catch a glimpse of the family's domestic life on the property. A scant yet powerful fifteen minutes, things soon turn . . .

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Träd Gräs och Stenar :: I Can’t Get No Satisfaction

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In their native Swedish, Träd Gräs och Stenar translates to ‘Trees, Grass, and Stones,’ and the communal psych jammers never hesitated to emphasize the third part of their moniker. The band’s reading of “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction” from their 1970 debut isn’t so much a cover as it is a transfiguration—the angsty pean to teenage boredom shifting and morphing entirely into an primeval, elemental dance of the midnight sun . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: February 2022

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Transmitting from the far side of the moon, it’s Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab, a four-hour freeform excursion airing every third Sunday of the month . . .

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Neil Young :: Harvested (Harvest Re-Imagined)

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Neil Young's Harvest turned 50 this month — and thanks to hits like "Heart of Gold" and "Old Man," the 1972 LP remains one of the songwriter's signature efforts. To hear it with fresh ears, step into the barn with Neil one more time and check out this decades-spanning, re-imagined version of the album, compiled out of ranch rambles, live arrangements, fireside sessions, and even a little chicken coop jam . . .

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Los Ecos :: La Fuga Del Bandido

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A mesmerizing slice of psychedelia from Peru, Los Ecos’ “La Fuga Del Bandido” appropriately brims with menace and simmering heat. The track’s dance music origins are vaguely hinted at in its percussive introduction, though that quickly gives way to a bed of organ and an assuming, yet knowing, Spaghetti western-inflected guitar. The band turns it up with ascending flute, slinky percussion, and a baroque downtempo organ waltz, before setting off into an alien synthscape, finding our bandit escaping more than just the law . . .

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Molly Lewis :: Transmissions

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This week on the show, we're joined by world renowned whistler Molly Lewis. Last year, she released a great EP called The Forgotten Edge via Jagjaguwar. With its exotica and spaghetti western motifs, the EP is a supremely playful and lovely listen. And Lewis is a charming conversationalist too. We got into her roots in competitive whistling, being in the studio with Dr. Dre, working with John C. Reilly and whistling for the late, great Harry Dean Stanton . . .

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