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Billy Talbot :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Way back in the 1990s, Neil Young started mentioning Early Daze, a collection of previously unreleased studio recordings he made with Crazy Horse in the late 1960s. As with most everything in Shakeyland, it was a long time coming … but this summer Early Daze finally emerged. Worth the wait? Oh yeah.

For further insight, we went to one of the guys who was there for it all — bassist Billy Talbot . . .

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Transmissions :: La Lom

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Sometimes, background music moves to the foreground. That’s the case with today’s guests, guitarist Zac Sokolow, bassist Jake Faulkner, and drummer Nicholas Baker. Together, they form La Lom—short for the Los Angeles League of Musicians. In 2019, they were hired to bring suitably vibey music to the lobby of the historic Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Now, they've got a new album coming out on Verve. They join us to discuss . . .

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Luke Temple and The Cascading Moms :: Certain Limitations

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While his nimble, soft guitar phrasings and textured harmonies often evoke experimentalists like Bill Frisell or Egberto Gismonti, in Certain Limitations, Temple has formed a trio with Kosta Galanopoulos and Doug Stuart (who they dub "the Cascading Moms") to throw this recognizable aesthetic on top of contorting, broken rhythms—especially in the second half of the record, with the revolving-effervescent "It's All About Timing" and the compressed-syncopated "Second Half." The result is another gem of effortless pop perfection, that can be idle in form without ever giving up its frenzied steam . . .

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Galaxie 500 :: Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90

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Legendary dream pop and shoegaze pioneers Galaxie 500 just announced their first batch of new music in almost thirty years with the archival compilation Uncollected Noise New York 88-90. A double gatefold LP including a colored special edition inspired by TMOQ bootlegs, the release, scheduled for this September, includes b-sides, outtakes and rare versions of classics like "Blue Thunder" and "Fourth of July . . .

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Dog Days of Aquarium Drunkard

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We were curious what people's summers sounded like. So we asked a clutch of the regular contributors to tell us what they were listening to beat the heat and why. What we heard back made for a weird, wonderful soundtrack for this far stretch of the earth’s revolution around the sun. Here's a slate of recommendations to power you through these dog days of summer . . .

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David Michael Moore :: Lunch Is Having Lunch

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Dubbed a "true American wildass" by his label, septuagenarian woodworker, instrument maker, and composer David Michael Moore lands somewhere between a Southern Moondog, Vince Guaraldi in the Delta, or even JJ Cale on his beatific Lunch Is Having Lunch . . .

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Anthony Pirog :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Always fearless in his pursuit of sonic fusion, the wizardry of Anthony Pirog continues to invade new melodic landscapes. Hard noise. Ambient. Jazz. Punk. Experimental noise funk. He joins us to discuss collaborations with members of Fugazi, Nels Cline, James Brandon Lewis, Jerry Gilgore, and more . . .

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Punk Jazz :: John Zorn’s Spy vs Spy at 35

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Sometime in the mid-1980s, John Zorn was hanging out in New York City’s East Village when he made a career-altering choice: to take in a hardcore show at CBGBs. The experience profoundly shaped his next album, the ultra fast, ultra brief Spy vs Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman . . .

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West of Roan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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West of Roan is a duo of Annie Schermer and Channing Showalter, two visual and performing artists, who share a love of old folk and myth, close harmonies, shifting drone and puppets. Though grounded in old, ancestral traditions—Celtic and Norse mythology, unadorned singing and the plangent tones of fiddle—the pair have resolutely avoided folk purism. “We’re pretty careful about performing traditional music,” Showalter explains.“ We think it through and we think about what we want to say about the song that we’re singing that’s not ours, and if we don’t feel like we really . . .

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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 Glass Bead Band

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It’s just guitar, drums and vocals for the duration of the Glass Bead Band’s self-titled debut LP, but that’s more than enough — this is killer stuff, perhaps not unlike something you might’ve heard on Touch & Go back in the mid-90s. Matt Stadelmann’s declamatory vocals and elemental (but still highly melodic) guitar, Marshall Yarbrough’s rock-solid rhythms, hypnotic song forms that occasionally build into explosive moments . . .

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Ethan Iverson :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Ethan Iverson is a rare bird, a jazz musician who's just as adept at writing about the form as he is playing it. As a member of The Bad Plus, the recorded a series of adventurous albums with the trio between 2001 and 2016, incorporating covers of artists like Radiohead, Aphex Twin, and Pink Floyd along the way. In 2017, he departed The Bad Plus, turning his focus to albums like his new Blue Note outing, Technically Acceptable . . .

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Nap Eyes :: Passageway

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Where do Nintendo 64 games, Russian poets, French filmmaker Chris Marker, and references to Goo Goo Dolls megahits collide? In the lyrics of The Neon Gate, the forthcoming album from Nova Scotian quartet Nap Eyes. Due out October 18th from the ever-reliable Paradise of Bachelors, the new album finds Nap Eyes expanding and taking new form . . .

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Drew Gardner :: Cygnus A

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Drew Gardner steps out on his own with Cygnus A, leaving behind, at least for the moment, his longstanding partnership with Jesse Shepherd in Elkhorn, his free jazz-y improvisations with Flowers in Space (a trio with Andy Cush and Ryan Jewel) and his regular hippie psych collaborations with Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders. No, he’s all by himself here, contemplating the vastness of space, one man in the cosmos staring upwards in wonder . . .

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