Dead waters run deep. Ripping out the gate, “Dead Ahead” sets a breakneck pace complete with blazing pedal steel and extremely necessary cowbell. Regarding the lyrical content, there’s plenty of smoking and drinking and unsuccessfully getting home. The endless highway, indeed . . .
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If there is indeed a season for every song, Beefheart's "Observatory Crest" is unequivocally late summer. Particularly late summer in Los Angeles. A bright spot via the Captain's oft-maligned lp, Bluejeans & Moonbeams, "Crest" hangs in a liminal space somewhere between revisiting a journal entry and bittersweet nostalgia . . .
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The algorithm often lets us down, but sometimes it truly works, like in the case of Vintage Music Experience, a wondrous YouTube channel dedicated to sharing rare free jazz. Sergei Minakov joins us from Russia to discuss his love of music . . .
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As the eponymous Beachwood Sparks debut celebrates 20 years, some fascinating rarities have surfaced including this particularly intriguing nugget: a recently unearthed tape consisting of unreleased studio tracks (recorded prior to the first album . . .
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Country feedback. 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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Sam Evian on building the early '70s inspired Time to Melt, which aspires to address the strife of the present and also sound good while making dinner . . .
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Madrigal’s self-titled album, reissued via Subliminal Sounds in 2017. A slice of early 70s lo-fi, basement DIY, experimenting with oscillating drones, drum machines, vox, electric guitar and bass. Or: haunted, subterranean folk music as heard through a slab of dilapidated drywall . . .
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This week on Transmissions, Alan Lomax Archive curator and guitarist Nathan Salsburg joins us from his place in rural Kentucky to discuss his new album of Hebrew devotional music, Psalms, conceptions of the divine, life as a new parent, and much more . . .
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Matthew Specktor's Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, & Los Angeles, California blends "autobiographical vignettes and incisive cultural deep dives." Today, the author joins us with a companion mixtape of songs that helped inspire the book . . .
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For a minute there after leaving Roxy Music, Brian Eno was poised to become one of the era’s most glam-tastic superstars. He's captured here venturing to outer regions with the Winkies . . .
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Culled from their 1971 s/t album, "Old Man" remains a top contender for best fake CSNY. No shade, it's great. With multi-part harmonies, interweaving guitar tangle, and a straight-up, preemptive sixth sense nod to Neil's own "Old Man" from a year later, its near seven minute runtime is completely satisfying . . .
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“Hello!” Alan Dunham sings exuberantly at the beginning of his 1980 LP Flying Alone. “It’s nice to meet you!” Not too many people got the chance to connect with the teenaged singer-songwriter back then, though. The homemade album was released in minuscule quantities — a very private press, indeed. But in 2021, the ever-reliable crate diggers at Numero Group are giving Dunham a proper introduction: Flying Alone hits various digital platforms this week . . .
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We may or may not have a playlist entitled Let's Have Sax -- one entirely comprised of vintage pop tunes with choice saxxy interludes. We're not saying we do... but if we did, the elegant one-hit wonder that is Brian Protheroe's "Pinball" would surely slide in midway through. Released in 1974, "Pinball" scratches that mid-decade McCartney itch, much in the same way as, say, Emitt Rhodes or a nice, sweet hit of Gerry Rafferty . . .
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Covering the Beatles is often met with mixed results, but Brazilian songstress Elis Regina pulled it off in 1971 via her rendering of "Golden Slumbers". Singing in English, released two years after Abbey Road, Regina works McCartney's nostalgic lament into a soulful, orchestrated, vamp . . .
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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab returns Sunday, August 15 from 4—8 PM Pacific time, with special guests Chad DePasquale and MC Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger . . .
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