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Childhood Imagined: H.M.S. Donovan at 50

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Songs about weather, colors, bathroom habits, dancing, and animals endowed with the ability to speak abound; a spirited masking of the album’s key concern—thwarting the physical, emotional, and cultural aging process. Innocent enough initially, the longer one examines the work the more distorted and intricate the subjects become . . .

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Bob Dylan :: Pretty Good Stuff | Ep. 11

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Boy and girls, the return of Pretty Good Stuff: Dylan historian James Adams’ hour-long program diving deep into the depths of all things Dwarf Music. This installment, all California: 1965-2019 . . .

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RK Nagati :: De l’Orient à L’Orion

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While we cannot speak to the French political climate of 1970, we can attest that RK Nagati's "De l’Orient à L’Orion" is sublime. Penned and performed by Tunisian singer Kamel Rauf Nagati, and most recently culled from Mobilisation Générale: Protest & Spirit Jazz from France 1970-1976, "L’Orion" clocks in at a languid 5 minutes, dripping with a seemingly effortless blend of era-appropriate jazz-funk as refracted through an eastern lens . . .

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Rose City Band :: Earth Trip

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Wooden Shjips / Moon Duo mastermind Ripley Johnson has knocked out three Rose City Band LPs in as many years — and they just seem to be getting better, as Johnson refines and perfects his approach . . .

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R.E.M. :: Viceroy Park, Charlotte, NC, November 7, 1981

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We’re rapidly approaching the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s debut single, the epochal “Radio Free Europe,” released on July 8, 1981. The band has a few things in the works to celebrate, but in the meantime, let’s dip into the band’s live archive . . .

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Elephant Micah on Vague Tidings

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Joe O'Connell of Elephant Micah on the folkloric myths of Vague Tidings and how a DIY communal tour of Alaska, complete with run-ins with a black bear, inspired the album . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: June 20th on dublab

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Never-ending summer Sunday on Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. June 20th from 4—8 PM Pacific. Hour one belongs to D. Norsen, bringing us an all-new episode of RFAD favorite Cadence. In hour two, Range and Basin with Jason P. Woodbury, with hard rock and out-there pop. In hour three, Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb, with an hour of summer solstice jazz. And to close things out, Aquarium Drunkard brings an hour of dub reggae . . .

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Jeffrey Silverstein :: Transmissions

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Musician and writer Jeffrey Silverstein. His new EP of gently cosmic guitar music is called Torii Gates, and he's the head behind the wonderful It’s So Easy (When You Know What You’re Doing), a tribute to the late cult folk musician Ted Lucas, featuring AD favorites like John Andrews & the Yawns, Julianna Barwick and William Tyler, Barry Walker Jr., Amelia Courthouse, and more. He’s also a teacher and a runner. We get into it all on this special bonus episode of Transmissions . . .

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JAUBI :: Nafs at Peace

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Powerful sounds from Pakistan. Here emerges JAUBI, a largely instrumental sextet based in Lahore, with their debut album Nafs at Peace. A captivating range of ideas gleaned from recording sessions where "nothing whatsoever was written down...no sheet music and no song titles, which allowed the six musicians to forget about their worldly issues . . .

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Spiritualized :: Lazer Guided Melodies

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With Spiritualized's Lazer Guided Melodies, recently reissued by Fat Possum, Jason Pierce imbued the songs with an overwhelming sense of freedom and relief. It not only pointed a way forward, it laid out a path Pierce has followed ever since . . .

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Videodrome :: Wild At Heart

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“Wild At Heart is a love story that barrels down a strange highway through the twisted modern world,” David Lynch said of his 1990 film. “There are very tender moments, and there are very violent moments. And then there’s confusion and despair, and then suddenly - you’re in love. There’s got to be room for all of these things…film, in my mind, should have contrast to it. It should have many different kinds of feelings all weaving their way throughout . . .

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

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Houses in motion. The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. Wednesdays. 7pm California time, and on-demand. No static at all.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Interior :: S/T (1982)

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Originally released in 1982, INTERIOR’s debut blends fluttering loops of melody with punched-up percussion and heaps of moody echo. The whole album finds synthetic and acoustic sounds working in symbiosis. Sopranino sax and 808 snares share space alongside trance-like acoustic piano progressions and finger snaps. Warping bass lines commingle with Linndrum kicks. To this day it still sounds somewhat revelatory . . .

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John Grant :: Transmissions

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John Grant on his synth-dappled Boy From Michigan, produced by Cate Le Bon, full of Blade Runner synths pulsing underneath incredible melodies and vocal performances . . .

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Joni Mitchell w/ Brian Blade :: Fez Club NYC, 1995 | Bootleg

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This is folk-jazz straight from the source, folks. Shimmering, harplike chords swirl around Mitchell’s sylvan-siren-meets-full-throated-thrush descants, while Blade’s thundering percussion and cymbal splashes push it into those poignant uppers . . .

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