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Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987

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Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983 – 1987 gathers 28 gemlike tracks from bands that are mostly now forgotten. Some of the artists went on to commercial success, but that was clearly never the goal. We caught up with the comp's curator, Mike Sniper, to learn how he found this music, what it means to him and why the world needs more bands, even now in the age of isolation and self-recording . . .

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

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22° halo. 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 Lagniappe Sessions :: Jack Name

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Jack Name moves in the shadows. Born John Webster Adams, the perennial chameleon's fourth album, Magic Touch, breaks in stark contrast from his previous solo work. Dialing back the multi-layered production, yet eschewing none of the soul, this latest offering finds the artist naked and at the fore. The following, his first Lagniappe Session, only compliments this approach . . .

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Transmissions :: Masma Dream World

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On her new LP Play at Night Masma Dream World blends electronics and ritual to build a shadow world of sound. She joins us to discuss her global history, DJing, and the spiritual qualities of frequencies . . .

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I Got My Irons In A Fire Down In Texas

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The impact of Jerry Jeff Walker’s first decade in Texas is still reverberating around the state.

Consider the following mix, a compendium, both a primer and a celebration of the late artist . . .

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Emily A. Sprague :: Hill, Flower, Fog

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Whether she’s making wistful folk music with Upstate New York act Florist or letting her Eurorack do the talking on her eponymous releases, a sense of gentleness permeates everything Emily A. Sprague creates. Recorded shortly after the pandemic hit, her latest, Hill, Flower, Fog, is a meditative exercise in sanity and patience . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Badge Époque Ensemble

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Toronto’s Badge Époque Ensemble are a tireless assembly line of lysergic mood music, with November’s Self Help marking their third release in just over a year.

For their Lagniappe Session, Badge Époque picked a pair of unsurprisingly idiosyncratic songs to interpret from Henry Mancini in 1961 and Mica Levi’s 2013 Under The Skin soundtrack . . .

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Jennifer Castle :: Monarch Season

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Jennifer Castle's Monarch Season indeed feels accompanied by the sounds of nature, room tone, and—as is often the case with Castle—the omnipresence of the moon overhead. On Angels of Death, Castle credited it as a member of the band. Here, it exists in many forms: a light, a mystery, and a muse. The moon, for Castle, is a performer and an audience alike . . .

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John Jeffrey :: Passage

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John Jeffrey serves Moon Duo’s metronomic drummer, but he steps out from behind the kit for Passage, his spiritual jazz meets post rock solo debut . . .

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

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The first hour of tonight's show highlights our Black Friday release, Jesus People Music, Volume One :: The End Is At Hand.

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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Transmissions :: Magik Markers

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You’re tuned into Transmissions, where each week Aquarium Drunkard presents a strange conversations for these strange times. Today on the show we're joined by Elisa Ambrogio of Magik Makers. The Markers' new album 2020 is out now on Drag City. It’s a gloriously smeared burst of noise, raw riffs, and damaged country and folk songs. Ambrogio joined us to discuss the importance of good quarantine companion, living out west, and getting into music—really inhabiting it—before you are even sure what you are doing . . .

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The Moore Brothers :: Autobiography

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One of the underground’s best-kept secrets for close to two decades, the Moore Brothers have painted another masterpiece with Autobiography. Siblings Thom and Greg Moore are still finding new ways to bend their voices into odd shapes, conjuring up harmonies that are both perfectly poppy and perfectly strange . . .

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MIYUMI Project :: Best of the MIYUMI Project

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Best of the MIYUMI Project highlights from the collective’s history, documenting its elegan meeting of American, African, and Asian sounds . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show, Episode V

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Reverberating from the hills of Glassell Park, CA, a half-hour canyon of sound featuring the sonic stylings of Spacemen 3, Stereolab, Brigitte Fontaine, the best John Cale performance (ever), and mucho mas.

Feat: Silver Jews | Stereolab | Broadcast | Spacemen 3 | Nico | Brigitte Fontaine | Richard Swift | John Cale . . .

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David Nance :: Staunch Honey

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Though Staunch Honey is a bit more mature than the shaggy, rustic tone of his earlier efforts, David Nance hasn't abandoned that feeling here at all. The sound remains gloriously rusted and raw, but with room now at the table for more refined and warm manners. His guitar chops are on full display, too—noodling, riffing, and keeping that down home, rock and roll rhythm throughout in equally pleasurable amounts . . .

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