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Roundtable: Fuzz on Nirvana, Sonny Sharrock, and Boris

This week Ty Segall's hard rock trio Fuzz releases its latest slab of monolithic riffs, III. We convened Segall, Charles Moothart, and Chad Ubovich to weigh in on three other records by trios, Nirvana's grunge classic In Utero,, Sonny Sharrock Trio's no-wave shredder Dance With Me Montana, and Akuma no Uta by Japanese rockers Boris . . .

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Black to Comm :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Black to Comm’s Marc Richter has been making electronic music since the early 00s, piecing found sounds into intricate, multilayered compositions.

We caught up with the composer as he talks about his beginnings in music as a young man in the Black Forest region of Germany, the experiences that pointed him towards electronics and the art and artists who have inspired his latest work . . .

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Earl Freeman: Poems and Drawings

Earl Freeman was a bassist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, and artist. We spoke to Adam Lore from 50 Miles of Elbow Room and Michael Klausman from Wry Press about Earl Freeman: Poems and Drawings, the origin of the project, and the man himself . . .

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Andrew Carroll :: You Are Here

On his forthcoming EP You Are Here, Los Angeles-based Lodge 49 composer and songwriter Andrew Carroll offers up a cinematic set of psychedelic pop songs—think Pet Sounds re-envisioned as a soundtrack to a lost noir gem, its character lurking in shadows cast against golden California light. Tonight on Range and Basin, part of the monthly Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard broadcast on Dublab, he joined host Jason P. Woodbury to share an advance listen of his new songs, which are presented here for advance listening ahead of their release October 30th . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: October 2020 Broadcast

Originally aired October 18th, this edition of Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on Dublab features an episode of Chad DePasquale's New Happy Gathering in the first hour, followed by Range and Basin, Doom and Gloom From the Tomb, and Personal Sky . . .

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Oliver Coates :: skins n slime

Oliver Coates' Skins n slime is not an easy listen by any means. The record resolutely chooses to veer off-track, taking a sharp turn from its predecessor Shelley’s on Zenn-La’s experimental dance influences, into barren and decaying sonic surroundings. Except, that is, when moments of pure, keening beauty snake their way through the minuscule cracks Coates has left open, like delicate plant tendrils in search of a ray of sunshine . . .

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Going Home With Kevin Morby

Kevin Morby fled the midwest as a young man. What's brought him back and how has it inspired his new album, the accepting and fervent Sundowner . . .

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Sonhos Secretos: Brazilian Private Press & Independent MPB On 7″ (1980-1985)

Sonhos Secretos, or Secret Dreams in English, alludes to the quiet aspirations of those that made these independent and privately released recordings as well as to the fact that many of these tracks have long remained essentially a secret. It's also, to some extent, a reference to a certain dream-like quality that permeates this collection . . .

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Sally Anne Morgan :: Thread

On her excellent solo debut Thread, Sally Anne Morgan (Black Twig Pickers/House and Land) proffers a Blakean blend of the earthy and the cosmic, reveling in mystical folk traditions . . .

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Yo La Tengo :: We Have Amnesia Sometimes/Sleepless Night

Like most of us, Yo La Tengo have had a weird year. But the long-running band is making the most of things with two fresh releases: some things old, some things new, some things borrowed, some things blue . . .

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Transmissions :: Beverly Glenn-Copeland

The release of the new collection Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn​-​Copeland continues a wave of new appreciation for the pioneering folk, electronic, and experimental composer's celestial and enveloping songs. Glenn-Copeland joins us to discuss science fiction, aliens, and picking up broadcasts from the universe . . .

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Los Days :: Singing Sands

Together as Los Days, Tommy Guerrero and Josh Lippi have crafted a top notch desert oasis soundtrack with Singing Sands, offering compositions that evoke lazy afternoons in the cantina, sinister antagonists on the prowl, and the expanses of the cosmos, inner and outer . . .

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Psychic Temple :: Houses of the Holy

On the sprawling Houses of the Holy, Chris Schlarb assembles a four-pronged augmented Psychic Temple, recruiting rockers Cherry Glazerr, legendary jazz combo the Chicago Underground Trio, the psychedelic Dream Synidcate and rapper Xololanxinxo for a journey of moods and styles . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter One

Warren Zevon once said "We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." But even if your towering "too read" can't guarantee immortality, those pages can make life feel even more worth living. Welcome to the inaugural Aquarium Drunkard Book Club. This installment finds Tyler Wilcox guiding us through a few of his recent reads. Enjoy. More soon . . .

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Thurston Moore :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Thurston Moore scarcely needs an introduction, nor do we need a specific reason to want to chat with the 62-year-old artist. There is, though, a hook for this particular chat: the release of By The Fire, a new studio effort by the Thurston Moore Group. Recorded in London, the album is all radiant heat and kaleidoscopic arrangements which join together in oozing consort and tickling friction. Shooting through this mass of sound are lyrics, written by Moore or transgender poet Radieux Radio, that are rich with poetic detail and reveal a deep craving for experience and human connection . . .

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