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The Wailers :: The Record Plant | Sausalito, CA October 31, 1973

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Quarantine Scene Check, Day Infinity (Sunday): The depths of AD HQ’s office closet beckoned. And like Hiram Bingham III, but hatless, I entered. The 7 year old's pleas for FROZEN II dissolved behind me (I ignored them) as I fought past the aesthetic pleasures of BASF stacks and Scotch reel-to-reel tapes. And then there I found it, the unsightly treasure: a cache of ‘90s Case Logic books . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Black Lips

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Prior to the release of their ninth record -- the incredibly apt titled Sing In A World That’s Falling Apart -- Black Lips touched down in Los Angeles for a secret show at Gold Diggers in East Hollywood. The following Lagniappe Session was cut just prior in the studio out back. Having morphed in both personnel and sound in recent years, drummer Oakley Munson runs us through the band's cover selects, below -- from drawing inspiration from Hank Williams to long lost VU nuggets . . .

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Bandcamping :: Quarantine Edition

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We've been espousing Bandcamp as one of the most artist friendly online music services since launching Tyler Wilcox's Bandcamping series. Today, Friday, March 20th, in support of artists impacted by the mass tour cancelations required by the COVID-19 outbreak, Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share, putting more money directly into the pockets of artists hit hard by this unprecedented loss of income . . .

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Unearthed, Vol. 9 :: Long Island Sound

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If you were out on Long Island from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, your best bet for adventurous and eclectic live music was My Father's Place. The Roslyn, NY club hosted an array of genre-leading talents: prog monsters, folk rock legends, reggae icons, jazz fusioneers, punk pioneers and beyond. Lucky for us, many of these shows were broadcast over the WLIR-FM airwaves — and drawing from that deep archive, the latest Unearthed bootleg mix extravaganza cherrypicks some choice My Father's Place performances from the club's heyday. Download and get lost in the Long Island . . .

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Toussaint McCall :: I’ll Do It For You

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Dig this downbeat soul from Louisiana’s Toussaint McCall. 1967's “I’ll Do It For You” plunges the depths of a brooding nocturnal oddity; a swirling woozy organ is complimented by accents of washboard and maracas, producing an eerily vague Latin flavor in contrast to McCall’s downtrodden and desperate plea for affection . . .

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

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Strange days. Transmitting via the AD quarantine bunker, northeast Los Angeles. SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays . . .

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Maximum Social Distance :: A Mixtape

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Not exactly easy listening, but something like counter programming against the ambient dread of the moment. “We try not to lose our hearts, not lose our minds . . .

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Miles Davis :: Antibes, France July 1969

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Five days after the first moon landing. Five days prior to the release of In a Silent Way. One month before the recording of Bitches Brew. The Miles Davis quintet at the 1969 Festival Mondial du Jazz d'Antibes, La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: KPM – Be With Records Is The Selector, Vol. II

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The UK based Be With records ongoing reissue campaign of essential library classics continues with two more KPM titles: Visual Impact and The Hunter (Drama Suite) / Adventure Story, two more from the Themes series, and its first foray into the iconic German library institution, Coloursound with The Now Generation (Percussive Underscores).

As a sequel to our 2018 mixtape, the following was once again created live in one take, using all vinyl at Be With’s Manchester HQ . . .

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Jimi Tenor :: NY, Hel, Barca (1994-2001)

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...the Hamburg, Germany imprint Bureau B has taken up the task of solving at least a portion of the the enigmatic artist's puzzle: their latest release, NY, Hel, Barca (1994-2001), compiles 20 favorites from 6 of Tenor’s LPs, serving as a welcome primer to the emergence of Jimi Tenor, the solo artist . . .

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Past + Present + Future

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Aquarium Drunkard is powered by our patrons. Help us continue doing it by pledging your support via our Patreon page. Independently run, AD turns 15 in May. We've been through some shit together, and we will all get through this together . . .

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Horse Lords :: The Common Task

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Horse Lords have a way of infusing radical ideas with rational approaches. Over four studio albums, the Baltimore quartet has developed a sharp line of inquiry around systems that organize not only music-making but also society, philosophy, and belief. The ensemble gives the folksy appearance of a rock band–bass, drums, guitar, and saxophone–yet they regularly employ dense weaves of polyrhythms and explore mathematically derived tuning systems with modified instruments and electronic processing . . .

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Transmissions :: Strange Days—A Conversation

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Social distance dispatching. Some background, to start. In recent weeks, we've been assembling elements—interviews, readings, scripts, segments—for the next season of the Transmissions podcast. But the onset of global pandemic has caused us to consider: What feels important right now? Would discussing it help? To that end, we're taking the Transmissions podcast weekly for now, and featuring check-ins between AD founder Justin Gage and editor Jason P. Woodbury. We have a lot of plans for the podcast in the coming weeks, from guest interviews to audio collages, but expect it to be loose. Stay in . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Ilyas Ahmed

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One of the underground’s most reliable figures for the past decade-and-a-half, Ilyas Ahmed isn’t an easy artist to pin down...for his debut Lagniappe Session, Ahmed doesn’t bother digging out obscurities. Instead, he offers awesomely fresh spins on classics from the Rolling Stones, Joy Division and the Velvet Underground, turning these well-worn tunes inside out and revealing new colors . . .

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Shabaka & The Ancestors :: We Are Sent Here by History

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We Are Sent Here By History is a spiritual awakening and an homage to African and Caribbean traditions. Recorded exclusively in Johannesburg and Cape Town, with a collective of South African musicians, Shabaka says this of the album, “We Are Sent Here by History is a meditation on the fact of our coming extinction as a species. It is a reflection from the ruins, from the burning. A questioning of the steps to be taken in preparation for our transition individually and societally if the end is to be seen as anything but a tragic defeat . . .

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