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Al Jarreau :: Roof Garden

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Here’s something that will make you want to move your body Steve Martin à la Turk. Six and half minutes of strange, unquenchable pop-funk, the late Al Jarreau released “Roof Garden” in the libertine summer of 1981. Having long leaned away from his early 70s jazz roots, the track finds the acrobat of scat in full-on, LA R&B mode . . .

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Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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"We were influenced by literature and the use of words. We realized the world was a complex place. We were interested in the complexity of human beings, so we sang about the human condition." Sitting down with Aquarium Drunkard, Steve Diggle of the Buzzcocks reflects on the band's legacy of existential poetry and punk pop . . .

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

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More tales from the pacific rim. Outré California.

The Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. Wednesday’s / 7pm PST & on-demand.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Damien Jurado

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Jurado’s latest, In The Shape of a Storm, finds him once again pulling elements out of the nostalgia slipstream. Though less science fiction and supernaturally informed than the records he made with the late, great Richard Swift, it’s no less evocative. Its songs often play out like half-remembered episodes of a forgotten sitcom, transmitted through the static and picked up by ever sensitive antennae.

For his first-ever Lagniappe Session, Damien selected a number of classic theme songs. What he uncovers in them he explains here, in his own words . . .

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Bob Dylan :: The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings

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Just about eight months after More Blood, More Tracks comes another massive Dylan archival haul. The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings weighs in at a hefty 14 discs, giving listeners a front row seat (and a backstage pass) at the traveling road show Bob threw together in the months following Blood On The Tracks’ release. Three discs of rehearsals! Five complete Dylan sets! A bonus disc of curios and oddities! (Oh and hey, there’s that Martin Scorsese doc to absorb as well). The good news? This box is very reasonably priced at just about $80 — a whole . . .

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Chris Robinson Brotherhood :: Let It Fall

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Flanked by various co-conspirators, the band (sounding like a mélange of Amorica/Mars Hotel/In The Right Place) lock into a groove right from the get, as Do You Remember The Great Earl Hooker spins on the platter. Festivities ensue while the collective riff over a series of inquiries, accusations and invocations, intermittently concerned with existential space, heathen fellowship and, naturally, things "getting weird . . .

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Yves Jarvis :: The Same But By Different Means

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Genre fluid, Jarvis slips as easily into balmy, if broken, r&b as he does sinewy folk. Traces of gospel and homespun funk permeate the record, as its disparate sounds are spliced, screwed and ultimately recombinant. In regard to atmosphere, imagine happening upon a cache of extremely mellow Shuggie Otis demos; if say, Otis had a penchant for hyper-abbreviated 4-track and ambient field recordings. No less fragmented than his 2017 debut, this latest collection again finds the artist in a kinetic state of creativity . . .

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The B-52’s :: The Downtown Cafe – Sept 2, 1978 / Atlanta, GA

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The following footage, captured live in Atlanta in 1978, finds the B-52's at their most primal. A Saturday night gig held over Labor Day weekend, the grainy, black & white concert opens with a raw "52 Girls," before sliding into "Dance This Mess Around," "Hero Worship," "Rock Lobster," "The Devil's In My Car," and more. As a testament to the performances, the humidity and funk emanating from the club are almost palpable some 40+ years later . . .

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma :: Joy

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma returns next month with his third long player for Mexican Summer, Tracing Back the Radiance. The new work finds him in the company of some AD favorites such as harpist Mary Lattimore and pedal steel wizard Chuck Johnson, along with a great many more collaborators . . .

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Maria Usbeck :: Amor Anciano

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Maria Usbeck’s 2016 solo debut, Amparo, may go down as one of the great sleeper records of the decade. And now, after a period of considerable quiet, the Brooklyn via Ecuador artist returns with her sophomore lp, Envejeciendo, due August via the Cascine label . . .

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Why Rolling Thunder Revue is a Terrible Documentary But A Great Bob Dylan Film

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There’s a lot to love in Scorsese’s film, which repurposes an enormous trove of backstage and concert footage into a representation of the fall 1975 iteration of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Considered as a traditional documentary, Rolling Thunder Revue is fairly embarrassing. Considered as a Bob Dylan movie in the tradition of the films the songwriter has had his hands in over the years, it’s a grand achievement. The project swerves from fact in similar ways that Dylan’s Chronicles swerves from traditional memoir, with fictional constructs serving the biographical needs of the moment, just as . . .

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Fragments du Monde Flottant

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A spiritual successor to Golden Apples of the Sun, the recent compilation Fragments du Monde Flottant proves Devendra Banhart's ears fully intact. Released by the Genève, Switzerland based Bongo Joe Records, Fragments again finds the singer-songwriter in a curatorial role, culling demo recordings from his labyrinth of friends, acquaintances and musical compatriots . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Guide To Drag City Records: Volume One

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Chicago’s venerable Drag City turns 30 years young in 2019. In perhaps typical fashion, the label doesn’t seem to be doing much in the way of commemoration — no star-studded festival, no limited edition boxed set, no self-congratulatory excess. Instead, Drag City is doing what it’s always done: releasing great records.

But those past glories deserve a little celebration, don’t they? That’s why the Aquarium Drunkard team has put together this eclectic guide to Drag City’s immense catalog: 30 masterpieces for 30 years . . .

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Ryley Walker: The Fivethirteen Sessions

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June 22, join Ryley Walker and Aquarium Drunkard to benefit the ACLU at Trans Pecos in Queens, New York, To prep, give this a spin. Recorded at Fivethirteen Recording in Arizona in the fall of 2016, this collection finds Walker, drummer Ryan Jewell, and bassist Anton Hatwich working through a set of new, experimental recordings. In many ways, they presage the direction Walker and co. would take on Deafman Glance and The Lillywhite Sessions—knotty, electric, and searching. We previously shared these recordings, along with a loopy, freewheeling interview, as part of our Transmissions podcast series, but we're presenting . . .

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

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Black sand blues. Freeform airwave debris transmitting off the coast of Los Angeles.

SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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