On April 12, Mama Bird Recording Co. releases Damien Jurado's 14th album, In the Shape of a Storm. Ahead of its official release, Aquarium Drunkard is pleased to share a full stream of the album, accompanied by AD's own Jason P. Woodbury's essay about the new album . . .
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Accompanied by his dad and brother, along with Vietnamese musician Minh Nguyen, IC-01 sheds yet a another light on Nielson’s evolving muse. Still psychedelic? Indeed, but here the seven eponymously titled tracks mine a different vein, eschewing Nielson’s preternatural pop instincts for a mercurial amalgam of free jazz, atmospheric space funk, ambient and more . . .
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In the late 1970s, after getting his financial house in relative order, David Bowie had a firmer grip on his studio recordings than many of his contemporaries. While Bob Dylan’s outtakes and demos would keep trickling out on bootlegs for years, the “unofficial” Bowie releases, 1976-2016, with some exceptions (see below), are greatly confined to concert tapes . . .
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Seeing Stars, the second salvaged Please album, is the real gem of the two—a surprise stunner of organ-driven, hyper-melodic psych-pop that would feel right at home on Jagjaguwar or Sacred Bones today . . .
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If you were to tell someone in the United States that you cut your teeth as a musician playing weddings, they would probably have a very specific idea of what that meant. And it wouldn’t sound anything like Mdou Moctar . . .
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Outré California. It’s Wednesday night. The Aquarium Drunkard Show.
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New music from Cate Le Bon, Yves Jarvis, Jessica Pratt, Michelle Blades, Michael Nau & more. Onwards . . .
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Mac McCaughan – cosmic synth master?! Those aren’t words I expected to write about the Superchunk/Portastatic frontman in 2019, but here we are. New Rain Duets, his just-released collab LP with Mary Lattimore, showcases Mac’s impressively adventurous synthesizer textures alongside the cascading shimmers of Lattimore’s effects-laden harp. Recorded live at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC, the end result is kinda like a dream team-up of Terry Riley and Alice Coltrane . . .
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Elkhorn, the powerful instrumental duo of Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner are back with two slabs of transcendent goodness. Only this time around, they’re not just a duo. On these simultaneously recorded / individually released LPs, Sheppard and Gardner have brought along two ringers: the enigmatic guitar slinger Willie Lane and the freakishly talented percussionist Ryan . . .
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Buckle up, kids - this thing takes no prisoners. Hailing from Tokyo, the Dynamite Masters Blues Quartet (DMBQ) do exactly as their name suggests: conjure up some seriously punishing wizard psych, and then blow that shit up. Dig this visually apt piece for "No Things," culled from the band's 2018 double lp, Keenly, released become a member or log in.
Farrar’s strength as a lyricist often lies in his precise way of putting words together. His work has always been similar to an abstract painter, using imagery and the sounds of words as much as the meanings themselves to create moods across the rustic rock soundscapes of Son Volt’s music . . .
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Recorded live at the Getty, "Teardrops (Classic Hell on Earth)" finds Gun Outfit reflecting on ecological destruction . . .
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Originally a handmade mix CD compiled by French collectors Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae and sold at a Parisian boutique, Australia’s Efficient Space label brought Sky Girl to the masses in 2016. “A deeply . . .
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Internet Arms, Shaun Fleming's third full-length as Diane Coffee, is his most fully realized work to date. Grappling with technology and our relation to it, the artist chose to embrace the open-ended questions that our society seems hesitant to tackle -- even at our own peril.Speaking from . . .
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Our March podcast features in-depth interviews with Jason Mantzoukas (How Did This Get Made?), Low, and a remembrance of the late Sara Romweber of Let's Active . . .
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Outré California. It's Wednesday night. The Aquarium Drunkard Show. No static at all.
34.0522° N, 118.2437° W
This Heat, Yoshinori Hayashi, Jah Wobble, Fugazi, OMNI, 39 Clocks, Bodega, The Raincoats, The Fall, P.I.L., Gang of Four, Eno, White Fence, Laurie Anderson, a Roland CR78 and more . . .
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