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Medeski Martin & Wood :: Tonic & The Dropper

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When looking back on cultural events that happened in the year 2000, it’s easy to make sweeping statements about the beginning of the 21st century and the rise of the new millennium. For the instrumental jazz/jam/groove band Medeski Martin & Wood, this connection to a significant change in the Gregorian calendar is unnecessary because the band’s recorded output in that year alone is momentous enough in relation to their own career discography . . .

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Fabiano Do Nascimento & E Ruscha V :: Aquáticos

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Brazilian guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimento and Los Angeles producer Eddie Ruscha (aka E Ruscha V and Secret Circuit) team up for the gorgeously ambient and adventurous Aquáticos, released earlier this year on the ever-reliable Music From Memory label. Pairing Nascimento’s 7 and 10-string nylon guitars with Ruscha’s modular synths, drum machines, and vintage keyboards, the duo create meditative, electro-acoustic sounds with an alchemical fluidity . . .

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The Smoke :: S/T (1968)

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In addition to his role in elusive cult outfit The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, musician and young prodigy Michael Lloyd ricocheted from studio to studio in late sixties Los Angeles. Amidst production efforts with legendary LA scenester Kim Fowley, Lloyd's 1968's one-off studio project The Smoke is the most rewarding relic. With all of the glowing touchstones of the era's hazy California psych-pop, the record combines fragmented orchestral pieces with highlights like "Cowboys and Indians", an original response to "Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys. While other classics of the genre were . . .

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Making the Scene :: Catching up with Programme 4’s Rachel Lichtman

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Alongside her work directing music videos and documentaries, Rachel Lichtman expertly crafts and currates media that feels beamed in from an alternate reality. Don’t mistake them as simple sendups or exercises in damaging nostalgia. As Lichtman describes: “It’s not just about an aesthetic. It’s really [about] truly being able to trek out into a better world. A world that we were promised . . .

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Colleen :: Libres antes del final

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We often say that electronic music has a pulse, but on the standout title track, that pulse seems less like a metaphor and more like an actual heartbeat, thumping with effort but fully capable of maintaining itself over long periods. The title, by the way, translates as “free at the end,” and indeed, there is a payoff to this gleaming processional, which explodes with sensation from the halfway point on . . .

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Rachel Love :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Originally a founding member of the pioneering all-female trio Dolly Mixture, musician Rachel Love has launched a solo career forty plus years later. Ahead of indie pop purveyors Slumberland repressing her recent solo LPs such as Lyra (a tribute to her late husband/producer Steve Lovell), the musician also plays in new band Railcard with fellow English guitar-pop veterans, a BBC-inspired instrumental project with Martin Newell of Cleaners from Venus and more. Love joins us from her home in Brighton to discuss her career and prolific late career surge . . .

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

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Chronesthesia. Via satellite, transmuting 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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Brion Gysin :: Dreamachine (1984/1992)

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Dreamachine gathers Brion Gysin's cult recordings in a blend of ambient, spoken word, avant-garde, minimalism, and afrobeat, mimicking the art device by translating its effects into an audio experience. Produced by French artist Ramuntcho Matta in the late '80s and early '90s, the 32-minute track summons Gysin's artistic ethos to a haunting perfection, building on an enveloping trance-like cadence to achieve an effect that evokes the alpha wave state induced by the original invention . . .

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All One Song :: Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) on “Big Crime”

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Welcome to All One Song season two. We kick off this exploration of the Shakey-verse with Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo. The indie trio has a long history with Neil—the b-side of their second single was a sweet cover of “For The Turnstiles.” But Kaplan doesn't want to talk about an old classic, but rather the most recent Neil song, as of the time of this taping at least. Strap in for "Big Crime . . .

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John Andrews & The Yawns :: STREETSWEEPER

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On his fifth solo record with backing collective the Yawns, the ever-talented John Andrews channels a number of personal and regional anecdotal experiences within the mellow dazzle of STREETSWEEPER. From hockey to a part time gig working for the NYC Parks Department, the imagery of the record jumps off the screen like one of the artist's painterly animated works. With a bevy of talent including Luke Temple, Star Moles and the Cut Worms rhythm section, it's a bright and optimistic accomplishment with a signature, natural DIY spirit . . .

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Videodrome :: Rolling Thunder (1977)

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Rolling Thunder (1977) is perhaps the most salient example of “revengeamatic” films: a grindhouse-style subgenre of revenge films characterized by a protagonist’s methodical quest for payback against those who wronged them. These films are defined by a clear path of cause and effect: an act of brutality sets the process in motion, the protagonist activates the cycle of vengeance, and the plot advances inexorably toward a climactic act of redemption. Films such as Rolling Thunder distill these elements to their most essential function, automating the story into a lean, mean, genre machine . . .

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Luka Kuplowsky :: The Grass Grows, Antonych Grows

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In his book The Life of Plants, philosopher Emanuele Coccia writes that plants are a kind of cosmic point of tension that binds us all, because they are the sculptors of our very breath. In his new record The Grass Grows, Antonych Grows, Luka Kuplowsky embodies a similar idea to adapt works by Ukrainian poet-mystic Bohdan Ihor Antonych—often written from the perspective of a bug or a flower—into heterogeneous indie jazz soundscapes that can mirror, in their latent sentimentalism, our current climate catastrophe . . .

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Belle and Sebastian :: If You’re Feeling Sinister at 30

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Bookish and wry, beautifully but mutedly arranged for guitar and piano, Belle and Sebastian’s second full-length was out of step with a music industry just recovering from grunge. It came from a group of people who shunned the publicity cycle, doing no interviews, releasing no singles and shunning TV and radio appearances. It came out late in 1996 on the small Jeepster label and very slowly built a following . . .

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Hollywood Kenny :: Destroyer

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The nom de plume of Angeleno studio veteran Kenny Woods, Destroyer is a self-described "tongue-in-cheek, post-pandemic ode to Los Angeles". With a collected and steady prose in the mold of a modern Zevon, the charming pop songwriting eliminates any semblance of novelty from such insular, regional thematics. Topical subject matter aside, the album's deep surveying of the city's sprawling and ever changing shadows is an elaborate preservation act - hypothetical or otherwise. A record where Brando characters sit comfortably next to Beefheart . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Wet Tuna

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Nearly a decade into their sonic trans-dimensional sojourn, Wet Tuna’s Vast, slingshots us sidelong toward the very heart of the Tunaverse— a place where the bass is deep and the vibes flow free down that shimmering stretch of good ol’ astral highway. With this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions, Matt Valentine, Erika Elder, and Jim Bliss serve up a dubbed out Spectrasound love letter to the glorious fuzz’n’scuzz of yesterday’s underground. The Tuna guide us on a rural glam walking tour of downtown NYC with an ever-unfolding take on Lou Reed’s “Walk On . . .

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