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Golomb :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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There are several standout moments on Golomb’s The Beat Goes On, a record whose DNA is shaped by traits synonymous with Yo La Tengo, the Velvet Underground and Silver Jews. Each influence is applied conscientiously in these dynamic arrangements to demonstrate the Columbus, Ohio trio’s appreciation for those artists rather than resting on the merits of sonic achievements . . .

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Smoke :: Everything

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In this day and age, very few albums are truly lost. Some just get misplaced. Take Bay area jazz band Smoke's 1973 album Everything, an album that should be universally acknowledged as a stone-cold classic of groove music and proto-acid jazz and yet seldom gets mentioned. A half-century later, it still sounds fresh. Spacey, funky and ambient in turn, Everything managed to anticipate so much of where twenty-first century jazz has recently wound up . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: L’Eclair

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Earlier this summer the Geneva, Switzerland based L'Eclair released their fourth LP, Cloud Drifter, via our neighborhood friends down the hill at Innovative Leisure. We've been following the Swiss outfit since Frank Maston turned us onto them in 2019 when the group supported his stateside tour, and later recorded the 2021 collaborative album, Souvenir. For their debut Lagniappe Session, L'Eclair reimagines some 1979 disco heat via Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell," embrace the street soul of Lisa Baron's 1990 "Lovin N Affection," and engage with something more recent in the form of Beach House's . . .

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People Are Like Radios :: Mike Miley on David Lynch’s American Dreamscape

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With David Lynch's American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema, author Mike Miley, a literature teacher at Metairie Park Country Day School and former film studies professor at Loyola University New Orleans, unpacks just some of the ways Lynch's ideas have reverberated across the cultural spectrum. Comparing and contrasting his oeuvre with art by Cormac McCarthy, Lana Del Rey, David Foster Wallace, Maurice Sendak, and others, Miley demonstrates the strange and powerful way Lynch tapped into the human experience and the broader American pop landscape. He joins us to discuss . . .

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Water From Your Eyes :: It’s A Beautiful Place

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This is the duo’s follow-up to the break-out Everybody’s Crushed, a cubist’s abstraction of rock music that you could dance to. It’s a Beautiful Place feels a bit more assured than its predecessor, a bit less confrontational, but still thrillingly volatile. Think Sonic Youth in a blender, Stereolab dodging shrapnel or Deerhoof with a chilly post-punk attitude, and you’re getting there, but no other band is doing exactly this right now . . .

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Star Moles :: Snack Monster

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On Snack Monster, Philadelphia-based artist Emily Moales sets out to explore a self-described "medieval via 1960s folk troubadour" ethos. A literary concept album pipeline inspired by the writings of twelfth century French author Andreas Capellanus, the record glimmers with the most charming benchmarks of Tascam-recorded, warbly bedroom pop. It's a deliberately stripped down detour compared to previous Star Moles offerings, eschewing synthesizers for a romanticism in the paired down nylon string guitar and vocals . . .

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Dog Days of Aquarium Drunkard

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The heliacal rising of Sirius around late July traditionally marks the start of the dog days of summer. For the astrologically-minded, it begins an ill-omened period of drought and sickness. For the rest of us, it is simply hot and muggy. Either way, the antidote is probably about the same: shade, a cold beverage and some good music. We asked the AD crew, once again, to tell us what they were spinning in the high summer sun. What we got back has everything you need to beat the heat.

Dig in. The temperature is high. The air is . . .

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Director Ethan Silverman on AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex

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AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex isn't a typical music documentary. While it does do what a viewer might expect in terms of using talking heads, archival footage, and critical analysis to tell the story of glam pioneer Marc Bolan and T. Rex, it also presents behind the scenes footage of artists like Nick Cave, Joan Jett, U2, Macy Gray, and many more cutting Bolan's songs in the studio for the late producer Hal Wilner's T. Rex tribute album (also called AngelHeaded Hipster). The result is a film that puts his songs at the . . .

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

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Via satellite, transmitting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. No static at all.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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Osees :: Abomination Revealed At Last

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With Abomination Revealed At Last Osees careen on down in the headlong punk rock direction set out in 2022's A Foul Form. John Dwyer’s double drumming, speed-and-volume addicted five-piece formation has never been sharper or more enraged. The opening cut, “ABOMINATION” requires not one but two full kits in furious motion to kick off, the one manned by Modey Lemon’s mighty Paul Quattrone, the other bashed to smithereens by Dan Rincon, an Osee through multiple spellings and iterations . . .

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All One Song :: Rosali on “I Don’t Want To Talk About It”

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This week is going to be slightly different. This week, we’re talking about a song that was not written by Neil Young. Nevertheless, it’s a song that is very much a part of the Shakey multiverse: Danny Whitten’s “I Don’t Want To Talk About It,” which appeared on Crazy Horse’s debut LP in 1970. Here to guide us through the impossibly lonesome landscapes of “I Don’t Want To Talk About It” is singer-songwriter Rosali Middleman — or just Rosali if you prefer. She’s been a longtime fixture over at Aquarium Drunkard. But even . . .

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Kenny Barron :: Lucifer

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Word that pianist Kenny Barron's 1973 debut as leader Sunset to Dawn was getting a welcome reissue this year sent us back to some of his other releases from that period. Most intriguing among them is his ultra-rare, never-reissued 1975 fusion experiment Lucifer, an album that mixes acid funk, sensitive balladeering, synthesizer experiments and queasy psychedelia. Practically impossible to acquire but eminently worth hearing, Barron never sounded as freaky as he does here . . .

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Up In My Mind: An August Mixtape

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One hundred and twenty-seven minutes of strange and mercurial music – slow burning, sprawling, smoggy, and ephemeral. 60s Kenyan folk and Thai garage rock; late 70s drum machine gospel from Inkster, Michigan, and private press psych from the Pacific Northwest; mid 80s Congolese electronic soul and Senegalese art-funk; Zambian highlife circa 1991 and experimental computer music made in a juvenile detention center in modern day Albuquerque. The same Hawa Daisy Moore mp3 files that were used in the inaugural Blue August Moon eleven years ago – the crackling tropical oasis showing signs of increased deterioration. These are just some of . . .

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You’re Future’s In Space: Eddie Harris on Atlantic (A Mixtape)

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From the late 60s through the mid-70s, Eddie Harris indulged in a string of progressively freakier, beautifully executed records that smeared boundaries, blew minds and sold poorly. This mixtape collects two and a half hours of the most adventurous moments from those heady Atlantic days . . .

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Prairiewolf :: Upslope Brewing Company, Boulder, CO (7/5/25)

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While Phish was playing a three-day run at Folsom Field at the University of Colorado this past Fourth of July weekend, the cats in Prairiewolf were playing an epic two-hour set at a brewery on the other side of Boulder. A pristine recording of the show catches them unspooling their already-potent album tracks into stretched-out improvisational odysseys . . .

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