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Wouter Dewit :: Still

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Via Hasselt, Belgium. These fleeting weeks between Halloween and Christmas, when the polyester cobwebs on the front porch are swapped out for tinsel garland, have no time to stake out their own identity. They're forever lost in transit from one holiday to the next. But during these ephemeral days between "The Monster Mash" and "Silver Bells," an album like Wouter Dewit’s Still (2017) finds its place, mirroring the shift in seasons —and in ourselves—with bittersweet introspection . . .

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Dollar Diamonds :: Volume Three

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There’s a lot of great records out there that can still be had for very little money. You just have to crouch down and give them a chance. How is it possible that these 2-sided slices of the human spirit can exist among us, in some cases, for over 50 years and still only be $1?

Welcome to Dollar Diamonds, Volume 3. This month: Jesse Winchester, Eric Andersen, Neil Diamond, Doug Kershaw, Graham Parker, Tom T. Hall, and Robert Palmer . . .

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Paul McCartney & Wings :: Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)

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With a new oral history providing fascinating context on the self-proclaimed "madcap" formation and career of Wings (a good chunk of which comes from Paul McCartney himself), spacey instrumental "Loup (1st Indian On The Moon)" has proven worthy of a closer listen. The deep cut oddity from 1973's oft-maligned Red Rose Speedway is an experimental studio piece featuring Minimoog synthesizer and plays out like a mini-prog opus, a little reminiscent of a Pink Floyd soundtrack cut. "Hard to explain", in the musician's own assessment . . .

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Happy Thanksgiving :: Doug Sahm And Friends – Austin, TX 1972

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Tradition runs rampant around Thanksgiving: generations of old recipes, football, Alice’s Restaurant, and, of course, a parade of balloons shutting down NYC. What else do you need? If you thought you were covered in the Thanksgiving tradition department, we did too…until a few years ago, when someone blew the dust off a long lost tape — Doug Sahm’s Thanksgiving Jam . . .

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The Joys of Cookin’: Tracks from Groove Merchant, 1971-1974 (A Mixtape)

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Founded in 1971, Sonny Lester's Groove Merchant label was pretty far removed from what was going on in jazz at the beginning of that decade. Fusion, black power, spiritual jazz and ECM were all happening elsewhere. Maybe that's what makes it so much fun. Groove Merchant was content to serve up sweaty, funky party jazz, brimming with flute blowouts, wicked guitar and miles of Hammond B3 soul. Thrown in some softcore cover art, and you've got something cooking. Lester's short-lived label had grooves to spare. Call it a case of truth in advertising . . .

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Sessa :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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On the eve of releasing his third album Sergio Sayeg, aka Sessa, is finally feeling comfortable with the idea that this is what he does for a living. But it's more complicated than that. He's a Brazilian musician recording modern Brazilian music with strong vintage references for an American indie label. He's one in a long line of Brazilian musicians with international audiences. With the birth of his son in 2022, he's also a father and his priorities have flipped, challenging him to find new ways to tap into his creativity and grow as a musician . . .

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Matt LaJoie :: Stonehouse

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Ambient guitar mage and Flower Room Records impresario Matt LaJoie returns with the sprawling Stonehouse, a voyage to the far reaches of kosmische innerspace by way of midcoast Maine. While LaJoie’s Ayurveda-rooted “elements cycle” emanated a mellow bliss, Stonehouse and the corresponding tour document, Hiawatha Service, mark both an evolution and fruition of LaJoie’s ever-expanding sonic vision and incorporates the heavier leanings of his days with northeast psychedelic jammers Herbcraft and the dub-inflected soundscapes released under his ML Wah moniker . . .

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Sonic Youth :: Washing Machine at 30

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Three decades in, Washing Machine now feels like the most clear divide between the first and second halves of Sonic Youth's career. It finds a path forward that Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star seemed to be flailing for but just missing, and it would prepare the way for the albums A Thousand Leaves and Murray Street in particular. And 30 years onward, it's an album that makes for an insightful Polaroid of the band at that fiery transitional moment. Lee Ranaldo shouts “Hello, 2015!” at the end of “Skip Tracer,” but while the band itself would . . .

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Transmissions :: Kate Pierson (The B-52s)

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This week on Transmissions, Kate Pierson, vocalist and keyboardist of The B-52s. Writing about the legendary Athens band, AD founder Justin Gage says, “The B-52’s 1979 debut album ushered in a practically fully formed sound/band. No one else was doing this…whatever ‘this’ was.” Pierson joins us to discuss the band's history, Yoko Ono, her time with Julee Cruise, and much more . . .

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Miles in ‘65: The Journey to the Plugged Nickel

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1965 could’ve easily been the end of the road for Miles Davis. Having spent much of the year laid up in a NY hospital, he returned to the stage with a quintet whose virtuosity had grown formulaic. En route to a two-week run at Chicago’s Plugged Nickel, drummer Tony Williams hatched a plan for a renewed language. "What if we made anti-music?” The results, documented on the newly reissued Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, changed the landscape of modern jazz . . .

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Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Six

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Jet lag edition. In this installment: Three nights of Radiohead in Madrid. Digging for records in London. LA and its atmospheric rivers. Paul Kingsnorth’s latest, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity. 336-pages of Kissaten eye-candy, French espionage kink. Changeling David Bowie's final days in Los Angeles prior to decamping for Berlin in late 1976, and more. The comments are open . . .

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Steve Tibbetts :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Close, guitarist Steve Tibbetts latest album, might be his most rewardingly mysterious yet. In conversation, Tibbetts balances consideration with openness, talking about his Buddhist practice, having lunch with Joe Boyd and Leo Kottke, working as a nurse and a record store clerk, the Grateful Dead, the wonders of fellow ECM artists and much more . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Modern Nature

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Those familiar with this corner of the Internet are likely familiar with the music of Jack Cooper, as we've fastidiously covered his recorded output in one form or another since 2014. And for good reason. Following the dissolution of his previous band, Ultimate Painting, and the sole release under his given name, Sandgrown, Cooper has channeled his efforts into the potently shapeshifting outfit Modern Nature. On the heels of the band's latest LP, The Heat Warps, Cooper and co. return with their third entry in the Lagniappe Sessions, this time paying tribute to a pair of Beatles' chestnuts . . .

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Dexter Gordon :: Ballads

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Ballads finds Dexter Gordon at the apex of his career, doing what he does best: playing ballads. The collection is filled with choice cuts that find Gordon and company locking into sleepy pockets where each phrase is given room to dally in the space between beats. Gordon's tone is sultry and warm, as if his tenor sax had polished off a few glasses of scotch before each take. When he takes the lead, there's nothing provocative or flamboyant happening — he knows that the key to ballads isn't the number of notes in any given measure, but the . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: November 2025

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Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. This month, Chad kicks things off with a deep-cut heavy 80th birthday tribute to Neil Young, followed by Tyler’s mix of (mostly) 1970s neo-noir thriller soundtrack situations + adjacent library music grooves. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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