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Catching Up With Taper’s Choice

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We last checked in with Taper’s Choice days before their first annual “Choice Fest” here in Los Angeles. Now, on the eve of the eagerly anticipated second annual event [Choice Fest, August 5th at Spoke Bicycle Cafe in Los Angeles], we reached out to the band to chart how things have grown and expanded, both in terms of fans and for themselves . . .

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The Free Design :: Sing for Very Important People

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There’s something enticing about a record that mysteriously strides the line between full-scale “children’s album” and, well, just another addition to the discography. Released the same year as their classic fourth record Stars/Time/Bubble/Love, legendary sunshine pop outfit The Free Design seemingly conquered both of these creative aesthetics with ...Sing for Very Important People . . .

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Far Caspian :: The Last Remaining Light

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When people talk about the rise of the underground punk and grunge of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, they often talk about bands like Pixies and Nirvana harnessing the quiet/loud effect—the swing between chaotic moments of aggression and more mellow, melodic control—and how that can heighten the effect of each. Far Caspian’s Joel Johnston takes a similar approach in his music but with a different set of tools. Rather than the loud and quiet, Johnston deploys the busy and the bare, the dense and the deserted, building his songs piece by piece before leveling them . . .

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Sessão de Verão 4 :: Ana Frango Elétrico – No Promises Or Predictions

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It has been almost 4 years since the release of Little Electric Chicken Heart but Ana Frango Elétrico has remained busy in the meantime, appearing on over 20 albums as a vocalist or instrumentalist . . .

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PAINT :: Loss For Words

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From the beginning Paint has been less sweatily engaged in real-world, rock-band aesthetics than the Allah-Las. Spiritual Vegas, from 2020, draped a surreal glaze and shimmer over its drawling boogies and vamps. But Loss for Words goes much further, dissolving radio pop like a tablet of Alka-Seltzer in water, leaving nothing but bubbles . . .

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Promises to the Holy Spirit :: Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023)

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What does it mean to really listen to the Holy Spirit? To take up your cross and faithfully follow? What does it take to pass through the eye of the needle? Sinéad O'Connor knew. When she was growing up, a young abused girl in Dublin, she made a promise to follow the call of the Holy Spirit that dwelled within her, a force she would later come to say was music itself. In this space, she took refuge, and in return she found her voice, a one of a kind sound capable of soaring or cracking, of great . . .

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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.

34.1090° N, 118.2334° W . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection | Second Session

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Backed by a murderer's row of local Nashville talent (Erin Rae, Rich Ruth, Sean Thompson, Adam Bednarik and Dominic Billett), Spencer Cullum returns to AD fold with the following encore Lagniappe Session. Not unlike his 2021 entry, the set of covers riffs on various portions of Cullum's musical diet, from the '70s avant pop of Slapp Happy to the ineffable magic that was Soft Machine's second full-length . . .

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Mike Cooper :: Life And Death In Paradise

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A world-weary would-be swansong by a maverick songwriter with nothing left to lose, Life and Death in Paradise is a portrait of Mike Cooper’s iconoclastic brilliance shining like the strange and glorious diamond it is, forever ahead of its time . . .

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Transmissions :: Andy Zax

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Producer Andy Zax joins us this week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. Zax was exploring Rod McKuen's vaults one day when he uncovered something remarkable: lost music by electronic pioneer Mort Garson. Ahead of of Sacred Bones' release of Journey To the Moon and Beyond, Zax joins Jason P. Woodbury to discuss his archival adventures in pop music, the moon landing, Woodstock, Leonard Nimoy's late '60s discography, his forthcoming Extinctophonics . . .

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Videodrome :: David Lynch’s Georgia Coffee Commercials (1993)

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Unlike Lynch’s other commercial work, which highlights his aesthetic trademarks while showcasing the brand’s merchandise, the Georgia Coffee campaign is as much an advertisement for the product as it is for Twin Peaks, simultaneously exhibiting the series’ seismic impact on pop culture as well as Lynch’s uncanny ability to straddle the line between the mainstream and the avant-garde . . .

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Blake Mills :: There Is No Now

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Produced and co-composed with experimental-indie-jazz legend Chris Weisman, Blake Mills' new record feels like a slow-moving explosion -- a heated fog. Mills, who by now has already won a Grammy and played with Joni Mitchell for a while, inverts the very folk he aims for here, unwinding and disintegrating it into lush, counterintuitive arrangements . . .

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Ente :: Eternamente Sua

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Ente is the main project of Arthur Bittencourt, one of the most promising names of contemporary Brazilian music. "eternamente sua", the band's second ever single (and the first from a debut record scheduled for this year), sounds like Clube da Esquina if they had been heavily into shoegaze. Bittencourt says he was influenced by Popol Vuh and Shostakovich as well as by the landscapes of Minas Gerais . . .

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Steven Bernstein (Sexmob) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Trumpeter Steve Bernstein joins us to discuss the electronically processed jazz of Sexmob's The Hard Way and share wild stories of working with legends like Lou Reed, how he helped prep the Sun Ra Arkestra to appear on-stage with U2, and tell us about the one time he had to tell Hal Willner "no . . .

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Sonhos Secretos :: In Conversation With Producer Tee Cardaci

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From the rare and obscure to the unknown, producer Tee Cardaci mines eleven genre-spanning gems produced during the waning days of Brazil's military dictatorship, recorded by a new emerging class of artists operating outside of the major label system. Set to release August 4th, via AD and Org Music, we asked Brazilian music authority Allen Thayer to catch up with Cardaci in regards to the three year process it took to make the Sonhos Secretos compilation a reality . . .

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