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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Rich Ruth

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Earlier this year saw the return of Rich Ruth via the Nashville based artist's third long-player, Water Still Flows, an album we described as "absolutely audacious in its musical fusions and amalgamations... a woozy kaleidoscope of spiritual jazz, post-rock, chiming minimalism, Berlin school synth sequencers, metal and drone." For this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions, Michael Ruth and co. reimagine the Boognish via a cover of Ween's "A Tear For Eddie," and take on Black Sabbath outlier "Planet Caravan," via the band's sophomore effort, 1970's Paranoid . . .

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All Hallows’ Aquarium Drunkard

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What does an American Halloween in the year of our lord 2024 sound like? Everyone rings in the spooky season differently. Some people want some melancholy goth rock, others need novelty record exploitation trash. Some people want to draw the shades and build Berlin school synthesizer cathedrals in the air. And some just need to howl 'Werewolves of London' at the top of their lungs. It's all good. We asked some of the contributors to tell us how they're soundtracking All Hallows. What we got back comprises a monster playlist suitable for apple-bobbing, axe-sharpening and keeping . . .

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The Soundcarriers :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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There was an eight year gap between Nottingham, UK band The Soundcarriers' 2014 album Entropicalia and 2022's Wilds, but thankfully the retro-pop combo have returned after a much shorter wait with Through Other Reflections, a spellbinding collection of beatific harmonies, motorik pulses, reverberating flutes, and fuzz guitars, all eased along by the haunting vocals of members Leonore Wheatley and Dorian Conway. Multi-instrumentalist Paul Isherwood joins us today to discuss the new album, creating music for the sorely missed television program Lodge 49, and the enduring influence of Scott Walker . . .

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Elias Rønnenfelt :: Heavy Glory

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Elias Rønnenfelt, lead singer of the Danish punk dismantlers Iceage and the art rock prophets of Marching Church, has just released his first solo record, Heavy Glory. It features Joanne Robertson and FAUZIA and includes cover homages to Townes van Zandt and Spacemen 3. Where the early Iceage works were collections of punchy, dry, martial miniatures, this solo album seems to triumphantly conclude Rønnenfelt’ conversion from godless hardcore to gnostic americana . . .

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Hayden Pedigo :: Live in Amarillo, Texas

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Hayden Pedigo is from Amarillo and he pledges his loyalty to the place at the top of his new live album, Live in Amarillo, Texas. Recorded on-stage at The Amarillo Globe News Center just a few days shy of Christmas in 2023, the new album casts a revealing spotlight on Pedigo’s solo guitar grace and evocative songwriting. It’s his attention to both that makes this collection gleam, holding up alongside even his proper studio efforts . . .

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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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Nap Eyes :: The Neon Gate

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Arriving after a four-year gap, the latest album from the acerbic Canadian indie rock band reveals a group in a state of graceful turmoil and artistic ferment. A work of stoned eschatology involving Yeats, Pushkin and a jet-ski-racing game for the N64, The Neon Gate finds Nap Eyes scattered but not disenchanted, committed to finding new ways to sound exactly like themselves . . .

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Bob Dylan And The Band :: The 1974 Live Recordings

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If the people behind Bob Dylan’s new 1974 Live Recordings had a sense of humor, the set would come plastered with a sticker reading: “FOR SICKOS ONLY.” With 27 discs containing 431 performances (more than 24 hours!) drawn from Dylan and the Band’s hotly anticipated return to the stage in early ‘74, it’s a massive archival haul aimed at the ridiculously obsessed, the hopeless completist. If that’s not you, stick to the three-LP "highlights" release from Third Man. But if you’re like us and love this kind of deep immersion in a very specific . . .

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Transmissions :: Mitch Horowitz (2024)

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This week on the show, one of our favorite return guests, Mitch Horowitz. A scholar of the occult, he's established himself as one of the most literate voices in the New Age field.On previous episodes, Horowitz has discussed his books, like Uncertain Places and Daydream Believer—but he’s finally taking the plunge with a podcast of his own. It’s called Extraordinary Evidence | ESP Is Real, a “limited series on the history, struggles, and proofs of parapsychology and the science of studying the supernatural.” How do UFOs and ESP connect? He joins host Jason P. Woodbury to . . .

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Laurence Vanay :: Galaxies

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Like so many lost seventies relics, there’s a level of mystery wrapped up in underground French masterpiece Galaxies. In fact, the “Laurence Vanay” name itself is a pseudonym of multi-instrumentalist Jacqueline Thibault. Released in 1974, Galaxies has largely been siloed in prog-adjacent music circles, but with so many colorful textures at play here, a broader scale reappraisal is more than warranted . . .

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Tim Heidecker :: Slipping Away

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A concept album about the end of the world and the everyday travails of existence, Tim Heidecker's folksy and loose sixth solo LP Slipping Away finds him offering dystopian short stories alongside vivid workaday musings. It's both his most ambitious and most personally revealing record yet . . .

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Jennifer Castle :: Letting The Songs Out

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“I don’t want to teach anybody anything with a song. I’m not trying to steer anybody towards anything with a song. I’m not trying to be manipulative. I’m trying to let it out,” she says. “I must want it to come into being, so I just try to let it out as honestly as I can and then work from there . . .

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Jim White :: A Banner Year

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Let’s hear it for Jim White! The drummer has been having a hell of a year. He got back together with the Dirty Three, he released his first solo album, the playful/absorbing All Hits: Memories; he put out a new duo record with the fantastic guitarist Marisa Anderson; he showed up on Ned Collette, Bill Callahan and Myriam Gendron’s latest masterpieces. And just this month, the Hard Quartet released their excellent s/t debut.

To celebrate Jim’s sound, dig into a small sampling of tracks that the drummer has appeared on over the past several months . . .

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Jamaica to Toronto: Soul, Funk & Reggae 1967-1974

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Light in the Attic is set to reissue their stellar 2008 compilation of Caribbean-influenced music from the late 60s and early 70s Toronto music scene as selected and annotated by Kevin “Sipreano” Howes. This new, deluxe pressing comes with a 20-page booklet featuring detailed bios, essays, and archival photos that further reveal the backstage of this extremely fecund scene of soul, funk, disco, R&B, and reggae . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: October 2024

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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 moody, drifting mix of avant-garde, ambient music, downtempo pop & soul. Wilcox follows it up with a selection of 2024 tracks that all feature Dirty Three drummer extraordinaire Jim White. Sunday, 4-6pm PT . . .

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