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Alain Kan :: Nadine, Jimmy & Moi

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Born in 1944, the French singer Alain Kan has been missing for 32 years, 4 months and 16 days. Last spotted in April of 1990, at the Rue de la Pompe metro station in Paris, Kan left behind a body of work aesthetically indebted to contemporaries Bowie, Reed and Bolan. For a taste, slide into the glam inspired mood piece "Nadine, Jimmy & Moi", via Kan's debut LP, 1975's Et Gary Cooper S'Éloigna Dans Le Désert . . .

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Tim Kinsella :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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In a longform, career-spanning conversation, Tim Kinsella of Cap'n Jazz, discusses the Gimme Altamont project with Jenny Pulse, writing "systems" instead of songs, acting, and more . . .

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Ralph White :: Something About Dreaming

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Like his former collaborator and wanderer compatriot, Michael Hurley, Ralph White enters the realm of the Avant-Garde in his manipulation of the traditional structure of folk music—pushing it to the frontier where familiar meets experimental. White shows no signs of settling down at a ripe young 70 years of age. In fact, he has hit the road, leaving Austin for the wilds of communal living in Arizona. As the title cut implies, we can expect Ralph to further manifest that wandering spirit, outset for “just a story and a song . . .

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Cass McCombs :: Heartmind

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In the liner notes of Cass McCombs’ tenth full-length album Heartmind is a rambling paragraph that hides within it a depiction of the creation process: “If I direct myself, I betray my direction, so I keep walking..” McCombs seems to be telling a story about caroming about the streets of San Francisco, but it’s also something akin to a lost Oblique Strategy. Within the album’s classic run-time of 8 songs and 43 minutes is a genuine attempt at avoiding betraying direction and attempting to understand more of the world around us . . .

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Ras Michael & The Sons & Daughters Of Negus :: Promised Land Sounds: Rockin’ Live Ruff N Tuff

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It doesn’t get any realer (or un-realer) than this. Promised Land Sounds finds Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus levitating somewhere between a Grounation drum ceremony and an acid test. It’s a hypnotic, disorienting, and deeply dubbed out live set that’s every bit the spiritual successor to Ras Michael’s dread opus, Peace and Love—Wadadasow, or the Lee Perry produced Love Thy Neighbour . . .

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Bony Castro :: Bobo Germaine

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“Bobo Germaine”—the closing track off Zirihi Bony Castro’s 1980 debut album, aptly titled “80”—is a serene comedown from the preceding twenty-eight minutes of dizzying high-life & funk-infused soukous off the Ivory Coast. The Sunday morning to the record’s previous Saturday night, if you will, finds Castro in balladeer mode, falling soberly in line with an achingly pensive organ, before a mournful sax cracks open the interlude, topping us off with an extra layer of the smooth . . .

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Tav Falco :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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More than four decades into it, punk gentleman Tav Falco is still on the road, still tapping into flowing channels of primal rock & roll. Fresh off last year's release of Club Car Zodiac, he's united The Panther Burns for the "Rogue Male" tour, and plotting a course through the U.S. Ahead of the shows, Jared Artaud of The Vacant Lots/Alan Vega Archive caught up with Falco to discuss his recent work, relationship with Alex Chilton, and the fractured state of the union . . .

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Guma :: Highway 10 Blues

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Check the treads and fill up the tank, here's a top track for your next asphalt-adventure inspired playlist. "Highway 10 Blues", the new single from T.J. Masters' Guma project (and closing number on forthcoming album, Workingman’s Guma), is a dust-ripping psych-country blast . . .

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

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Some strange rain. 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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Hiroshi Asada :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Hiroshi Asada's Greetings From Nashville (You Who’s In My Mind) turned 50 this year, the artist's expressive aural love letter to Country Music and America. Spoken of reverentially by fans and artists from Japan and beyond, the LP was cut in Nashville at the Acuff-Rose studio with a grip of the industry’s most in-demand session players including members of Nashville’s Area Code 615 . . .

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Tall Dwarfs :: Unravelled: 1981-2002

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Spanning two decades and four LPs, Unravelled cherry picks 55 highlights from the dynamic DIY duo of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate, showcasing a vast galaxy of anything-goes musical creativity . . .

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Transmissions :: Delicate Steve

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Today on an all-new episode of our weekly interview podcast: Steve Marion, better known by his recording name Delicate Steve. He joins us to discuss his naturalistic new record After Hours, Kanye West, Leonard Cohen and more . . .

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Heart of the Ghost :: Summons

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Fire music of the highest order. Heart of the Ghost’s Summons kicks off with a cry of wild abandon: “Wooooo!” And then we’re off, with Jarrett Gilgore (alto and soprano sax), Luke Stewart (upright bass) and Ian McColm (drums and percussion) converging in a flurry of densely packed sound, each player racing to the finish line. Or maybe “racing” isn’t quite the right term. There’s no sense of competition here. This trio — even in their stormiest moments — is moving as one, displaying extraordinary interconnectedness throughout the album’s four tracks . . .

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Jay Robinson feat. Penny & The Quarters :: Will I Ever

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Glad tidings — we are soon to receive more archival sounds from the now immortalized Penny & The Quarters, via Numero Group’s forthcoming Penny & The Quarters & Friends—a new compilation of 1970 rehearsals from The Prix label gang. “Will I Ever”—the first taste from the autumn bound collection, is a stunning ballad pairing Penny & The Quarters sorrowful and nostalgic harmonics with Robinson’s eerily saccharine but ever-tortured soul . . .

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Oneida :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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If time is a flat circle, the members of Oneida have figured out how to toss it like a frisbee. Nearly a quarter century since their debut album, the avant-rock quintet have returned with one of the most straightforward, riff-heavy records in their vast discography: Success. Bobby Matador and Kid Millions join us to discuss the record, the band's history, and the Grateful Dead . . .

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