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Lee Ranaldo :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Ten years past the end of Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo takes the stage at a low key festival in northern New England with just a couple of guitars and a few microphones. He strikes a note, hard, on an aging acoustic, cocks his head a little, and seems to contemplate that reverberating sound. From an iPhone lying on a stool next to him, the sounds of urban life flicker—an indistinct voice, some running water, the sounds of faraway traffic.

A few days after the concert, we connect by phone to talk about Ranaldo’s experience of the pandemic, how . . .

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Michael Rault :: S/T

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Four years in the making, Michael Rault is a personal album exemplified. After wrapping up the album cycle for 2018's excellent It's A New Day Tonight, recordings for the eponymous new record were juggled between commutes from California and Rault's Canadian hometown, Edmonton. Like the uncertain logistical challenges of the pandemic that corresponded with this trajectory, the changes came both personally and professionally . . .

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Zach Phillips :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Zach Phillips’ OSR Tapes is probably among the most admired contemporary labels you’ve never heard of. Defining Phillips’ style in one paragraph is as hard as summarizing the history of the dozens of pseudonyms he has composed under.

For this interview we caught up with Philips to discuss institutional experiments with labels, his relation to South American music, his poetry and friends in New York, his imagination of harmony, Agamben’s messianism, and more . . .

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Marco Benevento :: Benevento

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Step inside a surprising, reviving, 40-minute set of sounds from bohemian keyboard savant Marco Benevento. The new album is Benevento (a hat tip to Paul McCartney's solo debut) and the new music is a neon pool party; powering an addictive, hazy blend of West African grooves, psychedelia, and electro through your entertainment speakers . . .

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Orchestre Massako :: Orchestre Massako

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For the Gabonese Republic, the 1970’s opened with an oil boom, and with it came an ensuing willingness to invest in a cultural endowment. In 1971, it was decided that the nation’s armed forces should have a band. Thus was born Orchestre Massako . . .

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Taper’s Choice :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Since their live debut at Gold Diggers in December of last year, Taper’s Choice have rolled through a smattering of dialed-in shows: more nights at Gold Diggers, Big Sur freakouts, New York rooftops and playing amongst the wine vines of Sonoma. Ahead of their inaugural festival later this month (Choice Fest), we caught up with the band to get a bit more detail about what's ahead, how fast things have come together, and much more . . .

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

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Outré California. 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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Bandcamping :: Summer 2022

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Here comes the summer once again and we’ve got a bunch of recommended tunes to help soundtrack the season as temperatures inevitably start to rise. Tune in, spread out — and don’t forget the sunscreen . . .

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Horsegirl :: Transmissions

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This week on the show, we're joined by Chicago indie trio Horsegirl—Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng and Gigi Reece. Their new album, Versions of Modern Performance, echoes classic indie rock and features members of Sonic Youth. They join us to discuss it all: high school, Chicago's all-ages scene, recording at Electrical Audio, and more . . .

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Miles Davis Septet :: Chateau Neuf, Oslo Norway | November 9, 1971

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Funky tonk, indeed. In the fall of 1971 the Miles Davis septet embarked on a 21 date tour of Europe. Captured for broadcast on Norwegian television was the ensemble's ascendant set at Chateau Neuf in Oslo, Norway. A high water mark of this iteration of Davis' band, the incendiary hour-plus set runs the voodoo down and back again, with untethered performances from all involved. Edging into the beyond, Keith Jarrett appears especially possessed . . .

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Dealer’s Choice :: A Chance Meeting With Ras Tayo (Roots Reggae & Beyond)

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By chance I met Ras Tayo at Deadly Dragon Sound a decade ago. He invited me to bring some tunes out to The Den in Brooklyn, and soon I began spinning with a serious group of selectors every Sunday night. All the DJs had their big tunes and favorites that I'd look forward to hearing. These songs are ones they played often . . .

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Videodrome :: Candy Mountain, A Roadtrip From Waits To Redbone

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Candy Mountain is in many ways a strange film, but it makes perfect sense in the context of Robert Frank’s life. Perhaps the strangest thing about the movie is that it was made in 1987, and not ten or twenty years earlier . . .

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Flanger Magazine :: After the Bend

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Louisville musician Chris Bush’s Flanger Magazine creates relaxed and intimate improvisations. Embracing analog synth and folk sounds alike, it’s light experimental music that recalls the twisted folk of contemporaries Brannten Schnüre, the less structured explorations of the Advisory Circle, and even Graeme Miller and Steve Shill's warm and inviting Moomins music . . .

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Carson McHone :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Carson McHone has been singing on the barroom stages of Austin, Texas since she was 16 years old. She’s a rare contemporary country artist who was born and raised in the Lone Star State, rather than moving to the rootsy music mecca to try and make it. Her latest is Still Life, produced in collaboration with Daniel Romano, her husband . . .

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Abstract Truths: An Evolving Jazz Compendium – Volume 8

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The return of Abstract Truths. This series began in 2016 as a way to highlight jazz in all its many forms. The selector for this installment's dig finds musician and collage artist Ilyas Ahmed weaving a two-plus hour tapestry of sound, spanning 1964-2021 . . .

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