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Sharon Van Etten :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Sharon Van Etten’s sixth full-length, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, is, like much of the music being released this year, a pandemic album, reflecting a long, contemplative couple of years that Van Etten spent in Los Angeles with her family. But even during lockdown, she wasn’t alone. Band members and fellow musicians reached out to her. Collaboration flourished . . .

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Dana Gavanski :: When It Comes

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Bubbling under the surface of the gently thoughtful music that populates Dana Gavanski’s new record When It Comes (Flemish Eye) are hints of darker emotions, expressions of frustration both transformed and averted, of the same mind as Cate Le Bon’s avant-pop and Linda Perhacs’ kaleidoscopic folk . . .

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Jeff Cloud :: Transmissions

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Today on our weekly Transmissions podcast, Jeff Cloud of Velvet Blue Music. Known for his work with Pony Express, Starflyer 59, and Richard Swift, Cloud has run VBM with a deep blue collar ethic and joins host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss his time playing music, the influence of David Lynch, and much more . . .

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Videodrome :: Wolf Guy: Enraged Lycanthrope (1975)

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1975's Wolf Guy: Enraged Lycanthrope defies categorization. It’s not that the film is confused; it simply doesn’t care to fit into a box. Throughout its brisk eighty-six minutes, it weaves in and out of elements of hardboiled thrillers, superhero flicks, espionage conspiracies, paranormal occultism, sleazy soft-core porn, and pulpy noir. It’s a chaotic piece of pop-art, filled with surreal lighting cues, vibrant dutch-angles, and bursts of ultra-violence and sexuality, bursting at the frames with a kind of kitschy, hyper-stylization usually reserved for comic books . . .

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Return To Hot Chicken :: James McNew Reveals The Secrets Of Yo La Tengo’s I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

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If you had to pick one album that encompasses the awesomely eclectic nature of Yo La Tengo’s vision, 1997’s I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One is your best bet. It’s got it all (almost), careening from crunchy noise-pop to spacey ambient, from free-form experimentalism to delicate balladry, from homespun electronica to blown-out Beach Boys covers. Somehow, the band fits all these puzzle pieces together, creating a masterful whole. The double LP’s closer aside, this isn’t a little corner of the world, it’s an entire galaxy . . .

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Diversions :: Spencer Zahn On Keith Jarrett

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We recently caught up with Spencer Zahn whose new album, Pale Horizon, dropped last week via Cascine. A multi-instrumentalist whose varied output touches on jazz and piano-based works, for this installment of Diversions Zahn dives deep into the works of fellow traveler, Keith Jarrett . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show

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Weird times, strange signals. Reverberating from the hills of Glassell Park, California, welcome to episode eleven of the Aquarium Drunkard Picture Show.

Feat: Karen Small | Emy Jackson and the Smashmen | Los Surfs | Heinz | The Guilloteens | The Revels | Les Classels | Kemeko Matsudaira | Royals Monarchs | The Tarantulas | Crazy Elephant | Re Maik | Los Rockin Devils . . .

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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Johanna Samuels

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For her Lagniappe Session, Johanna Samuels looks back, calling on nostalgic childhood sounds. There’s Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate”, the Beatles’ “Yes It Is”, and The Only Ones (by way of Yo La Tengo) “The Whole of The Law”. All careful, attuned, and respectful interpretations . . .

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: May 2022

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Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard returns on May 15, from 4-8 PM Pacific. Four hours of freeform sounds from the Aquarium Drunkard crew . . .

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M. Takara :: Tigre Triste

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Whether ordering glitchy breaks and riffs, or sampling the noise of kitchen utensils and of a cavaquinho (the traditional mini-guitar of samba), M. Takara's Puro Osso produces a certain ambience both reminiscent of Tom Zé and the electronic prayers found in the work of Boards of Canada (or, more recently, in Kara-Lis Coverdale or Ana Roxanne . . .

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First & Last: Japanese Private Press, Vol. 4

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This fourth volume of First And Last features a menagerie of tunes for the early days of summer (with seven of the twelve songs culled from EPs), from psych-pop to breezy bossa nova, wrapping up with a grip of introspective folk . . .

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Haruomi Hosono :: Music For Films 2020-2021

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Slowing down? If you've paid even half attention to the prolific vocation of Haruomi Hosono you know it's not in the cards. Long before Shoplifters made waves at Cannes, composition work had long been a staple of the musician's repertoire . . .

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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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Kolumbo :: Imperial Bikers MC

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Sonic chameleon Frank LoCrasto is set to release his next lp, Gung Ho, under the guise of Kolumbo, a nom de tune originally reserved as an outlet for LoCrasto's excursions into the aesthetic worlds of Arthur Lyman, Roger Roger, Esquivel, Martin Denny, and others . . .

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David Michael Moore :: Flatboat River Witch: 1994 – 2015

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At age seventy-one, David Michael Moore is a Genuine American Freak. An artist and woodworker, living in Rosedale, Mississippi, its mighty river flowing half a mile from his home, Moore has been quietly recording a potent, homespun Americana—tinged with eastern tonalities and new-age ambient passages—for the past three decades. A compendium of these unique and eccentric sounds comes to us in the tape Flatboat River Witch: 1994 – 2015, released via the Bloomington-based Ulyssa imprint . . .

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