Latest Aquariumdrunkard Podcast Episodes
Transmissions :: Sean Howe (Live at PRS)
Transmissions - April 24, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsHello, welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. On Saturday, April 20th, Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions returned to the esoteric grounds of the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles for a living taping with guest host Will Sheff (Okkervil River) in conversation author Sean Howe,...
Transmissions :: Moor Mother
Transmissions - April 17, 2024 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on Transmissions: Camae Ayewa, better known as Moor Mother. As one-half of the Black Quantum Futurism collective, a creative project she founded with Rasheedah Philips, Ayewa has focused her considerable energies on “the manipulation of space-time in order to see into possible futures, ...
Transmissions :: Pat Thomas
Transmissions - April 10, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on Transmissions, author, producer, archivist, and musician Pat Thomas. In the late '80s, he helped take the Paisley Underground overground with his label Heyday Records. Later, he helped bring out reissues by artists like Judee Sill, Sandy Bull, PiL, and more. And as if all that wasn't...
Transmissions :: Justin Gage
Transmissions - April 03, 2024 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on Transmissions, Aquarium Drunkard founder Justin Gage joins host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss big changes coming to Aquarium Drunkard: AD is transitioning to a membership-based model subscription model on April 8th. Transmissions has a very smart audience and one that’s tapped in—so ...
Transmissions :: Roger Eno
Transmissions - March 27, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsIncoming transmission from Roger Eno. This week on the show, he joins us for a freewheeling, friendly chat about art, place, and Dune (1984). Eno began his recording life in 1983, when he joined his brother Brian and Daniel Lanois at the latter’s studio in Hamilton, Ontario, to cut one of our fa...
Transmissions :: The Paranoid Style
Transmissions - March 20, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week we're welcoming Elizabeth Nelson of The Paranoid Style to the show for a conversation about music, writing, ZZ Top, and her new album, The Interrogator. Packed with pub rock charm, punk verve, and rootsy, wide-eyed songwriting, the album finds Nelson and her collaborators, including par...
Transmissions :: John Lurie
Transmissions - March 13, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on the show, we’re so pleased to welcome John Lurie. Perhaps you know him from his work in films like Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Paris Texas, or The Last Temptation of Christ; or maybe you know him better for his music—groups like The Lounge Lizards, his trailblazing avant-ga...
Transmissions :: Vijay Iyer
Transmissions - March 06, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on the show, a conversation with pianist, composer, bandleader, and writer, Vijay Iyer. He’s been at it since 1995, recording for labels like Savoy, Pi, and ECM, and he’s collaborated with a diverse and inspiring roster along the way including Amiri Baraka, Matana Roberts, Das Racist, p...
Transmissions :: Laetitia Sadier
Transmissions - February 28, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on the show: a conversation with Laetitia Sadier. As the main vocalist of Stereolab, her spacey voice shines as the human core in that project’s motorik and dense avant-pop, a blend of electronic music, krautrock, space age lounge sounds, and much more. Outside of that legendary band, ...
Transmissions :: Scientist
Transmissions - February 21, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsIncoming transmission from Hopeton Overton Brown, better known as Scientist. As a protege of dub pioneer King Tubby, Scientist represents dub’s third generation—at least that’s how his 1981 collaboration with Tubby and Prince Jammy, First Second, and Third Generation, puts it. Originating in King...
Transmissions :: Ty Segall
Transmissions - February 14, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsFor the last decade-and-a-half, Ty Segall has reliably cranked out records that show off his range, ping-ponging from scuzzed out glam rock to chiming folk ballads. With his latest, Three Bells, he dips his toes into prog territory, tapping into King Crimson-like zones while detailing the explora...
Transmissions :: Lou Reed Archive (2024)
Transmissions - February 07, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on the show, return guests Jason Stern and Don Fleming of the Lou Reed Archive join us to discuss Lou's 2007 ambient album Hudson River Wind Meditations, recently reissued by Light in the Attic, and share a bevy of Lou stories and insights. Plus, resident Lou fanatic Tyler Wilcox of Doo...
Transmissions :: Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy on R.E.M.
Transmissions - January 31, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWelcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions with Jason P. Woodbury. We're kicking off our 2024 season with two very special guests: Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy, discussing their love of and tribute to R.E.M.’s Murmur, which they are taking on tour in February. You no doubt know Shannon ...
Transmissions :: On Pauline Anna Strom
Transmissions - November 29, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWelcome back to Transmissions. This week on the show, which brings our 2023 season to a close, we are joined by Matt Werth of RVNG to discuss the life and multi-dimensional sound worlds of Pauline Anna Strom. This month, the label released Echoes, Spaces, Lines, which collects the first three alb...
Transmissions :: Penelope Spheeris
Transmissions - November 22, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on the show, Transmissions host Jason P. Woodbury joins Penelope Spheeris, director of The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy, The Beverly Hillbillies, Little Rascals, Suburbia, and Wayne’s World. Spheeris is the host of Peter and the Acid King, a true crime podcast set in the Los ...
Transmissions :: Conner Habib
Transmissions - November 15, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on Transmissions: Conner Habib. He's the author of the Pen/Faulkner award longlisted horror novel, Hawk Mountain, and the host of the weekly podcast Against Everyone with Conner Habib. Informed by his practice of Anthroposophy and Christian mysticism, AEWCH focuses on the esoteric and v...
Transmissions :: John Carroll Kirby
Transmissions - November 08, 2023 10:15 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsMake yourself comfortable and relax, on this all-new episode of Transmissions, we’re focusing on the fantastic tunes crafted by John Caroll Kirby. You’ve heard a lot about him in our previous episode with Eddie Chacon. John’s music exemplifies the current zone where jazz, fusion, new age, soul, R...
Transmissions :: Moby and Lindsay Hicks (Moby Pod)
Transmissions - November 01, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWelcome back to Transmissions. This week on the program, we’re joined by electronic musician Moby and Lindsay Hicks. Together, they run Little Walnut, a production company responsible for documentaries like Punk Rock Vegan, music videos, and Moby Pod—a podcast dedicated to offering unique perspec...
Transmissions :: Buck Meek (Big Thief)
Transmissions - October 25, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsYou know Buck from Big Thief and his solo albums, like this year’s Haunted Mountain. Full of near-death experiences and tender but insistent roots-inspired songwriting, it’s an album that finds inspiration in the mysterious Mount Shasta, long a site of high strangeness—and a place that plays a pi...
Transmissions :: Maria Elena Silva
Transmissions - October 11, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWe were introduced to the music of Maria Elena Silva via 2021’s Eros, which featured collaborations with previous Transmissions guests Jeff Parker of Tortoise and was produced by Chris Schlarb. Writing about Eros, AD stalwart Tyler Wilcox said: “Maria Elena Silva’s voice rarely rises above a whis...
Transmissions :: Matt Marble on Arthur Russell (Live at PRS)
Transmissions - October 04, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWelcome back to Transmissions. We're still buzzing from this last weekend, which saw a live taping of Transmissions at The Philosophical Research Society, the Los Angeles campus founded in 1934 by esoteric scholar Manly Palmer Hall, featuring Jason P. Woodbury's talk with Matt Marble, an artist, ...
No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man: Time Goes Way Back
Transmissions - October 02, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis is the last episode of the podcast! We start with comments from Sunburned members reflecting on the impact of press coverage and ensuing exposure on the band. This shifts to general comments about how they’ve navigated – and oftentimes defied – external expectations. This section closes on t...
Transmissions :: Colleen
Transmissions - September 27, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on Transmissions, we welcome returning guest Cécile Schott, aka Colleen. Her latest album, Le Jour Et La Nuit Du Réel—the day and night of reality—was tracked using a minimalistic setup, a Moog Grandmother and two delays: a Roland RE-201 Space Echo and a Moogerfooger Analog Delay. But f...
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 7: Flex
Transmissions - September 25, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis episode is about how Sunburned Hand of the Man makes their free-form music. Through the episode, we consider the semantics of improvisation and practice in the context of this free form entity. In that context, we learn how the open nature of the band manifests in unspoken rules of not telli...
Transmissions :: Jarvis Taveniere (Woods)
Transmissions - September 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWelcome to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions; this week on the show, we're joined by Jarvis Taveniere of Woods. You know his long running Woods band with Jeremy Earl of course—and Woodsist, their record label and Woodsist Festival, which returns September 23-24 upstate with Kevin Morby, Avey Tare, ...
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 6: Heavy Rescue
Transmissions - September 18, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWe open with our focus on the role that music has played in the band members’ individual lives and how a shared love of music brought them all together. This morphs into a consideration of the band’s many artistic influences, with a close look at the impact of the Wu-Tang Clan on Sunburned. We he...
Transmissions :: Floating Points
Transmissions - September 13, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsThis week on the show, we’re joined by Sam Shepherd, AKA Floating Points. His discography is full of beautiful and strange electronic music—bubbling Buchalas, skittering beats, washes of synthesized sound, and even moody, spacious post-rock. But underneath it all, his love of jazz is clear. In 20...
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 5: Loft at Sea
Transmissions - September 11, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWe hear about the personal impact of the band’s non-stop touring and the eventual burnout that ground things to a halt. Moloney and Thomas then describe how this was followed by several “wilderness years” where the band was just there but they weren’t really doing anything with it. Overlapping wi...
Tranmissions :: Emil Amos (Drifter's Sympathy)
Transmissions - September 06, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsWelcome back, thanks for being here with us. Emil Amos of the Drifter's Sympathy podcast is with us today on Transmissions. Perhaps you know his work with OM, Grails, Holy Sons, or the records he releases under his own name, like Zone Black, his latest record of library style sounds, synthy 80s s...
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 4: Tent City Roller
Transmissions - September 04, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 157 ratingsAt this point in our story, Sunburned Hand of the Man morphs into a many-headed hydra with varying manifestations in the loft and on each tour. To get through this vague period of 5-8 years, we focus on the band’s tour stories. We learn how a years-long period of heavy touring was kicked off with...
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