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Aquarium Drunkard

Weekly interviews with musicians, artists, authors, and filmmakers presented by Aquarium Drunkard.

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Oct 28, 2020 · 59 min
Transmissions :: Joe Wong
Incoming transmission from Joe Wong. He's an incredibly busy guy: he hosts the Trap Set, a weekly interview podcast he’s helmed since 2015, where he sits down with artists like Mix Master Mike, Sharon Van Etten, Jim Keltner, Georgia Hubley of Yo La...
Oct 21, 2020 · 1 hr 20 min
Transmissions: Joe Pera and Skyway Man
Incoming transmission from...Joe Pera and James Wallace, who’s better known as Skyway Man. The two worked together on season two of Joe’s TV show, Joe Pera Talks With You on Adult Swim. Describing “what happens” on the show doesn’t really do...
Oct 14, 2020 · 1 hr 14 min
Transmissions :: Beverly Glenn-Copeland
The release of the new career-spanning collection continues a wave of new appreciation for the pioneering folk, electronic, and experimental composer's celestial and enveloping songs. Offering a holistic look at Glenn-Copeland's diverse...
Oct 7, 2020 · 57 min
Transmissions :: Sam Prekop
Incoming transmission from...Sam Prekop. For more than 25 years, he's released music with the Sea and Cake and on his own. With the band, he's responsible for guitarwork and providing signature vocals, cool, aloof, and melodically clear. But his...
Sep 30, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min
Transmissions :: Bill Frisell
Our guest this week is legendary guitarist Bill Frisell. In the 1980s, he served as ECM Records’ in-house guitarist, and he’s been hard at it ever since: partnering with John Zorn for a long series of unclassifiable records, playing alongside...
Sep 23, 2020 · 1 hr 19 min
Transmissions :: Jerry David DeCicca
Our guest this week is Jerry David DeCicca. Perhaps you know him best from Black Swans, or maybe some of the great albums he's produced by so called "outsider" songwriters like Ed Askew, Larry Jon Wilson, and Chris Gantry, among others. Since 2014,...
Sep 16, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min
Transmissions :: Swamp Dog
Our guest this week on Transmissions is Jerry Williams Jr., but if you know your musical cult heroes, you probably know him by the name Swamp Dogg. Since the early '50s, he's lived as a true record man—writing songs, producing artists,...
Sep 9, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Transmissions :: Chris Forsyth
Our guest this week is Chris Forsyth, guitarist, bandleader, composer, and DIY lifer. His studio albums evoke the punk psychedelia of Television, balancing ‘70s rock grooves the loose, exploratory feel of the Dead. But as good as his studio LPs are,...
Sep 2, 2020 · 34 min
Transmissions :: Eric Slick
This week on Transmissions, we're joined by songwriter, Dr. Dog drummer, and noted Twitter personality Eric Slick. His new album of classic pop songcraft is called Wiseacre. Best known for his work with Dr. Dog and his wife, songwriter Natalie...
Aug 26, 2020 · 1 hr 5 min
Transmissions: Georgia Anne Muldrow
On Mama You Can Bet, her new album under her Jyoti alias, embraces her jazz roots. Born and raised in Los Angeles, her parents were immersed in the city’s jazz community. Her father worked with Eddie Harris; , her mother, worked with Pharoah...
Aug 19, 2020 · 1 hr 9 min
Transmissions :: Michael Rother
Our guest this week practically invented kosmische guitar. As a member of , Harmonia, and an early incarnation of , Michael Rother's fluid, emotive playing helped define the sound of krautrock, as the music came up out of Germany's avant-garde...
Aug 12, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Transmissions :: Colin Dickey’s The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession With The Unexplained
Our guest this week is Colin Dickey, author of . Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, phantom islands like Atlantis and Lemuria…the paranormal haunts our collective imagination. In his new book, Dickey smartly explores the lore woven into...
Aug 5, 2020 · 1 hr 7 min
Transmissions :: Phil Elverum (The Microphones)
Since the late '90s, Phil Elverum has remained at work on one of the strangest and most beautiful discographies in independent rock. As The Microphones, he created genre-defining records like 2001's The Glow Pt. 2, which has been hailed by...
Jul 29, 2020 · 1 hr 14 min
Transmissions Podcast: Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak)
This week on Transmissions, we’re joined by songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist . She had planned on spending a fair amount of 2020 on the road playing guitar, keys, and singing with Bon Iver, but instead she’s spending it in a...
Jul 22, 2020 · 39 min
Transmissions Podcast: Mossy Kilcher
Lots of records evoke a place. But Mossy Kilcher’s 1977 lost folk gem Northwind Calling does more than that: it welcomes the listener into the spirit of her treasured place of origin, Alaska. Born to homesteading parents who’d fled...
Jul 15, 2020 · 49 min
Transmissions Podcast: Johnathan Ford of Unwed Sailor
Our guest this week is Johnathan Ford of Unwed Sailor. For more than two decades, he’s led the post-rock band Unwed Sailor. In that time, Ford has steered the band—an ever-evolving collective that’s included members of Pedro the Lion, Fleet...
Jul 8, 2020 · 41 min
Transmissions :: Don Bryant
Welcome back to another episode of Transmissions podcast, our weekly talk show. Our guest today is Don Bryant. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Bryant was one of the premier songwriters at Hi Records, where he wrote material for Al Green, O.V....
Jul 1, 2020 · 44 min
Transmissions: Joe Casey of Protomartyr
Our guest this week: Joe Casey of Protomartyr. One of the most exciting rock bands of the last decade, the Detroit-based post punk band will release its fifth album, Ultimate Success Today via Domino Records July 17th. The word prophetic isn't a...
Jun 24, 2020 · 42 min
Transmissions :: In conversation with Modern Nature's Jack Cooper
We're back. This week, we’re featuring Jesse Locke’s interview with Jack Cooper of Modern Nature. The band’s new mini-album, Annual, is the follow up to the band’s debut, 2019’s How to Live. Inspired by the group’s time on the road in...
Jun 17, 2020 · 1 hr 8 min
Transmissions :: Lisa E. Harris on EarthSeed
Welcome to another episode of the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast, our weekly interview series. Our guest this week is Lisa E. Harris, whose new album with Nicole Mitchell is called EarthSeed. It was recorded live at Fullerton Hall at the Art...