Alden Hellmuth :: Tether aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/14/a... No aura. No vibe. No chill. Alden Hellmuth’s second album pairs a remorseless funk drummer with two bassists for burly, punk-informed jazz that never sacrifices melody. Call it Blitzkrieg Bebop.
You Make The Choice :: On 30 years of Dusk at Cubist Castle aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/13/y... 30 years on, Dusk at Cubist Castle still feels like a transmission from a vanished world. We asked friends from the AD orbit to reflect on the LP—and the regional music culture that made it possible.
Good Trip Peru, Vol II: A Mixtape aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/09/12/a... Good Trip Peru, Vol. II digs deeper into Peru’s psych-fried cumbia, huayno and chicha traditions, tracing a 90-minute path through reverb, organ and fuzz.
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Lodge Room and Aquarium Drunkard present Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas www.lodgeroomhlp.com/shows/natura... July 24 / Los Angeles, Calif.
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom :: A ? of WHEN aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/09/p... A ? of WHEN finds Panda Bear & Sonic Boom pushing deeper into playful, anti-algorithmic pop. Steel drums, pedal steel, and Mary Lattimore's looping harp create a world that feels both curious and quietly timeless.
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals :: African Dub All-Mighty: Chapter 3 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/09/j... Released in the year of clashing sevens (1977), Chapter 3 remains one of dub’s true masterpieces— Gibbs & Thompson transforming familiar foundations into surreal, future-facing sound.
Coffee cooling beside the speakers. Broadcasting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/08/t... 34.1090° N, 118.2334° W
This week on Transmissions: Lenny Kaye drops in to talk Nuggets, Buddy Holly's motorcycle, & his new album, Goin' Local—his first proper solo LP at the age of 79. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/08/t...
Shigeru Izumiya :: Light & Shadow aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/07/s... Shigeru Izumiya lived many lives: underground folk singer, subversive poet, experimental filmmaker, Studio Ghibli voice actor, cyberpunk and J-pop pioneer...
Object Hours :: Solved by Walking aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/07/o... Driven by an unwavering pulse and two guitars that continually reshape the landscape around it, Object Hours’ Solved by Walking binds its individual pieces into an inexorable forward march.
Few formats expose improvisers quite like piano and drums. On New Side, Jim White and Masami Tomihisa embrace that openness, conjuring eight spontaneous dialogues that drift between hushed lyricism, ecstatic clatter and moments of near-telepathic communion. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/06/y...
Nirosta Steel's MY SKYSCRAPER arrives with the kind of mythology reserved for impossible records. Featuring Arthur Russell throughout, it resurrects an alternate history of experimental pop aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/06/n...
Whether you’re chasing shade or the horizon, here’s a stack of recent discoveries worth packing. From ecstatic guitar minimalism and Fourth World obscurities to transportive ambient, jangle pop, and mystic folk, these are the records soundtracking our summer. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/02/b...
New on Transmissions: Annahstasia—whose music evokes Terry Callier, Nick Drake, and early-'70s Joni Mitchell without sounding like anyone but herself. We talk creativity, stillness, and her luminous Live at Glasshaus. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/01/t...
Harmonia :: Live 1974 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/01/h... Recorded at a converted German railway station, Harmonia’s Live 1974: a pristine recording of the kosmische trio in full improvisational flight—motorik pulse, shimmering synths, organ, and Michael Rother’s transcendent guitar.
Maisy Owen :: Dark on a Sunny Day aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/30/m... Nashville songwriter Maisy Owen lets poison seep through the sweetness. Pristine country-folk songs bloom into quietly devastating portraits of unhealthy devotion, where the damage is easy to miss beneath the glitter.
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Erin Durant aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/29/t... For her debut Lagniappe Session, Erin Durant turns to two touchstones: Judee Sill’s “Jesus Was a Cross Maker” and Lucinda Williams’ “Jackson.”
In 1985, as digital dancehall was redrawing reggae’s map, Jah Shaka and Aswad entered the studio to forge a devotional set of heavyweight rhythms, cavernous mixes, and Rastafarian sonics still resonating four decades on. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/25/j...
SML two-night Los Angeles residency. Aquarium Drunkard 21. June 26th // June 27th teragramballroom.com/tm-attractio... Performance: In-The-Round @ the Teragram Ballroom. Also on deck: Fabiano do Nascimento, Genevieve Artadi, Reverberation Radio DJs.
A deep drift through 1970s Accra nightlife,where folk rhythms, electric organ, bright horns, and clinking glassware blur into one long, flowing current. Dr. K. Gyasi & His Noble Kings’ Sikyi Highlife moves with uncommon grace—earthy, and effortlessly sublime. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/23/d...
Nearly a half-century after its release, This Heat’s entrancing and ecstatic self-titled debut still lands like a vision of the end of the world, or at least the end of a world, its messages conflicting and coded but bracingly pure and full of possibility. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/23/t...
John Coltrane Quartet :: Ballads (1963) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/19/j... The central mystery of Ballads is how an album of standards, recorded during one of the most radical periods in jazz history, feels every bit as profound as Coltrane’s more adventurous work. Midnite jazz column returns.
Lau Ro :: Lau aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/18/l... São Paulo-born Lau Ro returns with Lau: a radiant psych-pop collage where Clube da Esquina's sunlit spirit lingers. Cinematic instrumentals drift through the haze, inviting close listening and rewarding attention to subtle detail.
On his first solo album, Total Blue member Anthony Calonico continues to mine the Los Angeles instrumental trio’s refined, streamlined take on chilled-out lite jazz and pop ambience. But he also makes some moves... aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/17/a...
All One Song :: Lee Ranaldo on “Down By the River” aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/17/a... the season two finale of ALL ONE SONG catches up with Lee Ranaldo to discuss an all-time Neil classic, one that dips from murder ballad terror to cosmic life affirmation.
Antilles Series :: Volumes 1/2 & Beyond aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/06/11/a... The water's warm: Heavenly Sweetness revives its Antilles Series with a welcome reissue of Luc-Hubert Séjor's 1979 gem, Mizik Filamonik – Spiritual Sound.
This second album from Bitchin’ Bajas’ Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay is more composed and less improvised than its predecessor Foreign Smokes, its ideas worked out not on the fly but over time as the two musicians honed their tunes in the live setting. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/16/b...
It’s 2026 and Matt Valentine has returned to the AD orbit. Between a recent Lagniappe Session and the release of All One Song, we’ve been revisiting Furniture Music For Evening Shuttles, a record at the very center of the Tower Recordings story. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/16/t...