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Terje Rypdal :: Odyssey

Justin Gage — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:13:00 +0000

Odyssey is the point where it all came together for Norwegian guitarist, composer, and ECM mainstay Terje Rypdal. Released in 1975, just as the “ECM sound” was beginning to smooth out, Odyssey delivered a searing double album of deep and moody jazz-rock from the land of the midnight sun. If Gateway and Julian Priester’s Love, Love are your ECM jams of choice, this is definitely one to add to the rotation.

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Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Jason Woodbury — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

It might take a decade before you’re ready to make a record. Lia Kohl, Whitney Johnson, and Macie Stewart, multi-instrumentalists and stalwarts of the Chicago experimental music scene, have been playing and recording together since the late 2010s, in duos and on each other’s respective solo LPs. But 2026 sees the trio finally release BODY SOUND, their improvised debut, for International Anthem. Aquarium Drunkard spoke with Kohl, Stewart, and Johnson about friendship, the sacred, Yoko Ono, tape loops, surprise, improvisation, and more.

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Star Moles :: Highway to Hell

Jason Woodbury — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

As the years are wont to be, 2026 has been a gloomy son of a bitch. One can’t help but occasionally, if not often, feel deeply uninspired – fearful of having lost the capacity to ever be deeply moved again. It’s in these dire times that we are beyond blessed to have an artist like Star Moales come along. And while in no means is that meant to suggest the musical project of Philadelphia-based Emily Moales is in any way new, her latest album—the endlessly rewarding and wholly endearing Highway to Hell—feels like the most fully realized work yet from a sacred concern who has amassed a seemingly countless number of releases under her belt since 2017.

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Archer Prewitt :: Gerroa Songs

Justin Gage — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

In the spring of 1999, The Sea and Cake's Archer Prewitt spent a few days in a partly dilapidated building and makeshift studio in the Australian coastal town of Gerroa. Equipped with his guitar, an 8 track reel-to-reel and a couple of friends, the understated Gerroa Songs is a self-described aural snapshot, a stripped down and almost meditative affair. An airy and sparse antithesis of Prewitt's tight studio works, the seaside spatial atmosphere of the recordings is a formula likely to win over fans of the modern Guitar Soli revival, various ambient works and beyond.

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

Justin Gage — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000

Via satellite, transmuting 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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Bruce Hornsby :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Jason Woodbury — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Near the end of his latest Indigo Park, Bruce Hornsby sings something of a conclusion—or perhaps a belated introduction: "I've been seeking magical thinking/I think I detect a trend/This could be the start of something/Or this could be an end." The lyric isn't cited to suggest the 71-year-old songwriter is going anywhere. If anything, Indigo Park speaks to the hot streak Hornsby's been on since 2019's Absolute Zero. Aquarium Drunkard caught up with him to discuss the album, basketball chants, his work with The Grateful Dead, literary fiction, and much more.

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All One Song :: Brigid Mae Power on “Albuquerque”

Jason Woodbury — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Neil Young's "Albuquerque." A Ditch Era classic, it was recorded with the Santa Monica Flyers in 1973 and released on 1975's Tonight's the Night. Like the Southwestern town its named for, "Albuquerque" is stark, beautiful, and lonesome—leaving in its wake melancholy and a craving for fried eggs and country ham. Joining us to discuss the various landscapes of "Albuquerque" is Brigid Mae Power. Since her debut a little over a decade ago, the Galway-based singer songwriter has built up a visionary and cosmic discography. Tune in as we explore the contours of yet another number in the ever-rolling "All One Song" saga.

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Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane | In Conversation with Andy Beta

Justin Gage — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Andy Beta's new book, Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane, sheds crucial new light on Alice Coltrane's incredible journey. Through deep research and keen insight, Beta uncovers a story that spans decades and continents, painting a portrait of a remarkable musician, composer and spiritual leader. AD recently talked with the author to learn about how it all came together.

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Medeski Martin & Wood :: Tonic & The Dropper

Jason Woodbury — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

When looking back on cultural events that happened in the year 2000, it’s easy to make sweeping statements about the beginning of the 21st century and the rise of the new millennium. For the instrumental jazz/jam/groove band Medeski Martin & Wood, this connection to a significant change in the Gregorian calendar is unnecessary because the band’s recorded output in that year alone is momentous enough in relation to their own career discography.

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Fabiano Do Nascimento & E Ruscha V :: Aquáticos

Justin Gage — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:20:22 +0000

Brazilian guitarist Fabiano Do Nascimento and Los Angeles producer Eddie Ruscha (aka E Ruscha V and Secret Circuit) team up for the gorgeously ambient and adventurous Aquáticos, released earlier this year on the ever-reliable Music From Memory label. Pairing Nascimento’s 7 and 10-string nylon guitars with Ruscha’s modular synths, drum machines, and vintage keyboards, the duo create meditative, electro-acoustic sounds with an alchemical fluidity.

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The Smoke :: S/T (1968)

Justin Gage — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

In addition to his role in elusive cult outfit The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, musician and young prodigy Michael Lloyd ricocheted from studio to studio in late sixties Los Angeles. Amidst production efforts with legendary LA scenester Kim Fowley, Lloyd's 1968's one-off studio project The Smoke is the most rewarding relic. With all of the glowing touchstones of the era's hazy California psych-pop, the record combines fragmented orchestral pieces with highlights like "Cowboys and Indians", an original response to "Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys. While other classics of the genre were unearthed or reappraised for overdue canonization, The Smoke is a snapshot reminder that the era's vast landscape will likely never be fully excavated.

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Making the Scene :: Catching up with Programme 4’s Rachel Lichtman

Jason Woodbury — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Alongside her work directing music videos and documentaries, Rachel Lichtman expertly crafts and currates media that feels beamed in from an alternate reality. Don’t mistake them as simple sendups or exercises in damaging nostalgia. As Lichtman describes: “It’s not just about an aesthetic. It’s really [about] truly being able to trek out into a better world. A world that we were promised."

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Colleen :: Libres antes del final

Justin Gage — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

We often say that electronic music has a pulse, but on the standout title track, that pulse seems less like a metaphor and more like an actual heartbeat, thumping with effort but fully capable of maintaining itself over long periods. The title, by the way, translates as “free at the end,” and indeed, there is a payoff to this gleaming processional, which explodes with sensation from the halfway point on.

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Rachel Love :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Justin Gage — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Originally a founding member of the pioneering all-female trio Dolly Mixture, musician Rachel Love has launched a solo career forty plus years later. Ahead of indie pop purveyors Slumberland repressing her recent solo LPs such as Lyra (a tribute to her late husband/producer Steve Lovell), the musician also plays in new band Railcard with fellow English guitar-pop veterans, a BBC-inspired instrumental project with Martin Newell of Cleaners from Venus and more. Love joins us from her home in Brighton to discuss her career and prolific late career surge.

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

Justin Gage — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000

Chronesthesia. Via satellite, transmuting 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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