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Sonic Youth :: Washing Machine at 30

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Three decades in, Washing Machine now feels like the most clear divide between the first and second halves of Sonic Youth’s career, an insightful Polaroid of the band at that fiery transitional moment.
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Steve Tibbetts :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Tibbetts balances consideration with openness, discussing his Buddhist practice, having lunch with Leo Kottke, working as a nurse and a record store clerk, the Grateful Dead, fellow ECM artists and more.
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Joys of Cookin’: Tracks from Groove Merchant, 1971-1974 (A Mixtape)

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Founded in 1971, Sonny Lester’s short-lived Groove Merchant label had grooves to spare. Call it a case of truth in advertising.
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Matt LaJoie :: Stonehouse

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Ambient guitar mage and Flower Room Records impresario Matt LaJoie returns with the sprawling Stonehouse, a voyage to the far reaches of kosmische innerspace by way of midcoast Maine.
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Sessa :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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We catch up with Sessa to discuss the way Pequena Vertigem de Amor sounds different from his previous albums, from the instrumentation to the vocals and why he thinks it’s his best album yet...
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Miles in ‘65: The Journey to the Plugged Nickel

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En route to a two-week run at Chicago’s Plugged Nickel: “What if we made anti-music?” The results, documented on the newly reissued Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, changed the landscape of modern jazz
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sonic Youth :: Washing Machine at 30

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Three decades in, Washing Machine now feels like the most clear divide between the first and second halves of Sonic Youth’s career, an insightful Polaroid of the band at that fiery transitional moment.
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Transmissions :: Kate Pierson (The B-52s)

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Kate Pierson joins us to discuss the band’s history, Yoko Ono, her time with Julee Cruise, and much more.
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Miles in ‘65: The Journey to the Plugged Nickel

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En route to a two-week run at Chicago’s Plugged Nickel: “What if we made anti-music?” The results, documented on the newly reissued Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, changed the landscape of modern jazz.
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Steve Tibbetts :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Tibbetts balances consideration with openness, discussing his Buddhist practice, having lunch with Leo Kottke, working as a nurse and a record store clerk, the Grateful Dead, fellow ECM artists and more.
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Midnite Jazz: Dexter Gordon - Ballads

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Doing what he does best: playing ballads. This 1991 Blue Note comp is filled with choice cuts that find Gordon and company locking into sleepy pockets where each phrase is given room to dally in the space between beats.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Modern Nature

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On the heels of the band’s latest LP, The Heat Warps, Modern Nature return with their third entry in the Lagniappe Sessions, this time paying tribute to a pair of Beatles’ chestnuts.
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Cracked Actor: A Film About David Bowie (1975 BBC Documentary)

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November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Gisle Røen Johansen :: Kveldsragg

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... welding spiritual jazz, icy ECM, martial prog and no-wave noise into an improbable, and emotionally stirring, unity.
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Shaun Harris :: S/T (1973)

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Post West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, the eponymous 1973 folk rock offering from Shaun Harris is a gem best reserved for those with a penchant for sadness presented through a jagged, downright sunny orchestral filter.
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Joseph Kamaru :: Heavy Combination 1966 – 2007

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sick.
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Liam Kazar :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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this month saw the release of Pilot Light—a sophomore album that couldn’t be further from the stereotypical slump...
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Sister Irene O’Connor :: Fire of God’s Love (1973)

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Drenched in reverb and powered by organ and fuzzy drum machine, it sounds like a holy devotional side project by Broadcast—future music imbued with traditional faith.
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Natural Information Society :: Perseverance Flow

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Perseverance Flow does everything its title promises. It perseveres, certainly, moving with a stubborn intent in a way that feels both mechanical and wholly organic . . .
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
HBD Neil! 80 years young on November 12th ...

" The Secrets of the World: Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s Zuma at 50 "

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November 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Sharp Pins :: Balloon Balloon Balloon

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Kai Slater dons the velvet flares once again for this superlative dose of psychedelic 1960s pop, spun out on electric 12-string and recorded in a dazey cloud of lo-fi fuzz.
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Anna Butterss :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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November 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Secrets of the World: Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s Zuma at 50

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For a little celebration, check out a Zuma redux at AD made up of live recordings that stretch from 1974 to 2020, capturing some of that ragged/glorious magic...
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Lô Borges :: O Mundo, Minas Gerais

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Perhaps the most naif member of the legendary Clube da Esquina Borges was also responsible for bringing to the movement the heavy dose of easy-listening psychedelia that pushed it over the edge of a musical revolution. RIP.
November 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Iiris Viljanen :: So Much of You Was Sleeping

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The new solo piano album from Finnish-Swedish composer Iiris Viljanen drifts on fluffy, spacious keys and hushed, wordless melodies, residing in the dreamy and delicate musical worlds she creates.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM