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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2025 Midyear Review aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/06/30/aqu… As always, unruly and unranked. Let it blurb.
MJ Lallo :: Before Brazil aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/17/mj-… The ether has been particularly swampy as of late, but the strange alien sounds of the California-based MJ Lallo have been helping us wade through the thick and uncertain fog.
Bandcamping :: Summer 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/17/ban… Could this summer get any weirder? Things are tumbling forward in 2025, with the future as unsteady and uncertain as can be. But the great music keeps on coming somehow, making the weirdness more tolerable.
Tom Carter and Pat Murano :: Songs of Eliphas Levi Zahed aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/23/tom… Carter and Murano's latest collaboration channels French occultist Eliphas Levi into a searing, beautiful work of psychedelic dissonance.
All One Song :: Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) on “Vampire Blues” aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/23/all… Steve is fun to listen to, in pretty much any context, but especially here as he dives into Neil’s Ditch era classic, “Vampire Blues.”
Yesternow: Editor’s Note Volume Three aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/22/yes…
There is an indescribably NYC character to the latest Adam Amram LP. The lp embodies the easygoing yippee humor of Arlo Guthrie, dry wit of Lou Reed, folk exploration of Richie Havens, and literary curiosity of Dylan all without being bound by any of it. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/22/ada…
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/22/sal… Sally Anne Morgan hasn’t missed since her 2020 debut, Threads, and her 4th and latest, Second Circle The Horizon, only further solidifies her position as a purveyor of traditional music distilled through a modern, experimental lens.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/21/reb… Rebecca Schiffman’s 4th lp kicks off with a 9 minute epic- a nervy opening move in these days of ever-decreasing attention spans. It’s a gamble that pays off, as Before the Future’s title track unspools like a bittersweet indie flick from the 1990s.
Fortunato Durutti Marinetti :: Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/21/for… Marinetti calls this style “poetic jazz rock,” drawing on the chillness of Donald Byrd and the expansiveness of Robert Wyatt.
Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 34 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/21/aqu… Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.
🚨Nic Cage Hive Assemble! For the latest installment of @aquadrunkard VIDEODROME column, I wrote about VAMPIRE’S KISS (1988) and the rollicking performances of Nic Cage. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/18/vid…
For the latest @aquadrunkard VIDEODROME column, I wrote about VAMPIRE’S KISS (1988)—a deep dive into the film, Nic Cage’s performance, what happens when actors disappear into characters, and, conversely, what happens when characters disappear into actors aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/18/vid…
Videodrome :: Vampire’s Kiss (1988) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/18/vid… From A-list leading man to B-movie cult favorite, from Oscar winner to Razzie nominee, Nicolas Cage has made a career out of disappearing into his characters. But characters can just as easily disappear into Cage...
Floreana :: Diamond Head (Beach Boys Cover) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/18/flo… ...a great dot-connector, taking us from Les Baxter to Stereolab to today’s ambient jazz scene. And she gets there in under two-and-a-half minutes. Something tells me Brian would be pleased.
Håvard Volden :: Small Lives aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/17/hav… With his solo excursion Small Lives, Volden creates a space where post-rock lulls nestle against jazz structures and subtly anarchic counter melodies.
Jackie-O Motherfucker :: Flags of the Sacred Harp (20th Anniversary Edition) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/07/16/jac… There have been few bands in the 21st century that have been as thrillingly alive to the history of American music as the shapeshifting free rock ensemble Jackie-O Motherfucker
