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Glyders :: Forever

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Burned-out breakdowns and best Western boogies. At a time when cosmic country threatens to leave the galaxy entirely, Glyders return it to Earth, while still keeping an eye on the skies.
January 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore :: Tragic Magic

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Recorded in Paris, the lp was sponsored by the InFiné label and the Philharmonie de Paris, providing the duo with access to historic instruments from the Musée de la Musique’s instrument collection.
January 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Dylan Day :: The Unanswered Prayer

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When it came time to put it all to tape, Day opted to stay true to the live nature of the music, recording the album straight through in a single half-hour session with only a microphone and a vintage Gibson LG2.
January 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
RIP Bobby
January 10, 2026 at 11:49 PM
David Bowie’s Blackstar Jazz

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Released 10 years ago today, David Bowie’s Blackstar marked the artist’s most intensive and rewarding collaboration with jazz musicians in the span of his six decade career.
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
It’s Common Knowledge I’ve Been Doin’ Alright: Dan Bejar on “Destroyer’s Rubies” at 20

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Released two decades ago in February of 2006, we caught up with Bejar to discuss all of it …
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 PM
It’s Common Knowledge I’ve Been Doin’ Alright: Dan Bejar on “Destroyer’s Rubies” at 20

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January 7, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Elijah Minnelli :: Clams As A Main Meal

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London-based sound alchemist Elijah Minnelli pieces together a singular fusion of folk, offbeat dub and Cumbia rhythms on sophomore album Clams As A Main Meal.
January 6, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Unearthed, Vol. 20 :: New Year’s Eve (1970s)

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A seasonally appropriate mix of dusty live tapes made up entirely of recordings made on various NYE's throughout the 70s. Hit play at 10:30pm on 12/31 & you can time it just right to hear JJ Cale welcome you to 1976.
December 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Your New Year's Eve plans sorted . . . 🥂
December 30, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Oregon/Elvin Jones :: Together (1976)

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Recorded in one day, the granola jazzists teamed up with one of the most titanic drummers in the sphere, Elvin Jones, allowing both to branch out and sample new realms while doing what they did best.... together.
December 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
... The set is austere, backlit by pink and blue lights, devoid of twinkling Christmas trees and wreathes wrapped in ribbons. And when Bush makes her grand entrance during the opener “Violin,” she’s not in red or green but a black dress with a bat-like cape.
December 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The Kate Bush Christmas Special feat. Peter Gabriel (1979)

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Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).
December 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Fripp & Eno... Evening Star at 50

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The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
December 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Fripp & Eno :: Evening Star

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The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.
December 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Dave Palmer Trio – Happy Holidays! :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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We caught up with with Palmer about the making of Happy Holidays!, his favorite Christmas albums, jazz artists he’s been digging, and the Philadelphia music scene.
December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Unsanctioned Soundtrack (1977)

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It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Dollar Diamonds :: Holiday Edition

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Sadly, the sled has sailed for $1 Xmas albums. For all you non-believers, here’s this month’s Dollar Diamonds that are not Christmas albums, but “sound” like Christmas albums (if you don’t think about it too much).
December 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape)

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With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape, Vol. 1 & 2

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... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 36

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Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.
December 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A John Waters Christmas (2004)

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Christmas provides the perfect setting for Waters to juxtapose with his subversive authorship: taking something cheerful, domestic, and sentimental and gleefully deforming it into tawdry anarchy.
December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Gene Ammons :: Nice an’ Cool (1961)

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Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Aquarium Drunkard Presents Modern Nature at Gold Diggers in East Hollywood December 17 & 18 ~~~~

Brigid Dawson and Rebecca Schiffman support.

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December 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Eberhard Weber on ECM: Primary Colours

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ECM may exist without Eberhard Weber, but it wouldn’t be ECM as we know it. From his 1973 debut through decades of collaboration, it’s a body of work that rewards exploration. Here’s one path among many.
December 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM