Very excited to hear this album--excellent interview here!
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Very excited to hear this album--excellent interview here!
I had a long talk with Ed Masley about how desert drives, UFOs, ecological dread, and family informed my new record, Jason P. Woodbury & The Night Bird Singing Quartet.
www.azcentral.com/story/entert...
For Bill Frisell, music at its best feels dreamlike. His latest, In My Dreams (@bluenoterecords.bsky.social), demonstrates this phenomenon.
He joins @aquariumdrunkard.com to discuss the LP, dreams, and, of course, Gary Larson’s The Far Side: aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/02/b...
It's true! Full interview here: aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/02/b...
To move forward with focus, we must first understand this simple fact: we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.
The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.
Our front page features art, a title, and capsule summary of every piece we publish, but your note about an intro and more potential context before the paywall is noted and appreciated. aquariumdrunkard.com
I totally hear you. The decision to paywall the site wasn't reached lightly.
By way of offering clarity, we discussed it in this podcast episode about the transition to a subscription model. The podcast feed remains open to all—subscription or not.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Happy birthday to the quiet Beatle, Nelson Wilbury himself, aka George Harrison. Here’s an essay I wrote last November about his love songs to God, one of my favorite Substack pieces. jasonpwoodbury.substack.com/p/so-many-te...
Aquarium Drunkard is a subscriber-only publication. Reader/listener subscriptions are how AD pays writers and considerable operational costs.
Thanks for the kind word, Alex. Transmissions will resume soon with a Neil Young mini-series, then a series from Big Ears, then...some other surprises. A standard season of Transmissions will happen this year, but I'm excited to branch out more.
I have really been enjoying doing print pieces re: podding lately.
"I believe that goofiness is sacred."
Another @aquariumdrunkard.com piece: I spoke with Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders, Fugs) about his latest album of jingles and devotionals, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Harry Smith, and praying while stoned.
Read: aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/02/24/p...
New at @aquariumdrunkard.com: some words about Folkways' Clifton Chenier box set, King of Louisiana Blues and Zydeco. Keep on scratching, friends.
On this day 29 years ago, #LostHighway by #DavidLynch was released in cinemas.
A definitive Lynchian #surrealist horror cult classic, with a soundtrack produced by #NineInchNails frontman Trent Reznor and featuring artists like #DavidBowie, Lou Reed and The Smashing Pumpkins.
I want to repost this b/c I'd never heard anything by Buchanan that caught my ear. This is beautiful and amazing to watch.
From the PBS doc Introducing Roy Buchanan - The World’s Greatest Unknown Guitarist (1971). Unreal feel and touch.
"I was not confused. It was God
Come to straighten my thoughts.
Whole celestial vacuums
In the trunk of his pink Studebaker.
We would smoke and cough.
I sat very still, almost at peace with myself."
From Norman Dubie's Homage to Philip K. Dick
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51393/...
I wrote about years shopping at the Casa Grande thrift store, The Pixies, Larry Norman, and the strange musical links that tie the past, present, and future together.
Great book! If you enjoy the idea of connecting the dots between Lynch and the work of Cormac McCarthy, Lana Del Rey, David Foster Wallace, Maurice Sendak, & more, it's for you.
The unfathomably cynical hermeneutics of the American political theology has done more to advance nihilistic disbelief than anything in contemporary pop culture.
New at @aquariumdrunkard.com: I spoke with director Adam Bhala Lough about his perplexing, funny, and deeply strange movie Deepfaking Sam Altman. We discuss the film, copyright, and...uh...Homer Simpson AI remixes.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/02/02/a...
This week on Range and Basin, a reflection on the fury and sublimity of Pharoah Sanders’ “The Creator Has a Master Plan," and spiritual jazz as "one big prayer." Head over to read it and/or listen to me read the essay.
jasonpwoodbury.substack.com/p/pharoah-sa...
Wow, @jimderogatis.bsky.social & @gregkot.bsky.social @soundopinions.bsky.social is one of my favorites—it was an honor to hear my song "Get To Meet Them" discussed on their latest Buried Treasure episode: "It’s all about that steel." Thanks producer @andrewgill.biz! www.soundopinions.org/show/1053
"Every time we think we have it, it shifts and turns in our hands, changes shape, becomes something else. That's the grace and beauty of this weirdness we call art. That's why, as readers, as writers, we go on."
RIP Phoenix's own, James Sallis, author of Drive, plus dozens more crime & SF novels.
What an honor!
In our latest episode, Jim James of @mymorningjacket.bsky.social describes the thrill of finishing their album Z, but dreading that "it's not as good as Nirvana."
Full track-by-track conversation: lifeoftherecord.com#/my-morning-...
This week on Range and Basin, I’ve shared an excerpt from an @aquariumdrunkard.com interview I did with the late new age composer, writer, and radio figure Joanna Brouk. I've done a lot of interviews; few have been as consequential as this one.
#NowPlaying on Cosmic Church @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com
on @campradio.bsky.social
@jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social - Get To Meet Them via Always Happening Records
alwayshappeningrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jason-...
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"If 'Young Americans,' his previous album, had examined the post-Watergate rottenness infecting the once-great nation he’d recently adopted as his home, then on 'Station to Station' he turns his gaze fully inward upon his own condition, and finds the creeping decay at work there too."
