Transmissions
Weekly interviews with musicians, artists, authors, and filmmakers presented by Aquarium Drunkard.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 262
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Transmissions :: Chris Swanson (co-founder of Secretly Group)
Welcome to Transmissions. Today on the show: Chris Swanson, co-founder of Secretly Group. This year marks 25 years of two of the flagship labels in the group, Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, and to…
01:03:54 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
Transmissions :: Bela Koe-Krompecher
Thanks for joining us on Transmissions. Our guest this week is Bela Koe-Krompecher, who’s written a terrific book called Love, Death, & Photosynthesis, about his time in the ‘80s rock & roll underg…
01:08:28 |
Wed 01 Sep 2021
Transmissions :: Jon Wurster
This week on Transmissions, Jon Wurster, the drummer of Mountain Goats, Bob Mould Band, and Superchunk and one-half of Scharpling and Wurster, the long running radio comedy duo as featured on The…
01:12:20 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
Transmissions :: Nathan Salsburg
As a curator at the Alan Lomax Archive, Nathan Salsburg is no stranger to reaching deep into the past to bring forth music that speaks to us in the present moment. As a guitarist and songwriter, he's…
00:57:08 |
Wed 18 Aug 2021
Transmissions :: Rickie Lee Jones
“Music shapes us and fundamentally changes us. Once we have listened we do not stop. We do not ever recover from music. We will return again and again to the radio, the record store, the bedroom wher…
00:55:47 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Transmissions :: John Leckie
A sprawling talk with record maker John Leckie. As a tape operator at Abbey Road, he oversaw the All Things Must Pass and Plastic Ono Band sessions and rolled tape on Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Kevin A…
01:10:58 |
Wed 04 Aug 2021
Transmissions :: Melvin Gibbs
A sit down with bassist and composer Melvin Gibbs. Emerging from the fertile New York art scene of the early '80s where he played with Defunkt, Gibbs has brought grace and heaviness to work with Arto…
01:01:44 |
Wed 28 Jul 2021
Transmissions :: Anika
This week on Transmissions: Anika. Best known for her work with Geoff Barrow and Mexico City's Exploded View, she returns with Change, an album of subtle electronic pop, driving bass lines, and lyric…
01:02:22 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
Transmissions :: Rodrigo Amarante
Today on the show, Brazilian singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante joins us to discuss his new album, Drama. A lush and enveloping listen, it blends gentle pop with cinematic flourishes. Reflecting on…
01:07:22 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Transmissions :: Rose City Band
It’s a bonus episode for you as we head into the weekend. Today on the show we're joined by Ripley Johnson of Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips, and most recently, Rose City Band. Reviewing the latter’s excel…
01:05:10 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
Transmissions :: Tom Scharpling
Today on the program: Tom Scharpling of The Best Show and Double Threat. He’s written a deeply funny and moving new book called It Never Ends, available now wherever you get books. It documents his …
01:13:52 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
Transmissions :: Carlos Niño
This week on Transmissions, a heady conversation with Carlos Niño about spontaneous composition, the influence of hip-hop culture, his radio roots, and his latest, More Energy Fields, Current. "...…
01:06:58 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Transmissions :: Six Organs of Admittance
This week on the show, Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. His new album is called The Veiled Sea, out this week via Three Lobed Records. Six Organs records can often sound very different from …
01:06:28 |
Wed 23 Jun 2021
Transmissions :: Jeffrey Silverstein
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Transmissions. Our guest this episode is musician and writer Jeffrey Silverstein. His new EP of gently cosmic guitar music is called Torii Gates, and he's the h…
01:02:16 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
Transmissions :: John Grant
Our guest this week on the show is singer/songwriter John Grant. You might know him from his work with Midlake, the Czars, Sinéad O'Connor or Hercules and Love Affair. His new album is called Boy Fro…
01:11:54 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
Transmissions :: Colleen
Our guest this week is Cécile Schott, who records under the name Colleen. Since the early 2000s, she's generated soulful electronic and ambient music, utilizing vintage synths, drum machines, music b…
01:06:26 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
Transmissions :: Jim Jarmusch
Music is never incidental in a movie made by our guest this week: director, collage artist, and music maker Jim Jarmusch. Music is part of his films’ DNA, a through line running through his character…
01:10:48 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
Sarah Louise :: Transmissions
Guitarist, songwriter, and producer Sarah Louise joins us this week on the show to discuss her new album, Earth Bow. Though Louise is known for her 12-string folks fantasias, her work is wide ranging…
01:04:51 |
Wed 26 May 2021
Transmissions :: Wadada Leo Smith
Welcome back. Our guest this week on the show is Wadada Leo Smith, trumpeter, music theorist, and composer. Over his many years, he’s pioneered his own musical notation system, helped popularize and …
01:07:24 |
Wed 19 May 2021
Transmissions :: Richard Thompson
Our guest this week is guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson. One of the founding fathers of British folk rock, he's the author of a new book, Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice (1967-1…
01:04:27 |
Wed 12 May 2021
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