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 :: J Mascis
Our guest on the show this week is J Mascis. Along with Lou Barlow and drummer Murph, he formed Dinosaur Jr in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984. After their original run, which ended acrimoniously in 1…
00:57:52 |
Wed 05 May 2021
Transmissions :: Joanna Brouk
This week on Transmissions, we're digging into the Aquarium Drunkard vault for a 2016 conversation with the late New Age pioneer, composer, author and creator Joanna Brouk. An edited and condensed ve…
00:50:56 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
Transmissions :: Al Riggs
As we've noted here before, Durham-based songwriter al Riggs keeps very busy. Their new album is called I Got a Big Electric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep. Though they bounce around genre-wise,…
01:14:19 |
Wed 21 Apr 2021
Transmissions :: Angel Bat Dawid
This week on the show, Chicago’s Angel Bat Dawid. A composer, clarinetist, poet, and vocalist, she’s one of the shining stars of the International Anthem label, where she’s issued some incredible rec…
01:11:46 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Transmissions :: Pino Palladino and Blake Mills
Pino Palladino and Blake Mills are two of the most dynamic studio wizards in music and they join us this week on Transmissions to discuss Notes With Attachments, their Impulse! Records-released colla…
00:51:43 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
Transmissions :: Noah Lekas & Ethan Miller of Howlin’ Rain
This week on the show, we're joined by poet and music journalist Noah C. Lekas and Ethan Miller of Howlin' Rain and Comets on Fire. They've got a new collaboration featured on Sounds From the Shadow…
01:34:18 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
Transmissions :: Martin Courtney of Real Estate
Our guest this week on Transmissions is Martin Courtney of Real Estate. On March 26th, the long-running New Jersey group releases its new EP, Half a Human, which embraces the jammier side of the ba…
01:02:51 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
Transmissions :: Shahzad Ismaily
Description: Our guest this week on the show is Shahzad Ismaily, whose recorded with, well, he’s recorded with a lot of people, from Moses Sumney and Sam Amidon to Beth Orton, Martha Wainwright, Y…
01:04:13 |
Wed 17 Mar 2021
Transmissions :: His Name is Alive
This week on Transmissions: Detroit’s own Warren Defever of Third Man Records and the experimental pop group His Name is Alive. Since the mid-80s, HNIA has released over a hundred records, EPs, and p…
01:02:16 |
Wed 10 Mar 2021
Transmissions :: Amanda Petrusich
Our guest this week is Amanda Petrusich, author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, the the Search for the Next American Music, and Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for …
01:05:28 |
Wed 03 Mar 2021
Transmissions :: Peter Guralnick
Legendary music writer Peter Guralnick joins us this week on Transmissions. He's been writing about the blues, rock & roll, soul, and R&B since the late 1960s. His latest book is called Looking To …
01:02:43 |
Wed 24 Feb 2021
Transmissions :: Fletcher Tucker
Northern California mysticism with Fletcher Tucker. His latest album of ritualistic folk music is called Unlit Trail. Like the previous, Cold Spring, it's a record that settles deep into the sacred n…
01:06:43 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
Transmissions :: Robyn Hitchcock/Howe Gelb of Giant Sand/Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate
Hope you're enjoying the new season of Aquarium Drunkard's Transmissions. Here's a good one from the archives, a favorite of Timothy Showalter of Strand of Oaks a roundtable talk with three lifers: …
00:45:35 |
Sat 13 Feb 2021
Transmissions :: Yasmin Williams
On her second lp, the newly released Urban Driftwood, Virginia-based guitarist Yasmin Williams creates expansive acoustic music. Playing guitar, kalimba, percussion, and kora, she pulls from dispara…
01:01:23 |
Wed 10 Feb 2021
Transmissions :: The Weather Station
Tamara Lindeman joins us this week on Transmissions for a conversation about Ignorance, her lush and sweeping new album as The Weather Station. Lindeman is the kind of songwriter who dares to write …
01:06:54 |
Wed 03 Feb 2021
Transmissions :: Margo Price
This week we're happy to welcome Margo Price to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions for a talk about the music industry, her creative partnership with husband Jeremy Ivey, her online radio show, forays i…
01:06:27 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Transmissions :: Nels Cline
It’s 2021 and Aquarium Drunkard’s Transmissions podcast is back. Every Wednesday, your host Jason P. Woodbury sits down with a fascinating guest for a rolling conversation about art, process, and ins…
01:19:01 |
Wed 20 Jan 2021
Transmissions :: North Americans
Our guest this week is Patrick McDermott of North Americans. His latest is called Roped In and its blissed out guitar-scapes find him teaming up with cosmic pedal steel master Barry Walker Jr, Willia…
00:59:06 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Transmissions :: Psychic Temple
This week, we're joined by returning guest Chris Schlarb of Psychic Temple and Big Ego, his studio in Long Beach. His latest is called Houses of the Holy, a four-sided double-album, featuring a diffe…
01:06:30 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Transmissions :: Ken Layne of Desert Oracle
This week on Transmissions, we welcome back a return guest: desert scribe and radio personality Ken Layne. He’s the editor of Desert Oracle, a pocket-sized field guide to the American Southwest and t…
01:25:40 |
Wed 09 Dec 2020
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