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 :: Jeff Bridges
That's right, we've got The Dude hisself: Jeff Bridges. This week on Transmissions, he joins us to discuss his new archival record, Slow Magic, 1977-1978. Listening to the record sounds like eavesdro…
01:03:01 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Transmissions :: Joe Pera (2025)
This week on Transmissions, a return guest, the great comedian, writer, actor, and podcaster Joe Pera. Joe first appeared here on Transmissions in 2020 alongside his friend and collaborator James Wal…
01:08:19 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Transmissions :: Mekons
Welcome back to Transmissions and we’re going to start this week’s show with a reading from Jennifer Kelly’s review of the new Mekons album, Horror.
“Things are very bad, but then again, they alway…
01:02:01 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Transmissions :: The Weather Station (2025)
Call it “brain fog,” call it “attention economy burnout,” call it the dregs of late capitalism: however you label it, Tamara Lindeman has been feeling it. With “Neon Signs,” our favorite song from he…
01:13:24 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Transmissions :: Lonnie Holley
Welcome back to Transmissions, your weekly conversational series from Aquarium Drunkard in partnership with the Talkhouse Podcast Network. This week on the show, a long awaited return visit from Lonn…
01:09:44 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Transmissions :: Lucy Sante
This week on Transmissions, we welcome the phenomenal writer Lucy Sante to the show to discuss her latest book, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition. Poetic, slyly funny, and exceptionall…
01:18:13 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Transmissions :: Steve Lillywhite
Welcome back to Transmissions with Jason Woodbury. This week, Steve Lillywhite, a producer who's had as pivotal a role in shaping your host's musical taste as anyone. In this conversation, Lillywhite…
01:03:32 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Transmissions :: Jazz Is Dead (Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge)
This week on Transmissions: Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the duo behind the label and concert series Jazz Is Dead.
Founded in 2017, Jazz Is Dead began releasing new work by jazz artists f…
01:05:20 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
Transmissions :: Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Welcome back to Transmissions from Aquarium Drunkard. We're kicking off our 10th season with host Jason Woodbury in conversation with Will Oldham, the man behind Bonnie “Prince” Billy, who appeared o…
01:23:11 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Transmissions :: Phosphorescent
We’ve reached the end of the road for this season—season 9 concludes with this episode, a conversation with Matthew Houck, the leader of the avant-country band Phosphorescent. In April, Phosphorescen…
01:06:29 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Transmissions :: Pat Irwin (Suss, The B52s)
Welcome to the penultimate episode of our ninth season, featuring Pat Irwin of Suss. You may remember him from last year’s Suss talk, with his bandmates Jonathan Gregg and Bob Holmes, but he’s back f…
01:08:05 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
Transmissions :: Real Estate
Welcome back to Transmissions, we’re so glad to have you tuned into this show. This week, a talk taped earlier this summer with Martin Courtney of Real Estate.
Real Estate has been releasing great …
01:00:21 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
Transmissions :: Rosali and David Nance
This week on the show, a double-header. First, Rosali Middleman, and then, her bandmate, collaborator, and the leader of Mowed Sound, David Nance. Together, they both play on Rosali’s fantastic 2024 …
01:54:21 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Transmissions :: Mitch Horowitz (2024)
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, one of our favorite return guests: Mitch Horowitz. As scholar and historian of the occult, he's established himself as one of t…
01:16:23 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Transmissions :: Frosty and Hermanos Gutiérrez
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, this week on the show, we're joined by three guests—though, not all at once.
In the first half of the show: Mark “Frosty” McNeill of dublab and the …
01:08:07 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Transmissions :: Jill Fraser
Welcome back to Transmissions—far out conversations for far out times. This week, we're joined by synthesist Jill Fraser. She's lived a remarkable life in music: mentored by Morton Subotnick, she wen…
01:02:50 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
Transmissions :: Matt Sweeney
This week on the show, we're pleased to present a conversation with Matt Sweeney. He’s lived a truly dazzling life in music. After coming up playing with the great band Chavez, he contributed to mast…
01:02:09 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
Transmissions :: Jake Xerxes Fussell
If you’ve been listening to Transmissions for a while, you've noticed how often host Jason P. Woodbury brings up “time” when talking about music. And while he's certainly apt to talk about music in s…
00:57:51 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Transmissions :: Joe Boyd
This week on Transmissions, we're sitting down with a genuine legend: Joe Boyd, author of And The Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music, out September 24 from ZE Books. On the front …
01:14:57 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Transmissions :: Amelia Courthouse
This week on Transmissions, the return of Leah Toth, aka Amelia Courthouse. She was last here on the podcast in its earlier, more feral incarnation—and by feral we mean "updated with elss regularity"…
01:03:08 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
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