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 :: Matt Marble on Arthur Russell (Live at PRS)
Welcome back to Transmissions. We're still buzzing from this last weekend, which saw a live taping of Transmissions at The Philosophical Research Society, the Los Angeles campus founded in 1934 by es…
01:12:59 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man: Time Goes Way Back
This is the last episode of the podcast! We start with comments from Sunburned members reflecting on the impact of press coverage and ensuing exposure on the band. This shifts to general comments abo…
01:22:36 |
Mon 02 Oct 2023
Transmissions :: Colleen
This week on Transmissions, we welcome returning guest Cécile Schott, aka Colleen. Her latest album, Le Jour Et La Nuit Du Réel—the day and night of reality—was tracked using a minimalistic setup, a …
01:12:29 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 7: Flex
This episode is about how Sunburned Hand of the Man makes their free-form music. Through the episode, we consider the semantics of improvisation and practice in the context of this free form entity. …
01:19:07 |
Mon 25 Sep 2023
Transmissions :: Jarvis Taveniere (Woods)
Welcome to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions; this week on the show, we're joined by Jarvis Taveniere of Woods. You know his long running Woods band with Jeremy Earl of course—and Woodsist, their recor…
01:04:25 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 6: Heavy Rescue
We open with our focus on the role that music has played in the band members’ individual lives and how a shared love of music brought them all together. This morphs into a consideration of the band’s…
01:07:30 |
Mon 18 Sep 2023
Transmissions :: Floating Points
This week on the show, we’re joined by Sam Shepherd, AKA Floating Points. His discography is full of beautiful and strange electronic music—bubbling Buchalas, skittering beats, washes of synthesized …
00:55:35 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 5: Loft at Sea
We hear about the personal impact of the band’s non-stop touring and the eventual burnout that ground things to a halt. Moloney and Thomas then describe how this was followed by several “wilderness y…
01:08:39 |
Mon 11 Sep 2023
Tranmissions :: Emil Amos (Drifter's Sympathy)
Welcome back, thanks for being here with us. Emil Amos of the Drifter's Sympathy podcast is with us today on Transmissions. Perhaps you know his work with OM, Grails, Holy Sons, or the records he rel…
00:55:48 |
Wed 06 Sep 2023
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 4: Tent City Roller
At this point in our story, Sunburned Hand of the Man morphs into a many-headed hydra with varying manifestations in the loft and on each tour. To get through this vague period of 5-8 years, we focus…
01:06:00 |
Mon 04 Sep 2023
Transmissions :: Will Sheff (Okkervil River)
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, so glad to have you here once again. Our guest this week is Will Sheff, known for his solo work and years with the indie rock band Okkervil River. In …
01:16:41 |
Wed 30 Aug 2023
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 3: Leaving the Nest
We learn that, after jamming namelessly for a year and a half, the band finally started using the Sunburned moniker. Then we tune in to learn about their earliest excursions playing outside the Charl…
00:55:46 |
Mon 28 Aug 2023
Transmissions :: Laura Snapes
Today's guest is writer Laura Snapes. Her work has been published by the BBC, Pitchfork, and NME, and she's the deputy music editor of The Guardian. We’ve been aiming to have her for Transmissions fo…
01:19:26 |
Wed 23 Aug 2023
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 2: Loveletter to Complicated Dreams
We rewind way back to before the band started and hear how some of the founding members first met one another. We learn how Sunburned’s precursor band – Shit Spangled Banner – formed, released a tape…
00:58:26 |
Mon 21 Aug 2023
Transmissions :: Darren Jessee
Our guest this week is Darren Jessee, a singer/songwriter and drummer. In the '90s, he played drums in Ben Folds Five, and he’s worked with a number of previous Transmissions guests, including Sharon…
01:02:46 |
Wed 16 Aug 2023
Sunburned Hand of the Man Episode 1: Headdress
We hear about the origins and goals of the podcast – grappling with the complexities of Sunburned’s chaotic narrative. Music journalist Allison Hussey joins us to provide an outsider’s perspective of…
00:58:33 |
Mon 14 Aug 2023
Transmissions :: Lincoln Barr
Back in 2022, songwriter Lincoln Barr got in touch, writing a personal note in which he expressed an appreciation for what we do here at Aquarium Drunkard. "Listening to the topics that come up in yo…
01:10:32 |
Wed 09 Aug 2023
No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man
Sunburned Hand of the Man is a long-running, free-form band from Massachusetts. They record everything, and their discography has over 200 entries. Membership is fluid, at times determined simply by …
00:03:00 |
Mon 07 Aug 2023
Transmissions :: Hataałii
Hataaliinez Wheeler grew up in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation. And though he’s just recently released his Dangerbird Records debut, Singing Into Darkness, he’s spent the last…
01:06:10 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
Transmissions :: Andy Zax on Mort Garson's Journey to the Moon
Welcome back to another episode of Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, so glad to have you with us. A major inspiration for us in the podcast zone is media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, host of the Team Hu…
01:39:57 |
Wed 26 Jul 2023
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