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 :: Gia Margaret
It's the thick of the summer, which means your Transmissions correspondents are spending as much time in cool dark spaces as possible. One record that particularly suits the mood in our summer bunker…
01:06:20 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
Transmissions :: Marc Ribot
In “Lies and Distortion,” the opening essay of his book Unstrung: Rants And Stories Of a Noise Guitarist, Marc Ribot writes: “We seem to love broken voices in general: vocal cords eroded by whiskey a…
01:01:04 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
Transmissions :: Jared Swilley (Black Lips)
While Black Lips have matured and grown since forming in 1999, the Atlanta-based garage band haven’t "settled down." Case in point is Apocalypse Love, the group’s 10th album, released last year on Fi…
00:52:51 |
Wed 05 Jul 2023
Transmissions :: David John Morris (Red River Dialect)
This week on the show, we’re joined by London-based singer/songwriter David John Morris. Perhaps you know him for his work with folk rock band Red River Dialect, but for this talk, we mostly speak ab…
01:39:43 |
Wed 28 Jun 2023
Transmissions :: The Modern Folk
Writing about The Modern Folk’s Modern Folk One in our AD 2022 Year in Review, we called it, “A blend of field recordings, astral zones, freak outs, leisurely jams, and rustique concrète from the eve…
01:17:28 |
Wed 21 Jun 2023
Transmissions :: Bruce Licher (Independent Project)
Welcome to Transmissions. The name Bruce Licher commands respect in the underground world of independent rock. As musician and letterpress artist with Independent Project Press, he’s created art and …
00:56:22 |
Wed 14 Jun 2023
Transmissions :: Suss
This week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions: ambient country trio Suss. On their own, Suss members Jonathan Gregg, Bob Holmes, and Pat Irwin have been involved in musical projects, with artists like…
01:16:33 |
Wed 07 Jun 2023
Transmissions :: Allyson McCabe on Sinéad O'Connor
Today on the show, we’re joined by Allyson McCabe, author of the new book: Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters. McCabe is a writer, broadcaster and producer, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, BB…
01:10:07 |
Wed 31 May 2023
Transmissions :: Alex Pappademas & Joan LeMay on Steely Dan
We're pleased to welcome Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay on today's episode. Together, they have created a tremendous and deeply entertaining new book about one of Aquarium Drunkard's favorite …
01:05:19 |
Wed 24 May 2023
Transmissions :: Janaka Stucky
Our guest this week is mystic poet, writer, publisher, and performance artist Janaka Stucky, who’s been hailed as “extraordinary" and "riveting” by no less an occult authority than Jimmy Page of Led …
01:18:39 |
Wed 17 May 2023
Transmissions :: Vashti Bunyan
Today on Transmissions: Vashti Bunyan. Though her 1970 Joy Boyd-produced Just Another Diamond Day album was barely heard upon original release, its rediscovery by key members of the burgeoning freak …
01:08:38 |
Wed 10 May 2023
Transmissions :: Elkhorn
This week on Transmissions, Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner, the psychedelic folk duo Elkhorn. Their new album, On the Universe In All Directions, finds Jesse once again at his familiar 12-string aco…
01:16:48 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Transmissions :: Jana Horn
This week on Transmissions, we’re joined by writer and musician Jana Horn. Her new album The Window is the Dream is out now on No Quarter Records. Writing about it, Andy French at Raven Sings The Blu…
00:51:01 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Transmissions :: Surya Botofasina
This week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions: spiritual avant-garde jazz keyboardist Surya Botofasina. His new album is called Everyone’s Children and it was created in collaboration with previous Tr…
01:19:53 |
Wed 19 Apr 2023
Transmissions :: Eddie Chacon
In 1992, Eddie Chacon broke out as one-half of Charles & Eddie, his soul music duo with Charles Pettigrew. Their single "Would I Lie to You?” was a major international hit. Chacon was just a kid grow…
01:07:39 |
Wed 12 Apr 2023
Transmissions :: Adrian Quesada (Black Pumas)
Of all the ways to discover a song, there are few more inviting and experiential than driving down a desert highway and hearing something come in over the radio—a real life transmission. That was the…
00:58:35 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
Transmissions :: Sharon Van Etten
This week on Transmissions, we’re talking past selves with Sharon Van Etten, who’s recently released an anniversary edition of her landmark 2012 album Tramp. Raw, personal, and born from personal uph…
00:51:32 |
Wed 29 Mar 2023
Transmissions :: The Zombies
Today on the show—two British Invasion legends: Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of The Zombies. The band formed in the early ‘60s in St Albans, and remarkably, they are still out on the road and makin…
01:04:29 |
Wed 22 Mar 2023
Transmissions :: Andy Shauf
Today on Transmissions, we’re joined by Saskatchewan-born songwriter Andy Shauf to discuss getting sober, God, and how these big topics relate to his latest album of introspective folk pop, Norm. Fan…
00:58:16 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
Transmissions :: Dorothy Moskowitz (United States of America)
To quote album art master and AD visual guru D. Norsen: “Dorothy Moskowitz might not be a household name but was a musician on two of the headiest albums I know: 1967's Vocal And Instrumental Ragas F…
01:07:37 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
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