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 :: Philip Selway (Radiohead)
This week on the show, a conversation with Philip Selway. You might know him best as the drummer of Radiohead, but he’s moved deeper and deeper in the last 13 years. His latest is called Strange Danc…
01:07:09 |
Wed 01 Mar 2023
Transmissions :: Lou Reed Archive
This week on Transmissions, we’re settling in for a tremendous conversation with Jason Stern and Don Fleming of the Lou Reed Archive. A decade on from his passing in 2013, Lou Reed's work remains as …
01:18:51 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Transmissions :: Mac DeMarco
We’re hanging out with Mac DeMarco this week on Transmissions. For the last decade plus, he’s been a reliable source for laid back DIY music—a post-indie sleaze crooner with a warped sense of humor a…
00:57:15 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Transmissions :: Badge Époque Ensemble
This week on Transmissions, a revelatory talk with Max Turnbull of Badge Époque Ensemble. Last year, BEE released two great projects: the remix album Clouds of Joy: Chance of Reign, a collaboration w…
00:59:52 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
Transmissions :: James Yorkston & Nina Persson
This week on Transmissions: Nina Persson and James Yorkston join host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss The Great White Sea Eagle, their low key and homey collection of folk rock.
Created in collaboration…
01:10:24 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
Transmissions :: James McNew (Yo La Tengo & Dump)
We're joined this week by James McNew of Yo La Tengo and Dump. For decades now, he’s been a prolific source of engaged independent rock music—the kind we like here at Aquarium Drunkard. As past work …
01:04:38 |
Wed 25 Jan 2023
Transmissions :: Beauty Pill
Our 2023 season is officially underway. This week on the show, Chad Clark of Beauty Pill. He and his bandmate Erin Nelson joined AD in March last year, and on January 20th, Ernest Jenning Record Co. …
01:38:57 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Transmissions :: Kid Congo Powers
Welcome to the final episode of Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions’ 2022 season. We saved a great one for the finale: Kid Congo Powers. Born Brian Tristan in La Puente, California, he eventually adopted…
00:56:58 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Transmissions :: Bedhead
Writing about the Bedhead career retrospective 1992-1998 for Pitchfork, writer Mark Richardson put it nicely: “Bedhead had no time for or interest in anything extraneous to the music…And this is what…
01:06:10 |
Wed 09 Nov 2022
Transmissions :: Sam Cohen
On Slow Fawn, Sam Cohen, a producer, songwriter, and musician known for his work with Apollo Sunshine, Yellowbirds, Kevin Morby, Danger Mouse and Karen O, creates a glowing, meditative space. Inspire…
00:57:20 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
Transmissions :: Joe Rainey
This week on the show, Joe Rainey. Hailing from Minnesota, he’s a powwow singer of the Red Lake Ojibwe tribe. He’s known for collaborations with Bon Iver, Chance the Rapper and Alan Sparhawk of Low, …
00:59:16 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Transmissions :: Clem Burke of Blondie
This week on our weekly interview podcast, a wide-ranging interview with Clem Burke of Blondie. He joins us to discuss the band’s early years, interactions with luminaries like Robert Fripp and Giorg…
01:00:15 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
Transmissions :: The Comet Is Coming
This week on the show, Danalogue (Dan Leavers), Betamax (Max Hallett) and Shabaka Hutchings, known collectively as the improvisational crew The Comet is Coming. You might know Dan and Max from Soccer…
01:02:32 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
Transmissions :: Ken Shipley (Numero Group)
Welcome to another episode of Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, we're so glad to have you here. Today on the show, Ken Shipley of Numero Group. October has arrived, but the storied Chicago label was s…
00:58:11 |
Wed 05 Oct 2022
Transmissions :: Nabil Ayers
With his debut book My Life in the Sunshine: Searching For My Father and Discovering My Family, Nabil Ayers walks a tightrope, balancing personal and familial history with stories about a life spent …
01:09:12 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Transmissions :: Medicine Singers
Welcome to another episode of Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson and guitarist Yonatan Gat join us to discuss their collaborative work as Medicine Sing…
00:56:36 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
Transmissions :: Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley
Today on Transmissions, representatives of the Cosmic Network Gloria de Oliveira and Dean Hurley join us to discuss their new album of dream pop bliss and New Ages swoon, Oceans of Time, out this wee…
01:04:00 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
Transmissions :: The Stepney Sisters on Charles Stepney
We're sitting down with Chicago sisters Eibur, Charlene, and Chanté Stepney, who join us to discuss the work of their father, the late Charles Stepney. As a producer and arranger, Stepney was at the …
01:00:23 |
Wed 07 Sep 2022
Transmissions :: Chris Forsyth
Our return guest today on Transmissions: Chris Forsyth. The Philadelphia-based guitarist and bandleader is back with a new album, Evolution Here We Come. On it his backed up by an all-star cast inclu…
01:04:24 |
Wed 31 Aug 2022
Transmissions :: Delicate Steve
Today on an all-new episode of our weekly interview podcast: Steve Marion, better known by his recording name Delicate Steve. As a sideman, Steve’s joined up with folks like Paul Simon, MacDeMarco, T…
01:18:05 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
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