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"My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary & proper as it is intellectually suspect." —Ellen Willis Aquarium Drunkard & WASTOIDS from Hello Merch | My music project is called JPW.
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Eli Winter :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/05/22/e...

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Kaleb is ready. He's willing. What's it gonna take?

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My goal with Transmissions this season has been to foster conversations you might *only* hear in our feed, and this episode exemplifies that. Two and a half hours of indie rock history, songwriting approaches, and personal lore with detours into metaphysics and Santana's Abraxas.

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Today on @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions, a mega-sized talk with Damien Jurado. We discuss his relationships with collaborators like Richard Swift & @pedrothelion.bsky.social, his work for @subpop.bsky.social & Secretly Canadian, & how witnessing an on-air hostage crisis inspired his songs.

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since the fascist in charge is ranting against Springsteen, today is a good day to listen to Nebraska. He wrote this after hearing Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop", one of my favorite songs ever. Bruce's cover of "Dream Baby Dream" is what got me to listen to him www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpvX...

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RIP Joe Don Baker. Watch CHARLEY VARRICK or THE OUTFIT tonight and have a Jim Beam & Pepto for a real one.

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Good morning

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I feel no big need to defend the NYT or anything, it's just that someone asked a very reasonable question: in an age when artists aren't compensated for much, is being secondhand fair to them? And the writer responded thoughtfully (not, at least in my reading to destabilize).

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Bennie Maupin :: The Jewel In The Lotus aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/05/15/bennie-maupin-the-jewel-in-the-lotus Out of print on vinyl since 1977, Bennie Maupin’s solo debut, The Jewel in the Lotus, makes its welcome return to the format this month via ECM’s Luminessence reissue series.

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The ethicist responds "yes, it's ethical," but asking people to actually read things instead of grandstanding for cout on *Bluesky* of all places is too much.

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Happy birthday Brian Eno. When I need to really open up my heart, I listen to this one, and it never fails. youtu.be/OlaTeXX3uH8?...

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Following yesterday's review of Dylan at the Outlaw Music Fest, here's a 2011 essay I wrote about the (mythic?) time Jesus visited Bob Dylan in a Tucson hotel room.

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This is one of my favorite talks. How to stay human with @deerhoof.bsky.social.

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“I may be here forever/I may not be here at all.” @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social went to see Bob Dylan at the Outlaw Festival in Phoenix, and got a lot of surprises (including a Pogues cover!). Excellent review now live at @mojomagazine.bsky.social www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...

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I wrote about the outlaw Bob Dylan, who “may be here forever" or "may not be here at all.”

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This week on @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions, a talk about the Frankenstein'd glory of @deerhoof.bsky.social's art rock gem Noble and Godlike in Ruin (@joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social)—plus, a side quest into glories of Star Trek. Available at AD & wherever you get podcasts: pod.link/transmissions

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How many times is too many times to listen to Genesis' "Throwing It All Away," because I'm going on like 15 times since last Friday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj-_...

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Chill the glasses. Loosen your tie. For this installment of our Midnite Jazz column, we look at Billy Strayhorn’s The Peaceful Side (1963), a ghostly offering of sparse jazz standards that showcase Strayhorn as a formidable solo artist in his own right. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/05/12/b...

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Galaxy Green and the Astro-Chicks 1970 two-page teaser of an erotic sci-fi story written and drawn by Jack Kirby, lettered and inked by Mike Royer. The sample was for an unpublished tabloid-sized anthology magazine of underground-style material. comicsalliance.com/jack-kirbys-...

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