Today on @aquariumdrunkard.com: poetry, video games, and songwriting cheat codes with Dan Wriggins of Friendship. Listen wherever you get podcasts and direct at AD. @mergerecords.bsky.social @talkhouse.bsky.social

We also learned that she was a renowned cooker of beans, apparent Michael Hurley adapter, and early feminist who liked hangin out with weird people (Cheech Marin among them)! Listen, rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Lucia Berlin reads her story “My Jockey” for The Poetry Center in 1984 at the New College of California, San Francisco.

For a time shortly after the soundtrack came out I was obsessed with finding a quality recording of the version of "Blood of Eden" that's in the film (since it wasn't on the soundtrack). I think I finally tracked down a CD single that had it, which felt like a huge victory at the time.

look, i'm not really sure if music sounds better on vinyl (& not terribly interested in debating) *but* books definitely read better as mass market paperbacks.

And @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social’s transmissions ep with Joan this week is fantastic as well. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/24/t...

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

I'm so sad to learn about @kalebhorton.bsky.social's passing; he was one of my favorite writers, eagle-eyed, full of heart, and always on point. He was so good I once asked him for some general tips, and here's what he shared. It's a dimmer world without him.

Thank you @phoenixnewtimes.com for naming JPW & Dad Weed's Amassed Like a Rat King the best album of 2025 in their Best of Phoenix feature. A huge surprise and really appreciated. phoenixnewtimes.com/best-of-phoe...

I wrote a few words about what it means to open for one of Arizona's biggest indie pop exports, @theformat.com, as they return for their first full show in nearly 20 years. More at Range and Basin, my weekly newsletter.

Joan Shelley is ook een Graeberist!

This week on @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions, Joan Shelley on her remarkable LP Real Warmth, anthropologist David Graeber & her daughter's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" fascination. Listen wherever you get pods & direct at AD: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/24/t... @talkhouse.bsky.social

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In this interview, it’s revealed that Jens has never heard - or heard of - the Billy Joel song “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”. Floored by this for some reason.

This spiritual jazz version of Nick Drake couldn't be any more perfect.

#NowPlaying on Cosmic Church @iheartnoise.bsky.social for @campradio.bsky.social Coca Leaves & Pearls(@chrisforsyth.bsky.social) - Wrecked Anthem. Shout out also to @aquariumdrunkard.com @tylerwilcox.bsky.social & @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/all-on... listen.camp

It's #BandShirtDay and shirt archivist Perry Shall is backstage with Sarah Squirm to talk about her favorite band shirts & more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrDg...

We caught the Michael Shannon-led R.E.M. project in London in August (theyre awesome), and as they were doing Fables of the Reconstruction, which was produced by Joe Boyd, Shannon mentioned that Joe Boyd was somewhere in the crowd with us that night. Got goosebumps

Help Lars help Schlarb!

Autumn is on its way to the desert, so I rounded up five Britfolk gems from Pentangle, Fairport Convention, John Martyn, Joan Shelley, & Nick Drake to hasten on the fall. Plus: a vintage interview with Joe Boyd on Nick Drake's work. jasonpwoodbury.substack.com/p/a-troubled...

Cocteau Twins released their sixth studio album ‘Heaven or Las Vegas’ 35 years ago on September 17, 1990 | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @libbycudmore.bsky.social here: album.ink/CTHeavenOrLV

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Today on Transmissions: love, music, & weddings with Jens Lekman. Listen wherever via @talkhouse.bsky.social: podlink.com/transmissions Transcript & episode download direct at reader-supported @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/17/t... @secretlycndian.bsky.social

A holy sister conducting the divine rhythm of the cosmos with a mechanical fist! Her vespers must shake the very heavens, demanding a more spirited vintage from the celestial cellars. I shall ponder this sacred groove over a flagon.

I don't know where we landed on the official "song of the summer" debate but the "song of the autumn" has most certainly arrived. youtu.be/o01P-VzCU4k?...

Drum-machine driven psychedelic spirituals from an Australian Catholic nun in 1976—the latest excavation by Freedom to Spend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtV5...

You can add one new movie to the Criterion Collection. What is it? I'm torn between First Reformed (2017) & Men in Black (1997).

*all* your friends call you low rider? whatever you say man.

Obviously Bob Dylan's "Love and Theft" is *the* canonical 9-11-2001 album, but I remember going to Walmart on my lunch break from high school that terrible day to purchase P.O.D.'s "Satellite," believing it might help me process it all.

New on my Substack: I write about my appearance on @drleahpayne.bsky.social & @andrewgill.biz’s Rock That Doesn’t Roll podcast, my new talk with Marissa Nadler, & @wastoids.com’s new partnership with @spectrevision.bsky.social Radio. Read: open.substack.com/pub/jasonpwo...

Did @OzzyOsbourne invent Christian metal? Hear @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social make his case to @andrewgill and me on Rock that Doesn't Roll #RTDR! 🤘✝️

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I've admired @drleahpayne.bsky.social & @andrewgill.biz's Rock That Doesn't Roll (@prx.org) podcast since it started, so it was a special pleasure to appear on it this week & argue my case that Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne invented Christian metal. Tune in: pod.link/1703257857/e...

New @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmission: @marissanadler.bsky.social joins me to discuss the subtle sci-fi of her new @sacredbones.bsky.social record album, New Radiations, riff on the movies of Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, & @jimjarmusch.bsky.social, & dig into her relationship with heavy music.

We heard the call and we are heeding it: up for Bandcamp Friday today is "All One Song" a 4-song EP of faux-Neil instrumentals Coca Leaves & Pearls cooked up for the @aquariumdrunkard.com Neil Young podcast of the same name. A guided tour of the Ditch!: chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/all-on...

Very natural, you could say. Extremely natural, perhaps. You might even describe the causes as “super” natural.

Chris Schlarb & his label/studio/life's mission BIG EGO mean a lot to me. As a artist, collaborator & producer, he tends to be an inveterate problem solver—but in light of landlord struggles & subsequent legal matters, he could use some help. Join me in chipping in.

Many have asked me where they can hear the Coca Leaves and Pearls tunes @chrisforsyth.bsky.social & co. cut for @tylerwilcox.bsky.social's Neil Young mini-series All One Song in their entirety. As of today, the answer is: right here! chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/all-on...

Over at S.W. Lauden's great Remember The Lightning power pop blog, I contributed a list of five songs I think exemplify the genre, with some leftfield selections by Prince, Carlene Carter, and Redd Kross tossed in for good measure. rememberthelightning.substack.com/p/is-it-powe...

Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts :: Denver 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/03/n... Neil showed up in Denver to play his first show in Colorado in almost a decade—and we were there to witness it.

Perfect new theme from Colorado’s finest kosmische exotica export. Tune in!

Scribbled down some thoughts about the fantastic Neil Young / Chrome Hearts show in Denver. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/03/n...

Following our summer Neil Young mini-series, @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions is back with Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords, who joins us to discuss his new @subpop.bsky.social gem Freak Out City, explore his reggae past, & dish about one of Ian McKellen’s worst days ever.

@aquariumdrunkard.com @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social Transmissions #podcast is back with a bang with Bret McKenzieis 👏🔥🙏 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/03/t...

I've learned loads from @connerhabib.bsky.social's essential esoteric podcast Against Everyone. He just released his 300th episode with the wild & wise @grantmorrison.bsky.social. It's great! AEWCH 300: Who Are You in the Magical Apocalypse?! Link: www.patreon.com/posts/137936...

I love the appropriation of "There's a feeling I get when I look to the west" in their song "Jetty." Lots of space on this album. Reminiscent of Acetone. @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social I can see why you like it!

“What song will you sing after the end of the world? Whatever it is, make it a sacred one.” 📌 ICYMI, @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social shouts out Peter Grabriel in the latest edition of NEEDLE DROPS southwestreview.com/needle-drops...

How does a song become a prayer? As part of @southwestreview.bsky.social's Needle Drops column, I penned a few words about Peter Gabriel's "Blood of Eden" and Wim Wenders' 1991 tech noir dreamtime masterpiece Until The End of the World. southwestreview.com/needle-drops...

Man, I enjoyed this podcast series so much. I was always a bit of a periphery Neil Young fan. I liked Decade, Comes a Time, On the Beach, Ragged Glory, but where do you even go from there? The guy has such a huge body of work. There are a million reissues, even the book Shakey is like 900 pages long