Today for the launch of the Public Broadcast interview series, I spoke with @seanonolennon.bsky.social about his collaborative efforts with Les Claypool, the sonic influence of @yokoono.bsky.social & John Zorn, the question of AI consciousness, & other matters: publicrecord.online/post/94c8d5d...

SML is currently the most thrilling and imaginative band in experimental and improvised music. Set to release a new live album this month, I was excited to interview all five SMLers for @aquariumdrunkard.com at a fascinating moment in the band's trajectory aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/01/s...

Majordomo Justin Gage celebrates AD's 21st anniversary by highlighting the site's long-running series and major editorial milestones. It's a thrill for me to be an AD contributor, but it's still the place I go to discover new music and read the best in music writing for nearly 21 years

I was a huge fan of @aquariumdrunkard.com long before I wrote for the site. Let's raise a glass to AD's 21st birthday and Justin Gage's commitment to creating a space where deep listening & curation are prized above all else. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/05/30/y...

Everyone knows the tragic story behind Gin Blossoms' New Miserable Experience & the loss of Doug Hopkins, but here @edmasley.bsky.social digs into the complicated story of the band's follow up, the fantastic Congratulations I'm Sorry, which turns 30 this year. www.azcentral.com/story/entert...

I have a lot of favorite comic illustrators, but it's pretty hard to beat the great Barry Windsor-Smith, who turns 77 today. Happy birthday, BWS!

Happy birthday to Bob Dylan—chronicler of endless love & endless theft. I’ve been tinkering with this piece for a decade & a half, my exploration of an (apocryphal?) legend of Bob encountering to Christ in an Arizona hotel room that comes down to truth & myth, & how we never fully untangle the two.

Stix Hooper might be the most sampled drummer of all-time. Today at @aquariumdrunkard.com, I spoke with him about his new album, transcendent jams with The Crusaders, and one ingredient that should be in every pot of gumbo.

I always choke up when Rickie Lee Jones sings "Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?" in her 1989 song "Flying Cowboys" (produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan). youtu.be/q7Gs1mDFuEM?...

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Me and my wife getting ready to drive to Phoenix:

We are screening The Arrival & Welcome Space Brothers, the hard-to-believe but true story of the Unarius Academy of Science on June 20th at Hello Lincoln in downtown Phoenix. Join us and director Jodi Wille & the Unarians. Tickets are buy one get one for the first week!

I didn't know Brian well, but I love his Judee Sill film Lost Angel, & my conversation with him & co-director Andy Brown on Chris Slusarenko's @revpermovie.bsky.social podcast is one of my favorite tapings ever: shows.acast.com/revolutionsp... Sending love and consolation to his family.

Deep respect to one of the GOATs William Gibson but as Sun Ra & June Tyson said: “It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?”

If you're sorting through the UFO files & need some seasoned perspective, @kenlayne.bsky.social of Desert Oracle has you covered, as per usual. www.desertoracle.com/episode-262-...

A little late to it but the latests @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social album is a killer. It’s the desertified Steely Dan album about UFOs etc. I never knew I needed. Also, that cover is extremely fuckin’ dope.

It's our Bandcamp Picks of the Week, featuring longstanding music writer @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social's latest cornucopia of cosmic country, JASON P. WOODBURY AND THE NIGHT BIRD SINGING QUARTET, and Cashier's fuzzy, deeply-felt EP, THE WEIGHT. Read about both and then check them out on @bandcamp.com!

I Love Mystery :: Hiss Golden Messenger on the Hard-Earned Optimism of I’m People aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/05/08/i... We caught up with Taylor to discuss the recording, the influence of artists like Curtis Mayfield and Sinéad O’Connor, and the golden age of paranormal AM radio.

Today at @aquariumdrunkard.com, I spoke with MC Taylor about the new Hiss Golden Messenger LP "I'm People," Coast to Coast AM (Art Bell-era only) & Sinead O'Connor's out of print roots reggae classic Throw Down Your Arms. Available only for AD subscribers: aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/05/08/i...

Alice Coltrane, Felix Cavalieri, Laura Nyro at a gathering for Swami Satchidananda

Top 15 shows ever, unranked & gut-based: Northern Exposure Twin Peaks X-Files Columbo Star Trek Space Ghost Twilight Zone Atlanta 30 Rock Batman: The Animated Series Sunday Night/Night Music Fishing With John Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Battlestar Galactica (2004) Freaks & Geeks

Looking to score some folk-rock this #BandcampFriday? Here's my latest record. SPIN hailed the way it blends "muscular mysticism with sweeping, faintly sun-bleached grandeur," & @newnoisemagazine.bsky.social likened it to MMJ & Emitt Rhodes. alwayshappeningrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jason-...

The Blue Cat, a one page comic from one year ago

#NowPlaying on Cosmic Church @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com on @campradio.bsky.social @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social - All Motion Aglow via Always Happening Records alwayshappeningrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jason-... listen.camp

Best krautrock jam of 2026. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/17/l...

This first single rips.

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

As a person who just finished watching all nine seasons of MONK, I thank @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social for his Doom & Gloom shoutout on this week's Best Show w/ Tom Scharpling. foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the...

For Public Record, I interviewed Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO: "[A]s long as no crazy people start detonating atomic weapons in the meantime, we can straighten things out and make it bigger and better. There’s a chance for more unity now." publicrecord.online/2026/04/07/m...

First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. Photo: NASA

I wrote about the two albums Medeski Martin & Wood released in 2000: the dazzling live acoustic trio record Tonic, just reissued on vinyl, and the haunted weirdness of The Dropper, the band's best studio album. A high water mark year for MMW! aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/07/m...

Billy Corgan's ability to rile people up online is genuinely impressive, but no matter how much he annoys me, there are dozens of songs in his catalog I'd put up against pretty much anyone's. youtu.be/2nm4xv3firw?...

I wrote about the ever present nowness of Big Ears 2026, “deep taste,” and the unholy cold cheese pizza known as “Ohio Valley style.”

Pope Leo: "We cannot remain silent in the face of ‌the ⁠suffering of so many people, the defenceless victims of these conflicts. What hurts them hurts the ​whole of ​humanity."

Put on your Rust-o-Vision glasses, Neil freaks … we’re going deep into the Shakey-verse one more time. It’s ALL ONE SONG — SEASON TWO!!!?? www.talkhouse.com/all-one-song...

This is one of those things where if you don’t know anything about Bob Dylan you go “yeah fine whatever”, and if you know a little about Bob Dylan you go “how could Bob Dylan do this?” and if you know a lot about Bob Dylan you go “yeah fine whatever”

#nowplaying🎧 Thurston Moore & Kramer featured on @aquariumdrunkard.com’s Transmissions podcast ( @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social / @tylerwilcox.bsky.social ) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The final aquarium drunkard big ears transmissions 2026 morning broadcast — Fred Thomas, @reclinernotes.bsky.social, William Tyler, Yasmin Williams. Great fun, though @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social might be banned from Knoxville for his controversial pizza takes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVpU...

Just started watching X-Files again. Holds up pretty well so far...bar the slow motion effects. 🙏🙏

and uhhh burying the lede somewhat, @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social and I will be at BIG EARS in Knoxville this week, co-hosting an Aquarium Drunkard morning show with all your favorites. Stay tuned!

Here I am talking about X-Files, '90s alien-focused pop culture, and Sheryl Crow's "Maybe Angels" for One Great Thing from @talkhouse.bsky.social: mailchi.mp/thetalkhouse...

Jason P. Woodbury - & the Night Bird Singing Quartet #firstrecordoftheday @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social

Dad upon hearing Weezer’s Blue Album: “could these guys rip The Cars off any harder?”

In next week’s #OneGreatThing, @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social tells us how a Sheryl Crow song about aliens inspires a track on his new record. Sign up now to read about it on Monday morning: mailchi.mp/thetalkhouse...

Happy birthday Lee "Scratch" Perry.