The Kate Bush Christmas Special feat. Peter Gabriel (1979) aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/21/t... Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).

Fripp & Eno... Evening Star at 50 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f... The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.

The Kate Bush Christmas Special feat. Peter Gabriel (1979) aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/12/21/t... Amongst the plethora of classic televised Christmas specials are lesser-known outliers that haven’t become ubiquitous holiday viewing. Case in point: The Kate Bush Christmas Special (1979).

Fripp & Eno... Evening Star at 50 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f... The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.

John Zorn :: A Dreamers Christmas aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/12/16/j... When Zorn’s eclectic combo applied their considerable skills to classic holiday fare in 2011, they managed to make one of the greatest and grooviest Christmas albums of all time.

Nana Vasconcelos and Collin Walcott - 1980-03-21, Public Theatre, New York, NY youtu.be/UEgybSLIheA?...

Grateful for the opportunity to write about 50 years of Fripp & Eno's EVENING STAR for the wayward travelers at @aquariumdrunkard.com. 🙏 It's that time of year. 💫 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f...

Fripp & Eno :: Evening Star aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/f... The solstice has arrived and we have entered “Evening Star weather,” the second collaborative album from pioneering English musicians Brian Eno and Robert Fripp, released in December of 1975.

Dave Palmer Trio – Happy Holidays! :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/22/d... We caught up with with Palmer about the making of Happy Holidays!, his favorite Christmas albums, jazz artists he’s been digging, and the Philadelphia music scene.

🎵bless'a my spirit🎵

Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Unsanctioned Soundtrack (1977) aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e... It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.

West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w... With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.

The 10 best music blogs of 2025: Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus, and more. Real human curation that beats Spotify's algorithm every time. buff.ly/XKBZc2V

Dollar Diamonds :: Holiday Edition aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/d... Sadly, the sled has sailed for $1 Xmas albums. For all you non-believers, here’s this month’s Dollar Diamonds that are not Christmas albums, but “sound” like Christmas albums (if you don’t think about it too much).

West Indies Christmas (A Mixtape) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/18/w... With the expansion of record disto during the 1960s, Christmas music experienced a notable regional surge. The following twenty track all vinyl mixtape covers most of that time period, from early 60s through late 70s.

Those are fantastic....dive in

Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape, Vol. 1 & 2 aquariumdrunkard.com/2021/12/20/c... ... Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December.

Aquarium Drunkard Book Club :: Chapter 36 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/17/a... Welcome back to the stacks. It’s Aquarium Drunkard’s Book Club, our monthly gathering of recent (or not so recent) recommended reading.

Gene Ammons :: Nice an’ Cool (1961) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g... Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.

Eberhard Weber on ECM: Primary Colours aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/15/e... ECM may exist without Eberhard Weber, but it wouldn’t be ECM as we know it. From his 1973 debut through decades of collaboration, it’s a body of work that rewards exploration. Here’s one path among many.

The latest installment of one of my favorite AD regulars, courtesy of Eric Hehr (currently on a mean tear!).

A John Waters Christmas (2004) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/a... Christmas provides the perfect setting for Waters to juxtapose with his subversive authorship: taking something cheerful, domestic, and sentimental and gleefully deforming it into tawdry anarchy.

Gene Ammons :: Nice an’ Cool (1961) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/16/g... Midnite jazz. Nice ‘an Cool is nothing if not a “mood album,” the overall unity of the quartet eclipsing any one section of the arrangement.

Aquarium Drunkard Presents Modern Nature at Gold Diggers in East Hollywood December 17 & 18 ~~~~ Brigid Dawson and Rebecca Schiffman support. dice.fm/event/avdy3d...

Tumble down the Eberhard Weber + ECM rabbit hole with me over at AD.

Eberhard Weber on ECM: Primary Colours aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/15/e... ECM may exist without Eberhard Weber, but it wouldn’t be ECM as we know it. From his 1973 debut through decades of collaboration, it’s a body of work that rewards exploration. Here’s one path among many.

The Gospel Of Fahey’s Christmas Soli aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/11/30/t... ... smack dab in the middle of John Fahey’s first decade shifting around the tectonic plates of traditional music came The New Possibility.

John Zorn :: A Dreamers Christmas aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/12/16/j... When Zorn’s eclectic combo applied their considerable skills to classic holiday fare in 2011, they managed to make one of the greatest and grooviest Christmas albums of all time.

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a... Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden, and now this cherished favorite right on its heels. Just bought a subscription as a holiday present to…me!🎄

The Blue Nile :: Hats aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/11/t... A mosaic of romance and sorrow, Hats evokes a liminal metropolis bathed in the amber glow of sodium-vapor street lamps, where lonely souls wander down moonlit alleyways in search of something that has already left them long ago.

New @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions: Andrew Horton & I welcome @themikeayers.bsky.social, author of ⁠Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the ’90s Jam Band Explosion, on to talk all things jam. Perhaps the only time you'll hear us discuss Blues Traveler & Sonic Youth in the same episode!

Like many of you, I subscribe to a variety of monthly services & media outlets. Aquarium Drunkard is definitely one of those outlets. I can say without reservation that they are worth every penny. Please consider subscribing to them and their deeply knowledgeable and passionate approach. ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a... Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

And the @aquariumdrunkard.com album of the year goes to … just kidding we don’t do that kind of thing. Our year end list is a massive unranked blob of great music, just as the good lord intended. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

I got through listening to everything on @aquariumdrunkard.com’s midyear list like a month ago. Anyway, digging into this. See you in like April.

So much fantastic music!

Some year-end lists congratulate you for having liked all the right things this year. The list @aquariumdrunkard.com buries you alive like an avalanche.

Dive in and discover…

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a... Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

Coming soon . . .

World Standard :: Human Circle of Memory aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/05/w... While this year marked the fortieth anniversary of the avant-pop debut World Standard, musician Soichiro Suzuki returns with a brand new record Komorevia under the long-running moniker.

John Coltrane Quartet in full flight.

Milton Nascimento :: Maria Maria (1976) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/04/m... Nascimento often brought forth folkloric Brazilians genres like toada, lundu, moda de viola, and even some Medieval revivalism. Maria Maria is a highlight among those explosions of ancestral rhythms.

Milton Nascimento :: Maria Maria (1976) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/04/m... Nascimento often brought forth folkloric Brazilians genres like toada, lundu, moda de viola, and even some Medieval revivalism. Maria Maria is a highlight among those explosions of ancestral rhythms.

UNKLE - Rabbit In Your Headlights (Feat. Thom Yorke) youtu.be/kEqGdGAgAjw?...

Yo La Tengo :: Electr-O-Pura at 30 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/03/y... Electr-O-Pura doesn’t invite lofty historicizing. Sandwiched between two of their most important records, it feels like business as usual—and that’s why it’s so good 30 years on....

Not gonna say this is their only good album but it's definitely the only one I still listen to.

Steve Wynn is on @aquariumdrunkard.com Transmissions today to talk about the 40th anniversary of The Dream Syndicate's Medicine Show, early tours with R.E.M. & U2, record store lore, & more. I adore talking with this dude, listen wherever you get podcasts via @talkhouse.bsky.social.

My favorite YLT record