Rambled a little bit about this guy for Aquarium Drunkard's third annual Dog Days roundup. Tons of great writing / recommendations in there, check it outtttt. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/04/d...
Recliner Notes
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Dog Days of Aquarium Drunkard III aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/04/d... As the days flatten into heat haze and evenings linger a little longer, we're back with Volume 3 of our annual Dog Days roundup: a stack of old favorites, forgotten treasures, new discoveries, and seasonal obsessions.
The dog days of summer are once again upon us and the @aquariumdrunkard.com crew is here with our third annual list of sultry late summer listening. There's lost country, nyabinghi rhythms, midwestern fusion, southern-fried country funk & some Walt Whitman-inspired jazz. Everything you could need.
Dog Days of Aquarium Drunkard III - Aquarium Drunkard
No season inspires ritual listening quite like late summer. As the days flatten into heat haze and evenings linger just a little longer, familiar records reveal unexpected contours. As August stretche...
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The third installment of @aquariumdrunkard.com's Dog Days summer music collection is out. I wrote about two songs which evoke different kinds of summer experiences: “Hubris Part 3” by @orenambarchi.bsky.social and Tom Petty's “House in the Woods" aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/04/d...
Dog Days of Aquarium Drunkard III - Aquarium Drunkard
No season inspires ritual listening quite like late summer. As the days flatten into heat haze and evenings linger just a little longer, familiar records reveal unexpected contours. As August stretche...
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Forgot to share this fun @reclinernotes.bsky.social post after reading it last week!
Caleb@calebjcook.bsky.social · 3d ago(Ruby Vroom revisit prompted by this piece)
This is my favorite short story of the year
Marc Masters 🌵@marcissist.bsky.social · 4d agoa friend of mine was listening to the Dead in his backyard & his neighbor said "is that the Dead?" & he said "yeah" & the neighbor said "well turn it up!" and my friend laughed and said "like Freedom Rock!" & the neighbor stared blankly at him, having unknowingly acted out an ad he'd never seen
Ornette Coleman Songbook AD Pocket Tee supply.aquariumdrunkard.com ..we made a bunch for the internal AD crew earlier this year. have some extras.
Fun to see that the cover art for the new The Strokes album recognizes my essay about Bill Callahan's song "Cowboy." reclinernotes.com/2023/04/23/c...
"Nashville is the movie that cine-dinks claim Citizen Kane is." Perfect Ellroy www.criterion.com/current/top-...
James Ellroy’s Top 10
The acclaimed crime-fiction writer selects some of his favorite films, including noir classics by Jean-Pierre Melville and Samuel Fuller.
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I was fortunate enough to catch a performance here in Asheville by the Jon Camp Band, playing on a backyard stage at dusk. Here's "Turquoise Flower." I'm a sucker for that clean Telecaster twang paired with the pedal steel.
For real, what makes you feel more focused, more energized, more aroused and shake all night in a good way for real?
For @aquariumdrunkard.com's Box Set appreciation series, I wrote about Dylan's Biograph, mostly as an excuse to uplift Dylan's song-by-song commentary, which starts a line to the World Gone Wrong liner notes, Chronicles, and The Philosophy of Modern Song aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/28/t...
The Box Set: An Appreciation, Vol. 3 - Aquarium Drunkard
The initial standard for a compact disc was 74 minutes. Legend has it the length was decided upon in order to fit all of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony onto a single disc. In terms of format, the arrival ...
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🎺ANNOUNCING🎺 Crying Laughing 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 🎭 out 09/10 on HausMo🎭 The debut album from the new Baltimore quintet explores Reich/Riley/Glass style minimalist composition in the context of wiry post-punk. two saxes, keyboard, bass, drums. music for your mind & your body Art by Jen Kirby Mastered by Angel
For @aquariumdrunkard.com's Box Set appreciation series, I wrote about Dylan's Biograph, mostly as an excuse to uplift Dylan's song-by-song commentary, which starts a line to the World Gone Wrong liner notes, Chronicles, and The Philosophy of Modern Song aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/07/28/t...
The Box Set: An Appreciation, Vol. 3 - Aquarium Drunkard
The initial standard for a compact disc was 74 minutes. Legend has it the length was decided upon in order to fit all of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony onto a single disc. In terms of format, the arrival ...
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I read this for the first time since high school. Lots of fun stories in between countless examples of show biz chicanery. One fun thing: Lorne was a real head. To plan the show, he went to the Mojave Desert and took shrooms! He hung around with producer Joe Boyd!
I saw this band (minus Marshall Allen) at 2025 Big Ears. They had recorded the album *the night before the performance.* So, as I noted in my Big Ears report, I'm very excited to hear the actual album. reclinernotes.com/2025/03/31/2...
2025 Big Ears Festival, March 27-30, 2025
At one point while waiting for a venue to open during the 2025 Big Ears Festival, a man approached the line with a sign indicating that he was selling two tickets for the rock band Heart, who would…
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jeff@jazyjef.bsky.social · 2w agoMarshall Allen • 101: An Audio Odyssey 🚀 ✨ 🪐 Produced by & feat. Jamaaladeen Tacuma; feat. Nels Cline & Immanuel Wilkins out today • Ropeadope ropeadope.bandcamp.com/album/101-an...
I wrote an essay for @popmatters.com exploring how the music of Oneohtrix Point Never, Shrunken Elvis, and BASIC creates imagined, uncanny spaces, which possess similar liminal attributes to Mall World and Backrooms. www.popmatters.com/mall-world-b...
The Mall World and Backrooms of Music » PopMatters
At first, the shock of recognition of Mall World and Backrooms music is slightly sickening, yet ultimately Proustian-ly satisfying in its uncanny familiarity.
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I wrote an essay for @popmatters.com exploring how the music of Oneohtrix Point Never, Shrunken Elvis, and BASIC creates imagined, uncanny spaces, which possess similar liminal attributes to Mall World and Backrooms. www.popmatters.com/mall-world-b...
The Mall World and Backrooms of Music » PopMatters
At first, the shock of recognition of Mall World and Backrooms music is slightly sickening, yet ultimately Proustian-ly satisfying in its uncanny familiarity.
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Guys, Neil Young's LANDING ON WATER is 40 years old today.
Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Control The Violent Side Do we talk about Landing On Water enough?! Trans has been thoroughly rehabilitated at this point, but Neil Young's further dabbling in synth-iness.....
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Last night, Pavement broke into STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. Of course Malkmus doesn't remember the words so we get the quintessential SM improvised lyrics. Pavement covering Zeppelin. Do I need to write 2000 words about this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_OB...
Pavement - Stairway to Heaven | Mosswood Meltdown 7.17.26
YouTube video by John Slater
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The new Prairiewolf album is the best to date! Cosmic reveries abound. But don't take my word for it, none other than Jonathan Lethem weighs in with an endorsement. He's the guy who made a Sandy Bull track a key part of his book Chronic City, so he should know all about "astral communion."
Tyler Wilcox@tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 3w agoThe reviews are in for ZONE POEMS, Prairiewolf's latest/greatest. 🐺 prairiewolfcf.bandcamp.com/album/zone-p...
When Ruby Vroom was blowing up in Minneapolis, pretty sure most of us here only experienced "Screenwriter's Blues" through a vicarious idea of LA. Pretty fun, then, to hear about experiencing the song as you, yourself kinda live it. Come for the insight, stay for the Jesus' stigmata water fountain!
Recliner Notes@reclinernotes.bsky.social · 3w agoSoul Coughing's song "Screenwriter's Blues" presents an opening for me to write about a few of my adventures as a wannabe screenwriter in Los Angeles in the late '90s. reclinernotes.com/2026/07/15/s...
The HBO app told me that I have "great taste" based on my saved list. Thanks for the shot in the arm, HBO!
"If you’ve got Faust in your record collection and Walter Benjamin on your bookshelf, you are probably listening to Horse Lords." Great review!
Brent S. Sirota@brentsirota.bsky.social · 3w agoI am over @aquariumdrunkard.com talking about Correggio, Mayakovsky, the Second Great Awakening and, of course, the indomitable Horse Lords.
Soul Coughing's song "Screenwriter's Blues" presents an opening for me to write about a few of my adventures as a wannabe screenwriter in Los Angeles in the late '90s. reclinernotes.com/2026/07/15/s...
“Screenwriter’s Blues” and More Tales from Late ’90s Los Angeles
One day when I was living in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles in the hazy days of 1997 or 1998, my roommate M. exploded through the door of our apartment and declared to me and our other room…
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“It is 5 A.M. and the sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us / And painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet.”
Recliner Notes@reclinernotes.bsky.social · 3w agoSoul Coughing's song "Screenwriter's Blues" presents an opening for me to write about a few of my adventures as a wannabe screenwriter in Los Angeles in the late '90s. reclinernotes.com/2026/07/15/s...