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Aquarium DrunkardScenesThe Aquarium Drunkard Guide to Across the Horizon What, exactly, is Across the Horizon? It could be accurately described as a podcast, a radio show, an imprint or even a genre; it’s also resulted in a host of compelling collaborations and a series…

Aquarium DrunkardScenesDungen :: Vidrig Vår On the veteran Swedish outfit's most pared down and elegant affair, Vidrig Vår showcases Dungen still operating on a psychedelic wavelength not found elsewhere.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesAsher White :: Love Aggregates Asher White goes maximalist on Love Aggregates , building heavy doses of orchestral power pop from her bedroom.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesThose Were the Days of Miracle and Wonder :: Paul Simon’s Graceland at 40 Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland exists in this weird state, an album that eternally evokes 1986, but always sounds so different from other albums of its era.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesThe Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PDT, Channel 35) Broadcasting from northeast Los Angeles — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. Subterranean nocturnes dissolve into the horizon.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesLove :: Four Sail For many, Forever Changes is where the Love story ends. Whether viewed as a retooled evolution of the band or simply that of Arthur Lee, Four Sail is an essential part of the Love discography.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesTransmissions :: Matt Baldwin This week on the show, guitarist and psychotherapist Matt Baldwin, who is here to teach you How To Play Guitar. OK, not exactly.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesNeil Young and the Chrome Hearts :: Second Song At 80, Neil Young remains gloriously unfinished. Second Song , his latest with the Chrome Hearts, is a weathered, luminous meditation on memory, mortality, love, and the strange passage of time.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesÍndio da Cuíca :: Zing Zing At 70, Brazilian percussionist Índio da Cuíca reinvented himself as one of the country’s strangest musical voices.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesHUG :: HUG Hug is music for the small hours, when the world comes in and out of focus, a record that drifts through the mind’s open windows, carrying with it the sublime and resonant hush of a world at peace in…

Aquarium DrunkardScenesMaddy Prior & June Tabor’s Silly Sisters at 50 Maddy Prior and June Tabor’s Silly Sisters is a magical hinge album, a meeting of two transcendent voices and a jolly band of British folk masters.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesRadio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: September 2026 Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad…

Aquarium DrunkardScenesBandcamping :: Autumn 2026 Are things feeling autumnal at long last? Not quite. But maybe this selection of recommended sounds, old and new, can help usher in the cooler, crisper season.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesNigeria 80: The Explosive Sound World of 1980s Nigeria The ’70s didn’t end. They just got more elastic. Strut’s Nigeria 80 catches Nigerian popular music in that beautiful, unruly stretch between Afrobeat’s explosion and whatever came next—juju, funk…

Aquarium DrunkardScenesThe Lagniappe Sessions :: Instrumentals (2016-2026) Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions have been rolling along at a steady pace since 2011, bringing together a global lineup of artists to offer up cover versions of a few of their favorite tunes.

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About

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.