Aquarium Drunkard

It only makes sense that one of Devo's fabled first concerts was a Halloween party. Now, add in the part about how it was opening for Sun Ra and that the band had duped the radio station promoters by advertising themselves as a Bad Company cover band: quintessential de-evolution lore. A modern day rarity preserved only in physical form and absent from streaming via reissue la...

Blue Note President, Was (Not Was) bassist, and legendary producer Don Was joins us to launch the new season of Transmissions. n addition to his genre-bending work with Was (Not Was), Don has collaborated with some of the most respected artists in music history: Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones, The B-52s, Ringo Starr, Roy Orbison…the list could go on. These...

This Heat ended up being called post-punk for lack of any better options, and though their music has many of the now-familiar hallmarks of that genre -- a heavy dub influence, a fascination with the streamlined metaphysics of German kosmische bands, particularly Can, and complex, heady concepts communicated via primeval methods-- it still stands apart, with something alien an...

A deep, unhurried drift through 1970s Accra nightlife, where folk rhythms, electric organ, bright horns, and clinking glassware blur into one long, flowing current. Dr. K. Gyasi & His Noble Kings' Sikyi Highlife moves with uncommon grace—earthy, urbane, and effortlessly sublime.

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Carrboro's Verity Den move further from the shoegaze-inflected songcraft of their earlier work on a new album of long-form improvisations, drifting from limpid guitar shimmer into engulfing storms of feedback somewhere between Stars of the Lid, Bardo Pond, and the dreamiest reaches of Sonic Youth.

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