Weekly interviews with musicians, artists, authors, and filmmakers presented by Aquarium Drunkard.
We’ve reached the end of the road for this season—season 9 concludes with this episode, a conversation with Matthew Houck,... more
Welcome to the penultimate episode of our ninth season, featuring Pat Irwin of Suss. You may remember him from last... more
Welcome back to Transmissions, we’re so glad to have you tuned into this show. This week, a talk taped earlier... more
This week on the show, a double-header. First, Rosali Middleman, and then, her bandmate, collaborator, and the leader of Mowed... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, one of our favorite return guests: Mitch Horowitz. As... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, this week on the show, we're joined by three guests—though, not all at once. In... more
Welcome back to Transmissions—far out conversations for far out times. This week, we're joined by synthesist Jill Fraser. She's lived... more
This week on the show, we're pleased to present a conversation with Matt Sweeney. He’s lived a truly dazzling life... more
If you’ve been listening to Transmissions for a while, you've noticed how often host Jason P. Woodbury brings up “time”... more
This week on Transmissions, we're sitting down with a genuine legend: Joe Boyd, author of And The Roots of Rhythm... more
This week on Transmissions, the return of Leah Toth, aka Amelia Courthouse. She was last here on the podcast in... more
From early mystic folk inclinations to more fried and psychedelic work, Ben Chasny's Six Organs of Admittance project has never... more
Welcome back to Transmissions, our weekly conversational offering. On today's show? Nashville’s own Rich Ruth. Opening his review of Ruth’s latest,... more
This week, we have an exceedingly rare interview with Jason Martin, of California dream pop band Starflyer 59. Fermented in... more
This week on Transmissions, return guest Yasmin Williams. On October 4th, she releases Acadia via Nonesuch Records. It's her long... more
Sometimes, background music moves to the foreground. That’s the case with today’s guests, guitarist Zac Sokolow, bassist Jake Faulkner, and... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, our weekly conversation podcast. This week on the show, we’re joined by Brian and... more
This week on a far-ranging episode of Transmissions: guitarist, folklorist, and all-around-top-notch thinker Daniel Bachman. A songwriter and composer from Fredericksburg,... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the program, we are pleased to welcome guest host Zara Hedderman... more
This week, we welcome one of our favorite musicians to the show: Mark Lightcap of Acetone and the Dick Slessig... more
There are heavy hitters, and then there's The Dirty Three. A trio comprising violinist Warren Ellis, guitarist Mick Turner, and... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, Joe Pernice of The Pernice Brothers, Scud Mountain Boys,... more
This week on Transmissions, guitarist Phil Manzanera, who joins us to discuss his latest project, a memoir called Revolución to... more
Near the start of his recently released book World Within a Song, Jeff Tweedy admits there’s probably some parallel timeline... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, our weekly series of illuminating interviews and contextual conversations. This week on the show,... more
Incoming transmission. On this episode of our weekly podcast, singer/songwriter Leyla McCalla joins us to discuss the new sonic terrain... more
Welcome to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, direct from his desert studio on the US/Mexico border south... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, we’re sitting down with Damon McMahon, best known as... more
Hauntology. Perhaps the phrase alone is enough to convince you we've wandered into the realm of pretension. But we've got... more
Though he’s known for his fiery, raging performances with groups like Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, and Shabaka... more
Hello, welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. On Saturday, April 20th, Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions returned to the esoteric grounds of the... more
This week on Transmissions: Camae Ayewa, better known as Moor Mother. As one-half of the Black Quantum Futurism collective, a... more
This week on Transmissions, author, producer, archivist, and musician Pat Thomas. In the late '80s, he helped take the Paisley... more
This week on Transmissions, Aquarium Drunkard founder Justin Gage joins host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss big changes coming to... more
Incoming transmission from Roger Eno. This week on the show, he joins us for a freewheeling, friendly chat about art,... more
This week we're welcoming Elizabeth Nelson of The Paranoid Style to the show for a conversation about music, writing, ZZ... more
This week on the show, we’re so pleased to welcome John Lurie. Perhaps you know him from his work... more
This week on the show, a conversation with pianist, composer, bandleader, and writer, Vijay Iyer. He’s been at it since... more
This week on the show: a conversation with Laetitia Sadier. As the main vocalist of Stereolab, her spacey voice shines... more
Incoming transmission from Hopeton Overton Brown, better known as Scientist. As a protege of dub pioneer King Tubby, Scientist represents... more
For the last decade-and-a-half, Ty Segall has reliably cranked out records that show off his range, ping-ponging from scuzzed out... more
This week on the show, return guests Jason Stern and Don Fleming of the Lou Reed Archive join us to... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions with Jason P. Woodbury. We're kicking off our 2024 season with two very special... more
Welcome back to Transmissions. This week on the show, which brings our 2023 season to a close, we are joined... more
This week on the show, Transmissions host Jason P. Woodbury joins Penelope Spheeris, director of The Decline of Western Civilization... more
This week on Transmissions: Conner Habib. He's the author of the Pen/Faulkner award longlisted horror novel, Hawk Mountain, and the... more
Make yourself comfortable and relax, on this all-new episode of Transmissions, we’re focusing on the fantastic tunes crafted by John... more
Welcome back to Transmissions. This week on the program, we’re joined by electronic musician Moby and Lindsay Hicks. Together, they... more
You know Buck from Big Thief and his solo albums, like this year’s Haunted Mountain. Full of near-death experiences and... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. Here's hoping your autumnal drift toward Halloween is rolling along nicely. This week on... more
We were introduced to the music of Maria Elena Silva via 2021’s Eros, which featured collaborations with previous Transmissions guests... more
Welcome back to Transmissions. We're still buzzing from this last weekend, which saw a live taping of Transmissions at The... more
This is the last episode of the podcast! We start with comments from Sunburned members reflecting on the impact of... more
This week on Transmissions, we welcome returning guest Cécile Schott, aka Colleen. Her latest album, Le Jour Et La Nuit... more
This episode is about how Sunburned Hand of the Man makes their free-form music. Through the episode, we consider the... more
Welcome to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions; this week on the show, we're joined by Jarvis Taveniere of Woods. You know his... more
We open with our focus on the role that music has played in the band members’ individual lives and how... more
This week on the show, we’re joined by Sam Shepherd, AKA Floating Points. His discography is full of beautiful and strange... more
We hear about the personal impact of the band’s non-stop touring and the eventual burnout that ground things to a... more
Welcome back, thanks for being here with us. Emil Amos of the Drifter's Sympathy podcast is with us today on Transmissions.... more
At this point in our story, Sunburned Hand of the Man morphs into a many-headed hydra with varying manifestations in... more
Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, so glad to have you here once again. Our guest this week is Will... more
We learn that, after jamming namelessly for a year and a half, the band finally started using the Sunburned moniker.... more
Today's guest is writer Laura Snapes. Her work has been published by the BBC, Pitchfork, and NME, and she's the... more
We rewind way back to before the band started and hear how some of the founding members first met one... more
Our guest this week is Darren Jessee, a singer/songwriter and drummer. In the '90s, he played drums in Ben Folds... more
We hear about the origins and goals of the podcast – grappling with the complexities of Sunburned’s chaotic narrative. Music... more
Back in 2022, songwriter Lincoln Barr got in touch, writing a personal note in which he expressed an appreciation for... more
Sunburned Hand of the Man is a long-running, free-form band from Massachusetts. They record everything, and their discography has over... more
Hataaliinez Wheeler grew up in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation. And though he’s just recently released... more
Welcome back to another episode of Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, so glad to have you with us. A major inspiration for us... more
It's the thick of the summer, which means your Transmissions correspondents are spending as much time in cool dark spaces... more
In “Lies and Distortion,” the opening essay of his book Unstrung: Rants And Stories Of a Noise Guitarist, Marc Ribot writes:... more
While Black Lips have matured and grown since forming in 1999, the Atlanta-based garage band haven’t "settled down." Case in... more
This week on the show, we’re joined by London-based singer/songwriter David John Morris. Perhaps you know him for his work... more
Writing about The Modern Folk’s Modern Folk One in our AD 2022 Year in Review, we called it, “A blend... more
Welcome to Transmissions. The name Bruce Licher commands respect in the underground world of independent rock. As musician and letterpress... more
This week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions: ambient country trio Suss. On their own, Suss members Jonathan Gregg, Bob Holmes, and... more
Today on the show, we’re joined by Allyson McCabe, author of the new book: Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters. McCabe is... more
We're pleased to welcome Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay on today's episode. Together, they have created a tremendous and... more
This week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions: ambient country trio Suss. On their own, Suss members Jonathan Gregg, Bob Holmes, and Pat Irwin... more