Podcast Episodes

Transmissions :: DM Hotep (Sun Ra Arkestra)

Season 11 Episode 10

Though he departed this earthly realm in 1993, Afrofuturist and free jazz icon Sun Ra’s cosmic tones continue to echo through the spaceways. A composer, poet, and some might even say a prophet, Ra se…

Published on 8 hours ago

Transmissions :: Emmylou Harris

Season 11 Episode 9

Welcome back to Transmissions, a weekly interview podcast created and curated by Los Angeles online music magazine Aquarium Drunkard. This week on the show, host Jason P. Woodbury speaks with a livin…

Published on 1 week ago

Transmissions :: Pam Grossman

Season 11 Episode 8

Welcome back to Transmissions, a weekly podcast series from Aquarium Drunkard. This week on the show: Pam Grossman, host of The Witch Wave podcast and author of a new book, Magic Maker: The Enchanted…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Preview: Fela Kuti: Fear No Man

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In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do?

Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed?

In Fe…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Transmissions :: The Cosmic Tones Research Trio

Season 11 Episode 7

This week on the show, the Portland-based group of Roman Norfleet, Harlan Silverman, and Kennedy Verrett, aka The Cosmic Tones Research Trio. 

“Cosmic” is a term that has, thanks to critics and write…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Transmissions :: The Autumn Defense

Season 11 Episode 6

This week on Transmissions, we’re toasting harvest season with John Stirratt and Pat Sansone of The Autumn Defense, who release their first album in a decade this week. It’s called Here and Nowhere, …

Published on 4 weeks ago

Transmissions :: Dan Wriggins (Friendship)

Season 11 Episode 5

Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, Dan Wriggins of the Philly band Friendship. Earlier this year, the band released its fifth album, Caveman Wakes Up. Fans of the…

Published on 1 month ago

Transmissions :: Joan Shelley (2025)

Season 11 Episode 4

Welcome to Transmissions. This week, singer/songwriter Joan Shelley. Her haunted folk songs and crystal clear voice have long made her a favorite of the Aquarium Drunkard crew. Writing about her las…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Transmissions :: Jens Lekman

Season 11 Episode 3

This week on the show, Jason P. Woodbury speaks with Swedish songwriter Jens Lekman. Woodbury has been listening to Jens for just about 20 years—introduced by the 2005 compilation, Oh You're So Silen…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Transmissions :: Marissa Nadler

Season 11 Episode 2

Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. Our guest this week is Marissa Nadler. Last month, she released her 10th album, New Radiations, via Sacred Bones Records. 

Like much of her work, New …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago