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Weekly interviews with musicians, artists, authors, and filmmakers presented by Aquarium Drunkard.

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Recent Hosts, Guests & Topics

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Jason P. Woodbury Tyler Wilcox Aquarium Drunkard

Previous Guests

Justin Gage

Justin Gage is the founder of Aquarium Drunkard, a respected media outlet dedicated to music and culture, established in 2005.

Damien Jurado

Damien Jurado is a singer-songwriter known for his haunting lo-fi folk songs and later psychedelic sound. His career began with the 2000 Sub Pop release 'Ghost of David,' and he has collaborated with the late Richard Swift, notably on the album 'Saint Bartlett.' Jurado has released numerous self-produced albums, including 'The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania,' 'Reggae Film Star,' and three albums in 2023: 'Sometimes You Hurt the Ones You Hate,' 'Motorcycle Madness,' and 'Passing The Giraffes.' His music often explores strange characters and dreamlike worlds, and he has been active in the music scene for over two decades.

Satomi Matsuzaki

Satomi Matsuzaki is the lead vocalist and bassist of the experimental rock band Deerhoof. Known for her unique vocal style and energetic stage presence, she has been a key figure in the band since its formation in 1994. Matsuzaki's contributions to Deerhoof's music blend elements of punk, pop, and avant-garde, making her an influential artist in the indie rock scene.

Greg Saunier

Greg Saunier is the drummer and co-founder of the band Deerhoof. He is recognized for his innovative drumming style and contributions to the band's eclectic sound, which incorporates various genres including noise rock and experimental music. Saunier has been instrumental in shaping Deerhoof's identity and has participated in numerous collaborations and projects outside of the band.

Dean Wareham

Dean Wareham is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the indie rock band Luna and the duo Dean & Britta, which he formed with his wife Britta Phillips. He gained prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the lead singer and guitarist of Galaxie 500, a band that became influential in the dream pop and shoegaze genres. Wareham's work is characterized by its melodic sensibility and introspective lyrics. He has collaborated with various artists and filmmakers, including director Noah Baumbach, and has been recognized for his contributions to the music scene over the decades.

Yuka Honda

Yuka Honda is a New York-based musician known for her work in the 1990s music scene, particularly as a member of the band Cibo Matto. She has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including John Zorn, David Byrne, Yoko Ono, and her husband, guitarist Nels Cline. Honda has explored experimental electronics through her Eucademix project and has released works such as the Farm Psychedelia EPs and contributions to the Across the Horizon series.

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music art culture interviews recommendations reviews playlists podcasts Damien Jurado psychedelia Richard Swift lo-fi folk Maraqopa Trilogy self-produced recordings The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania Reggae Film Star Sometimes You Hurt the Ones You Hate Motorcycle Madness Passing The Giraffes dream states static on TV channels Deerhoof Noble and Godlike in Ruin Mary Shelley Frankenstein art rock free jazz prog rock noise j-pop political songs sci-fi futurism Star Trek Dean Wareham Kramer album politics friendship mortality Gibson guitars Lou Reed Noah Baumbach Yuka Honda New York musician Cibo Matto experimental electronics collaborations Across the Horizon Farm Psychedelia EPs music underground

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0:00 1:00:23

Transmissions :: Justin Gage (2025)

May 28, 2025

Jason P. Woodbury

Justin Gage

music art culture interviews recommendations reviews playlists podcasts

We close out the 10th season of Transmissions with a special look under the hood with Justin Gage, who founded Aquarium Drunkard 20 years ago in 2005. Initially envisioned as just a place to share cultural recommendations with friends, Aquarium Drunkard blew up as the blog rush began. Suddenly, Gage found himself running a respected media outlet. 20 years later, he joins host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss how Aquarium Drunkard has stayed true to the maxim of only the good shit. In this frank back and forth, the two colleagues share how an ethos that puts music and deep engagement with it at the forefront feels like a counter-cultural endeavour in this day and age, and how they’ve managed to keep in touch with the love of art that initially inspired Aquarium Drunkard.

You can read a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠full transcript⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ of this conversation at Aquarium Drunkard, where you’ll find 20 years worth of playlists, recommendations, reviews, interviews, podcasts, essays, and more. With your support, here’s to another decade. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe at Aquarium Drunkard. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stream a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠playlist of bumper music featured on Transmissions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, as well as selections from our guests. Transmissions is a part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Talkhouse Podcast Network⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts.

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Transmissions :: Damien Jurado

May 21, 2025

Jason P. Woodbury

Damien Jurado

Damien Jurado psychedelia Richard Swift lo-fi folk Maraqopa Trilogy self-produced recordings The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania Reggae Film Star Sometimes You Hurt the Ones You Hate Motorcycle Madness Passing The Giraffes dream states static on TV channels

This week on the show, something different: an extra-sized Transmission that’s been locked in the vault for years, a two-hour talk with singer/songwriter Damien Jurado.

Way back in 2022, host Jason P. Woodbury sat down with Jurado in the recording studio at Gold-Diggers in Los Angeles for a career spanning conversation, exploring the stories behind his oracular visions, his history, and his collaborators, including the late Richard Swift. The idea was that perhaps the talk would be chopped up for a mini-series, but the project never materialized—and instead this revealing talk was locked away on a hard drive, that is until now, as the time has come to share it via Transmissions.

Woodbury been listening to Jurado’s music for about 25 years; first encountering his 2000 Sub Pop release Ghost of David, a haunted album of lo-fi folk songs. Years later, Jurado’s sound bloomed into psychedelia when he began collaborating with the late Richard Swift for 2010’s Saint Bartlett, which was followed by the Maraqopa Trilogy, a series of psychedelic epics. Jurado has been on a tear since—sharing a string of self-produced recordings that include 2021’s The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania, 2022’s Reggae Film Star, and three albums in 2023, Sometimes You Hurt the Ones You Hate, Motorcycle Madness, and Passing The Giraffes. Recently, he’s expanded the view of these albums with a series of demo collections shared also by his own label, Maraqopa Records.

Jurado’s songs are worlds meant to be lived in, full of strange characters in dream states, caught between the static on flickering TV channels, and with this episode, the penultimate, which is a fancy word for “second to last” of our 10th season, we explore those worlds with the man himself.

You can read a ⁠⁠⁠⁠full transcript⁠⁠⁠⁠ of this conversation at Aquarium Drunkard, where you’ll find 20 years worth of playlists, recommendations, reviews, interviews, podcasts, essays, and more. With your support, here’s to another decade. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe at Aquarium Drunkard. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Stream a ⁠⁠⁠⁠playlist of bumper music featured on Transmissions⁠⁠⁠⁠, as well as selections from our guests. Transmissions is a part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Talkhouse Podcast Network⁠⁠⁠⁠. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts.

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Transmissions :: Deerfhoof

May 14, 2025

Jason P. Woodbury

Satomi Matsuzaki Greg Saunier

Deerhoof Noble and Godlike in Ruin Mary Shelley Frankenstein art rock free jazz prog rock noise j-pop political songs sci-fi futurism Star Trek

On the cover of Deerhoof’s new album, Noble and Godlike in Ruin, is an image of the band’s lineup—Satomi Matsuzaki, Ed Rodriguez, John Dieterich, and Greg Saunier—collaged together into one strange visage. Given that the album’s title is drawn directly from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this cobbled together assemblage makes sense, but it also doubles as a handy metaphor for Deerhoof’s identity as a band. Together, they equal more than the sum of their parts; working together in radical co-operation, they become one art rock organism.

By the time most bands reach their third decade, they’ve settled into a groove, but Deerhoof seems custom built to resist static stasis or aesthetic complacency. Noble and Godlike in Ruin pulls from free jazz, prog rock, noise, and j-pop, resulting in a sound that is at once recognizable as Deerhoof, but nonetheless surprising, even to the band’s members themselves. Focusing in on sci-fi futurism and some of the most directly political songs of the band’s vast discography, it’s a triumphant work that illustrates what makes Deerhoof one of the most fascinating bands in all of indie rock.

This week on the show, Satomi Matsuzaki and Greg Saunier join Jason P. Woodbury for a winding discussion about the new album, the current political moment, haute cuisine, the function of art, and at the very end—some Star Trek discussion.

You can read a ⁠⁠⁠full transcript⁠⁠⁠ of this conversation at Aquarium Drunkard, where you’ll find 20 years worth of playlists, recommendations, reviews, interviews, podcasts, essays, and more. With your support, here’s to another decade. ⁠⁠⁠Subscribe at Aquarium Drunkard. ⁠⁠⁠ Stream a ⁠⁠⁠playlist of bumper music featured on Transmissions⁠⁠⁠, as well as selections from our guests. Transmissions is a part of the ⁠⁠⁠Talkhouse Podcast Network⁠⁠⁠. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts.

0:00 1:07:53

Transmissions :: Dean Wareham

May 07, 2025

Tyler Wilcox

Dean Wareham

Dean Wareham Kramer album politics friendship mortality Gibson guitars Lou Reed Noah Baumbach

Do you ever connect with an old friend and find that, despite however many years it's been, you pick up right where you left off, as if no time has passed at all? That’s sort of what happened between today’s guest, Dean Wareham and producer Kramer in the making of Dean’s new album, That’s the Price of Loving Me. You know Dean from his work with Luna and Dean and Britta, his duo with his wife Britta Phillips, but when Kramer and Dean last teamed up, it was for the recording of Dean’s old band Galaxie 500’s final album, 1990’s This Is Our Music.

Intro-ing his own interview with Dean for Aquarium Drunkard, writer Tyler Wilcox says, “All these decades later, Kramer’s skill for elegant arrangements (not to mention his keyboard skills) bring something special to the proceedings, giving Dean’s musings on politics, friendship, mortality, Gibson guitars and airborne toxic events a sparkling backdrop.”

This week on Transmissions, Dean joins us for a spirited discussion about the new album, movie matinees, guitars, his work with director Noah Baumbach, the influence of Lou Reed—and Dean’s experiences meeting him—and what happens when you, what happens when you embrace the magic of the un-intended.

You can read a ⁠⁠full transcript⁠⁠ of this conversation at Aquarium Drunkard, where you’ll find 20 years worth of playlists, recommendations, reviews, interviews, podcasts, essays, and more. With your support, here’s to another decade. ⁠⁠Subscribe at Aquarium Drunkard. ⁠⁠ Stream a ⁠⁠playlist of bumper music featured on Transmissions⁠⁠, as well as selections from our guests. Transmissions is a part of the ⁠⁠Talkhouse Podcast Network⁠⁠. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts.

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Transmissions :: Yuka Honda

April 30, 2025

Aquarium Drunkard

Yuka Honda

Yuka Honda New York musician Cibo Matto experimental electronics collaborations Across the Horizon Farm Psychedelia EPs music underground

This week on the show, the great Yuka Honda. She’s a New York musician. In the 1990s, she emerged from the fertile New York music underground with Cibo Matto alongside groups like the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, and Luscious Jackson. She’s collaborated with an extensive roster of musicians, including John Zorn,David Byrne, Yoko Ono, Sean Ono Lennon, and her husband, guitarist Nels Cline.

Earlier this year, we taped the conversation you’re about to hear. Some of it ran as text in the Across the Horizon zine that was available at Big Ears Music Fest. What is Across the Horizon? Well, it’s a collaborative series from Bob Holmes of Suss and Northern Spy Records gathering together like-minded artists drawn “from the wide landscape of instrumental music” (including Luke Schneider, Marisa Anderson, William Tyler and more) to curate a series of digital releases that will culminate in a double LP compilation of stellar sonic explorations on August 13th.

Under her Eucademix banner, Yuka has explored experimental electronics via two semi recent Farm Psychedelia EPs and her Across The Horizon contribution “A Long Slow Blink Before The Answer.” In this conversation, we get into food, art, language, and much more.

You can read a ⁠full transcript⁠ of this conversation at Aquarium Drunkard, where you’ll find 20 years worth of playlists, recommendations, reviews, interviews, podcasts, essays, and more. With your support, here’s to another decade. ⁠Subscribe at Aquarium Drunkard. ⁠ Stream a ⁠playlist of bumper music featured on Transmissions⁠, as well as selections from our guests. Transmissions is a part of the ⁠Talkhouse Podcast Network⁠. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts.

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