This week, we discuss a music film that my guest, Andy Zax (a Grammy-nominated archivist and the Music Geek on Comedy Central’s ‘Beat The Geeks’), begs us NOT to watch—the 1970 psychedelic romp ‘THE PHYNX.’ We take a deep dive into the film’s history, mystique, and weirdo cast…

Look, I’m never really out of love with music archival pursuits, but this interview with Andy Zax left me filled with a sense of wonder and happiness the I’ve not had in awhile. Spend some time this weekend and have a listen if you love this stuff any way like I do

Though Andy Zax & I got together to discuss the new Mort Garson lunar gem (out today!) we couldn't help but gab about a lot more: Qobuz, Leonard Nimoy, Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill, unorganized record collections, listening to the The Best Show with Tom Scharpling on edibles, etc.

Listen: aquariumdrunkard.com/2023/07/26/tra…

Today on the Transmissions podcast, I linked up with Andy Zax to talk about it all: lost Mort Garson music out this week on Sacred Bones Records, the moon landing, Woodstock, Leonard Nimoy's late '60s discography, his forthcoming blast of a book, Extinctophonics, & much more.

Rediscovering “Moon Journey,” Mort Garson’s long-lost 1969 electronic composition for the Apollo 11 landing, remains one of my biggest archival thrills; it’s equally thrilling that Sacred Bones is making it available to everyone in the solar system this summer.

Goodbye to #KennethAnger . A younger me from another time was supremely interested in his book, Hollywood Babylon. Yet another me met & wrote about another him as he interrupted the funeral of Curtis Harrington & predicted his own death. We are many selves: web.archive.org/web/2007110109…

For anyone looking for the best-ever overview of Gordon Lightfoot’s work, some years ago my friend Thane Tierney produced and compiled this deep and definitive boxed set for Rhino Records that includes the best of his UA & Reprise eras. It’s streamable! discogs.com/master/1001986…

Andy Zax Let it ring 870 times tonight, as Gordie joins the 29.

Still wondering.

It is of course a Woodstock 50 promotional bandana Andy Zax Rhino Records - like every Jazz Fest Guy of a certain age (for Ziggy, 9) he chooses his fest wear carefully to show his tastes

He changed into his tie dye bandana for dinner

Talking Heads was better as a three piece.

My dear friend YOGA Records goaded me into buying this 45 and it is approximately one quintillion times worse than I could ever have imagined.

I sometimes tell people who ask me if I’ve got the new reissue of an LP I own an original of: “no, I already have a real one.”

Ten years ago today we lost Scott Miller of the Loud Family and Game Theory. In the weeks after, I wrote a long essay on his music and what it meant to me, and the community that it helped form. It's 4000 words, published in a format that does not exist anymore, so I'm resharing.

Scott Miller, ten years gone.

ATTENTION! OTHER ACQUIRING EDITORS OUT THERE! You need to holler Lisa Jane Persky because all the cool girls are gonna LIVE for her memoir.

[Putting this out there bc Persky's memoir is too far ranging (her life is vast) for American Music Series (I tried!)]

Lisa’s one scene in the Breathless remake is a case study in “how to steal an entire movie.”

was getting “awww, that’s so cute” feels from the nyt story about the big kate bush fiesta in philadelphia until i got to this paragraph and now i am miserable