Wilder Maker // Gabriel Birnbaum

Wilder Maker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview - Aquarium Drunkard Songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum’s latest with Wilder Maker, 2025's The Streets Like Beds Still Warm, leans into sophisto-pop shaded indie pop noir, careening from rootsy swagger into bursts of digital spa...

Wilder Maker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum’s latest with Wilder Maker leans into sophisto-pop shaded indie pop noir, careening from rootsy swagger into bursts of digital space jazz and ambient funk.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

i mean that was the point right??

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this is an abomination

playing solar myth in philly tonight on saxophone with Bex Burch!

Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

If most Liberals called stopped calling for more training and started demanding defunding that would be some progress.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people

really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

there should be no terrified masked poorly trained out of state militia empowered to act extrajudiciously on the street and that is the political floor

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

DJRUM: Under Tangled Silence Nadeem Din-Gabisi: Offshore Shit & Shine: Please Bring Cool Friends Ofir Ganon: Same Air Maribou State: Hallucinating Love Fabio Mina: Existence/Resistance Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko SML: How You Been oneL Sextet: Wild With Life Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin: Ghosted III The Circling Sun: Orbits Moin: Belly Up Blood Orange: Essex Honey Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong Hackney Electronica: Synaptic Shadows Marie Davidson: City of Clowns Circuit Des Yeux: Halo On the Inside Tim Hecker: Shards Leo Chadburn: Sleep In the Shadow of the Alternator Isaac Sherman: A Pasture, Its Limits Land of Echo: Almost Music Bitchin Bajas: Inland See СОЮЗ (SOYUZ): Krok Everything Is Recorded: Temporary Eiko Ishibashi: Antigone

Gregory Ullman, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes: self-titled Mess Esque: Jay Marie, Comfort Me Stereolab: Instant Holograms on Metal Film Coffin Prick: Loose Enchantment Trio Mokili: self-titled Alabaster de Plume: A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole more eaze & claire rousay: no floor Little Simz: Lotus Sarathy Korwar: There Is Beauty, There Already Los Thuthanaka: self-titled Zopelar: Call It Love Richard Youngs: Hidden Brooke Combe: Dancing At the Edge of the World Emma-Jean Thackray: Weirdo Florence Adooni: A.O.E.I.U. (An Ordinary Exercise In Unity) Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens Yazmin Lacey: Teal Dreams Rainy Miller: Joseph, What Have You Done? Annahstasia: Tether lavender: we’re having a barn dance Proc Fiskal: Canticle Hardposte Jenny Hval: Iris Silver Mist Kassa Overall: C.R.E.A.M. (CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME) Sam Prekop: Open Close Leon Vynehall: In Daytona Yellow

Rosalía: LUX Cate Le Bon: Michelangelo Dying Annie Achron: Never Paradise Black Hill Transmissions: Transmissions #4 Tape Yasmine Hamdan: I Remember I Forget Moses Brown: Stone Upon Stone Rafiq Bhatia: Environments Kelly Moran: Don’t Trust Mirrors The Necks: Disquiet HAAi: HUMANiSE Max Jaffe: You Want That Too! Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie: Body Lapse Tacoma Park: Glosson Circle Sessions Maraudeur: Flaschenträger Chicago Underground Duo: Hyperglyph Inturist: Tourism DJ Narciso: Diferenciado Gryphon Rue: I Keep My Diamond Necklace In a Pond of Sparkling Water yaya bey: do it afraid Ben LaMar Gay: Yowzers Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas: Totality Ensemble Nist-Nah: Spilla Deerhoof: Noble & Godlike In Ruin Gelli Haha: Switcheroo Wilder Maker: The Streets Like Beds Still Warm

Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer: Different Rooms Loula Yorke: Time Is A Succession of Such Shapes Model/Actriz: Pirouette Pulp: More Christer Bothén: Christer Bothén Donso n’goni João Selva: Onda Moses Yoofee Trio: MYT Smerz: big city life Rival Consoles: Landscape from Memory Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: GUSH Annie & The Caldwells: I Was Living In A World of Sin (Mixes – Part 1) Asher White: 8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living Kalia Vandever: Another View Lucrecia Dalt: A Danger to Ourselves Raven: Gnosis Phylipe Nunes Araújo: self-titled Piotr Kurek: Songs and Bodies Sessa: Pequena Vertigem de Amor SHOLTO: The Sirens Project Gemini & Wendy Martinez: Time Stands Still/Le Temps S ’Arrêtte Shinichi Atobe: Discipline Geese: Getting Killed Joe Westerlund: Curiosities From the Shift Lonnie Holley: Tonky Zé Ibarra: AFIM

🎶2025 was a GREAT year for music

I struggled to narrow down my list of Albums of the Year to just 100, but here they are; all genres represented, from pop to post-punk, jazz to folk-funk!

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The list excludes reissues—which I previously posted about— & compilations (skeet coming)

Steven Hyden’s Favorite Albums Of 2025 The best music of the year according to Uproxx’s cultural critic.

Hey, I wrote about my favorite albums of 2025! 26 albums on the main list, 65 more on various sublists, 81 in all! Really good year overall! To quote Russell Hammond: "I dig music."
uproxx.com/indie/steven...

I love the formatting of this list - super fun and diverting to read

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 …According to some guy in Chicago. Plus, every album and more I recommended in No Expectations this year.

I wrote about more music than ever this year at No Expectations, so I compiled what I think are the 100 Best Albums of 2025. If you don't recognize a lot of the names here, don't worry. That's the point. I hope you find something new to dig. www.noexpectations.fyi/p/the-100-be...

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 - Aquarium Drunkard Looking back to look ahead. The clock never stops, but sometimes music manages the impossible: slowing time for a moment. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year...

The AD list is up. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a...

Wilder Maker - The Streets Like Beds Still Warm Listen to The Streets Like Beds Still Warm by Wilder Maker.

it is bandcamp friday today if you have not bought our new lp - lnk.to/wv287

Beautifully Strange Experimental Folk/Jazz/Improv: The Streets Like Beds Still Warm by Wilder Maker Delve into the hypnotic sounds of Wilder Maker's latest album.

Brooklyn’s Wilder Maker returns with The Streets Like Beds Still Warm, a hypnotic, noir-infused journey through a single night’s drift, equal parts dream, confession, and cinematic dissolve.

Springtime for Springnuts | Los Angeles Review of Books Grant Sharples offers a personal account of the Boss’s career and legacy in light of the new biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.”

Music writers, what is your favorite piece you wrote this year? Linking mine below. I love asking people this every year bc it gives me a chance to catch up on a bunch of articles I may have missed/create a place for writers to plug their work!

lareviewofbooks.org/article/spri...

The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2025

This year has been particularly exciting for experimental music, ranging from free-form guitar freak-outs to lush, ambient, and constantly pushing boundaries.

READ: tinyurl.com/BestExp25

The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps Read Zach Schoenfeld’s review of the album.

For this week's Sunday Review, I went long on one of my favorite albums of all time: Giant Steps by the Boo Radleys.

The author, @graemethomson.bsky.social is here. Well worth finding and reading

Welcome to MailTape Every Sunday morning, we release a music selection curated with a guest. MailTape is an Art project started in 2011.

I know a lot of people are quitting spotify rn, to which I say great, good work. If you're missing some of the discovery functions, I recommend MailTape - their site is easy to navigate, can be sorted by mood, & is curated by humans who make & love music: www.mailta.pe

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Kalia Vandever's Another View Listening Party from Kalia Vandever Listening Party from Kalia Vandever.

bandcamp listening party about to start for Kalia Vandever - kaliavandever.bandcamp.com/merch/kalia-...

Thereupon, by Fieldwork 9 track album

so cool to have a new Fieldwork album, I listened to Your Life Flashes about a million times - brain-tickling music
fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com/album/thereu...