We’ll save you the usual litany / free association of artists Ryley Walker deftly channels and allow you to just…listen. You’re welcome. Produced by fellow Chicagoan LeRoy Bach, Walker’s third lp Golden Sings That Have Been Sung […]
Month: May 2016
Catching Up With Steve Gunn :: Eyes on the Lines
The songs on Steve Gunn’s seventh album and Matador Records debut Eyes on the Lines don’t move straight ahead. Instead, they loop, swirl, and curl. But they do have a sense of purpose, and the driving language […]
Rob Mazurek & Emmett Kelly :: Alien Flower Sutra
Composer Rob Mazurek is no stranger to high concepts: His Exploding Star Orchestra has plotted albums around the cycle of galactic death and rebirth ; Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost was centered around the idea of energy transference, inspired by his mother’s passing; Alternate Moon Cycles was a patient […]
Wax Wonders :: Bob Dylan – From A Buick 6 (Alternate Take)
Happy 75th to a poet, a rock ‘n roll icon, a folk sensation, and a living legend. Stop and take a moment to fathom that number; 75 years. Bob Dylan has spent 54 of those […]
Klaus Johann Grobe :: Spagat der Liebe
Krautpop. Speaking of Trouble In Mind Records, earlier this month the Chicago label released Spagat der Liebe, the Zürich based Klaus Johann Grobe’s second LP. Comprised of Sevi Landolt (organ/synths/vocals) and Daniel Bachmann (drums/vocals), the pair continue down the path […]
New Age Sounds :: Jeff Berry’s SunPath
Los Angeles-based label Leaving Records been been responsible for releasing some of 2016’s most blissful sound explorations, like Matthewdavid’s Trust the Guide and Glide and Carlos Niî±o & Friends’ Flutes, Echoes, It’s All Happening (the latter […]
Beth Orton :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Beth Orton has spent 20-some years walking the margins between folk rock and electronic music. Before her 1996 classic Trailer Park, she recorded an entirely electronic debut, SuperpinkyMandy, but even then, she covered cosmic balladeer […]
Omni :: Wire
I’ve been waiting nearly a year for this record to come out – Omni’s debut lp, Deluxe . – and this track, “Wire”, was my initial introduction. Clocking in at just over three minutes, the track neatly […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 434: Jean-Michel Bernard — Générique Stéphane ++ Jean Jacques […]
Bleached :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interivew
On its latest LP, Welcome to Worms, Los Angeles band Bleached pulls off everything you want great rock songs to do. Led by sisters Jennifer and Jessica Calvin, the album’s funny and loud, as well as […]
Transmissions Podcast: Car Seat Headrest / Bob Mehr
Welcome to the second episode of Aquarium Drunkard’s newly rebooted Transmissions podcast , our recurring series of unique discussions and extraî±o sounds. On this episode, we spoke with Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest , whose new album Teens of […]
Krano :: Requiescat In Plavem
Lost records come of many vintages. By comparison to long-lost ’60s and ’70s nuggets, Requiescat In Plavem , recorded only as far back as 2012, might seem a bit too fresh for “lost classic” status, but damn if […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Ben Watt — Deep Folk 6 / Mixtape
Ben Watt’s a lifer — one-half of electronic duo Everything But the Girl, a producer, DJ, and author. His latest record, Fever Dream , features collaborations with MC Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger and Marissa Nadler, and finds him mining […]
FORM Arcosanti :: 2016
Sunday evening, just before the sun set over Arcosanti , the experimental city founded by the late “arcologist” Paolo Soleri in the 1970s in Arizona’s high desert, Bill Callahan and his band took the stage in the beautiful amphitheater. Quietly — […]
VDSQ 2016 :: Michael Chapman, Sarah Louise, Tashi Dorji and Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir
Vin du Selecte Qualitite’s founder Steve Lowenthal literally wrote the book on John Fahey ( Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist , 2014), but don’t assume that the artists on his label are mere Fahey imitators. Far from it. If […]