Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, so glad to have you here once again. Our guest this week is Will Sheff, known for his solo work and years with the indie rock band Okkervil River. In this conversation, Sheff and host Jason P. Woodbury cover a wide stretch, examining how the indie rock landscape has changed and evolved over decades, exploring the spiritual core at the heart of his music, and hearing stories about his interactions with luminaries like Roky Erickson and Jason Molina.
Category: Okkervil River
WHEN A DRUMMER FALLS DURING A PANDEMIC, DOES HE MAKE A NOISE? TRAVIS NELSEN DOES.
… when a musician dies there’s a tendency to separate who they were in the spotlight with who they were off stage, but Travis would wear the same monkey costume behind his drumset or when he grilled a rare steak in his kitchen for his beloved mom, all with gusto and an electric smile, straight from his gilded, white-hot heart.
Be And Bring Me Home: Remembering Roky Erickson
In 2010 Roky Erickson released his first album in 14 years, True Love Cast Out All Evil, backed by fellow Texans Okkervil River. Below, Okkervil’s Will Sheff reflects on the iconoclast and his time spent backing him.
Will Sheff / The Rock*A*Teens :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The Rock*A*Teens were my favorite rock and roll band of the 1990s, a group that disguised heroic artistic ambitions behind a murky, mysterious, reverb-laden take on early rock and roll. I’ve heard […]
Okkervil River :: Live At National Sawdust
September 9th saw the return of Okkervil River via their first LP in three years, Away , a record principal Will Sheff has described as “me taking my life back to zero […]
Okkervil River :: I Am Very Far
We need a myth. So insists Will Sheff on the track of the same name, and he’s right. We need a myth, a narrative, something upon which to plot the […]
Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas…
One of my favorite Okkervil River songs, I always save “Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas” for December, as Will Sheff so perfectly captures the emotional undercurrent of the season. […]
AD Presents :: Okkervil River (New Orleans, LA)
Our continuing Aquarium Drunkard Presents series at Republic New Orleans continues with Okkervil River Tuesday, September 30th, with special guests Crooked Fingers. For those of you who have yet to pick up the band’s new […]
Okkervil River :: The Stand Ins
Sometimes the movements of time’s big hands adjusts our fuzzy view of the past and pulls the picture into focus. Here we are in September of 2008, and Okkervil River’s […]