Like Joan Didion’s writing about Los Angeles, or Flannery O’Connor’s examinations of the American South, Pedro the Lion’s “Phoenix” is as much about an inner place as it is about a location on the map.
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Sharon Van Etten :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In the four years since her last record, Sharon Van Etten has been busy. In that time she’s gone back to school, scored a film, and become a mother. It’s that last element that seems to hang over much of her excellent new album, Remind Me Tomorrow. Produced by John Congleton, it’s solid leap forward for an artist who has made substantive changes with every album she’s released. Aquarium Drunkard caught up with Van Etten, via phone from her home in Brooklyn, to discuss her new record, the paranoia of parenthood, the connective power of shared stories, and how Suicide, Nick Cave, and Portishead informed the work.
Harlem :: The AD Interview
Harlem always felt less like “garage rock” and more like a yard sale: strewn out in the driveway, “as is” stickers, handwritten signs down the street announcing “yard sale, this […]
Glenn Kotche :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
As anyone who’s ever seen him live can attest, Glenn Kotche is an inventive player, not beholden to typical rock & roll tropes and unafraid to interject left of center […]
Lola Kirke :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
A couple times a week, someone will come up to Lola Kirke and call her “Hai-lai,” parroting the loving mispronunciation of her Mozart in the Jungle co-star Gael García Bernal’s conductor character Rodrigo. As far as crosses to bear go, she admits it’s a fairly light one.
Speaking with Aquarium Drunkard, the actor/songwriter connected the threads between her dual disciplines.
Jeff Tweedy :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
For more than three decades, Jeff Tweedy has written about his fear of being misunderstood. First as one-half of the songwriting team in the pioneering alternative country band Uncle Tupelo, […]
Glenn Phillips (Hampton Grease Band) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
47 years after its original release and resounding commercial failure, the Hampton Grease Band’s Music To Eat stands as a crucial entry in the experimental American music canon. Roaring out […]
David Crosby :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview (2018)
Nearly five-and-a-half decades into his career, David Crosby might finally be hitting fourth gear. A new record, Here If You Listen , his second in collaboration with vocalists Michelle Willis and Becca Stevens , along with Mike League […]
Loudon Wainwright :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Loudon Wainwright III can’t help but look back lately. Last year, the 72-year-old songwriter released a memoir, Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay & a […]
Kurt Vile :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On Kurt Vile’s guitar epic “Bassackwards,” a highlight from the Philadelphia singer/songwriter’s newly released seventh album Bottle It In, Vile sings about “chilling out/but with a very drifting mind.” That […]
Sarah Davachi :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
You might not pick up on it by listening to the serene, enveloping sounds of composer Sarah Davachi’s Gave In Rest , but the record was born out of unsettled times. Written […]
Nathan Bowles :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“Elk River Blues” can be used as a road map to the solo music of Nathan Bowles. In 2012, as an end to his first album, A Bottle, A Buckeye, the song—written […]
(Catching Up With) Phosphorescent
As the cliche goes, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” But a lot of life and a lot of plans went into the making of C’es […]
Yoko Ono :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Yoko Ono is the definition of an essential follow. Over on Twitter , she’s a fount of wisdom and humor. Take this recent missive: “Art does many things to society, most […]
The Beths :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Just over a year ago, The Beths were a little-known pop-rock band with a promising EP to their name and a full-length album stuck in the sort of slo-mo creative process that […]