Michael Nau opens his new album, Michael Nau & the Mighty Thread, with a Wall of Sound ode to thinking you might know, but knowing you might not. “Now in […]
Category: The AD Interview
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 […]
Carl Stone :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Listening to Carl Stone’s second compilation for the excellent archival label Unseen Worlds, it’s not uncommon to find yourself completely lost in a web of sounds. It’s not necessarily a […]
Catching Up With :: Phil Cook
Wherever he ends up musically, from his work with Hiss Golden Messenger to sitting down with gospel legends the Blind Boys of Alabama , guitarist Phil Cook seems to be smiling. But it’s on his solo albums, […]
Gillian Welch :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Few songwriters cut to the core like Gillian Welch. Along with her musical partner David Rawlings, Welch pens songs that feel at once timeless and rooted in the deepest American […]
Liam Hayes (of Plush) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Based on my limited interactions with the mysterious songwriter, Liam Hayes doesn’t do anything half-heartedly. That much is clear from his records, like 2002’s Fed and 2014’s Korp Sole Roller, […]
Ryley Walker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Catch Ryley Walker one day, and he may be forecasting his future as a bald, ponytailed guitar shredder ; catch him another, and he’s sketching out a scene from the mid-2000s, scheming to pick […]
Catching Up With The Love Language
“I’m stoked, man. Back at work after so long.” This is Stuart McLamb of the Love Language , standing on an L.A. sidewalk having just emerged from a barber shop. It’s a relatively […]
Daniel Lanois :: Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois
On their new collaborative album, Daniel Lanois and electronic composer Aaron Funk, better known as Venetian Snares, make for an unexpected “Canadian team.” As a producer and solo artist, Lanois’s […]
Michael Rault :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Michael Rault’s new album, New Day Tonight, lends itself to repeated listens. It’s not just that the Canadian musician continues to build on his distinctively retro-but-not-old sound , but the complexity and […]
Sarah Louise :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On Deeper Woods, Sarah Louise wanders deep into the woods seeking a sense of awe. Over the course of the album’s seven songs, which blend Appalachian folk melodies with droning […]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s fourth full-length, Sex & Food is both reflection and rumination on our times. Simultaneously grandiose and deeply contemplative, the record swirls with disparate sounds and themes – unified by a pessimism and […]
Marc Ribot :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On YRU Still Here, the third album from guitarist Marc Ribot, bassist Shahzad Ismaily, and drummer Ches Smith’s Ceramic Dog combo, absurdist rage is made explicitly political, and flamenco is transmuted into scathing punk funk. […]
Wye Oak :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, Wye Oak synthesizes the disparate strands that have run through its discography over the last decade into one solid form. Synthesizers […]
Dean Ween :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Here’s how I first encountered Ween. I’m in junior high and in the lunch line at the school cafeteria, shuffling my tray along that metal railing, as my buddy, who […]