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 […]
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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 […]
Kikagaku Moyo / 幾何学模様 :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Japan has a long and fascinating history with psychedelic music, and its breadth of style is something increasingly reflected in the work of bands like Kikagaku Moyo, who are set to release […]
One Eleven Heavy :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On its debut album, Everything’s Better , rock & roll combo One Eleven Heavy weave together various threads of choogling psychedelia —some Dead here, some Neil Young there, more than a little NRBQ […]
Richard Thompson :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Time has not dulled Richard Thompson. On his new record 13 Rivers , the 69-year-old’s guitar sounds as barbed as ever, ringing with the same rawness that defines past masterpieces like Shoot […]