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Category: The AD Interview
Orrin Evans :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The movement of musicians into or out of a jazz ensemble isn’t the kind of news that draws much attention. They are so often juggling different projects and schedules that it doesn’t raise any eyebrows […]
Colin Newman (Wire) :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
2018 looks to be a banner year for fans of the defiantly minimal Wire. Following 2017’s Silver/Lead, a record that marked the band’s 40th anniversary in the most inspiring way possible — by demonstrating its […]
Mark Renner :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
As a young man in Baltimore, Mark Renner created music that coupled the energy of punk and new wave with a sense of romantic longing. Recently, Brooklyn-based label RVNG Intl released Few Traces , a wide-angle […]
Bonny Doon :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Detroit’s Bonny Doon won’t kill you with kindness, nor will they burn much rubber on their musical journey. The foursome’s second full-length, Longwave , continues in the vein of forebears such as Berman/Malkmus coupled with the breathing atmospheric […]
Amen Dunes :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Over and over again on Amen Dunes’ fifth album Freedom, songwriter Damon McMahon punctuates lyrics with the word “man.” “We play religious music/I don’t think you’d understand man.” “I really gotta go/yeah man.” “Pride destroyed […]
Nap Eyes :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Over and over again on Nap Eyes’ third lp I’m Bad Now, songwriter Nigel Chapman owns himself. In album opener “Every Time the Feeling,” he’s a “space case,” a “loser in a meaningless place.” It’s […]
Hailu Mergia :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview (2018)
Hailu Mergia wants you to know: He was always ready to return the spotlight. He was just waiting for someone to ask. And now that they have — now that a series of people have, actually — […]
Hans Chew :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Late last year, Hans Chew quietly released his fourth album, Open Sea . He’s known for his work with Endless Boogie , Jack Rose , Steve Gunn , Hiss Golden Messenger , and others, and the record caught our ears in a big way at […]
Tim Heidecker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
There’s a pretty good chance that the person you think of when you think of Tim Heidecker isn’t the real Tim Heidecker. Since emerging in the early 2000s with Adult Swim ‘s Tom Goes to the Mayor, […]
Ilyas Ahmed :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On his new record Closer to Stranger , Portland guitarist and singer Ilyas Ahmed picks up the threads that run through his numerous solo records and collaborations with Liz Harris of Grouper and Dreamboat (with Matt Carlson […]
Richard Lloyd :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Richard Lloyd didn’t set out to write a rock & roll memoir. While his debut book, Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist , rarely skimps on musical detail, his philosophical aim stays clear. As Lloyd recounts his run-ins with Keith Moon, […]
Catching Up With John Lurie
The world of music has seemed a much less colorful and interesting place in the years since John Lurie stopped recording. The former leader of NYC jazz ensemble The Lounge Lizards, film score composer and […]
Seun Kuti :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Having long ago stepped out from behind the shadow of his iconoclast father, Seun Kuti has kept the fierce independence and self-determination that are a hallmark of his family name, and kept the band his father created […]
Charlotte Gainsbourg :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Charlotte Gainsbourg is in no rush. Her latest, Rest, is only the singer and actresses’ fourth album in 20 years. Composed over a long, six-year stretch that found Gainsbourg moving to New York and processing […]