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 […]
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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 […]
Damon Krukowski :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In his book The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World, Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi casts a widescreen lens on the digital landscape, in search of the answer […]
Dead Notes #15 :: The Mickey Hart Interview
In late 1967 at a Count Basie concert at the famed Fillmore Auditorium two brothers in the groove were introduced by a stranger who quickly disappeared into the technicolor ethers forever altering the course of […]
Pauline Anna Strom :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
There is an ever-slight hint of a Southern accent in Pauline Anna Strom’s voice, a remnant of the place she left behind forty or so years ago when she moved to the Bay Area with her serviceman husband, […]
Torres :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In the process of building her third album under the name Torres, Mackenzie Scott found herself drawn to hypnotic music — music that physically affected the body. Tellingly, traces of kosmische musik run throughout the […]
‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ Drummer Jerry Granelli :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
For many listeners, the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s music for 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas represents the best of the season, its sounds patient, relaxed, and warm. For drummer Jerry Granelli, it’s all those things, but it’s also […]
Circuit des Yeux :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Reaching for Indigo, the fifth lp by Haley Fohr’s Circuit des Yeux, begins with a cataclysmic break, a complete shift from one state of being into another. “Brainshift, came like a tidal wave,” Fohr sings, […]