In the early ’70s, progressive rock band Trî¤d, Grî¤s & Stenar emerged from the Swedish “New Left,” part of the counter cultural “music movement,” bearing a unique sound with elements of Swedish folk, Bay Area psychedelia, the […]
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Catching Up With Steve Gunn :: Eyes on the Lines
The songs on Steve Gunn’s seventh album and Matador Records debut Eyes on the Lines don’t move straight ahead. Instead, they loop, swirl, and curl. But they do have a sense of […]
Beth Orton :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Beth Orton has spent 20-some years walking the margins between folk rock and electronic music. Before her 1996 classic Trailer Park, she recorded an entirely electronic debut, SuperpinkyMandy, but even […]
Bleached :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interivew
On its latest LP, Welcome to Worms, Los Angeles band Bleached pulls off everything you want great rock songs to do. Led by sisters Jennifer and Jessica Calvin, the album’s funny […]
Psychic Temple :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Psychic Temple is on a tear: In the last couple weeks, the group, led by composer/songwriter Chris Schlarb, has released not one but two excellent records, the loose-limbed Psychic Temple III and a […]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In the market for an expansive, dreamy headphone record par excellence? You couldn’t do much better right now than Ears, the latest by Bay Area composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Mining […]
Ilian :: Love Me Crazy
“Anybody can throw a bunch of licks at your face,” Endless Boogie’s Paul Major writes in the liner notes of Anthology Records ‘ new reissue of Ilian’s 1977 pop gem Love Me Crazy. “Communicating, telling the […]
Wake Up You :: Aquarium Drunkard Interviews Uchenna Ikonne
Following the intense and bloody Nigerian Civil War, a vibrant musical revolution bloomed in the country, with emerging groups and performers creating a fusion which blended funk, R&B, and hard rock. […]
Anton Newcombe :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The Brian Jonestown Massacre may have just celebrated a 25th anniversary, but it’s little surprise that there wasn’t a big to-do, as Anton Newcombe has always believed in pushing forward and not looking back. […]
Woods :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Pinning down Woods has proved increasingly elusive over their ten year run. While encapsulating and predicating the twisting currents of folk and rock, they’ve morphed calmly yet sharply from lo-fi to hi-fi. […]
Terry Allen :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
An outlaw of his own accord, Terry Allen’s output across a drove of mediums has remained open and engaging for over four decades. The Lubbock, TX native is a stalwart storyteller, oftentimes […]
Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Cheap Trick needs precious little in the way of an introduction. Roaring out of Rockford in the early ’70s, the band’s stayed on a remarkably consistent career path for decades, […]
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Bitchin Bajas: Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
Will ” Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy ” Oldham has a habit of materializing in interesting places: behind the camera, shooting the cover of Slint’s Spiderland ; behind Johnny Cash , singing background vocals on the Man in Black’s […]
Anna Homler :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The genesis of Breadwoman stretches back to the early ’80s, when performance artist Anna Homler found herself singing while driving through Topanga Canyon, chanting out in a strange, rhythmic cadence. Homler’s melodies […]
Jon Tiven of Prix :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
1975 was a strange time for rock & roll in Memphis. Big Star , the flagship band of Ardent Records, was kaput, and the label itself was in flux, tethered to the […]