As evidenced by our last conversation with composer and teacher Laraaji, the man has a magical way with words. While so often contemplative music is defined by its serenity and placidity –to be clear, this is a […]
Category: The AD Interview
Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Carolina Soul (Interview / Mixtape)
If you’re someone that’s into records, especially soul records, you’ve probably heard of Carolina Soul . The Durham, NC based vinyl retailer has developed a cult following around its semi-weekly eBay auctions. Email blasts with subject lines […]
Scott McCaughey :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
There is something of the recently deceased Harry Dean Stanton to Scott McCaughey . Just as Stanton was to pictures for decades, McCaughey is that cool, mysterious guy in music that shows up in seemingly every conceivably […]
Catching Up With A. Savage :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Andrew Savage is in a pretty good mood. When the Parquet Courts co-frontman answers his phone, it’s Thursday night in New York, and he’s just finished packing a carton full of vinyl copies of Thawing Dawn , his first […]
Margo Price :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It might have seemed like country singer Margo Price emerged out of nowhere with her 2016 album Midwest Farmer’s Daughter. But the real story is more complicated than that. Price kicked around Nashville for […]
Catching Up With Destroyer :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“I saw you at the castle/your eyes were clearly insane,” Dan Bejar sings on “Saw You at the Hospital,” one of the tenderest songs on ken , his twelfth album under the Destroyer banner. It’s a […]
Nick Lowe :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
This year, Yep Roc’s massive Nick Lowe reissue campaign went into overdrive. The label re-released 1982’s Nick the Knife, 1983’s The Abominable Showman, and 1984’s Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit over the summer, and two more mid-period albums […]
SQURL (Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan) :: The AD Interview
In Jim Jarmusch’s beatific Paterson, Adam Driver plays a bus driving poet named Paterson, living in Paterson, New Jersey. It’s a film guided by patterns: the patterns Paterson’s wife Laura wears, the pattern of his […]
The Weather Station :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On her fourth album under the Weather Station banner, Toronto-based songwriter and actor Tamara Lindeman steps into a new light. Though the self-titled LP is every bit as gorgeous and engrossing as previous triumphs like All Of […]
Jack Cooper :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
No stranger to the pages of Aquarium Drunkard, Ultimate Painting’s Jack Cooper and I were introduced several years back over a mutual love of the Grateful Dead. Earlier this year he sent me a brief email saying, […]
The Clientele :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Few returns in 2017 have been as welcome as that of London’s the Clientele. It feels like a couple lifetimes have passed since 2010’s Minotaur, but Music For the Age of Miracles, released this week via […]
Daniel Norgren :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Daniel Norgren grew up in Sweden driven by an idea of America, a composite of our country built on the films he saw and records he played. You can hear it in his music, a […]
Itasca :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Last year, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Kayla Cohen released Open to Chance under her Itasca banner. In his review for Aquarium Drunkard, Tyler Wilcox admitted the temptation to call the album’s slow burning, psychedelically-tinged folk rock […]
Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate) :: The AD Interview
The Paisley Underground is the kind of scene that makes for a good verbal secret handshake. While its myriad branches snaked into the mainstream eventually thanks to Mazzy Star, the band that most transcended its range was The […]
Robyn Hitchcock :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
A conversation with Robyn Hitchcock can at times feel a lot his lyrics; just when things seem grounded, the skies open up and we’re off in the clouds for a whimsical journey. A very affable fellow, there’s […]