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, […]
Category: The AD Interview
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, […]
The Cosmic Comedy of Laraaji :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
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 […]
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 […]