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. […]
Category: The AD Interview
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 […]
Chris Forsyth :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band’s new double album, The Rarity of Experience , is out Friday via the increasingly trustworthy No Quarter Records. No surprise from Forsyth at this point: it’s […]
John Cale :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
When John Cale released Music for a New Society in 1982, he was coming off a decade-and-a-half hot streak. First as a member of the Velvet Underground , then as a solo […]
Catching Up With Kevin Morby :: The AD Interview
Kevin Morby sings like a man who’s seen things. His latest, Singing Saw, out April 15th via Dead Oceans, is his third solo album, and like its predecessors, it’s an excellent recording. […]
Christopher King :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Why The Mountains Are Black collects “Primeval Greek Village Music” from 1907 — 1960 for Third Man Records. 28 tracks are culled from the 78 rpm collection of Christopher King, a life-long collector and […]
LightDreams :: Islands In Space
At the dawn of the 1980s, songwriter Paul Marcano and his band LightDreams emerged from the psychedelic haziness of the previous decade with Islands in Space, a concept album about the […]
Benji Hughes :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Way back in 2008, Benji Hughes released a genuinely weird and supremely pleasurable record called A Love Extreme. It was, in all the best ways, an oddity. Released by New West, primarily […]
Tortoise :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Sitting on a green room couch at the Teragram Ballroom in downtown Los Angeles, Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker and drummer John Herndon nod in sync when it’s ventured that the band’s new […]
