1981: With an initial bootleg soundtrack touting hits from The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Bob Marley, director Stephen Spaulding would later require an original score if he wished to […]
Category: The AD Interview
Brian Wilson :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Brian Wilson opens his new album No Pier Pressure with a quietly profound lyric: “Life goes on and on, like your favorite song.” Wilson has written many people’s favorite songs over the last […]
Ariel Kalma / Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe :: The AD Interview
Some creative unions take time and labor to coalesce. For Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and Ariel Kalma, an artistic connection was established at lightning speed. A few conversations, a meet […]
Will Oldham Interviews Masaki Batoh
Here I was given the great opportunity to interview Masaki Batoh . I became aware of some of Batoh’s work in the mid-1990’s when a relationship between Batoh’s band Ghost was begun with […]
Michael Angelo :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Michael Angelo’s self-titled 1977 LP is an earnest fusion of post-Beatles psychedelia and “out there” lyrical incantations, but reflecting on its 2015 re-release by Anthology Recordings, the Kansas City songwriter would like […]
Parachutes Are For Deserters: An Interview With Simon Joyner
I’ll stand on Steve Earle’s coffee table in my Chuck Taylors and say that Simon Joyner is every bit the songwriter Townes Van Zant was. To me and many other appreciators […]
Vetiver :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Jeff Bridges :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“The world is filled with too many restless people in need of rest–that’s why I filled my sleeping tapes with intriguing sounds, noises and other things to help you get […]
Phosphorescent :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Mark Eitzel :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The inarguable, intangible greatness of Mark Eitzel is a slippery thing to articulate. To begin with, it appears by all available metrics not to be a well-known fact that Mark Eitzel is […]
Catching Up With Elephant Micah :: The AD Interview
For 15 years, Indiana folklorist and songwriter Joseph O’Connell has recorded records under the name Elephant Micah. His latest, and first for Western Vinyl, is called Where In Our Woods , and it’s a […]
Sonny & The Sunsets :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
To be fearless in any aspect of one’s life is a feat not easily attained. In the art-world, perhaps the stakes are even higher. As an artist’s credibility and validity […]
John Lurie :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It feels like John Lurie has done it all. As leader of the Lounge Lizards, he dominated New York’s underground music scene with punk-inflected jazz from the early ‘80s until the early […]
Dwight Twilley: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Dwight Twilley doesn’t care much about terms like “power pop.” It’s not that he objects, he just doesn’t care about the tag. “The Beatles were pretty much the greatest power pop band […]
Every Sound Means Something: Wooden Wand Interviews Matt “MV” Valentine
I have already sung the praises of Matt “MV” Valentine elsewhere. For the Google-averse, I can sum it up by saying that MV’s music–both with and without his partner, co-conspirator […]