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 weren’t from any language she […]
Category: The AD Interview
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 financial woes of its distributor, […]
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 a fantastic record, and to […]
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 artist and producer of key […]
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. Morby’s world is lived-in and […]
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 expert set of ears based […]
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 colonization of outer space. Recorded […]
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 known for Americana and alt-country, […]
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 album, The Catastrophist , is rooted in […]
Jermaine Bossier / 79rs Gang :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Willie Thrasher :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It was a cold Christmas night when Inuit songwriter Willie Thrasher first found his musical path. He’d just finished a set with his band the Cordells, drumming at a Christmas dance, performing its normal setlist of Beatles […]
Cass McCombs :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“Most of my albums are a simple collection of songs that have nothing to do with each other except that they were written around the same time and, perhaps, have some recurring themes,” songwriter Cass […]
Neko Case :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“It’s exciting and kind of spooky!” Neko Case writes in the liner notes of Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule the new eight-album boxset collecting her entire discography, from her 1997 debut The Virginian to 2013’s The Worse Things Get, the […]
Scott Fagan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
I found my copy of Scott Fagan’s lp South Atlantic Blues at a used record shop about 12 years ago. It looked too good to be true, sitting in front of The Nightfly (note: Donald’s surname […]
Anthology Recordings Surf Archive Series: Litmus / Glass Love
Aussie Andrew Kidman is — for lack of a better term — a renaissance man. Musician, painter, photographer, surfboard shaper, wave rider, filmmaker. That’s a lot of hats to wear by any measure but when […]