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 of fine songwriting, Joyner’s status […]
Category: The AD Interview
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 a good night’s rest…Sit back, […]
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 one of our best living […]
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 gorgeous, sparse record. Built on […]
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 are, by nature, prone to […]
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 2000s. As an actor, he […]
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 of all time, so if […]
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 and constant foil Erika “EE” […]
Catching Up With Twin Peaks :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Twin Peaks’ 2013 debut Sunken , issued by Aquarium Drunkard’s sister label Autumn Tone , was a tight, fuzzy blast of garage rock. It was a brief, but powerful, statement from a couple Chicago kids inching toward their […]
Kevin Morby :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Late last year, after incessant touring among the ranks of his Alma mater acts Woods and The Babies, Kevin Morby released his solo debut – the stunning folk of Harlem River . On the self-proclaimed ‘homage to New […]
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
On August 27th Chicago-based label Drag City announced a new Bonnie “Prince” Billy album, Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues , by uploading a staged interview with Will Oldham, the cryptic force and songwriter behind the “Prince” Billy moniker, dubbed […]
Catching Up With Steve Gunn :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
With 2013’s Time Off , guitarist Steve Gunn took a leap that often proves disastrous for guitar soli performers: he started singing. His albums had featured vocals before, but Time Off was different. On it, Gunn embraced […]
Lucinda Williams :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
This week marks the release of Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, the 11th studio album from Lucinda Williams. It’s a first in many ways – her first double studio album, her first on […]