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 […]
Category: The AD Interview
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 […]
Christopher Denny :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Christopher Denny’s If The Roses Don’t Kill Us is the kind of record that sounds as if it’s always existed: a sturdy, twangy blend of southern soul, country, and folk . Denny’s voice — a reedy, high and lonesome thing — is at once […]
Castanets :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It’s been 10 years since Raymond Raposa’s Castanets released Cathedral, a powerful work of skeletal folk and dread. Since then the songwriter has been consistent — releasing a string of Castanets albums, each one stretching out […]
Skygreen Leopards :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
It’s been half a decade since we were treated to an LP from San Francisco’s Skygreen Leopards . Having taken some time earlier this year to collaborate with Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance) as New Bums , longtime […]
Mike Cooper :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The Rock*A*Teens :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“In that they were ‘arguably’ the best American rock ’n roll band of the ’90s, it is safe to say that the Rock*A*Teens were also the most underrated American rock ’n roll band of the […]
Peter Walker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Guitarist Peter Walker spent decades off the grid, but reemerged in 2006, when he contributed recordings — alongside James Blackshaw, Jack Rose, Thurston Moore, Steffen Basho-Junghans, and others — to Tompkins Square’s A Raga for Peter Walker tribute. Since then, […]
Catching Up With Drive-By Truckers :: The AD Interview (Hood/Cooley)
There are certain musical landmarks often brought up in conjunction with Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, R.E.M. But on the road to the Truckers’ […]
Doug Paisley :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
This past January, Doug Paisley released his third full-length, Strong Feelings , via No Quarter Records. Regular collaborator Garth Hudson returns on the piano, along with Emmett Kelly, Robbie Grunwald and Mary Margaret O’Hara. Living up to […]
Catching Up With Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner :: The AD Interview
It’s been five and a half years since we last spoke with Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner – around the release of 2008’s OH (Ohio) – and it’s been a productive set of years. The group played an awe-inspiring set at Merge Records’ 20th Anniversary festival in […]
Hiss Golden Messenger :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
“I had a little bit of a crisis,” songwriter M.C. Taylor jokes. Arriving in Asheville, North Carolina, where Taylor performed earlier this month with members of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. as a tribute […]