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 […]
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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 […]
Beachwood Sparks :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
As El Nino rolled into Southern California in the summer of 1997 it pushed two friends, Brent Rademaker and Chris Gunst, to escape Los Angeles. Frequent trips to Joshua Tree were coupled with crashes at […]
Who Is Don Muro? :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
In early 2013, Jared Cheek and Jason Nickey came across a weird little record while working at the Bloomington, Indiana record shop, Landlocked Music . Titled It’s Time , the 1977 LP featured a black-and-white image of the man […]
Wooden Wand Interviews William Tyler Interviews Wooden Wand
It was somehow agreed upon during my conversation with William Tyler t hat he would do the transcribing — the difficult, tedious part — and I would write the intro. This is consistent with William’s character: he is […]
Gary Numan :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Gary Numan was 20 years old when Tubeway Army’s self-titled record dropped in 1978 and launched a career that became very successful, very quickly. Over the past 35 years, Numan’s influence on the shape of electronic music has only […]
The Men :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
The Men rarely subjugate themselves to any neat genre filing system, essentially daring record store clerks to stock an acoustic record, entitled Campfire Songs , in punk bins. And while no one will actually fight over where the band’s […]