As Will Oldham prepared to embark on what would become a very busy Fall of 2006, he played two very special nights at Joe’s Pub in New York City with brothers Paul […]
Category: Will Oldham
Matt Sweeney :: The AD Interview
Their first collaboration on record since 2005’s Superwolf , Matt Sweeney and Will Oldham just released “I Must Be Blind” on 10″ vinyl with “Life In Muscle” on the flip. I ran into Sweeney last […]
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy :: Horses (Greatest Palace Version)
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy :: The World’s Greatest (R. Kelly)
If you follow my twitter feed , or really, if you keep up with much music ‘news’ in general you may very well have come across last week’s interview between Will Oldham (donning his interviewer’s cap) and R. Kelly . If not, you’re […]
Milton Nascimento/Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy :: Cravo î‰ Canela
Revisiting Will Oldham and Tortoise’s 2006 collaboration, The Brave And The Bold, last week spawned some interesting offline chatter about what it means to cover an artist. While much of the discussion […]
Sevens :: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy w/ Tortoise – Thunder Road
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) In January of 2006, Will Oldham, under his working guise of Bonnie ‘Prince’ […]
Sevens :: Palace Brothers/Gulf Shores
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) The muse that is ‘Summer’s end’ has long served as an allegory for […]
Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: The Wonder Show of the World
Will Oldham’s career has more or less been a series of collaborations. His name is most often been attached to the work, and more times than not, he’s the primary artistic driver […]
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy :: Play, Guitar, Play (Conway Twitty)
Will Oldham’s next long player (with the Cairo Gang ) is out March 23rd on Drag City. He and Emmett Kelly have dubbed this one The Wonder Show of the World . I have yet to hear a note […]
Angie Hart & Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: Little Bridges
Former Frente! vocalist, Angie Hart , duets with Bonnie “Prince” Billy on “Little Bridges” off her 2009 disc Eat My Shadow . The Juxtaposition between Hart and Oldham’s off-kilter vocals works perfectly here. MP3: […]
Decade :: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy/Matt Sweeney, Superwolf (2005)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy :: Death To Everyone (Live)
Just in time for the holidays! Markedly different from the stark I See A Darkness version, MBV just debuted this live rendering of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s “Death To Everyone,” a track that while culled from […]
Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: How About Thank You
Bonnie “Prince” Billy :: Los Angeles, 2009
Bonnie “Prince” Billy made several appearances L.A. last month in support of his new album, Beware , including a proper evening show at the El Rey, an Amoeba in-store, and a mid-morning studio taping […]
Nicolai Dunger :: Tranquil Isolation
A few weeks ago while in Austin, a group of us were discussing Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s new LP Beware — a conversation that soon shifted to Will Oldham related side-projects. Among other titles discussed […]