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The Monolith Festival, held at Red Rocks outside of Denver, CO is approaching this weekend. AD sat down to chat with one of the festival's performers, Liam Finn, about how he ended up at Monolith, touring partners, current and future records and growing up as a musician under the influence of his father, Neil Finn. His 2008 solo debut, I'll Be Lightning, has garnered strong critical reviews and he's currently on a tour of the U.S. with the Veils.
Aquarium Drunkard: My first question is just about the Monolith Festival - how you got involved in that. There are a lot of great bands playing there and I wondered how you got drawn into playing there.
Liam Finn: I guess my agent was shopping for some festivals. And Monolith was the first people who were sort of interested in what we were doing. I don't really know that much about the festival other than that there are some great bands playing. I'm looking forward to it, it ought to be quite fun.
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Yeeee Haw!! Put on them shitkickers, fellas! Ha, kidding, but for real, AD, MOKB and 30 Tigers are throwing a joint showcase at The Basement, in Nashvegas, the Friday night (9/19) of the AMA Festival. Doors are at 7pm and as . . .
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As I mentioned in August, Vetiver's 2008 all-covers album, Thing of The Past, has been a favorite around here over the past few months. Today, we're taking that interest a little further. If you're curious in the artists behind the scenes, below are . . .
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"The Dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there, the Dude, takin' 'er easy for all us sinners." - The Stranger
To abide is to accept without condition or question, and the Dude reminds of us that again in 2008. This year marks the 10th anniversary of White Russians and 10-pin, of nihilists and thousand . . .
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Aquarium Drunkard is presenting tomorrow nights Delta Spirit show at Republic New Orleans , Wednesday, September 9th. Hurricane Ike be damned, its going to be a good show. We caught up with the band's bassist, Jonathan Jameson, last week to discuss the new release Ode To Sunshine .
Aquarium Drunkard: Ode To Sunshine is an intimate record. One that calls on the familiarity of folk and yet still captures the rawness of punk rock. Describe the recording process at that cabin in Julian, CA and will you be doing more recording there or branching out to other locations?
Jonathan Jameson: Heat. Dogs. Friends. Heat. Live. Fun. Discouragement. Work. Slip n' Slide. Heat. Whiskey. BBQ. Eli. Sauna. Accomplishment. It was beautiful. It will be very different next time...that is all i know.
AD: As you were recording these songs, did it, at the time feel like what you thought Delta Spirit would sound like as you formed in 2005? Are there ways your original vision was different than the current group?
JJ: Yeah. The biggest difference was that we started with four people and now we have five. we have never tried to change our sound or send it in one specific direction, but it has changed and evolved and I'm sure it will continue to.
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Sometimes the movements of time's big hands adjusts our fuzzy view of the past and pulls the picture into focus. Here we are in September of 2008, and Okkervil River's The Stage Names, a record that was at first loved and then capsized by the digital wake of 2007, has floated to the surface unharmed. The Stage Names made few (if any) top ten lists last year, despite . . .
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Tomorrow sees the release of The Broken West's sophomore LP, Now Or Heaven, their second album for their label home at Merge Records. The album marks a departure from the more straight froward, hook laden, work of the bands last two studio efforts, both in tone and arrangement. We caught up with the Broken West's vocalist and songwriter, Ross Flournoy . . .
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Blitzen Trapper's 2007 release, Wild Mountain Nation, was hailed as an ideological heir to Pavement's Wowee Zowee - all jumbled genre and sprightly chaos. And the same could be said of
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Damien Jurado's new album Caught In The Trees drops this Tuesday, September 9th, via the Secretly Canadian label. That evening, here in Los Angeles, AD is presenting the second night of his Fall tour at Spaceland. We have three pairs of tickets for the . . .
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Seeing a band with multiple writers employing the old trick of 'you write it, you sing it' is always fun to watch - especially to see how the other singers add to the recipe when they're not the spotlight. Greensboro, North Carolina's Dawn Chorus mine that territory with a pair of songwriters - Zachary Mull and Andrew Dudek - who compliment each other in numerous ways. Whether it's lyrical style or guitar work, along with Amy Kingsley and Will Ridenour, the band is a cohesive unit.
The band's latest . . .
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Hitting the road this fall with Dr. Dog, and with an album in the can produced by the Black Keys Dan Aurbach, San Antonio's Hacienda is on our watch list. And not to oversimplify the bands sound, but if you're a fan of the aforementioned Dog and Black Keys, you'd be doing yourself a slight injustice to not at least stream the below track off their upcoming album
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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS, channel 26 Left Of Center, can now be heard twice, every Friday - Noon EST and then an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. Below is this week’s playlist.
SIRIUS 62: Deerhunter - Cover Me (Slowly) ++ No Age - Teen Creeps ++ My Bloody Valentine - Loomer ++ Bjork - Human Behavior ++ Dark Meat - Well Fuck You Then ++ Blitzen Trapper - Sleeptime In . . .
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(Sevens, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)
This one is a favorite. It's a time machine. Recorded as the title track for the 1967 James Bond film of the same name, Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice," with its sweeping string arrangement, coyly imbues both a sense opportunity and warning. Take heed.
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Nashville's Lambchop return to retail shelves next month with their eleventh full-length studio album OH (Ohio). Over the years the country-soul collective has employed as may as 16 sixteen members, rotating in and out of the fold, but for this go-round the lineup is slim (relatively speaking) with a core of eight musicians tapped for contribution. We caught up with Lambchop principal, Kurt Wagner, last week, to discuss the art of collaboration, the new LP, his 2007 tour-only solo album, and a dream he once had of having a drink with Dr. Martin Luther King. - AD
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Aquarium Drunkard: Lambchop has a new album coming out in early October - OH (Ohio) - do you call the record Ohio or 'oh?'
Kurt Wagner: I call it Ohio. The OH is just like the postal abbreviation and then the parenthetical pronunciation of it, so, yes, it's confusing. [laughs]
AD: So, why this as the album title? Did you realize Sufjan Stevens was never going to make it through all 50 states and you decided to jump in and help him?
KW: [laughs] No, no. The simple explanation is that it's the title of the first song on the record, but I just sort of liked the word and I liked the way it worked with the painting on the cover and I just sort of liked it. It doesn't really have an identity - you don't conjure up a lot of stuff when you see the word 'Ohio.' Although it's pretty prevalent, you know - it's a state. [laughs]
AD: Yeah, it's a state that when you think about it, and no offense to anyone who lives in Ohio, but when you think about it, me personally, I don't know what comes to mind.
KW: Not much. And I kind of like that, as a word and stuff like that. It's a little more undefined. I think that's kind of - there's something neat about that. It makes it possible to make a connection between that and this music and artwork, etc.
AD: How big was Lambchop this time around?
KW: Well, it's pretty similar to the band from Damaged. Basically Lambchop has been distilled down into a group of 7 or 8 people who can travel and perform live. And I wanted to see if we could make a record that could represent the sound that that small ensemble made, so we didn't dig into the alumni association file too much to make it. It's more representing the sound of these guys who have been the core of the group.
AD: Are you going on the road for this record?
KW: As a band, yeah, eventually in the United States, we'll be doing a lot of European stuff. I'm doing some solo performances to sort of pick up the slack of not having a band prior to the release. We'll do a lot in Europe in the fall and the United States, hopefully, in January.
AD: Speaking of solo shows, you released a self-title solo record last year..
KW: Well, I didn't really release it, I just sort of sold it at some solo shows here and in Europe. It was just sort of leading up to the recording of the record and I thought it'd be a new approach for me as a writer to try to perform these songs solo and see how that went. And that was the way of developing the songs before I brought them to the band, and we went ahead and made a recording to put out.
AD: The two records - Kurt and OH - share about five songs?
KW: Yeah, maybe even one more. That was a starting point and then I went on the tour and then I worked on almost all the songs except for a couple. And that was my chance to sort of start to develop them - just so it was a different approach to the way I go about writing. They changed as the performances went on. It was just an idea to go out there and play songs and work on them in the live context. I was kind of interested in seeing what would happen if I did that. I've never tried that before.
AD: So how did it work out?
KW: You'd have to tell me. [laughs] As a process, I was really happy with it and as results I was really happy with it. There was something a little different about how these songs have come together and how they sound, I think. It was a good process.
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