With Death Jokes Damon McMahon has created a complicated musical and cultural tapestry, inspired by hip-hop sample density. “I just really hope that people take the time to pay attention to th...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/23/catching-up-with-amen-dunes/
Maximal repetition with minimal deviation: This is the guiding principle of Water Damage, the amorphous Austin, Texas-based collective specializing in 20-minute slabs of hulking, relentless drone...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/22/water-damage-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
somesurprises began modestly, but with the band’s latest record, the excellent Perseids, they’ve moved into a positively widescreen space. It’s a dreamy sound, occasionally reminiscent of s...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/19/somesurprises-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
Sean O'Hagan's High Llamas project has always followed its creator's whims. But with Hey Panda, the Llamas embark on their most unexpected journey yet, straight into the heart of the auto-tuned, ...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/15/high-llamas-healing-potpourri-in-conversation/
"What does it mean to have music of spiritual substance?" Shabaka Hutchings of Sons of Kemet joins us to discuss his solo debut, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, which finds him shifti...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/11/shabaka-hutchings-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
The excellent All Gist, out this week on Paradise of Bachelors, sees James and Nathan taking their musical partnership back to its roots. It’s an album full of gorgeously interlocking guitars, ...
It’s been five years since the last Phosphorescent album, a dark half decade for most people and especially for those in the performing and creative arts. So it’s not surprising that when Mat...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/04/03/catching-up-with-phosphorescent-2/
Petra Haden and Mike Watt discuss their nuclear opera Planet Chernobyl, released under the Pelicanman banner and based on the work of poet Charles Plymell: "It's human expression," says Watt. T...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/29/petra-haden-and-mike-watt-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
Rosali joins us for a discussion about her fourth full-length, Bite Down. It's her best record yet and it embodies the healing power of art: “Music and songwriting have always been a spiritual ...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/18/rosali-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview-2/
Guitarist Bill Orcutt has expanded past genre, throwing blues or jazz or noise into the experimental blender that is his distinct guitar playing. Whether the jagged notes jutting out of his Telec...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/05/bill-orcutt-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
Though he's known for his work with Wilco and The Autumn Defense, Pat Sansone embraces wordless vistas and inner/outer cosmic tones on Infinity Mirrors, evoking the work of Steve Roach, Klaus Sch...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/04/patrick-sansone-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
Linda Smith started recording cassettes at home in the late 1980s, painstakingly writing out simple parts for voice, guitar, bass and percussion, laying them down on a four-track, dubbing them on...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/02/27/linda-smith-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
Nora Brown has been playing old time music since she was six years old. She came up in the folk scene surrounding the Jalopy Theatre, the headquarters of traditional music in New York City. Geari...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/02/25/nora-brown-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
During his 2020 live album Axiom, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly known as Christian Scott aTunde) states that he and his band are “reevaluating what we're playing and why." The result of th...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/02/22/chief-xian-atunde-adjuah-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
Tom Lunt on producing music by Memphis photographer William Eggleston and assorted collaborators: Brian Eno, Matana Roberts, Sam Amidon, and others. The post An Abstraction of Peculiar Experien...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/01/29/tom-lunt-on-william-eggleston/