The mystery that surrounded Dum Dum Girls is no longer an issue as Dee Dee Penny, who the U.S. Census bureau know as Kristin Gundred, and her three black-clad beauties have recently made their way onto stages across the U.S. and the U.K. Complete with drummer Frankie Rose (ex-Vivian Girls/Crystal Stilts), a Silvertone-branded arsenal of [...]
(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing. Today we catch up Roadside Graves’ John Gleason whose EP You Won’t Be Happy With Me came out last week.) A few months back I was driving to work and heard Shearwater’s [...]
Our erratic SXSW coverage continues….below, a chat with Austin Fisher of the Brooklyn based Suckers. A relatively new outfit, whose debut LP, Wild Smile, is set to drop June 8th on French Kiss Records, Suckers are presently gearing up for a two-month national tour with Local Natives. Words/MP3 after the jump…
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Sometime last Fall, when the leaves were barely hanging on to the branches of the trees back East, my old friend Jeff Thrope (who now helms the excellent blog Cold Splinters out of Brooklyn) hipped me to Family Band’s Miller Path LP using brevity: he simply stated I needed this music in my life. Indeed. [...]
Aquarium Drunkard caught up with Lissie, the best pipes at SXSW, before her set at Mess With Texas in the midst of her whirlwind week in Austin. The following discussion veers from Throat Coat tea to Hulu faves…with a little music talk thrown in for the hell of it. Lissie is set to embark on [...]
Barn-folk-revival. A ‘real’ genre? Well no, but that’s what comes to mind whenever Melanie’s “Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” pops up on an old mixtape of the same name. Aided by The Edwin Hawkins Singers, “Lay Down” adds a muscular oomph to Melanie’s gruff trademark purr. Highly recc’d. MP3: Melanie & The Edwin Hawkins [...]
Welcome to the third installment of an irregular series in which I highlight some of my favorite voices online and beyond. At the beginning of the year we featured sets by Raven Sings The Blues and Ponytone — today we catch up with DJ Turquoise Wisdom. Wisdom (Zach Cowie) has worked in the record business [...]
In the span of 48 hours I managed to catch five Futurebirds shows during SXSW: the band’s official showcase, several day parties and a crazed, impromptu, house party somewhere off South Congress. These guys are, in a word, the truth. As I mentioned last Fall, Futurebirds inhabit a space somewhere in between Tennessee Fire era [...]
To say that Have One On Me, Joanna Newsom’s new two-hour triple-disc, is a challenging listen is an understatement. It’s a well-wrought record to be sure, and Newsom’s songwriting—both lyrically and structurally—are more ambitious than ever, and she’s inched just close enough to the borders of indie-folk to keep the untrained listener happy. But it’s [...]
