Earlier this month AD caught up with Julie Ocean’s Terry Banks to discuss (among other things) the band’s new LP, Long Gone And Nearly There, the Velocity Girl days, The Undertones, the local scene in Washington D.C., and an open-ended invitation to Teenage Fanclub. Aquarium Drunkard: So tell me about where the band’s name comes [...]

I seem to go out of my way annually to crown a power-pop champion for the year. Someone whose subversion or reverential recreation of the genre is so willfully brilliant and fun that I have to listen to the record over and over. In 2006 it was Devin Davis, last year it was Georgie James, [...]