David Berman’s voice dominates the six records that he has released under the once-tattering banner of the Silver Jews. The baritone pulls tension across the loose ends of the Joos’ fall-apart country, binding everything together and sounding for the life of it like the closing of an industrial zipper. And the words that […]
Archive for the 'Silver Jews' Category
Monday, October 13th, 2008
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Aquarium Drunkard welcomes one of our all-time favorites, Silver Jews, to the Echoplex Friday September 26th. We have five pairs of tickets to give away to AD readers. Joos fan? Leave your name, email address and your favorite David Berman lyric(s) in the comments below. James Jackson Toth supports.
Previously: Silver Jews, David […]
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
There has been a lot of Joo’s love on Aquarium Drunkard of late; first, our two part interview with David Berman, plus I reviewed the new album for NPR last week. Here, AD’s J. Neas, a recent Joo’s convert, weighs in on Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, and not surprisingly, digs it. - AD
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Part two of our interview with Silver Jews’ David Berman. You can read part one HERE…
There is an alternate Nashville in another universe where everything works the way it was supposed to, one where Willie Nelson was never forced to move back to Texas and the current crop of country superstars pay more than lip […]
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Earlier this week Aquarium Drunkard caught up with Silver Jews’ David Berman whose new album Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (the Joos sixth LP) drops June 17th via the Drag City label. Here, in part one of the interview, Berman discusses his faith, recovery, the documentary film Silver Jew, songwriting and his fairly recent role […]
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
For those who didn’t catch it, I want to highlight the interview with the Silver Jews’ Dave Berman that Pitchfork Media posted last Friday. According to the interview, the next Joos LP Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, will no longer be released in April, as previously scheduled, but “later in 2008.” Here is […]
Monday, June 25th, 2007
As previously reported Dave Berman and his Joos are the subject of director Michael Tully’s documentary following the band on their tour throughout Israel last summer.
Earlier last week, I had the opportunity to watch a screener of the film and am happy to report Berman appears to be in both good health and in […]
