Honey Moon: Uncut
Tuesday, 14th April 2009
"a dozen songs of romantic yearning from deep within their own strange world... Modern romance then - but not as we know it"- Rob Hughes, UncutYou can read the review here or in the latest issue of Uncut magazine.
Maverick: The Handsome Family
Monday, 13th April 2009
Jeremy Searle caught up with Brett and Renne Sparks for the latest issue of Maverick Magazine to discuss their audiences, New Zealand, marriage, Darwin, line dancing and ultimately WYSIWYG!!You can read the interview below or in the latest issue...
Americana UK: Honey Moon
Thursday, 9th April 2009
Not much sweetness oozing from this satellite.They’ve been gradually tramping a path through the damp dark woods of Gothic Americana for some time now....- David Cowling
Handsome's: The Word
Thursday, 9th April 2009
"This is music that is deeply rooted in romance, that feels the push and pull of adult life while placing itself somewhere to the side of it"- Rob Fitzpatrick, The WordYou can read the full article here , or by purchasing the magazine now!
Magnet: The Handsome Family
Wednesday, 8th April 2009
Over the course of 16 years and nine albums, the weird, wonderful world of the Handsome Family has been populated by tales of ghosts, murders, bottomless holes and the mysterious deaths of Nikola Tesla and Amelia Earhart. For the Albuquerque,...
Spin: Honey Moon
Tuesday, 7th April 2009
The songs are an effortless blend of vintage country and pre-rock'n'roll pop, but New Mexico's Handsome Family are no cutesy nostalgia act. On their eighth album, spouses Brett and Rennie Sparks continue to put a brilliantly surreal twist on...
Live Notes
Monday, 16th March 2009
We've added a few dates in April for Arizona and California with our friends from Rhode Island, Barn Burning. These shows will all have local support bands and the show at Modified in Phoenix will be a special Song Trading set with both Robert...
Mr. David Viner - Old Black Crow
Sunday, 15th March 2009
Directed and Animated by Michael Eaton
Diversions ... Murder Ballads
Tuesday, 3rd March 2009
(Diversions, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with their favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing. They're kicking the series off in style with the incomparable Rennie Sparks, of The Handsome...
Independent review
Sunday, 1st March 2009
Ah, good old-fashioned country music. Well, good old-fashioned country music as played by someone who spent her twenties in "a sludgy, noisy, instrumental math-metal band called Last of the Juanitas". Miss Lana Rebel is a native of Portland,...
Lana Phones in
Monday, 23rd February 2009
Miss Lana Rebel phoned it in for the excellent "Phoning It In" radio show last week. "lo-fi is the right fi: dj talksonthephone calls up all your favorite musicians for live over-the-phone performances and awkward conversation."Miss Lana Rebel...
3 Minutes of Madness
Friday, 20th February 2009
Peter Bruntnell has a new track available for download (£1.00) on the '3 Minutes of Madness website'.After the recent acoustic and psychedelic tinged album, "Peter & The Murder Of Crows" I thought to do something loud and electric, more in the...
Bear Witness
Sunday, 1st February 2009
New DVD + Bonus CDThis DVD contains the complete gig of the Rockpalast Crossroads show in Bonn, plus outtakes and an interview with Robert Fisher. Add some footage from the Orange Blossom Special #9 (2005), a 12-page booklet and a Radio Bremen...
On Tour with Clarabelle and The Pilgrim Orchestra
Wednesday, 28th January 2009
I thought you might enjoy this booklet that our bandmate John Songdahl worked on while we were on the Pilgrim Orchestra Tour in May (2008). John mixed the record and came along to play trombone. He was looking for a way to produce something from...
Handsome Family UK dates
Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Support from Liz Green*support from The Smoke Fairies+14th MayBRIGHTON - THE GREAT ESCAPE - MOJO NIGHTwww.escapegreat.com15th MayLEEDS - THE BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB *0113-2455570www.brudenellsocialclub.co.ukDoors - 8pmTickets - £10/£1216th...
MEET THE HANDSOME FAMILY
Tuesday, 13th January 2009
THE HANDSOME FAMILY is husband and wife Brett Sparks (music) and Rennie Sparks (lyrics) who live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.They have long considered their music to be Romantic in the 19th century sense of the word: full of an awed sense of...
The Quietus: Attic Thieves
Saturday, 20th December 2008
Despite their association with kerazee cross-over comedy superstars the Mighty Boosh, Attic Thieves is perhaps unlikely to propel the Ralfe Band into the nation's living rooms like their appearances in the hit comedy.No matter. It's not as if...
Africa Express….
Tuesday, 18th November 2008
Hey folks, hope it’s all rollin easy. I’ve been meaning to write a little bit about an amazing show that I had the pleasure of seeing and playing a part in, (in a super small way). I went to the Africa Express show a few weeks ago at Koko in...
Mr David Viner back online
Saturday, 25th October 2008
Mr. David Viner has launched a new website today.Get on over and have a browse.www.mrdavidviner.com
BBC on '... murder of crows"
Sunday, 7th September 2008
Although everyone thinks he's American, this Kingston-On-Thames native who lives in Devon has been feted by the twang crowd for years, namely from the stomp of his Peter Bruntnell Combination back in the mid-90s, but this something of a different...
Felice in the UK
Wednesday, 3rd September 2008
They came, they saw, they conquered! The Brothers Felice played a raucous week of shows that made many a new friend across seven sold out shows. They did find the time to drop in on a few radio stations as well for all of those who couldn’t get...
Peter in US Amplifier magazine
Tuesday, 2nd September 2008
You'd be forgiven for thinking that Peter Bruntnell is American. For a start, although he isn't too keen on the expression, the songs and structures on his most recent CD, the best-selling "Normal For Bridgwater" fit firmly into the "alt-country"...
Peter Bruntnell on Buckett of Brains cover
Tuesday, 26th August 2008
Issue #64"The Peter Bruntnell Combination," claims the blackboard, wonkily. "Free entry before 9.30."You check the clock. Why not? After all, nothing to lose. Down in the gloom the band appear. The man with the un-rock name has an acoustic guitar...
Last Days of Wonder
Sunday, 15th June 2008
A collection of clippings from The Handsome Family album 'Last Days of Wonder'."An unqualified triumph" - Uncut"a collection of mini masterpieces" - The Independent On Sunday"they imply the wild things at civilisation's edge - brilliant!" -...
They shoot music
Thursday, 22nd May 2008
"Hi, how are you doing, buddie?"Robert Fisher addresses the grayed shepherd dog in an old lady’s wintergarden in an outskirt of Vienna. The lead singer and mastermind of Willard Grant Conspiracy – a California-based collective with up to...