Guitar Aficionado: DAVID DUCHOVNY REVEALS HIS HIDDEN TALENTS WITH GUITAR IN HAND

SUPER NATURAL: Actor David Duchovny suppressed his musical ambitions until a guitar brought out his hidden talents as a singer-songwriter.

For more than two decades now, David Duchovny has been more or less a known quantity. Without a doubt, he’s most famous and respected for his acting work in two long-running TV series: The X-Files, in which he played extraterrestrial-obsessed FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, and Californication, in which he starred as the dissolute writer Hank Moody. Duchovny has also appeared in a dozen other television shows and more than 30 movies where he often specialized in bringing quirky, off-center characters to life.

BIO INTERVIEW: Duchovny Talks New 'Aquarius' Role & Being a Renaissance Man

David Duchovny explains (in blunt terms) why 'Aquarius' got his attention and why he's exploring other forms of art. But unfortunately, he's staying mum on the whole X-Files reboot.

Flashback to 1967 and the summer of love when thousands of flower children came together and started a social revolution. In Los Angeles, LAPD Detective Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny) is having trouble adjusting to the change in the mores in the world he and the Greatest Generation saved from fascism 20 years previously during World War II.

That is the backdrop for NBC's new summer series Aquarius, premiering May 28th, a work of historical fiction in which Hodiak solves crimes, and while doing so, encounters Charles Manson (Gethin Anthony), who is just beginning to become the Pied Piper and two years later will convince his followers to commit the heinous Tate-LaBianca murders.

Boston Herald Interview: David Duchovny to perform ‘Hell’ of a show

If David Duchovny’s debut album, “Hell or Highwater,” failed artistically and commercially, he’d have an excuse: not enough time to make it great between writing debut novel “Holy Cow,” which came out in February, and filming NBC’s upcoming Charles Manson miniseries “Aquarius.”

But artistically, “Hell or Highwater,” out May 12, isn’t a failure. It’s actually pretty darn good. Not good for a vanity project, but a legitimately fun and rewarding listen.

Video Interview: David Duchovny talks 'X-Files' & new album 'Hell or Highwater' - April 2, 2015

Premiering May 28 on NBC, the freshman series Aquarius centers on Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny), a homicide detective who’s searching for the missing daughter (Emma Dumont) of an ex-girlfriend in 1967 Los Angeles. A mixture of hardboiled, sunshine noir and historical fiction, Aquarius also stars Gethin Anthony as Charles Manson.

Along with the anticipated premiere of Aquarius, Duchovny is also returning to The X-Files universe with Gillian Anderson and producer/writer Chris Carter. The trio’s last collaboration was the 2008 feature The X-Files: I Want To Believe.

“I’m happy to be going back. We’re going to do six episodes of The X-Files in June. It’ll be interesting to see what we got, you know? It’ll be interesting to see who we are now and what stories we’re going to tell. I don’t know anything more about it than that – just that I’m excited to work with Gillian and Chris again.“

Hell or Highwater Release Date May 12 Pre-Order Now - David Duchovny talks about his debut album

David Duchovny released his first novel in February. He's got a new NBC TV series, called Aquarius, debuting in May, and Fox is reviving his '90s hit The X Files for a six-episode run. About the only thing Duchovny doesn't have in the works is an album.

Oh, wait. He does.

On May 12, Duchovny will release his first album, Hell or Highwater, on ThinkSay Records. The album contains 12 songs written by Duchovny. He's backed by a group of musicians who perform separately under the name Weather and give his songs a '90s-rock feel in the vein of The Wallflowers and the Gin Blossoms.

The cover of David Duchovny's album "Hell or Highwater," due May 12. (Photo: ThinkSay Records)

David Duchovny ‘had a really great time’ in Australia, so why hasn’t he come back?

It has been 15 years since David Duchovny last visited Australia and he doesn’t know why he hasn’t been back.

Maybe it is because the 13- to 14-hour flight from Los Angeles “is far”.

“I had a really great time there, it was beautiful,” Duchovny told Confidential.

“I would like to come again. I don’t know why I haven’t been, I really liked Australia.”

Duchovny, 54, perhaps best known for his work on hit US TV series The X Files and Californication, will next be seen in Aquarius.

Q&A: A Change of Tune with David Duchovny

Right after wrapping production on Aquarius—an NBC series premiering in 2015—David Duchovny turned to a very different project: finishing his debut album, dropping in March. Produced by local indie label ThinkSay Records and recorded at Somerville’s Q Division Studios, it features a backing band of Berklee grads, and Duchovny hit the school to speak with students during his December stay in town. But first, he riffed with us a bit in the studio.

YOU’RE KNOWN FOR YOUR ROLES ON THE X-FILES AND CALIFORNICATION, AND YOU’VE ALSO WRITTEN AND DIRECTED. BUT WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO MUSIC?  I was on a path where I was working four months out of the year, which gave me a lot of time off. I was with my kids in the city, and they were in school all day. So I had a lot of time until 3 o’clock, and I’d always wanted to play guitar. I started teaching myself, you know, looking up chords on the internet for songs that I like, and started playing them. And then I realized, oh hey, these songs are not reinventing anything. It’s rock and roll. So I thought, you know, why can’t I do that? And lyrically I knew that I could hang because I’ve always written. I’ve written a lot of poetry and I’m sort of a mediocre poet, but I think mediocre poets make good lyricists.

Photos & Article: David Duchovny Talks Music with Berklee College Of Music Students

Actor David Duchovny had some good advice for students at Berklee College of music yesterday, where the X-Files star was speaking to a class about his upcoming record, his new band, and how to find the right musicians to play with.

“Resilience is the most important part of your career,” Duchovny said. “You have to keep trying.”

At that point, Duchovny was actually speaking about his acting career, responding to a question from a Berklee student about how he juggles so many projects and paths. But now that Showtime series Californication is in the books and upcoming NBC drama Aquarius has finished filming, Duchovny has shifted his focus to music, and could very well have been talking about his newfound hobby.

David Duchovny Talks Wilco-Influenced Debut Album, Marilyn Manson Duet - July 2014

The actor also intends to put out his first book, a fable, next year

David Duchovny, who recently said goodbye to his show Californication, will be making a foray into music when he releases his debut album next year. And even though he recently tweeted a since-deleted picture of himself playing guitar with Marilyn Manson, he says his music would be more beautiful than "Beautiful People." "I can only compare my music to artists that you know, so it's going to sound like I'm bragging," the actor tells Rolling Stone. "But in my wildest dreams, I would sound like Wilco or R.E.M. I'd put it somewhere in there – if I'm lucky."

The Sun Sets On ‘Californication’: David Duchovny Discusses the Show’s Rock n’ Roll Connection (Q&A)

This Sunday night (June 29th at 9:30p ET/PT), after seven memorable seasons, Hank Moody and his very distinctive ‘Californication’ crew will say farewell. When the credits come up on that last episode of the popular Showtime series, it will also mark the end of one of the most authentically rock n’ roll shows to ever grace the screen according to Sex Pistols’ guitarist Steve Jones, an authority on the subject who has played Krull for the final two seasons. Jones credits ‘Californication’s musical supremacy to the show’s creator, Tom Kapinos. “Tom has a good sense of the rock n’ roll world for sure, because he loves [it], he plays guitar himself, I think he reads everything about music and I think he just knows a lot more than most who write for TV shows,” Jones tells Billboard. “Hence it comes out cool and not cheeseball.”

Over the past seven seasons, ‘Californication’ has been more than just a home for great music for everyone from Tommy Stinson, Joseph Arthur, Lily Haydn and Darker My Love to the Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Elton John and Warren Zevon -- the show’s unofficial artist in residence whose “Keep Me In Your Heart” during the final episode of season two remains one of the series’ most enduring musical memories. It’s also been a home for great musicians; in addition to Jones, Marilyn Manson, Rick Springfield and RZA had recurring guest starring roles on the show.

“We’re Tom Kapinos’ rock n’ roll fantasy camp,” says the show’s star, David Duchovny. As author Hank Moody, Kapinos’ rollicking and rocking alter ego, Duchovny has learned to play guitar, sung the Band’s “The Weight” on stage at L.A.’s Greek Theater and written a musical biography of fictional iconic producer Lew Ashby. “Tom is a big music lover. I guess Moody is such a wish fulfillment fantasy for a writer like Tom. He’s a writer that has a rock n’ roll lifestyle,” Duchovny says.

Photos: David Duchovny making music - April 17, 2014

David Duchovny playing the guitar at Think Say Records on April 17, 2014. 

David Duchovny playing one of his songs in LA - March 2014

David Duchovny practicing one of his new songs. #thinksaynewscoming. March 28, 2014