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Slaughter Beach, Dog: “I just felt really very relaxed and at peace, so the songs had this really good energy going where I feel all of them have a more relaxed intimacy…”
Slaughter Beach, Dog started as a solo project for Jake Ewald – best known for his work on Modern Baseball R…
Wolves In The Throne Room: “We’re not trying to be anything, we’re not trying to do anything. We’re just trying to make the music that we want to make, and that’s kind of what folk music is.”
There was a time when Washington’s Wolves In The Throne Room were vicious upstarts, threatening not only to usurp USB…
Algiers: “You can’t have a different future unless you try to start thinking about it, or at least imagining that there’s got to be something other than this.”
Algiers, the Atlanta-based power trio turned into a four-piece (Matt Tong on drums), is back. Follow-up an incendiary…
The Movielife: “It feels great to be a band, to have people that still remember us and care about us and sing along to all of our older songs. It’s very special.”
It’s still hard to believe that The Movielife are back and with a new record after splitting up in 2003. Cities…
Melt-Banana: Grind-Pop From Beyond The Stars
“One of the most astonishing live bands on Earth. In fact, if somebody were to say to me, ‘is there any band th…
Oxbow: “I want all of ‘Thin Black Duke’ to be completely Oxbow, so that was the challenge for that.”
The idea of a concept album is an old one, but a concept career? That’s another matter entirely. We’re not talking Gw…
Lingua Ignota (aka Kristin Hayter) talked to us about sampling Aileen Wuornos, redefining “heavy” & the humans who inspire her art.
A piece of music should stir emotions and evoke inquisitive thought. Lingua Ignota is, perhaps, the most thought prov…
Stone Sour: “We really wanted an old school rock n’ roll vibe, it was just us in a room jamming”
Stone Sour made a straight-up rock n’ roll comeback with their latest album Hydrograd. But are they breaking any new …
Wear Your Wounds: “I have to enjoy what I’m doing and be able to get something emotionally and psychologically out of it.”
There are few artists who can be called iconic on multiple levels without a hint of exaggeration. The likes of Nick C…
Los Campesinos!: “I think that one of the strengths of our band over the past decade is being very honest, because I have always written very honestly and openly…”
During their sixth album, Los Campesinos! found themselves working relentlessly on everything surrounding the band an…
Adventures In Progressive Sound: An Interview With Be Prog! My Friend’s Founder Juan Antonio Muñoz
Al though only founded in 2014, Be Prog! My Friend has become one of the most unique entries in Europe’s already-cram…
Miss May I: “We tackled self-doubt, crumbling relationships, and overcoming particular hardships in our personal lives.”
With a brand new album just released and a decade as band, Miss May I keep challenge themselves and continue to be au…
Hurray for the Riff Raff: “I think it’s very sad that right now to stand for equality, justice and love is radical. I think it should be normal to stand for those things.”
In the scary times that we live in as a society, there are still artists that standout for their bravery and integrit…
Father John Misty: “I think the biggest realization that I had was that love really is survival. That love is the essence of survival and if we don’t love each other we die.”
You can have an opinion or even a preconceived idea of the man. What you can’t do is point your finger without listen…