If one thing has ever been predictable about Enter Shikari, it’s been that they will never do what you expect. From t…
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Someone said that “The first rule of post-rock is that you definitely don’t call it post-rock.” Portugues…
Annie Hart: “It wasn’t like I was trying to do anything different from Au Revoir Simone… It’s gonna sound similar, but I think it just has a little more space and less things going on.”
Best known as one-third of Au Revoir Simone, Annie Hart didn’t quite stop making music while her band is curren…
Hot Water Music: “Over the past few years, I think we’ve sort of got better at dealing with each other and respecting each other’s boundaries.”
With a near-25-year career and massive experience on the road, Gainesville’ Florida’s Hot Water Music are…
Noga Erez: “…I had to learn how to find the balance and how to not get myself too deep into things and still remain very aware of what’s happening.”
Tel Aviv’s Noga Erez belongs to the group of those rare artists that somehow find a way to excel in pretty much all t…
Jade Jackson: “What gave me peace was being on my room by myself writing songs or performing.”
Jade Jackson spent much of her time in a small California town, working in her parents’ restaurant and writing song a…
Steven Wilson: “I hope there’s more protest in music, because music has always thrived on protest and rebellion and anger…”
Never one to tread the beaten track, Steven Wilson has once again returned two years after the critically acclaimed H…
Zola Jesus: “I feel like I needed music to communicate to specific people, not just communicate to myself or to the world.”
Zola Jesus, or Nika Roza Danilova, has been active for more than a decade (even though her debut album, The Spoils, w…
EMA: “Obviously a lot of things are really fucked up and broken and I’m hoping that maybe this is the wake up call that everyone needs.”
Artists like EMA – a.k.a. Erika M Anderson – are definitely needed in our lives more than ever. With her …
Cigarettes After Sex: “I think the sadness comes from the fact that you have a good and beautiful memory in the past, but there’s this kind of sadness about it that it’s gone now…”
Imagine a black & white melancholically romantic film. That’s basically how Cigarettes After Sex sound like…
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…
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…