Interviews and Features

Read in-depth interviews and features about independent musicians and music industry professionals.

COVER STORY: Samara Joy, Making Jazz Cool Again for a New Generation

To the casual listener, the cool and loungey sound of a jazz ensemble is likely to conjure up images of elegantly smokey and dimly-lit nightclubs buzzing with the chatter of debonair patrons sipping on expensive cocktails and exuding a perfectly cultivated air of...

COVER STORY: Diet Cig Opens Up About New LP ‘Swear I’m Good at This’

COVER STORY: Diet Cig On Modern Feminism in Music and Capturing Raw Emotion in Your Art The female...

Impossible Song: An Interview with Juliana Hatfield

On April 28th, American Laundromat Records will release Pussycat, Juliana Hatfield’s fifteenth...

Vita and the Woolf Discuss the Making of Their Latest LP, Tunnels

“I always had a ‘thing’ about music,” Jennifer Pague, frontwoman of Vita and the Woolf, says as...

Belle Histoire

by Katrina Nattress | Jul 16, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Transcending Hardcore Origins with More Personal Songwriting http://youtu.be/pzjDZAgE_Ew GENRE: Indie Rock HOMETOWN: Cincinnati, OH ARTISTIC APPROACH: Producing soft, catchy tunes that fans can...

The Nightmare River Band

by Andrew Lapham Fersch | Jul 16, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Changing the Perceptions of Country Through Collaborative Arrangements http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6aKgwKfREc GENRE: Alt-Country HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, NY ARTISTIC APPROACH: To make music you’d...

Deadkill

by Carolyn Vallejo | Jul 16, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Stripping Down Their Sound & Finding Success with Non-Conformity http://vimeo.com/43913353 GENRE: Rock/Punk HOMETOWN: Seattle, WA ARTISTIC APPROACH: Stripped-down rock with a rowdy front. URL:...

An Interview with Mark Lanegan

by Julia R. DeStefano | Jul 10, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Former Screaming Trees Frontman on Musical Collaboration, Recording Solo and Structuring His Songwriting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCa9BBVeTjo When attempting to characterize the enigmatic man...

Hallelujah the Hills

by Andrew Lapham Fersch | Jul 10, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Recording on a Tight Schedule No One Knows What Happens Next by Hallelujah The Hills Although Hallelujah the Hills’ lead singer and wordsmith has been credited with creating “music without limits”...

Portland Cello Project

by Performer Magazine | Jul 10, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Cavalcade of Strings Takes on Hip-Hop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWCTlBUGZo Portland Cello Project’s leader, Doug Jenkins, recently spoke with Performer about his group’s mission to blur genre...

Dirty Projectors: A Glimpse into the Band’s Artfulness, Craftsmanship and Forthcoming Album

by Taylor Haag | Jul 5, 2012 | Interviews and Features

Cut from an unconventional stone, the Brooklyn art-rock outfit Dirty Projectors are revered for their avant-garde blending of musical styles, kinky rhythms and atypical album ideas. Under the...