Interviews and Features
ROSE COUSINS On Allowing Lyrics to Get at the Heart of One’s Self
“I really believe in not having everything ironed out beforehand,” Rose Cousins tells me. “The magic gets lost in over-determination.” If this is indeed the...
[Cover Story] Nnamdi Ogbonnaya On Being the Gateway Drug for Rock & Hip-Hop Crowds to Co-Mingle
When Nnamdi Ogbonnaya speaks, it’s with the wry ‘everything is an absurdity’ of a hyper-intelligent 13-year-old with ADHD who’s skipped a grade and makes a...
Moka Only on Skirting the Line Between Jazz and Hip-Hop
We recently caught up with multi-award winning Canadian hip-hop artist Daniel Denton, aka Moka Only, to get a sense of what makes the insanely prolific...
Foxygen on Recording to Tape and Employing a 40-Piece Orchestra
Foxygen On Recording to 2” Tape and Employing a 40-Piece Orchestra on Their Latest Opus Sam France and Jonathan Rado are so in sync—to the point...
Dude York opens up about new LP, Sincerely
Dude York Breaks The Songwriting Code on Latest LP, Sincerely Like any other form of art, music is not merely a stagnant body for entertainment, but...
[INTERVIEW] Catching up with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on new LP, The Tourist
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH: Learning to Trust the Collaborative Process and Creative Freedoms Alec Ounsworth is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Philadelphia. You may...
Lady Lamb: How to Write an Album to Tour Behind
Lady Lamb Discusses Writing An Album to Give Touring a Purpose Navigating the beautiful abandon, enviable burden, and inevitable analysis of loving, Tender Warriors Club is...
[INTERVIEW] Celebrating 35 Years of Shonen Knife
Venerable Japanese Punks Shonen Knife Release Killer New LP, Adventure, and Discuss Cultural Differences in The Music Community We recently caught up with Naoko Yamano,...
[INTERVIEW] Honus Honus Opens up About Debut LP ‘Use Your Delusion’
Honus Honus: Man Man Frontman Explains The Ins and Outs of Music Supervision for TV “The world owes you nothing and you always have to hustle.”...
[Cover Story] The Regrettes on Female Empowerment and Recording ‘In-The-Moment’
The Regrettes: On Teenage Power and Knowing When to Quit Over-Finessing Your Recordings During this tenuous time, female empowerment is necessary now more than ever. We’ve...
