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Interviews and Features
Read in-depth interviews and features about independent musicians and music industry professionals.
Ages and Ages Takes Us Inside the Recording of Breathtaking New LP
No one can argue that passion for music is what drives the distinctive Portland-based Ages and...
Manila Killa Talks Tour Rehearsal and Soaking Up International Inspiration
At HARMAN’s Experience Center, Chris Gavino—better known as his stage name Manila Killa—and his...
HEEMS: Ex-Das Racist MC Explores America Through Socially-Conscious Hip-Hop
Heems’ debut hip-hop album, Eat Pray Thug, serves as a powerful antidote to the vapid rap that has been dominating the airwaves, or perhaps more accurately, online streams as of late. The lexically...
INTERVIEW: The Lone Bellow On Family, Musical Bonds and Recording with Aaron Dessner
A band’s mythology can bring quick acclaim, but can also threaten with weighty expectations. For The Lone Bellow, the improbable tale of southerners transplanted to Park Slope, Brooklyn, banding...
COVER STORY: Colleen Green on Songwriting After Your Twenties
COLLEEN GREEN Transitioning to a Studio Environment & Addressing Creativity at the End of Your 20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2VUAi-sIYM Following and listening to Colleen Green can often...
Twin Shadow Talks Eclipse, Plays Boston This Friday
The beauty that Twin Shadow’s third album, Eclipse, is entrenched in is almost elusive. George Lewis Jr. is forgoing electronic beats aimed at dance floors in favor of more subtle and carefully...
How Six Organs of Admittance Has Turned Rock Songwriting on Its Head
Ben Chasny’s New Composition Method Could Be a Game-Changer Beginning as a solo endeavor for Ben Chasny, Six Organs of Admittance now regularly features other musicians in concert and as guests on...
RECORDS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE: Matt Jatkola of The Bynars
Which records inspired you to become a musician? Let us know and you can be featured in a future column. Email [email protected] for more info. People of Earth: How Are You? My name is Matt...
The Juliana Hatfield Three Returns: The Performer Interview
THE JULIANA HATFIELD THREE How One of Alternative’s Most Storied Artists Capitalized on Crowdfunding To Craft a Masterpiece Twenty Years in the Making When Juliana Hatfield was younger, she took...
Find Out How Barney Greenway of Napalm Death Prepares For The Studio
NAPALM DEATH Metal’s Extreme Godfathers Brutalize the Genre’s Boundaries on Latest LP When one thinks of heavy and extreme music, the first groundbreaking band that immediately comes to mind is...
MUST LISTEN: Get to Know Austin’s Young Tongue
Stu Baker on Reinventing Your Band While Keeping Your Lineup Intact Death Rattle by Young Tongue We recently had a chance to chat with Stu Baker, one of the leaders of Austin-based Young Tongue. The...
MUST LISTEN: Tetherball’s Steve Voss Deconstructs His Creative Process
Whimsy by Tetherball I had the good fortune to sit down a couple of weeks ago and have a lengthy discussion with Steve Voss from Tetherball to get inside the mind of musical genius, and to find out...