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Interviews and Features
Read in-depth interviews and features about independent musicians and music industry professionals.
INTERVIEW: Tom Anello aka Tom in Boston
Boston Guitarist Shares Strategy for Being a Digital-First Musician We recently worked with the...
INTERVIEW: Catching up with Walter Martin
Walkmen Founder Takes us Through Latest Solo Journey, ‘The Bear’ There is a certain beauty in...
“I’ll Sing Myself Back”: An Interview with Suzanne Santo
Suzanne Santo couldn’t sleep. She’d tried everything one tries to bring about sleep when it is elusive, when it won’t come, and had no luck. What she could do, however, was write about it, write it...
Sub-Radio Prove POP is Not a Dirty Word
We had the pleasure of working with indie pop-rock act Sub-Radio recently as part of a larger video promotion with Elixir Strings, and the sheer amount of fun the boys projected through the screen...
Efterklang: Redefining Their Process Through the Pandemic
Childhood school friends Casper Clausen, Mads Brauer and Rasmus Stolberg grew up on the tiny Danish island of Als, sharing their love of electronic and classical music. Now known as Efterklang, the...
COVER STORY: Eric Burton of Black Pumas Interview
Black Pumas’ Eric Burton on Keeping it Simple and Being the Man of the People In the middle of Black Pumas’ dynamite Austin City Limits performance from early last year, lead singer Eric Burton...
Sunny War: Punk-Folk Guitarist on Optimism and Survival
Sydney Ward (aka Sunny War) isn’t your typical blues guitarist. Raised in a musical family between Nashville and Detroit’s music hubs, at an early age she developed a unique acoustic guitar style....
Lou Barlow and the Quest for Change Amidst Chaos
Few musical artists from the last few decades have been as prolific as Lou Barlow. Ever since alt-rock luminaries Dinosaur Jr. burst onto the scene with their eclectic-sounding debut in 1985, the...
COVER STORY: AJ Smith Turns Engineering Into Creative Fuel
AJ Smith is jack of all trades, and well, a master of them all, too. Starting off his professional career on an engineering path, he found himself pursuing music and songwriting (and thank goodness,...
GARY NUMAN INTERVIEW: Synth Pioneer Talks About New LP
Gary Numan’s 18th solo album, Intruder, is dark and sexy, visionary and venomous, a tale told from a different perspective. The album follows 2017’s Savage: Songs from a Broken World, which became...
Devon: Indie Songstress Takes Us Inside Her Songwriting Approach
We first got to know Devon through a series of videos we worked on together in conjunction with Harman, showing off how AKG and JBL products could be used in the home studio to create a fresh new...
Bartees Strange on Making Music He Wants to Hear (and Letting Go of the Rest)
Bartees Strange is having quite a year. Heaps of critical praise, commercial attention, and vocal fandom have been directed at Bartees and his two 2020 releases: Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy, a deft...