Frankie Rose: Braving the Darkness to Push Creative Boundaries When your musical resume includes...
Interviews and Features
Read in-depth interviews and features about independent musicians and music industry professionals.
Catching up with Alvvays
Alvvays: How to Stay Sane on Tour and Learn to Trust Collaboration Alvvays released their...
How Waxwork Records Breathes New Life into Long-Lost Horror Soundtracks
Resurrecting the Undead with WAXWORK RECORDS We recently caught up with Waxwork Records founder...
CHEECH: February 2013 Cover Story
On DIY Values, Punishing Guitars & Pushing Hardcore Into Double-Album Territory Ante Up by CHEECH CHEECH has been a fixture on the New England hardcore scene for over 15 years, remaining true to...
The Art of the Dance Accompanist
An Inside Look at a Ballet Pianist’s Process Deep in the heart of Music City, USA lives a 23-year-old pianist by the name of Eric Burgett. He is small town, central-Illinois native who moved to...
Fiddlin’ Around with Sarah Wilfong
Nashville Violinist on Recording String Sections & Managing A DIY Career Nashville-by-way-of-Chicago’s Sarah Wilfong is a world-class violinist and one helluva fiddler, having toured the world...
Ricky Skaggs: Bluegrass Icon on Choosing The Right Producer & Honoring His Past
http://youtu.be/meMZNiHURe0 Ricky Skaggs, the multi-instrumentalist, neo-traditional bluegrass ambassador has been out on the road in Europe this year, going from an all-acoustic set crossing over...
Mystical Weapons on Improvisation, Vintage Gear & Weirdo Synths
http://youtu.be/z_YMK4U9nmM Mystical Weapons is the brainchild of Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier and Sean Lennon, who recently teamed up to form and record an album of the same name. The two met...
Spotlight on ExDetectives
http://youtu.be/KsrXrOpF6kk GENRE: Indie Rock HOMETOWN: Richardson, TX ARTISTIC APPROACH: Overcoming artistic limitations to generate prolific output. farismcreynolds.blogspot.com Faris McReynolds’...
Spotlight on The FountNHead
GENRE: Hip-Hop & Rock Fusion HOMETOWN: Atlanta, GA ARTISTIC APPROACH: To fuse metal guitars with live hip-hop. www.thefountnhead.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk0KHqD5VAw Starting out as...
Moe Pope: January 2013 Cover Story
On Producing in the Right Environment & Injecting His Live Show with Rock & Roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0H8VXLC1VY Intrinsically motivated, quick-witted, Boston-based rapper Moe...
Spotlight on Ballyhoo!
Expanding Their Fanbase Through the Festival Circuit http://youtu.be/xUsGkf4g-2w GENRE: Reggae/Punk HOMETOWN: Baltimore, MD ARTISTIC APPROACH: Playfully mixing reggae and punk. www.ballyhoorocks.com...
Spotlight on Kepi Ghoulie
When Punk Rock Heads to Pre-School http://youtu.be/zg8FPfNdCyc GENRE: Children’s Music/Punk HOMETOWN: Sacramento, CA ARTISTIC APPROACH: Playing music for kids that won’t drive parents crazy....