Glasgow’s Teenage Fanclub have ridden the wave of alternative rock success at home and abroad for...
Interviews and Features
Read in-depth interviews and features about independent musicians and music industry professionals.
Crushed Out Drops Video for “Big Woolly,” Expounds on Musical Evolution
Indie surf-blues-rock duo Crushed Out explores the making of their new record, Alien Ocean....
Go Inside the Creative Process with Ryan Alexander of Civilian
In our latest interview, Ryan Alexander, songwriter for Civilian, discusses his newest album, You...
Q&A with Sonicbids CEO Panos Panay
His Prediction: 90% of All Submission Fees Will Disappear Congrats on Sonicbids' 10th Anniversary. Can you point to any one thing in the past 10 years that you're most proud of? Thanks. It really...
Interview with Earbits CEO Joey Flores
Earbits.com, a new online radio site, formed a collaboration with the San Francisco Chronicle this Wednesday to provide a curated, location-specific music discovery destination. CEO Joey Flores...
Studio Diary: Lauren Flaherty
I began 2011 snowed in with Imogen Heap. Well, not really. It’s more accurate to say I started the year hiding from the back-to-back snowstorms clobbering...
Studio Diary: This Blue Heaven
This Blue Heaven – Recorded at Camp St. Studios, Cambridge, MA This Blue Heaven is a fantastic Boston-based, female fronted pop/rock band. The group recently held a sold-out video release...
Studio Diary: The Bynars
Straight from the band’s collective mouth, “This is our first full-length LP. We self-released three EPs in 2008 and 2009. The album is about two-years and a few hundred songs in the...
Promoter Profile: ONS Productions
There are more musicians, songwriters, producers, beat makers, rappers, rockers and electro-poppers than ever before. With social networking outlets delivering...
Navigating the Rabbit Trail: Bunny Bands
We here at Performer have noticed the recent trend of rabbit-themed band names multiplying like…well, bunnies, I suppose. So, in an effort to get you up to speed on all our furry friends, we present...
Studio Diary: Spirit Kid
Boston’s Spirit Kid has been generating quite the buzz locally, and that word-of-mouth is sure to spread with their latest 7-inch release. Emeen Zarookian, the...
Spotlight: The Cinnamon Band
An Ever-Evolving Big Band of Two With just a two-piece band in front of them, many would expect a minimalist sound to emerge from the musicians. The Cinnamon Band is living proof that a simple setup...
Spotlight: Brian McGee
Philly’s Southern Gentleman Somewhere in the city of Asheville, North Carolina lives Brian McGee, a folk singing, punk rock influenced, guitar building mountain man who recently released his latest...