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Interviews and Features
Read in-depth interviews and features about independent musicians and music industry professionals.
Find Your Signature Sound: How Metal Guitar Players Can Stand Out From The Crowd
An Interview with Luc Lemay of Gorguts For metalheads like me, it’s no secret that the genre as a...
COVER STORY: Snail Mail Delivers the Quintessential Post-Breakup Album
When I talk to Lindsey Jordan, the woman behind the band Snail Mail, at noon on a weekday, she has...
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 lighting designer, Anthony Napolitano, rehearse for their upcoming tour. In a dark sound stage, the...
In Profile: Fusion Whiz Alan Hertz
Alan Hertz is one of the last disciples of jazz fusion - his drumming is similar to other great drum masters such as Billy Cobham and Tony Williams in that he plays with a complex and distinct...
Yvette Young: Covet’s Ace Guitarist Opens Up About Unique Tapping Style
Yvette Young has her hands full. The 27-year-old multi-instrumentalist is currently touring with her math rock trio, Covet, in support of their 2018 EP effloresce while starting to gear up for the...
JOSH SMITH: Catching up with the Bluesy Axeman as He Hits the Road
“The best advice I can give is do it because you love it, because you have to, because it’s so much fun you can’t not do it.” Josh Smith is a man of few words – he prefers to express himself through...
Greg Holden Takes Us Inside the Recording of ‘World War Me’
photo by Laurel Renee Valdez “Suddenly I was face to face with quite the dilemma: Hire a world-class producer with my own cash or suck it up and record the album on my own.”...
COVER STORY: pronoun Unpacks Layers of Heartbreak Through Songwriting
I’ll show you stronger. Let those words marinate for a minute. Take in the punch, the weight, the defiance of them. That’s the resonant title of up-and-coming indie rock artist pronoun’s full-length...
Novo Amor on learning to produce and stepping into the spotlight
After a summer spent at a summer camp in the woods in upstate New York, young Ali Lacey was forever changed and the music of Novo Amor (his alter ego) soon followed. Returning home to Wales and...
NICK WATERHOUSE on the Making of His Self-Titled LP
There’s a nostalgic tinge to everything that Nick Waterhouse crafts. As his career traces the California coast, back and forth, he has picked up more warmth and soul between his punchy songwriting,...
COVER STORY: Georgi Kay Opens Up About the Road to Self-Production
It’s been four years since a confident 22 year old, wearing a leopard pattern button-up and wide brim hat, swaggered into a recording session I was helping to curate in Bali, Indonesia. It was the...
How to Grow a Successful YouTube Channel with Agufish
We recently worked with rising YouTube guitarist Agufish (real name Hunter Engel) for a promotion with Elixir Strings and their specially coated acoustic guitar strings. Hunter produced some killer...