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October 22, 2019

The Unified Purpose of Titus Andronicus

interview Titus Andronicus

by David Garrick

In the world of modern music there are few bands who’ve covered as much territory as New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus. Together since 2005, the four piece has seen many ups and downs while essentially rewriting history in the process. While few bands can receive the critical acclaim and even fewer can release such a broad...More Please

September 17, 2019

Joe Lally Discusses Tour, New Album by The Messthetics & More

Concerts New Music

interview The Messthetics

by David Garrick

Bands and music in general represent moments in time, and sometimes that’s all they’ll ever be. When albums get released, the lyrics can point to things happening in the moment that work best in that moment. Fugazi was always a band in the moment in which they existed, and their albums stand a testament to...More Please

Homeshake Discusses the Meditative Properties of Songwriting & More

Homeshake interview

by David Garrick

In the last five years we’ve witnessed the Canadian music scene bloom with new artists that show how diverse the country is with budding acts. From Daniel Romano to Mac DeMarco, Canada is rife with musical talent that shows there’s more from North America that’s not located within fifty states. A couple of years ago...More Please

Hungover in Charlotte: An Interview with The Growlers

interview The Growlers

by David Garrick

It’s hard to believe that California’s The Growlers have been around close to fifteen years. The band with their own “beach goth” sound has gotten bigger and bigger with each passing release, while doing things on their own terms and never really coming off like they had to sell their souls or creativity to gain...More Please

Night Moves Don’t Take Much For Granted in Today’s Streaming World

interview Night Moves

by David Garrick

Music and the music industry has changed a lot in the past decade. It’s a thing that even the artists who were around before streaming have begun to notice, yet those who were around before streaming seem better suited at handling the economic change in buying patterns. For a band like Minnesota’s Night Moves, their...More Please

The Mowgli’s Make Being an Indie Band Look Easy

interview The Mowgli's

by David Garrick

The phrase indie gets thrown around quite a bit today when music is involved. While you should know that it stems from being on an independent label, or at least a label not owned by the large scale label system, there are few bands who seem to have figured out how to navigate it like...More Please

Stef Chura Opens Up Ahead of Tour Behind Midnight

interview Stef Chura

by David Garrick

Detroit’s Stef Chura has always followed her own path, crafting indie rock that mixes in her intriguing vocals in a time where she was being called everything but what she was. Chura, one of the better new acts in music is about as straight indie rock as it gets, and her early recordings had the...More Please

Drugdealer Reveals Their Beginnings, Their New Album & The Future

Drugdealer interview

by David Garrick

Ten years ago, Michael Collins of the band Drugdealer was just beginning to become a musician. With no formal training or even much knowledge, he took what little he knew of music and over time turned that into his current project Drugdealer. In a short span of time, the band has received critical acclaim and...More Please

The Appleseed Cast Opens Up on the Past, Their New Album & Their Current Tour

interview The Appleseed Cast

by David Garrick

It’s hard to believe that The Appleseed Cast has been around over twenty years. It’s a thing where you realize that time is an unfair premise, especially since some of us remember seeing the band on their first tour. While the band has shed much of their emo beginnings, they’ve also released some of the...More Please

Froth Opens Up About Their New Album, Their Early Years and More

Concerts Uncategorized

Froth interview

by David Garrick

When you dig through the various bands that make up the Los Angeles music scene, you’re definitely bound to find plenty of groups who do things their own way without any hesitation. It’s what makes that scene so vibrant and also what helps make it stand out in many ways. One of the more intriguing...More Please

Maxo Kream Opens Up About Life, Signing to a Major & His New Album

interview Maxo Kream

by David Garrick

Hip hop is definitely what’s ruling the charts as of late. From artists you’ve heard of to acts you haven’t, even the hybridization of the genre into others places it at the top of everywhere it appears. But with chart topping singles, there’s plenty of acts who rap and rhyme about experiences they never really...More Please

Claude Fontaine Talks Love of Music, Inspiration & Debut Album in New Interview

Claude Fontaine interview

by David Garrick

Because music is moving so fast, there are times when you have music hurled at you that you can’t stop and enjoy what you’re receiving. When we came across the music of California’s Claude Fontaine, we stopped and took notice. In today’s world, it feels like a rarity where a new artist would take the...More Please

Khruangbin Prepares For Marfa Myths & Beyond

interview Khruangbin

by David Garrick

For the longest time, it felt like pretty much every city had a music festival. There would be nothing wrong with that if any two were discernible, but many had the same lineups just in a different place. When we stumbled across Marfa Myths, it was exactly what we wanted, a festival about music not...More Please

Dale Watson Takes His Luck Back on the Road

Dale Watson interview

by David Garrick

For the past twenty years, what gets called country music and what traditional country music is, has created a divide that gets more and more expansive with each passing year. In the world of big country music, there have been those who’ve stayed true to their roots, no natter what the industry thinks they should...More Please

February 13, 2019

Canada’s Anemone Opens Up About Inspiration & Audience Participation Ahead of Album Release

Anemone interview

by David Garrick

For the past couple of years, the music coming out of Canada has been better than anything penned by Celine Dion or Alanis Morissette. Acts like Daniel Romano and Michael Rault are just a couple of examples of artists who’ve released wonderful music coming from the great white north. When you look at infectious pop...More Please

January 25, 2019

DEGA is More Than a Typical Synth Pop Duo

by David Garrick

In music sometimes, we categorize things too quickly. Sometimes we compartmentalize music into spaces that they can fall into, but they might be so much more than that in ways that are worthy of further exploration. That’s kind of the deal on synth-pop duo, DEGA. A married couple made up of industry veterans, DEGA is...More Please

January 18, 2019

El Ten Eleven Discuss Banker’s Hill & the Tour Around it

El Ten Eleven interview

by David Garrick

The world of post-rock is littered with acts that either don’t stand out, or by those who really stand out. For over fifteen years, Los Angeles based duo El Ten Eleven have really stood out among those who live in the post-rock genre. Armed with looping pedals, drums and a double-neck bass, the band has...More Please

January 14, 2019

Alejandro Escovedo, The Crossing & the Tour Behind It

Alejandro Escovedo interview

by David Garrick

In the music industry today, you can find plenty of artists with a story to tell. No matter how hard you look though, you might not find one who’s telling such a story as The Crossing by Alejandro Escovedo. While Escovedo was misunderstood by the music industry for a good part of his career, cutting...More Please

November 7, 2018

Ceremony is Ready To Bring It For Power Trip Anniversary

Ceremony interview Punk

by David Garrick

Hardcore has always been a place where members of bands were also the members of multiple other bands. Sometimes one band rises to the top, and the other bands have to take some time off. However, for Ceremony after their last album The L-Shaped Man and the tours that followed, the band has become a bit...More Please

November 5, 2018

KT Tunstall Comes Full Circle on Her Latest Release

interview KT Tunstall

by David Garrick

Face to face interviews can sometimes be daunting, because no matter how much you think you know an artist through their music, they might not be that person at all. When we sat down with Scotland’s KT Tunstall, we realized that not only her music thoughtful, soulful, and at times warm; she is all of...More Please