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Jawwaad Taylor Defines Pure Artistry

interview Jawwaad Podcast

by David Garrick

In music, it becomes increasingly difficult to find what you can refer to as pure artistry. While all who release music are artists, there are few who have artistry pouring through their fingertips. When I first met Jawwaad Taylor, there was a discussion of MF Doom before he chimed in “I made an album with...More Please

B L A C K I E Takes Quarantine as Time to Keep Creating

B L A C K I E interview Podcast

by David Garrick

If you innovate enough, you just may get to see the work and style you created get bitten by someone less creative. For over fifteen years that’s been what’s occurred in the world of hip hop. Granted, it happens throughout music as well; but La Porte’s B L A C K I E has been...More Please

Change is All That Studded Left Knows

interview Podcast Studded Left

by David Garrick

In music, the choices you make more than likely come with a reason, even if that reason is misunderstood. When Houston’s Indian Jewelry was at the height of their success, they shocked plenty by calling it a day and ending the project. When they returned as Studded Left with anew sound and a DIY aesthetic,...More Please

For The Wheel Workers, Being Independent Works Best

interview Podcast The Wheel Workers

by David Garrick

Being a musician on the rise is a difficult place to be. Many bands choose to flood the market with multiple digital releases in a short time frame. While doing that is an arduous process alone, what if the and released the records on vinyl and produced videos for multiple singles as well? Well if...More Please

The Creativity of Claire Morales Knows No Bounds

Claire Morales interview

by David Garrick

In music, being creative is key. That can be strewn across all settings of a music career, but it’s definitely a needed ability in the modern music industry. While some artists have minimal amounts of creativity, Denton’s Claire Morales doesn’t have that issue. In a career that spans across multiple albums, Morales has shown that...More Please

Chase DeMaster Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

interview Podcast Very Jazzed Records

by David Garrick

Hard work typically gets you somewhere. If you look at anyone successful, there’s a good chance they got to where they are or at least maintained that level through hard work. In music hard work is par for the course. Living off of music is something that few can do, based on how difficult it...More Please

LEYA Brings Their Intriguing & Inventive Sound to the Masses

by David Garrick

Harpists and violinists aren’t typically in modern music bands. While nontraditional is always welcomed here, you can’t expect Marilu Donovan and Adam Markiewicz of the group LEYA to follow tradition. The group has released some of the most intriguing music you’ll ever hear, while incorporating new tones and sound structures into everything they do. In...More Please

February 28, 2020

For Eliza & The Delusionals, Failure Isn’t an Option

Eliza & the Delusionals Indie Rock interview

by David Garrick

Making it in America is a big deal for bands living outside of the states. In fact it should be a big deal for those who live here as well. While many artists tour nowadays at a breakneck pace, there are sometimes acts who really go the extra mile when it comes to making a...More Please

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

Self-Released Songs

Self Released Songs

Self Released Songs

Self-Released Songs interviews artists who release their music on their own without the aid of a label

It seems like a rarity to talk with a record label owner who cares about the lives and livelihoods of the artists they work with, but that’s who Tony Presley of Keeled Scales Records is. Along with his business partner Seth Whaland, he’s curated a roster of artists into a label made by people who care about great music. Keeledscales.com

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