For the love of music
Nils Aellen contacted me directly after reading my review of Sophie Hunger's The Danger Of Light album. Aellen is also Swiss and from the Lausanne district, although so far as I can make out that's where any connections between him and Sophie Hunger end. A musician so far unknown outside the Swiss gig circuit, he's made an album that could bring … [Read more...]
Hello Adam! It’s great to hear back from you and to find out more about your new album Candela and your plans for 2013. What’s next on your To Do list? Do you mean the Mice Parade to do list? Rest for a bit and then hit Japan, Hawaii, & USA west coast in May / June. Find a replacement singer for our last two shows as I just found … [Read more...]
Hi Jenna and JJ! It’s so sweet to be doing this interview with you both for your debut self-titled album which came out this past spring. I found out about your band only recently while I was perusing the Team Love roster at SoundCloud and listened to your tunes. I was immediately hooked by your slow-burning and building, guitar-based sound … [Read more...]
NYC-based Sleep Maps, the project of multi-instrumentalist Ben Kaplan, treads similar sonic territory as the band Deafheaven, but instead of strong screamo vocals, Sleep Maps peppers its songs with retro, radio or TV announcer spoken word clips, fluid guitar lines, and more varied tempos. Ben has fleshed out Sleep Maps into a full band for this … [Read more...]
Roads To Judah has been out since last year on Deathwish Inc. and it’s a stunner of 4 lengthy, post-rock songs ranging from 6 to 12 minutes each. George Clark and Kerry McCoy, the core of the band, have their fingers in more than one musically stylistic pie, flavoring their sound with dynamic, Shoegazer-inspired riffage, a black metal barrage … [Read more...]
Hello Emma Ruth! I’m so stoked to be doing this interview with you and finding out more about your latest band Marriages. From what I understand, this is the second band that you, Dave Clifford, and Greg Burns have been in together, the first one being post-rock outfit Red Sparowes. Emma Ruth, you also recently formed the band The Nocturnes … [Read more...]
At the risk of making a blatant generalization about one of this generation’s greatest bands, the main draw of a new Sigur Rós record was and still is the music’s uncanny ability to simultaneously put on a show of conspicuous beauty and flummoxing eccentricity. Yes – “Hoppípolla” may have achieved ubiquity thanks to spots in nature … [Read more...]
On the night of Thursday, May 17th, at 7pm to be precise, Icelandic wonder-band Sigur Rós hosted a Global Listening Party for upcoming 6th studio album Valtari, which was streamed in full at the appointed hour across all time zones. Since I always seem to be late to the party, I joined in the festivities with the airing of the 2nd song and … [Read more...]
Although San Francisco-based band Deafheaven only formed in early 2010, it has stormed the musical world by force, in short order signing with Deathwish, Inc. and releasing an impressive, if sometimes imposing, debut album, Roads To Judah, in 2011. Songwriter and vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy form the core of the band, which is … [Read more...]
The Nocturnes is another feather in the cap of Red Sparowes member Emma Ruth Rundle. The band formed in 2007 as a duo, comprised of Emma of Daniel Yasmin, but has since reformulated itself, replacing Daniel with Dave Clifford (also of Red Sparowes), Julian Rifkin, and Paris Patt. In 2010 the quartet recorded Aokigahara, which was released on … [Read more...]