Interview – Viet Cong
It takes less than sixty seconds of album opener “Newspaper Spoons” for you to decide that Viet Cong is a winter record. The album has barely begun, and the guitar doesn’t snarl until the end of that opening minute, but…
Interview – Emily Jane White
After releasing three albums in three years (“Dark Undercoat“, 2008; “Victorian America“, 2009; “Ode To Sentience“, 2010), she wrote over 100 sketches between January 2011 and October 2012. Blood / Lines is a selection from these songs. The setting of…
Interview – Sleep Party People
The masked Danish electronic dream-pop outfit, started as an idea in the head of Copenhagen based multi-instrumentalist Brian Batz. Taking inspiration from the work of Boards Of Canada, David Lynch and Erik Satie, along with some classic movie soundtracks, Brian…
Interview – I am Oak
Thijs Kuijken from Utrecht wrote the folk album alone and performs it with I Am Oak. A trip to Finland was a huge inspiration for the music, lyrics and whole idea of the album. Those big thoughts come in small…
Interview – Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett appears with her grungy slacker indie rock to be for half of the world “The next big thing”. Her record, THE DOUBLE EP: A SEA OF SPLIT PEAS got from critics blazing praise and generated for her fans…
Interview – Jesuslesfilles
For fans of The Black Lips, Mark Sultan, or King Khan & The Shrines, Jesuslesfilles is the right band to choose. Four years after “Une belle table”, Jesuslesfilles is back with ‘‘Le grain d’or’’, an very intense album to listen,…
Interview – Kreisky
“Every time has its sound” Kreisky are the most persistent and best band that has happened to the local Austrian pop music scene in the last ten years. With their fourth album “Blick auf die Alpen” they have – and…
Interview – Selvhenter
Violin, saxophone, trombone and two drums. In SELVHENTER everything is included: rock , African and Southeast Asian percussion, minimalist composition, free jazz, improvisation and noise. No wonder that the Danish band has built a reputation as one of the most…
Interview – Ought
The sincere, stately and exuberant post-punk of Ought is nimble, anxious, no frills and fluid and reminds one of CAP’N JAZZ, the Feelies, LUNG FISH, GANG OF FOUR and the early TALKIN HEADS. You move from sharp edges and stuttering…
Interview – Pink Mountaintops
Stephen McBean, usually part of the famous rockers Black Mountain is also having a solo project, which is called Pink Mountaintops. There he is more oriented to give back hope to opulent guitar music. Musicians rotate in the cast, which…
