Currently based in Los Angeles, CA, singer/songwriter ZZ Ward got her start as a professional musician by playing alongside her father in dive bars across Oregon when she was 12 – a highly unusual education, […]
Tag: Q&A
A Q&A with Roi and the Secret People’s Mike Roi
The other day I caught my friend Denise Barbarita do a solo, acoustic set at the Parkside Lounge. She had invited a few people to celebrate her birthday that night, and one of those friends […]
A Q&A with the Lonely H’s Mark Fredson
The Nashville, TN-based (by way of Washington State) quintet the Lonely H have been together for well over a decade, starting out when all of the members were high school teens. Back in June, the band released their […]
A Q&A with Blair Crimmins and the Hookers’ Blair Crimmins
Jazz is America’s first and greatest cultural and music contribution to the world. After all, there are few genres that have managed to convey the depths of human emotion and experience in the same fashion […]
A Q&A with the Dough Rollers’ Jack Byrne and Josh Barocas
Jack Byrne and Malcolm Ford formed the Dough Rollers in 2008, after bounding over their mutual love and appreciation for the blues. And much like countless bands before them, there have been a number of […]
A Q&A with White Prism’s Johanna Cranitch
The Australian born, and now Brooklyn-based Johanna Cranitch has one of the most unique biographies i’ve come across. Growing up in a musical family, Cranitch has been immersed in music for most, if not all […]
A Q&A with The Lonely Wild’s Andrew Carroll
The Los Angeles-based band, The Lonely Wild’s debut EP, Dead End landed at number 19 on this site’s Best of 2011 list. Through that debut, the band won quite a bit of attention throughout the blogosphere, and […]
A Q&A with Morningbell’s Eric Atria and Travis Atria
The Gainesville, FL-based quartet of Morningbell, which consists of brothers Eric and Travis Atria, Eric’s wife Stacie Thrushman-Atria and Chris Hilman has developed a reputation for one of the more prolific, and inventive and perhaps […]
A Q&A with FLOWN’s Margot Bianca
Each of the members of Brooklyn-based band FLOWN, Margot Bianca (vocals and guitar), Kate Ryan (vocals and drums), and Caroline Yes (vocals and bass) have played in a number of bands together including Frankie Rose […]
A Q&A with Shelly Bhushan
Six years ago, I was started a stint as a freelance music journalist for the now-defunct Astoria, NY/Long island City-based publication, Ins&Outs Magazine. As a result of publishing a review of Interpol‘s Antics, I was invited to the […]
a Q&A with Superhuman Happiness’ Stuart Bogie
Led by the boyishly mischievous Stuart Bogie, the septet of Superhuman Happiness is probably one of the more accomplished bands I’ve come across in recent memory – you can practically play a rather dizzying game […]
a Q&A with Grave Babies’ Danny Wahlfeldt
Back in 2011, Grave Babies released the Pleasures 7" and with it’s densely layered, murky, dissonant and punishingly loud sound was one of the most interesting albums I had come across that year. In fact, it landed […]
a Q&A with Veronica Falls’ James Hoare
London’s Veronica Falls’ 2011 self-titled debut was released to generally favorable critical reviews for a sound that had been described by many of my colleagues and fellow critics as goth-tinged pop. The February 19th release […]
a Q&A with Steven A. Clark
Ranking fourth on this site’s Best of 2012 list, behind the co-number ones, Cody ChesnuTT’s certain classic, Landing on a Hundred and Lee “Scratch” Perry and the Orb’s trippy, mind-bending The ORBSERVER in the star […]
a Q&A with Jesse Abraham
Born and raised in the Tribeca section of Manhattan, Jesse Abraham has developed quite a reputation in the city’s underground hip hop scene –partially because he’s rocked a lot of live stages across town and […]