Interview
INTERVIEW: Gustav Wood, Young Guns, 25/9/2017
We caught up with Young Guns’ Gustav Wood in Manchester on their latest UK Tour. Here’s what he had to say on new material, their Foo Fighters cover and musical evolution… BM: So Echoes came out last year, and it’s a lot different from anything you’ve done before- for a start your first album was …
INTERVIEW: DOLLS’ GET READY TO RELEASE ‘ARMCHAIR PSYCHIATRIST’
London duo Dolls’ have been making quite a stir around the capitals live scene. Their latest track, ‘Armchair Psychiatrist’ has seen them working closely with Bad Seed and Grinderman, Jim Sclavunos -whose production credits include The Horrors, The Wytches and Du Blonde – and should see them break out the local scene and storm …
INTERVIEW: One Day After School / Dead Sea Poems soundtrack
On September 30th West Yorkshire Post-Rock influenced band One Day, After School will perform their specially commissioned soundtrack to poet Simon Armitage’s The Dead Sea Poems. We caught up with songwriter Dean Freeman in the midst of a tough schedule of writing and rehearsing to ask how, and why. We see lots of bands writing …
Interview: Trupa Trupa
Music as landscape: Trupa Trupa contemplating the poetry of place. Photo courtesy of the band. Trupa Trupa is a psychedelic no wave band from Gdansk, Poland. Their stylistic approach recalls work by bands like Shellac, Swans, Slint and Beak>. There is such discordance, tension and intensity in their compositions that it feels like the band …
Meet: System Corporation
System Corporation has just released their debut single ‘Dismal Universal Hiss’, giving us the first look into what’s coming from this New Zealand rock outfit on their debut album ‘Fiction Dept.’, slated for release in late 2017. System Corporation began in 2011, based on a conversation between Phil Somervell (The Datsuns) and their long standing engineer Scott …
Interview: John Fryer/Black Needle Noise
Well, John Fryer doesn’t need much of an introduction! A living legend in alternative music, an aknowledged producer since the 80’s in 4AD, Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet, a very talented musician (This Mortal Coil), a man of music that won’t rest on his glory…so, few weeks ago he released the second LP of his new moniker …
Meet: TULIPOMANIA
We recently discovered a band from Philadelphia, called Tulipomania. They already have quite a lot of music out there and plenty of award-winning videos to go with that, but the progressive art rock outfit will soon be releasing a new maxi-single. Following up their fourth album ‘This Gilded Age’, released last year, they are offering three …
INTERVIEW – KIRK BRANDON
Kirk Brandon is post-punk royalty. A key player, from his punk outfit ‘The Pack’ in 1978, then with his bands ‘Theatre of Hate’ and ‘Spear of Destiny’ he’s scorched a trail of passion and power for almost forty years. I caught up with him between studio recording sessions and preparations for a UK tour at …
Meet: Interview with QUIET DOMINO
Quiet Domino recently released the debut single ‘Metropelium’, drawing inspiration from new musings on a hometown city. Founded in San Francisco, this is the new project of singer-songwriter-reckoner Mark Nelsen. His unpredictable live shows and knack for writing and producing genre-blending songs led him to create his debut single as Quiet Domino. Over the past …
Meet: Pattern Language aka Chris Frain
Colorado-based synth-electronic crafter Pattern Language has just released his debut mini-album ‘Total Squaresville’ via London’s Happy Robots Records. In these six tracks, he has managed to create a sound and vibe similar to krautrock legends like Kraftwerk, Cluster, Harmonia, and La Dusseldorf. Pattern Language is the new project of Chris Frain. Currently based in Boulder, …