Interview
Meet: Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann has been a constant on the music scene for many years. From her beginnings with her former band ‘Til Tuesday, she has carved out a long-lasting solo career, with nine albums to date. Her latest is the more stripped-back sounding ‘Mental Illness’. We caught up with Aimee the week before she released the …
Say Psych: Interview – White Hills
White Hills were formed in 2005 in New York and have since become one of the psych scenes most prolific names, offering up some 40 separate releases including 7 studio albums. The duo have just announced that their 8th album Stop Mute Defeat will be released on Thrill Jockey Records on 19th May, so backseatmafia …
Say Psych: Interview: Meet the Label – Salvation Records
Neo-Psychedelia has become the fastest growing musical trend, and the genre that everyone who wants to be associated with. With that in mind, it’s easy to forget that it is people who make all of this possible and get the music out into the public domain in the first place. Say Psych plans to address …
Meet: London based singer-songwriter Lots Holloway
We were enamoured by ‘World’s on Fire’, the debut single from Cornwall-born/London-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lots Holloway. It’s a brilliant piece of electro-pop, with subject matter with a political edge. Check out the video, here We spoke to Lots to find out a little more. Hi Lots, thanks for talking to us – busy week? …
Meet: Cristina Martinez interview on new Boss Hog album ‘Brood X’
After nearly two decades of osmosis, New York’s glorious garage-noise hybrids Boss Hog are back. Their first studio album in almost twenty years ‘BROOD X’ emerges from gestation on March 24th via Bronze Rat Records and its ravenous. Fear not, for ‘Brood X’ feels not like the work of a group who’ve been on ice …
Meet: Greys – Shehzaad Jiwani On Community, Art, Music and More.
Greys are a fantastically loud, original and irrepressible four piece from Canada. Exposed to a wide span of social and cultural experiences and musical influences from Sonic Youth to Talking heads. With phat bass grooves of the revolution, thrashing shearing guitars, ear popping feedback and punk’y grunge’y percussion. Their music ranges from the raw in …
PREMIERE: INTRODUCING SCAB HAND & THEIR DEBUT RELEASE ‘IRREGULAR BED’
Squeezing out from between the cracks in the floorboards of the garage punk underground come’s Scab Hand. They’re loud, visceral and they will make you itch. Scratch that itch and just below the surface you’ll find ex-members of Love Buzzard rubbing body parts with ex members of Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, giving us a cross …
Meet: Washington Hardcore Punks Technicians
We recently featured Mistakes, the new single from Washington DC hardcore punks Technicians, which dropped ahead of their album Now That We’re Home. It’s a record that was first recorded in 2015, but, unhappy with the results – the band went back and re-recorded the whole thing. It’s filled with adrenaline soaked melodic punk, that …
Say Psych: Interview: Meet the Label – Wrong Way Records
Neo-Psychedelia has become the fastest growing musical trend, and the genre that everyone who wants to be associated with. With that in mind, it’s easy to forget that it is people who make all of this possible and get the music out into the public domain in the first place. Say Psych plans to address …
Meet: Moses Boyd ahead of the Jazz Re:Freshed showcase at SXSW
After stamping their authority on the British jazz scene, which appears to be as bright and as relevent as it has in a lonng time, some of the UK biggest talent are heading over to this years SXSW for arts organisation Jazz re:freshed showcase.Industry heavyweights including Don Was (Blue Note), Gennaro Castaldo (Director of Communications, …