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Category: Interviews

November 10, 2017November 10, 2017
“Musicians who take the more difficult path often are the most resonant”: A Q&A with Boston hardcore historian Mike Gitter
By Emily Reily / Archive, Features, Interviews, Music / Mike Gitter, xxx fanzine
As founder, writer, and editor of xXx fanzine, Mike Gitter was down in the sweaty trenches during the politically charged Reagan age, documenting Boston’s hardcore punk…
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November 9, 2017November 9, 2017
“We all love Ariana Grande”: Chon drummer Nathan Camarena on the prog band’s adventures in pop
By Miles Raymer / Features, Interviews, Music / Q&A, CHON, prog
SoCal quartet Chon has spent nearly a decade making high-energy, technically challenging music that's routinely gotten them filed as a prog and/or math rock band.…
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November 1, 2017December 6, 2019
Fishbone’s Angelo Moore on Subliminal Fascism: Then & Now
By Ben Perlstein / Backroom, Features, Interviews, Music / politics, Fishbone, angelo moore
In 1987, with the Cold War omnipresent, Angelo Moore wrote and recorded the Fishbone burner "Subliminal Fascism," for the classic Truth and Soul album. Riot…
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October 31, 2017October 31, 2017
Bell Witch Doesn’t Fear the ‘Mirror Reaper’ on New One-Track Album
By Emily Reily / Features, Interviews, Music / halloween, Bell Witch
During the writing of Seattle doom metal band Bell Witch's fourth album, founding vocalist/drummer Adrian Guerra died unexpectedly. Bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond and new drummer Jesse…
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October 23, 2017October 23, 2017
The Riot Fest Interview: Isis Queen from Barb Wire Dolls
By Miss Alex White / Archive, Chicago, Interviews, Music, Riot Fest Presents / riot fest presents, Barb Wire Dolls, Motoörhead
Barb Wire Dolls are a great classic sounding-and-looking punk band from Greece. You don't see that every day, so take a deep dive with us…
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October 20, 2017October 20, 2017
“Humanity Revolted Against Us, And We Spit Back At ‘Em”: Pustulus Maximus Talks About GWAR A.O. (After Oderus)
By Emily Reily / Interviews, Music / Gwar
Any conversation with a member of GWAR needs to be taken with a pretty big grain of salt. Members of the thrash rock band are…
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October 13, 2017October 13, 2017
Existentialism On The Beach: A Conversation With The Front Bottoms’ Brian Sella
By Randall Colburn / Features, Interviews, Music / The Front Bottoms, Fueled By Ramen
We chat with The Front Bottoms' frontman Brian Sella about life, death, and impermanence, and how to write an album about all of it.
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October 6, 2017
Video Premiere: Veteran Wine Punk Group Sciatic Nerve Explains What That Means
By Miss Alex White / Archive, Interviews, Premieres / swingin' utters, Sciatic Nerve, Western Addiction
Don't call Sciatic Nerve a "supergroup." No, this new band from northern California that features members of the Swingin' Utters, Nothington, Cobra Skulls, and Western…
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October 5, 2017December 6, 2019
An Interview With The Regrettes About How To Interview The Regrettes
By Ben Perlstein / Chicago, Interviews, Music / The Regrettes
The Regrettes are a punk rock band from Los Angeles. Comprised of teenagers and having only been a band for a couple years, you'd think…
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October 4, 2017December 6, 2019
The Cribs Talk About Chicago on the Ferris Wheel
By Riot Fest / Chicago, Interviews, Music / The Cribs, Ferris Wheel, Riot Fest TV
The Cribs are huge in their native U.K., but Wakefield's band of brothers have yet to break through in North America. And while this is…
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October 4, 2017October 4, 2017
Listen to Kali Masi’s New Album While Reading This Interview
By Randall Colburn / Chicago, Interviews, Music, Premieres / Premieres, Kali Masi
Sam Porter and John Garrison’s first collaboration was an Against Me! cover band that found the two-piece tearing through cuts from the Florida punk outfit’s…
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September 25, 2017September 25, 2017
Michael Cera on making music for films and his new duet with Sharon Van Etten
By Dustin Krcatovich / Interviews, Music, TV+Film / Michael Cera, Sharon Van Etten
In recent years, Michael Cera has been proven more and more the renaissance man. Yes, he's kept a toehold in the mainstream comedy world where…
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