An Interview With Death From Above 1979: Reappearing Act Jamila Aboushaca November 2, 2016 Interviews I’m watching a night football game, and thinking about how Sebastien Grainger (drummer of Death From Above 1975) commented on our tribal sports culture, to me. Then this commercial comes on, and it’s like… ...
An Interview with Dustin “Duddy B” Bushnell of Dirty Heads: Rolling Deep Jamila Aboushaca June 29, 2016 Interviews Last year, at Firefly Music Festival, was the last time I saw Dirty Heads live. Besides the undeniable manifest of sweat, jive, and beer bottles—love and musical lustiness also commenced the first lyric hea...
An Interview with Enochian: Rebel Alliance Jamila Aboushaca February 3, 2016 Interviews The first time I saw Enochian, I was accompanying my friend (and patriotic fan) to a local show. Keep in mind, this is North Jersey—the bands are germinating by the minute. However, I quickly noticed the au...
An Interview with Gogol Bordello: Roma Renegades Jamila Aboushaca December 30, 2015 Interviews Eugene Hütz isn’t your average frontman. Gogol Bordello isn’t your normal band. Gypsy punk rock that you can dance to isn’t your cup of tea. Here’s the thing—sure as hell that a band that has been around fo...
An Interview with Cage The Elephant: You Gotta Dig Deep Jamila Aboushaca December 16, 2015 Interviews I remember standing inside a music venue in New York City, catching a set of this band unknown to me, but then leaving frantically searching through all their information. They were the opener of one of my ...
An Interview with Surfer Blood: Current Direction Jamila Aboushaca November 11, 2015 Interviews There are few things worse than interviewing an artist when you’re veritably sick and want to just crawl into a ball… but at least John Paul Pitts of Surfer Blood was super nice through the sniffles and bre...
Wire: Wire Jamila Aboushaca November 11, 2015 Albums Since their historical debut in 1977 with Pink Flag and the emergence of punk rock on their shoulders, London’s Wire have since been on and off the scene but always reemerge with a bang. They were also ther...
An Interview with The Bright Light Social Hour: Lunar Crooners Jamila Aboushaca October 28, 2015 Interviews Contrary to popular belief, you sometimes have to leave Texas to experience the bigger things in life (and space). Austin’s The Bright Light Social Hour might have toured more time than they’ve actually spe...
Interview with Rx Bandits: Vitamin B’s Family Tree Jamila Aboushaca October 21, 2015 Interviews In the midst of branding and Wikipedia page references, Rx Bandits were never synonymous with having a label. They’ve undergone a few changes, not solely with members—but with what we would call their ‘styl...
The Maine: American Candy Jamila Aboushaca October 20, 2015 Albums When The Maine first started touring, half the band had yet to finish high school. Fast forward to almost a decade later, the five dudes have graduated into a matured and developed sound. Originally from Ar...