Interview with Mat Kearney: The City Has Blended Grey Jamila Aboushaca October 14, 2015 Interviews When Mat Kearney isn’t jamming out to Justin Bieber’s new song, or fixing his age-worthy Martin, he’s probably reminiscing about the grapevines in his backyard, or making another cup of coffee. He spoke to ...
An Interview with Of Monsters And Men: The Melodic Nordic Jamila Aboushaca September 23, 2015 Interviews I’ve always been enraptured by the sounds and styles of Of Monsters And Men, along the masses following their 2011 release of “Little Talks.” Their first single raided the peak of alternative charts worldwi...
The Story Of Lagwagon: An Interview with Joey Cape Jamila Aboushaca August 12, 2015 Interviews LAGWAGON. Photograph by Lisa Johnson Rock Photographer. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. http://www.lisajohnsonphoto.com The things I learned while speaking to Joey Cape (of the well-respected punk staple that is Lagwa...
Interview with Titus Andronicus: Love Always, +@ Jamila Aboushaca July 22, 2015 Interviews Walking to Shea Stadium in hopes of finding some curbside treasures (successfully), Patrick Stickles of Titus Andronicus is in the middle of some obscure journey. Sure, we’ve heard that he’s maybe gone thro...
2015 New Music Seminar: Platform For Platinum Jamila Aboushaca June 17, 2015 Columns As the music industry remains a myriad, people of all music-related interests and careers need an outlet for guidance, networking, and strategy. There are more aspects to music other than a CD with a mini p...
An Interview with Christopher Owens: Coffee And Tea And Trail Mix Jamila Aboushaca June 17, 2015 Interviews There are few things less embarrassing than nervously interviewing one of your saviors of music, while throwing around corny jokes about trail mix and fumbling your words. However, despite my maybe apparent...
Rey Pila: Up For Seconds Jamila Aboushaca May 19, 2015 Goings-On Out of Mexico City and into Julian Casablanca’s Cult Records, Rey Pila has released their second installment, The Future Sugar. And although it took the band a year to fully adopt band members and become a quar...
Haste The Day: Rock And Rejoice Jamila Aboushaca May 19, 2015 Goings-On For more than a decade, fans of Haste The Day, have been genuinely supportive of the band. Despite their hiatus in 2011, they received donations which highly surpassed the goal for their new album, Coward. This...
METZ: Swallow You Whole Jamila Aboushaca May 19, 2015 Goings-On METZ have quite the overwhelming agenda. They just released METZ II, are on a complete North American tour (including their home turf and our northern neighbors), while constantly adding more live show dates. A...
Folding The Pages: Here To Stay Jamila Aboushaca May 19, 2015 Goings-On Mike Carroll leads alternative band, Folding The Pages, from Bergen County. Alongside Mike Ford and Dylan Gadino, the trio is set to play a show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken. It’s been almost a year since the EP rel...
