Gangstagrass—Don’t Get It Twisted Katherine Yeske Taylor January 15, 2020 Buzz, Features “I’m out here with all the soccer moms. It’s wild out here,” says R-Son The Voice of Reason, amused. The emcee for Gangstagrassa bluegrass hip-hop group—is calling from Philadelphia, his hometown, as he buys C...
We Banjo 3—Music Is Our Home Katherine Yeske Taylor January 1, 2020 Features, Interviews Quite frankly, finding out that a band contains not one, not two, but three banjo players seems likely to make many potential listeners run the other way. But that’s exactly the configuration within We Banjo 3...
Achieving Planetary Consciousness Through Art—An Interview with Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke Katherine Yeske Taylor December 25, 2019 Features, Interviews In a conference room in the Spinefarm Records headquarters inside the Universal Music Building in Manhattan, Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman is poking at a plate of sushi. It’s an incongruous sight: legendar...
The Fixx—One Thing Still Leads to Another Katherine Yeske Taylor December 11, 2019 Buzz, Features 2 Cy Curnin, lead singer for the beloved and long-running new wave/rock band The Fixx, calls from his home “in sunny California,” though he’ll soon depart for a more wintery climate when he and his bandmates hea...
Steve Earle—Deep in the Community Katherine Yeske Taylor December 4, 2019 Features, Interviews “Things have been a little nuts recently,” Steve Earle says, calling from his home in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “We lost our bass player in the last several days. That put an already busy...
Willie Nile—The Alternative Is Not An Option Katherine Yeske Taylor November 22, 2019 Features, Interviews Willie Nile seems completely at home as he settles in for a leisurely lunch at Jane, one of his favorite New York City restaurants. This place is something of a Greenwich Village institution, just as Nile hims...
The HU—Sharing Global Love Katherine Yeske Taylor November 13, 2019 Buzz, Features It’s probably safe to say that most Americans have never heard anything quite like the songs The HU play. The band, from Ulaanbaatar—Mongolia’s capital city—call themselves “folk-metal,” but that term doesn’t ...
Happy Halloween From The Damned Katherine Yeske Taylor October 30, 2019 Features, Interviews 1 The Damned singer Dave Vanian, calling from a London rehearsal studio, sounds remarkably relaxed for a man who is about to put on one of the most elaborate (and hotly anticipated) rock shows of the year on Oct...
DIIV—Upfront and Extremely Personal Katherine Yeske Taylor October 23, 2019 Buzz, Features 1 During a call from Los Angeles, where the members of DIIV all live, singer/guitarist Zachary Cole Smith, guitarist Andrew Bailey, and bassist Colin Caulfield, are open and honest about the potentially sensitiv...
Altin Gün—Golden Psychedelic Fusion Katherine Yeske Taylor October 16, 2019 Features, Interviews It’s hard to find a musical niche that hasn’t been explored yet, but Altin Gün seem to have pulled it off: based in The Netherlands, they exclusively play Turkish music—either traditional material that can be ...
