Sergius Gregory Making Quiet Music in Homer, Alaska
Sergius Gregory has taken the musician-in-a-cabin experiment leaps farther than the likes of Bon Iver.
A Sight for Sore Eyes: An Interview with Klum
"I assume people don’t really know who is singing what because sometimes we don’t even remember who sings certain parts that are on the record. The most important thing to us is just that it’s good." -Brock Flores
The Way Through Doors, The Elephant Vanishes
I just picked up the new Jesse Ball novel The Way Through Doors at Powell's the other day, and I've brought it with me to Marfa, TX where I'm spending the month of February. That and The Elephant Vanishes by Murakami. -Anna-Lynne Williams, music editor
Someplace New: An Interview with Uncle Owen Aunt Beru
"If I can make anything that another person would want, then I must give it away. Sometimes other musicians want to trade music, or collaborate with me after hearing one of my songs, so sharing my music freely has given some very rich experiences."
Go to the Radio: An Interview with Psychic Ills
"People go places because they're already heading that way, or because they give themselves over to be taken somewhere. If our music does that, that's cool, but I wouldn't say that it's designed only for that reason."
Brave New Music: An Interview with Frida Hyvonen
"I could mention...Neneh Cherry's Raw Like Sushi, on vinyl from the local store, and Michael Jackson's BAD, which I stole from my brother. You had to learn to dance really smoothly to it or the vinyl would skip. I'm sure someone could find traces of all of those early loves in my music, and not least in the way I dance."
Planting Seeds: 13 Questions with Mia Doi Todd
"I like to listen to the arc of a record, like reading a book from start to finish. I make records that way." An interview with Mia Doi Todd.
Only Love is All Maroon: An Interview with Bon Iver
An interview with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon
Writers on Music: An Interview with Robin Benway
"For a band that's just starting out, it's still fun and exciting and very Kerouacian to be in a van and touring the country. That's the spirit I wanted for Audrey, and listening to that music definitely helped to infuse the book."
You Know This Gloom: An Interview with The Notwist
"In the end it was all about finding a way to express something that you cannot express otherwise."