13 Questions with Steve Parry
"I believe in terms of feelings about music, music remains constant, fundamental to consciousness. I cannot imagine life without music!"
13 Questions with the Experimental Delta Blues Junkyard Band Califone
"The way we're using sound, noise and collage on this one feels like we're digging deeper into the roots of where we started." An interview with Califone.
An Interview with The Double
"Ambient noises and strange sounds in general tend to filter in all on their own. We enjoy this."
11 Questions for Belong
"Anybody, with just a little money saved, can produce and record a quality album in their bedroom. This has lead to an extreme amount of crap, but it also has allowed other people with great ideas to realize them on their own without having to spend a ton of money."
13 Questions for Electronic/Ambient/Rickety-Old-Machine Composer Ethan Rose
"Music is expanding and fragmenting into all of these amazing things. It is scary and beautiful."
New Music Survey: New Flesh
A quick look at New Flesh's album "Universally Dirty"
Gang Gang Dance
Ross Simonini interviews the percussion-heavy, experimental, psychedelic band that created God's Money
New Music Survey: Dr. Who Dat?
A quick look at the album "Beat Journey" by Dr. Who Dat
Tristeza’s Harmonic Sea and Liquid Pyramids
Recently, San Diego has become one of the country’s musical breeding grounds. Bands like Pinback, Castanets and GogoAirheart have surfaced, one after another, each with their own, unique voice, each representing an entirely different genre of music. Among the first of all these groups was Tristeza, an instrumental quintet (two guitarists, bassist, keyboards, drummer), who …
Akron/Family
Akron/Family has written some of the best songs of the current century. They have released two albums on Young God Records, both of which juxtapose musical sensibilities of the most diverse sort. To love them is to love music, not genres.