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This area includes a running list of all the interviews we have published. We interview bands, venues, studios, business owners, producers, engineers, and any one else who spends a significant amount of time supporting independent music.

Interview with Black Horse Motel – and then you were gone

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Philadelphia’s Black Horse Motel crafts its genre fluid city folk sound by taking traditional folk instrumentation and lyrics, blending them with Americana roots, rock, blues, and country influences and tying it all together with rich vocal harmonies. The resulting sound is infectiously foot-stomping, heart-breaking, familiar and new. In this interview spotlight, I chat with Black […]

Interview with 11 – Best Of Me

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Following their debut release Find A Way, South London duo James Lamb and Richard Craker – aka 11 – have made a welcome return with the infectious new single Best of Me, out now. An internal dialogue centring around themes of insecurities, Best of Me is propelled by funk-fuelled hooks and a buoyant energised groove, […]

Local Spotlight: Interview with Dad Hats – The Second Longest Driveway in Indiana

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Dad Hats is Tyler Coleman, Joe Halberstadt, Nathan Sorg and Craig Turner from Nashville, Tennessee. Dad Hats flirts with the 90s, makes out with indie rock, and is married to catchy hooks. Dad Hats sets themselves apart in the Nashville music scene with nonstop, high energy live shows. In October 2018, Dad Hats released their […]

Interview with willow|speak – hudson

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Progressive-folk act, willow|speak, is an expanding musical project that stirs familiar emotive response, while stimulating a more adventurous creativity. Through the foundation of acoustic folk music, new perspective achieved by weaving in ambient music, and a less conventional style of songwriting. In this interview spotlight, I chat with willow|speak about his solo debut, challenges, motivations, […]

Interview with Carl Lorusso Jr. – Murder Tools

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Toronto based singer/songwriter Carl Lorusso Jr. has released Murder Tools, his fourth album. Lorusso’s 2017 release, 100 Broken Words, was nominated for a Toronto Independent Music Award in the category of Best Folk/Blues. Working with 2-time NOW Magazine Producer of the Year Harrison Fine, Carl Lorusso Jr’s new record presents a fresh chapter in his […]

Interview with McKena – C8H11N02 (Let Loose)

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Colombia based producer McKena studied Contemporary Writing and Production alongside Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music before relocating to his current location, Chicago. With a fondness for rock music from the classic era as well as the 70s and 80s progressive movements combined with his love for funk and electronic, McKena produces […]

Local Spotlight: Interview with MK Ellison – Nothing But The Rain

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Nothing but the Rain, the first single from indie singer-songwriter MK Ellison’s upcoming Good October EP, is three minutes of quiet intensity and Ellison’s special brand of strangeness. With an energetic solo guitar and evocative vocal, Nothing but the Rain touches upon themes of addiction and isolation. The accompanying music video uses footage from The […]

Interview with Dan Baldwin of Flesh Club Society – Paranoia

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In this interview spotlight, I chat with Dan Baldwin of Flesh Club Society about the latest release, challenges, motivations and more. Full Q&A along with links and music below. Paranoia by Flesh Club Society Where are you from and what style of music do you create? (In your own words, not necessarily in marketing terms […]

Local Spotlight: Interview with Jake Fields – The Other Side of Waiting

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The Other Side of Waiting is really an ode for leaping into something new, which is personally akin to me releasing music now and establishing myself as an artist. The song was written in a 3 hour span with co-writer, Jim McGorman, and I feel the song has a real immediacy and energy that just […]