Category archive for ‘Interviews’
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Ellie Goulding [Interview] – The Bright Lights
The flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to New York’s JFK is 3,452 miles or approximately eight hours long. For many European musicians, it’s a journey on which their tour will never take them. And while it’s true that UK music sales in the US have increased in recent years, thanks largely in part to Coldplay, Radiohead Adele, Leona [...]
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Justice [Interview]: So Justice..
For the French production duo, Justice, four years have passed since their last album and c’est la vie. As Xavier de Rosnay explained to SF Critic writer, Collier Meyerson, backstage before their performance at this year’s The Creators Project in New York, “when you make a record the time doesn’t matter if it took four years or four [...]
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NewVillager [Interview] Explain Their Mythos
There are just too many word that begin with “in-” to describe NewVillager: inspirational, introspective, instructional, and insightful, are just a few. The NY Magazine described them as “brilliant” and “highbrow.” Already some of you might assume that the art collective created by Ross Simonini and Ben Bromley is “too heady.” Even describing their characteristic style seems like [...]
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Interview with Atmosphere’s Slug: One Night In New Mexico Changes Everything
The murder of Marissa Mathy-Zvaifler forever changed the rapper Slug of Atmosphere. In June of 2003, Marissa, age 16, attended Atmosphere’s concert in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That night the venue’s janitor promised he would introduce Marissa to Slug, luring her backstage where he proceeded to rape and then murder her. Slug knew he wasn’t responsible. Rather his feelings [...]
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Toro Y Moi [Interview]: Going The Way You Wouldn’t Expect
“When you’re Asian–this isn’t so PC–you can go the ‘white way,’ or the ‘black way,’” Chaz Bundick explained to writer Nandini Nessa of Brooklyn Bodega, “You always get picked on in school when you’re brown and you like ‘white people music.’ People are so closed-minded about that kind of stuff, but people that try to go both ways [...]
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Pharoahe Monch [Interview and Playlist] W.A.R.
Between points Pharoahe Monch took deep breaths, in part due to his asthma, but like his lyrics, it was clear he wanted to carefully think through each point. Pharoahe Monch has always been creatively thoughtful with his lyrics, once rapping from the prospective of a bullet to elicit the history of gun violence. After over twenty years in [...]
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Starfucker [Interview] with Josh Hodges
Josh Hodges, the creativity behind the bands, Starfucker, Pyramidd and Sexton Blake, can easily answer the question “What’s in a name?” with a simple statement–“It’s important.” Over the last several years Hodges has struggled finding the right identity. His personal quest to overcome his social insecurities and shyness lead him into a solo-career as “Sexton Blake.” But Sexton [...]
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Wiz Khalifa Exclusive [Interview and Playlist]
There is nothing subtle about Wiz Khalifa’s liking for weed. His new album is entitled Rolling Papers (pictured here), and pictures him letting out a billowing cloud of smoke. He’ll smoke joints during interviews, encouraged youth to vote in favor California’s ballot initiative Prop 19, and even exclaimed he used to spend upwards of $10,000 a month just [...]
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James Vincent McMorrow [Interview and Playlist]
James Vincent McMorrow is often quickly compared to Bon Iver. His similar folk sound was crafted like Bon Iver in a remote house surrounded in natured. So much has been made of this comparison that SFCritic thought it best to get to know James Vincent McMorrow based on the man behind his praised debut album, Early In The [...]
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[Interview with] Dan Deacon After Kitchener Waterloo Symphony
(This interview was originally written by SFCritic for Pulse SF Station) Dan Deacon has reached a turning point in 2011. He has just written and conducted his first symphony performed by the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada, and he will soon complete a film score for Francis Ford Coppola’s newest movie, Twixt Now. It’s a personal growth that was [...]
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