Category archive for ‘Interviews’

• Other Lives Interview Pt. 1: Getting To Know The Band

  2/21/12 • (0)

  

  Preparing for this interview it occurred to us that many people still don’t know Other Lives. Sure, maybe you saw them on our Best of 2011 list, or noticed they toured with Bon Iver, or going on to tour with Radiohead (Yes, that’s right both indie’s new King, and its reigning ruler have given the band the nod of [...]

• Elzhi – The Elmatic Story [Interview]

  1/30/12 • (0)

  

  People have doubted Elzhi since he started rapping. His family wanted him to get a “stable” job. After eight years as a member of Slum Village, rapper T3, the group leader, left Elzhi out of the group’s music video for “Reunion 2.” When he decided to go solo, his label said he wouldn’t make it. For years, Elzhi [...]

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• Geographer Interview with Michael Deni

  1/23/12 • (0)

  

  A lot has changed in the four years since the release of Geographer’s debut album, Innocent Ghosts. To start, the band was praised by Spin, highly reviewed for their EP Animal Shapes, sold-out The Independent for Noise Pop Festival, and named by Live 105 as one the “Bay Area’s Top 20 Bands in 2011.” More importantly, the personal tragedies that fed lead [...]

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• Interview with Dinosaur Jr’s Lou Barlow

  1/09/12 • (0)

  

  There has always been tension between Dinosaur Jr’s Lou Barlow and J Mascis. At the peak of their success with the release of Bug, their relationship hit a tumultuous low when Mascis attacked Barlow on stage. The group broke up. In 2005, the original group reunited for a tour, but did not perform many of the songs from Bug. “We always had a [...]

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• Beats Antique Breaking Barriers in 2012

  1/04/12 • (0)

  

  When the clock struck twelve, we hope Beats Antique looked back on this past year and smiled. What should have come to mind was playing to their largest crowd ever (13,000 fans) alongside two of the biggest names in bass music, Pretty Lights and Bassnectar. And if that was not enough to coax a grin, surely this should: [...]

• Ellie Goulding [Interview] – The Bright Lights

  11/21/11 • (2)

  

  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..

  10/24/11 • (0)

  

  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

  10/12/11 • (0)

  

  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

  5/06/11 • (11)

  

  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 [...]

• Toro Y Moi [Interview]: Going The Way You Wouldn’t Expect

  4/20/11 • (3)

  

  “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 [...]