January 2011
13 posts
INTERVIEW: WHY?
Why? is a question that should be posed on a regular basis. Yoni Wolf, coming from Oakland by way of Cincinnati and repping anticon, weaves unforgettable images through inquisitive music that is personal and anonymous all at the same time. On the new Sanddollars e.p., Why? blends the homemade hip-hop and bedroom rock of Oaklandazulasylum with a new-found songwriting strength and the result is...
INTERVIEW: NEGATIVLAND
[originally published in 2005.]
Mark Hosler: Readyyyy? Are you recording? Go! OK, well, this is an interesting year for Negativland. We’ve now been doing this for twenty-five years…
everyoneisdoomed: …so how does it feel to be all grown up then?
MH: Yes, I’m all grown up. I’m ready to finally stop doing this silly noise nonsense and do serious grown-up things.
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INTERVIEW: THE LOCUST
[originally published in 2005.]
It’s all a ruse… the bug-eyed cosutumes, the imaginary controversies, and the reflective tape: it’s all a trick. The music media wants you to believe that The Locust is a band that has no sense of humor; behind all of the absurd song titles and mesh eye pieces is a seriously disturbed group of people making fringe music… but it’s a...
INTERVIEW: EMBER SWIFT
[originally published in 2005]
You might not know it yet, but you owe it to yourself to see Ember Swift live at least once in your life. Joined on stage by longtime musical partner and multi-instrumentalist Lyndall Montgomery, Ember fills any size room with presence and passion. she’s built a loyal following in a way that most Good Charlotte fly-by-nights wouldn’t understand: through...
INTERVIEW: GRAND BUFFET
[originally published in 2004]
Check it. Grand Buffet want to babysit your kids. They want to sing them subversive nursery rhymes and show them a good time. The best part is, they don’t even want to get paid for it. Grand Buffet, analog tweakers from Pittsburgh, are ready to rock you and unravel your socks, and if you can’t tell whether they’re joking or not, they are.
EID: can...
INTERVIEW: WARSAWPACK
[originally published in 2003.]
Hamilton, Ontario’s Warsawpack, one of Canada’s best-loved conscious hip-hop acts, fused funk, punk, old-school and Karl Marx into one big melting pot of music. Now sadly defunct, Warsawpack had a reputation for tremendous live shows with 50% less lecturing, and their act brought a new perspective to any crowd they faced. Let this interview, done in the...
INTERVIEW: THE MARS VOLTA
[originally published in 2003.]
The Mars Volta is an anomaly. With twelve-minute songs, obtuse and hard to penetrate lyrics, thoroughly abstract artwork and enough dynamic limb-flailing energy to work an audience from a sway to a swagger to a storm, the band has very few peers in the contemporary mainstream. While many bands are content to find formulas to please fans, The Mars Volta don’t want...
INTERVIEW: MODULOK
EID: Why call yrself Modulok?
MODULOK: Modulok was a bad ass villain on He-Man & The Masters of the Universe which I watched religiously as a kid. Whenever I watched cartoons and read comic books, I always thought the bad guys were way cooler than the good guys. The Modulok action figure had two heads, two arms and six legs, and you could rearrange all his limbs in different sockets to make...
INTERVIEW: BILLY BRAGG
{ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 2002}
Unlike many musicians, Billy Bragg does not necessarily need a product to promote and an album to tour behind. Granted, his latest album, England, Half-English, did come out earlier this year, and the traditional merch table will not be absent from his present tour. Even old folkies have to eat, right? Bragg is a musician who is not afraid to sing for his supper, among...
