Band Interviews

“I try to connect on a human level while performing.  Some artists I like put on more of a show, and I think about how I could incorporate some more showy elements, but I really just wanna connect, to have a human-to-human connection,” says PINKNOISE, aka Kacey Foxx, an...

On August 13th GRAMMY-nominated, Gold-certified, London-based songwriter and vocalist HAYLA – perhaps best known for her collaborations with some of the biggest names in electronic music, including Kx5 (Deadmau5 and Kaskade), Kygo, and ILLENIUM – will be making her live debut in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly...

This past weekend Los Angeles psychedelic garage rockers Allah-Las kicked off a week of East Coast headlining dates that will have them returning to Underground Arts this Friday, July 24th.  The shows come ahead of the band’s sixth full-length, Sirenas, which drops more than a month later on August...

“I’ve done it now for 25 years, and you hope to have that one hit single, but it’s essentially still an underground career,” says Ryan Kattner aka Honus Honus aka the frontman of Man Man, the originally-Philadelphia-based experimental rockers (now based in Los Angeles) that spent the aughts and...

This Friday, June 26th, Montreal duo Born At Midnite — comprised of visual artist and pop musician Amery Sandford (whose solo project, Amery, you may have seen supporting Molly Nilsson last September at Johnny Brenda’s) and David Carriere, producer, songwriter, and guitarist in TOPS (who you may have seen...

Earlier this month English singer/songwriter and Polydor recording artist Holly Humberstone sold out her fifth consecutive show in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection when she returned to Theatre of Living Arts on June 9th.  (Her first area appearance was supporting girl in red at Union Transfer...

This April pop-rockers The Cab dropped Chasing Crowns, their third full-length and first in 15 years, the follow-up to last November’s Road to Reign: A Prelude EP (whose four tracks are included on the LP), the Las Vegas quintet’s first official release since 2014.  The EP was accompanied by...

Tomorrow, June 17th, KELS — an Atlanta-based artist who’s made a name for herself blending jazz, pop, and soul in a manner that has earned the attention of Big Boi and Timbaland — will be performing a long-sold-out show at Kung Fu Necktie.  However, we’re just as excited about...

“It wasn’t too thought out, to be honest…  The whole premise was we were just helping each other,” says Aaron Graham, one half of Ray Bull, before the other half of the New York-based duo, Tucker Elkins, admits, “We didn’t have a plan.”  I’m chatting with Aaron and Tucker...