Band Interviews

“We kind of wanted to circle back to more of the rock venue feel.  We enjoyed the intimacy of the last one, but we got a lot of feedback from people who felt trapped in their chairs,” Cloud Cult founder and primary songwriter Craig Minowa tells me, laughing.  March...

Portland, Oregon’s Pure Bathing Culture are longtime phriends of PHILTHY (We first met them in September of 2014, while they were on tour with Tennis.), but I’m pretty sure they haven’t headlined the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection in close to a decade… and I haven’t gotten...

During a recent phone chat with The Gaslight Anthem’s Benny Horowitz, I find out that the drummer for the New Brunswick heartland punk rockers actually has quite the history with the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection: “I wear Yankees hats and am a fan of New York...

This Thursday, August 15th, The Courettes are bringing a night of classic rock’n’roll – of the garage rock and proto-punk variety, not the kind that your dad listens to… unless you have an exceptionally cool dad – to Kung Fu Necktie.  The Danish-Brazilian duo, comprised of husband/wife Martin and...

“I used to do very stripped back demos at home, and then I met Mikal Cronin,” jokes New Zealand-raised, Los Angeles-based artist Jess Cornelius about working with the famed LA musician perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Ty Segall.  Cronin served as producer and multi-instrumentalist for Cornelius’ sophomore solo...

“Anything you need to know about me I feel like you really can learn from the music,” Los Angeles-based alt-pop singer/songwriter OSTON tells me during a recent interview.  OSTON – who has toured alongside our phriends VÉRITÉ and The Greeting Committee and written a song with our good buddy...

“You are gonna see an all-girl two-piece band up there .  I usually have a guitarist with me, but for this I will be playing electric for the whole set… but you’ll experience all of the ups and downs of a normal set,” says pop artist Laur Elle of...

“What’s important to us is touring and playing live.  We put these albums out so we can keep playing and touring…  I thought if we could go to Europe once it would be great, but it’s been like 10 times over,” laughs Mathieu Ball, guitarist and co-founder of Montreal...

“I love supporting any band that’s doing intelligent pop music.  I feel like the dream would be like Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, Belle & Sebastian… Alex G, that would be a really fun tour,” says Joe Stevens, founder and songwriter of Los Angeles avant-pop outfit Peel Dream Magazine (Yes, named...