Band Interviews

“We just want it to be a party before we take a break-y… a short break,” says Lizzy of Lizdelise during a recent phone chat.  They’re referring to the Philly-based experimental pop group’s headlining show this coming Sunday, January 29th, at Johnny Brenda’s.  The gig, which also features locals...

“I’m just making the shit I wanna do, and I sense that freedom in the record,” Kimbra tells me of her latest album during a Zoom chat earlier this month.  That record is A Reckoning, the New Zealand art pop musician’s fourth LP and first to be released independently. ...

It’s not often we come across a country singer/songwriter with Spotify playlists filled with the likes of The Cramps, MC5, and Lou Reed…  However, that just seems to be how Nashville-based Emily Nenni rolls.  “I’m just a huge fan of music, not just country,” she tells me during a...

“It started in dumpy little clubs and evolved into this huge thing,” says Greensky Bluegrass dobro player Anders Beck, joking about the band’s rise to fame.  The group have been churning out a sound that blends their namesake with roots-rock, delivered as a jam band, since 2004’s Less Than...

Today indie-pop singer/songwriter Julia Wolf drops the music video for her latest single, “Rookie of the Year,” in addition to her debut LP, Good Thing We Stayed.  That name may sound familiar, if you were one of the few lucky enough to catch FLETCHER’s super sold-out, super intimate, and...

“Part of me is happy to hear that there’s not a lot of information about us.  We’ve never wanted our personalities to be front and center,” says queer, doomy, experimental black metal duo Ragana.  This is not such a surprising revelation, as the two – Maria and Nicole, who...

“Pitchfork gave it a really awful review, which means it’s the kind of album I would love,” says Turnover singer Austin Getz of the band’s latest album, Myself in the Way.  The album — which dropped November 4th courtesy of Run For Cover Records — is the fifth full-length...

This Friday, December 9th, Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley will kick off a tour as Shoshin (初心) Duo in Atlanta, which includes a December 16th stop at our very own Union Transfer.  Last month the experimental metal band and EarthQuaker Devices released the third incarnation of the...

Dying Wish — a self-described, “extreme metallic hardcore band infused with a punk spirit.” – have been touring basically nonstop since the release of their debut LP, Fragments of a Bitter Memory, which dropped last October on SharpTone Records.  The Portland-based group played both Underground Arts and the First...