How much thought did you put into the visuals for “I Hate My Ex”? How did you want them to look? It was a spur of the moment video. We were shooting video for “Someday” and we had all the models and the location. I just was like, “fuck it” – I knew I wanted to make a video for “I Hate My Ex.” It was really on-the-fly vibe. A…
Rockers Mainland Break can be very conceptual when they want to be, and while I enjoyed every bit of what their rivals have had to say in the past few months, I don’t think it prepared me for what I was going to review this summer in One Way Ticket to Midnight. URL: https://mainlandbreak.com/ Just looking at the album cover of One Way Ticket to Midnight alludes to a contemporary surrealism so many…
What was it like adopting a new genre? It’s actually very different and fun. It feels very normal because it’s a genre of music that I’ve always wanted to do. Your lyrics in “Love Language” are very vulnerable, can you speak more to that, and how you had the courage to speak from your heart? I’ve always wondered how I could get the thoughts of how I felt in a…
Step into room, and you will see Henri Cainglet’s work. The Filipino native has an undeniable, visual aesthetic that inspires both delightful bewilderment, and a sense of all-encompassing, wild-eyed immersion. There’s something refreshingly modern about his style, whilst simultaneously displaying a kind of timelessness. Mr. Cainglet’s mixture of his cultural roots with elements of key American painters creates this kind of uncanny valley viewing experience. You feel like you are…
Led by its ethereal melody, entirely muscular in substance and yet capable of drawing us closer in the same way a much softer instrument would, “Feel That” has all the guts and glory of a lead-off track like “Ship of Fools” or “Best Friends,” but as a deep cut in the new EP Chroma Crawl, it proves how much depth Helen Kelter Skelter has as a heavy rock act in 2023.…
What is your favorite lyric from “It Takes Two”? My favorite lyric in the song is, “It takes two, baby, to make a dream come true.” What has been your favorite memory in regards to your career? My career spans over 50 years… so to pick a favorite moment is almost impossible. There have been so many memorable moments. One was performing in front of Princess Diana and then Prince Charles.…
How has the music industry changed from when you first began your career up until now? The music industry has changed so much and so quickly as technology has advanced. On one hand, the big label gatekeepers have lost much of their power. Technology has leveled the field quite a bit, allowing any person on earth to create their own music & videos, and put it out there for all…
Jaye Madison’s new EP MIRЯOR: Vision is a luxuriant and expansive collection with impressive scope despite its brevity. Twin sisters Madison and Jordan Skinner accomplish in four tracks what takes many other bands and solo artists upwards of ten to twelve songs to realize. Anyone looking for rollicking honkytonk or pop rock with a cowboy hat will find the sister’s material lacking. This doesn’t mean the Texas natives look askance on writing…
When it comes to making a rock song that transcends generational barriers between one subgenre and another, there’s no right way to hit the mark – but there are plenty of wrong ways. King Falcon avoids pretty much all of them in “Ready Set Go,” their meteoric new music video and single, but not without giving us a lesson or two in what constitutes a modern rock rhythm. Right from…
I’ve heard a lot of Rob Alexander’s work over the years since his debut and his new single “Get Over Yourself” from the new album Young Man’s Eyes rates as his best yet. This is a singer and songwriter who never plays around the edges. He fully immerses himself in each performance and isn’t afraid to engage with substantive topics. He isn’t a songwriter or vocalist content with the standard tropes alone.…
Has your home of Zurich, Switzerland, had an influence on the sound of your music? I don’t believe so. Switzerland is at the crossroads of Germany, Italy, and France which all have a strong music tradition that Switzerland absorbed to various degrees. But I grew up with American and British music in the late sixties and seventies. In my songwriting and arrangements, I am mainly inspired by folk, rock, and…
Your sound in the “No Goodbyes” music video is so smooth! What part of the vocal process do you enjoy and why? Thank you! I love the whole process of creating music. From having the vision, creating the beat, writing the lyrics to recording the song. I really enjoy all parts. How has your experience living in Europe transferred into the music you make today? If I had to pick…
Everett De Morier is a man you’ll soon realize it’s a privilege to meet. Everett De Morier, The Six Percent, and Being Part of a Select Few Everett De Morier is a man you’ll soon realize it’s a privilege to meet. Sure, he’s the bonafide author of four books, eight produced stage plays, an expose on prison corruption for 543 Magazine, a true crime book about a powerful New York…
San Francisco based filmmaker Paul Burke and New York sculptor Steve Shaheen didn’t stay fallow when the COVID-19 lockdowns temporarily felled their careers. The two men turned to another love they share, songwriting, and began collaborating on what would become the self-titled debut Toy City album. The nine songs they’ve included on this release include two covers and the remaining seven tracks are introspective sans any navel-gazing. This means they’ve…
There’s a lot of oomph to the opening bars of “Prove,” the first track in gloryBots’ new album Radiation Skies, but for all this song packs in rhythmic energy, it indulges further in warm tonal goodness the likes of which are a rare commodity anymore. The vocals intertwine and make a melodic patchwork as speckled with humanizing faults as it would be a symbol of rock harmony perfection, and the guitar…
(Queens, New York) based rock outfit King Falcon have released their new song ‘Cadillac’ on Mascot Records. Melding indie-rock adventurousness with Classic Rock swagger, King Falcon’s ultra-catchy songwriting recalls artists like Black Keys, Cage The Elephant, Tame Impala, The Killers, Royal Blood, and Beck. ‘Cadillac’ was produced by Marshall Altman (Citizen Cope, Matt Nathanson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Mark Broussard) and mixed by 12-time Grammy-nominated mixing engineer and producer Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons,…
Fox Apts. debut album Omen is a cinematic, epic indie rock opera, doing for modern indie rock what Green Day’s American Idiot or My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade did for pop-punk nearly 20 years ago. The album is a mix of alt-rock with shades of roots and folk that creates moments that feel sampled from the soundtracks of psychological horror films from decades past. The band’s name comes from…
Queens, New York based rock outfit King Falcon have released their new song ‘Cadillac’ on Mascot Records. Melding indie-rock adventurousness with Classic Rock swagger, King Falcon’s ultra-catchy songwriting recalls artists like Black Keys, Cage The Elephant, Tame Impala, The Killers, Royal Blood, and Beck. ‘Cadillac’ was produced by Marshall Altman (Citizen Cope, Matt Nathanson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Mark Broussard) and mixed by 12-time Grammy-nominated mixing engineer and producer Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons,…
What is your favorite element of music creation? Working out the parts and the creativity with the band, giving the songs energy. What part of the production process do you enjoy the most? Working in the studio, laying down parts, and feelinf git grow. We love the plotlines in the “Motor Scooter” music video! What inspired this concept or sparked this idea for the music video? Inspiration for the concept…
The “Panic” music video cinematically depicts an apocalyptic blackout! What was the brainstorming process for the music video’s concept? Panic is the main featured song in the new Y2K comedy film called Millennium Bugs. We wanted to have the video relate to the goofy fear-of-the-apocalypse way the characters are portrayed in the film. What has the experience in the New York rock underground scene been like? Is there a favorite…