Words By Holly H | @holl_x Tef Poe has had a big, busy year. A sold-out show with Talib Kweli , 106 & Park "Freestyle Friday" wins , and collabs with Killer Mike, Royce Da 5’9 and others. Last week, we were able to steal a few minutes of Tef's time to talk about his music, his hometown, and some of his secrets to grassroots networking. On His First Shows My first show was horrible [laughs] . [...]
Ghostface is infamous for his interviews, but it’s the best kind of infamy. His colorful use of language spawned Big Ghost Chronicles , a blog devoted to his bizarre lyrical stylings and eviscerating Drake . Sample sentence: “Ayo whattup you now in the presence of the mighty Hands Of Zeus aka the grand imperial Cocaine Biceps.” Ghost’s unique brand of stream of consciousness spills over from his rhymes into his rhetoric, spinning looping threads of “nah means” and “yah heards” through which he drops jewels. It’s pretzel logic at its flyest. In that way, he’s like [...]
STARFUCKERS played the biggest and best club nights and night clubs in Australia, while still hanging their hats at the well-known STARFUCKERS party in Sydney. These guys know how to pump the crowd’s energy and raise hell in the clubs they play. If you haven’t seen them live by now, you’ll probably not understand what The post Interview: Starfuckers - "Drenched in litres of coffee" appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
Danny Ashenden is a DJ and producer who makes music under a couple of different aliases. He's one-half of established London duo the C90s and he also made music with Daniel Avery as Say Yes To Another Excess. But more important than all of that is: he drinks a lot of tea. You can often tell a lot about a person by what they drink, or don't drink. For example, I hate all hot drinks on a general point of principle. Danny is so enamoured by tea, and its socio-economic implications, his new alias is homage to all [...]
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American hero Charles Ramsey spoke with Anderson Cooper on Tuesday about helping Amanda Berry escape from her kidnappers , and it's really touching. "I'm having trouble sleeping," Ramsey told Cooper. "Up until yesteday, the only thing that kept me from losing sleep was the lack of money. Now that [I know] that's [been] going on [next door] ... I coulda done this last year." He also doesn't consider himself a hero and doesn't want the F.B.I.'s $25,000 reward . "I'm a Christian and an American. Just like you. We bleed the same blood. We [...]
OK so the title to Vision Fortune's debut, Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision Fortune , has a catchy ring to it. But this London three-piece just aren't interested in those instant pop hooks and throwaway chorus-lines. Their music is a pile up of repetitive guitar riffs and drone-like experiments - and it may well be one of the finest debuts of the year. We caught up with Austin - one of the two brothers in the band - to talk about the music, the debut and anything else we could think of. WARNING - this interview [...]
The husband/wife duo that make up Big Harp dropped into our SxSW stage at Sony City in Austin to talk about Chain Letters, their sophomore disc, and the fact that it was recorded after their kids went to sleep. In fact, we talk a lot about the trials of being a family who also is a band.
Dyed Soundorom began life in the 90’s as a lowly Parisian promoter, striking a deep affinity for the apparently legendary Batofar After Parties. Hard for me to comment on their legend status as I was busy trying to be a highly educated student in the late 90’s, however its fairly clear in retrospect that Soundorom was well schooled in the virtues of deep grooving house, if the written word is anything to go by. Since those formative years Soundorom has taken that template and applied it to his own music, with his debut 2008 record ‘Question’ quickly setting a [...]
Norwegian progressive metal band Leprous is about to release their new album Coal. Besides working on own material Leprous is also known as Ihsahn's backing band, when he performs solo. John Sturm asked Leprous co-founder, guitarist and lyrics author Tor Oddmund Suhrke a couple of questions.
Dominic Stephens is the man behind OUTERWAVES - a production project of his that continues his exploration of "the effect of sound, repetition and irregular frequency" that manifests onto his listeners. Not one to stick his name under any specific genre, he's very passionate about creating sounds and textures from the comfort of his bedroom as his music is captured through rustic, lo-fi production. Proving versatility in his endeavours, we caught up with Stephens about Outerwaves to gain a further insight of this project and how it differs from [...]
The New York experimentalists Psychic Ills, known for drone, all manner of Eastern influences and, naturally, psychedelia, released their last album, Mirror Eye, in early 2009. Since then, they've split with keyboardist Jimy Sei Tang (after some tour unpleasantness), put... READ MORE
Shortly EYE EMMA JEDI released their new single, Places, which is the first song from their upcoming debut album. Since Places is a real spring soundtrack and the Norwegian indie-rockers are currently on tour, NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION had a talk with the guys. Who is EYE EMMA JEDI, how is touring for them, The post Interview: Eye Emma Jedi - "Time to get sweaty!" appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .
"I think I'm truly at my happiest when I'm as productive as possible. I'm very ambitious..." Ilan Rubin, The New Regime. Talent and passion drive a lot of people, and Ilan Rubin is no different. As the multi-instrumentalist behind bands such NIN, Angels & Airwaves, and Paramore, Rubin manages a busy schedule. Even so, the 24 year still fronts a solo project, The New Regime. With two releases already under his belt, Rubin is geared up for his third, Exhibit A , a record that glistens with a renewed sense of energy that had been [...]
A nice concept interview with the Kush Gawed. The post iKeepsIt100.com Presents: 21 Questions with Smoke Dza appeared first on TAPEDECK .
Hi we're Mary & Jon and we make music with each other as well as a variety of other projects including First Rate People . Here's a little chat we had with each other re: our musical origins. Jon: Hi Mary! So what do you think is most interesting about us? I know you've said something like we compliment each other. Mary: Haha that is true. As for what is most interesting about us I think it's our mutual appreciation. I think our brains and musical stylings are just very compatible. Jon: I [...]
Next month Eleanor Friedberger will release Personal Record - her second solo album and the follow up to her excellent 2011 offering, Last Summer . Co-written with Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding), Friedberger's sophomore solo outing further showcases her ability to write warm, ebullient pop songs and infuse them with lyrics that are not only clever and wry, but also catchy as all hell. (Just listen to the record's first single, "Stare At The Sun," and try to stop "If that was goodbye, I must be high" from looping in your brain). I had [...]
Mein Zufallsfund des Tages - The Hollyhocks aus Italien, die ich auf Soundcloud mehr oder minder unfreiwillig auf den Schirm und kurze Zeit später auf die Ohren bekam. 2009 gegründet spielten sie sich The Hollyhocks erstmal in Turin und Italien den Allerwertesten ab und gaben Interviews in Webradios auf der ganzen Welt. 2010 erschien die erste EP "A Place To Hide" auf dem TDMC Records Label . Und wie bei einigen anderen italienischen Bands, mischen The Hollyhocks den Synthsound der 80er mit experimentellen Klanglandschaften. Und so sind einerseits die New Wave Anleihen deutlich, während die Gitarren mit [...]
Meet Charles Ramsey, who just provided the next news interview destined to become autotuned. I've already seen this posted everywhere today, so Ramsey is blowing up. Not only is he a master interviewer, but he helped rescue three Cleveland girls that were kidnapped back in 2003. While Amanda Berry, Michele Knight and Gina DeJesus can thank Ramsey, the Internet gets to thank him for today's unintentional comedy. Charles Ramsey definitely joins the Autotuned News Mount Rushmore with Sweet Dee and Antoine Dobson. [via deathandtaxes ]
Schubert , a burgeoning young producer and DJ out of Barcelona, has managed to capture the eyes and ears of the electronic underground in what seems like a tremendously short period of time. Crafting some of the finest and most captivating tech-house of the moment while simultaneously managing, producing, DJing, and performing live prove the young musician to be not only a fine talent, but one with exceptional time management skills. With recent releases on Minus12 and his own Black Swan Recordings, Schubert’s latest efforts seem only to suggest that the artist’s vision is fixed firmly upon the future; and [...]
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