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Private Lives: "We Just Got Better as a Band and Sort of Figured Out Who We Are"
More musically accomplished, more obsessively self-questioning, and with equally energetic yet simply deceiving performances, Salt of The...
Joseph Massaro
Mar 13
Plastic Act: "I Think When Any Kind of Art Is Too on the Nose, It Usually Sucks. You Have To Leave Room for People To Make Up Their Minds on What You're Trying To Say"
Snap, crackle, and pop! Plastic Act, the solo moniker of Private Lives bassist Josh Herlihey, injects more sonically destructive rock 'n'...
Joseph Massaro
Jan 16
Alvilda: "We're Very Proud To Be an All Girl Band, We All Have Different Backgrounds With Music but Its Been Part of Our Lives Since Always and I'm So Proud We Did This Band Together"
What's not to love about Alvilda? Perfectly named, the group sprung fully-loaded out of the primal ordure that all great rock n’ roll...
Joseph Massaro
Jan 15
Marty Brass: "My Last Name Could Have Been Brazauskas, but There Was a Language Barrier and Some Other Misunderstandings That the Drunk Bloke at Ellis Island Chopped It Down to Brass."
If 2022's Painted Glass was about prioritizing the rawness of pop classicism in the world of 4-track recording then J unk Room Melodies...
Joseph Massaro
Jan 13
Track by Track: Brower on the Stompin' Bubblegum Nuggets That Cook up 'Flour'
Following up several singles and a totally authentic live album to help sustain the anticipation over the years, New York City rocker Nat...
Joseph Massaro
Nov 4, 2024
The Circulators: "I Couldn't Put Much Significance Behind It Other Than Just Wanting to Document Those Songs and Make Something That We Could Be Proud of and Say, 'Hey, We Made an Actual Record!'"
The Circulators are one of the best bands tearing it up in San Francisco and luckily, they snagged a deal with Total Punk, who will be...
Joseph Massaro
Nov 1, 2024
The Prize: "It Sometimes Feels Like We Haven't Done That Much but Then When You Step Back and Have a Look at the Opportunities We've Had and the Things We've Got to Experience, I Feel Really Lucky!"
Since forming in 2021, The Prize has established itself as one of Melbourne's premiere rock 'n' roll bands through their arsenal of...
Joseph Massaro
Oct 16, 2024
Jed Dmochowski of The V.I.P.'s: "None of Us Were Trained Musicians, but We Knew How a Good Song Should Be Shaped and Sound Like"
The V.I.P .'s were formed by Jed Dmochowski (guitar, vocals), Guy Morley (guitar), Andrew Price (bass), and Paul Shurey (drums) while...
Joseph Massaro
Oct 8, 2024
Soup Activists: "While I Do Miss Fronting a High Energy Band, I Am Happy and Excited With What I'm Doing Now"
Considered to be one of the primary architects of today's contemporary punk landscape, the mercurial St. Louis-based artist Martin Meyer...
Joseph Massaro
Sep 26, 2024
Class: "Honestly I Don't Think We Anticipated Having Another LP Out Almost a Year to the Day From Our Last Release"
Too unseriously pop-minded for the punks and too punky for the power poppers, Tucson rockers Class seem to be on their own island, but...
Joseph Massaro
Sep 17, 2024
Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"
Melbourne's latest rock 'n' roll supergroup Loose Lips deliver earworm hooks, tough male-female vocals, and anthemic guitar riffs that...
Joseph Massaro
Aug 15, 2024
Brower: "I've Joked That This Is My 'Depression Album,' and I Was Conflicted About Whether It's Too Serious"
Following up several singles and a "live" album to help sustain the anticipation over the years, New York City power pop stalwart Brower...
Joseph Massaro
Aug 9, 2024
Sharp Pins: "Without All Ages Shows, I Wouldn't Have Met My Best Friends in the World and I Wouldn't Be Inspired at All to Do Anything I'm Doing, or at Least the Stuff I'm Doing Wouldn't Be Very Good"
Sharp Pins, the songwriting vehicle for Chicago native and pop noisemaker Kai Slater, (guitarist-vocalist of Lifeguard, publisher of...
Joseph Massaro
Aug 7, 2024
Love Banana: "I Think Having Our Differences Is a Great Thing and Keeps Us From Accidentally Sounding Too Derivative, Which Is Easy When You're Young and Excited and Get Obsessed Over Music"
Love Banana offers up short sharp shots of super-shambolic, super-perky garage-pop on their latest single "Get In." The new tune,...
Joseph Massaro
Jul 11, 2024
Answering Machines: "I Started This Band To Have Fun and Do Whatever I Wanted"
Chicago's Answering Machines are DIY heroes, from the tasty crunch of their recordings to their hand-dubbed tapes; it's the sort of...
Sydney Salk
Jul 9, 2024
Pack Rat: "One Thing That's the Same as the Original Vision of the Band Is That I Still Have No Idea What I'm Doing"
After starting as a Covid solo project by Chain Whip's Patrick McEachnie in 2020, Pack Rat quickly grew into an eight-legged outfit with...
Joseph Massaro
Jul 5, 2024
Softjaw: "I Think I've Learned to Not Take Things Too Seriously Over the Years. It's Much Easier Now for Me to Just Shrug My Shoulders and Say Fuck It"
Irresistibly catchy and gritty Long Beach power poppers Softjaw discuss how their shared love for The Nerves and Big Star sparked them to...
Joseph Massaro
May 29, 2024
Diners: "Speaking for Myself, Making 'Domino' Felt Healing"
One of last summer's most overlooked pop statements came from Los Angeles-based songwriter Blue Broderick, aka Diners, on her latest...
Joseph Massaro
May 15, 2024
Program: "Each Song Has to Stand on Its Own Two Feet, so We Give Them Each a Lot of Care and Attention"
As they know quite well how to read the jangle pop playbook, Program has been one of our favorite rock bands to come out Melbourne since...
Joseph Massaro
May 7, 2024
One Year of The Lemon Twigs 'Everything Harmony': "The Main Goal of the Album Was to Record Something With Immaculate Production in Which There Wasn't Anything in the Wrong Place"
To celebrate the one year anniversary of The Lemon Twigs' unabashed masterpiece Everything Harmony , I dug up an interview I did last...
Joseph Massaro
May 6, 2024
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