band interviews

YACHT

For two months in early 2008, Portland-based electropop duo YACHT set up camp in a small town located in the desert of West Texas, away from the city lights, but at the threshold of a completely different type of lig...

Adam Green

"Is that a good color?" asks Adam Green, regarding the phlegm he's just coughed into a cup. In the dressing room of the Newcastle Academy, Green puts his affliction down to either a cold or too much drinking. Green i...

Between The Buried And Me

From the melancholy opening bars of The Great Misdirect, solemn lyrics invite you in, and with a moment's glance, the opening track, "Mirrors," becomes flush with the interplay of mellow meandering strings and su...

Defeater

Jay Maas spends a majority of his life around hardcore bands. When he isn't recording and mixing various albums at Getaway Recording Studio in Massachusetts, he spends the rest of his time touring the nation and...

Tin Can Notes

The whole is equal to the sum of its parts. Or is it? If you ask musician Jack Matranga, he'll tell you the answer is absolutely not. As a former member of Self Against City, he'll tell you that each member was no...

The Mercury Program

"The intention was always that we were going to do another record," states Tom Reno, guitarist for The Mercury Program. After the release of A Data Learn The Language in 2004, The Mercury Program took a hiatus that was s...

Fuck Buttons

Fuck Buttons' sound is an experience all to itself. That isn't to say that listening to the electronic duo from Bristol, England is like discovering The Beatles for the first time, but there is something that ...

HEALTH

With the release of their self-titled album in 2007, HEALTH, clad in tight jeans and neon t-shirts, solidified their place amongst hipsters and teens. But while the group quickly appealed to this one demographic, they ha...