As his music suggests, the Canadian experimentalist known as JayWood (real name Jeremy Haywood-Smith) is the type of guy who enjoys thought-provoking conversation about topics like manifestation, astrology, and mysticism—not in a blind follower kind of way, but in a loose and curious, self-reflective way. He offers glimpses of these ideas throughout his new release […]
This new series highlights on-the-record conversations that didn’t make it into the published feature, with text directly lifted directly from the transcript. Anything off the record remains off the record. By the time I interviewed Ace for his February 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without feature, the weekly series was in its third year. He […]
The history of recorded music is not long. There are records available from the very earliest days of sound reproduction, which in its familiar form was invented by some guy named Edison in New Jersey. If your favorite band is or was Bon Jovi, it’s possible that one of Bon Jovi’s great-grandparents was alive when […]
Sometimes you have to blow things up and start over again to some degree, even if things were working in the first place. A fresh start, a blank canvas, can inspire the creative process like the first time. But does it count as starting over if you’re doing it with your day-ones? Besphrenz, the genre-defying […]
If you’ve not yet heard producer/artist/DJ REZZ’s music, today is the day. Her work is unlike anything you’ve ever heard, or likely ever will. Simultaneously introspective yet emotive, REZZ’s midtempo cinematic bass music ranges from hypnotic minimal tech to dark industrial, but mostly lives in the realm of the unexplored. Her live shows carry the […]
Alex Gaskarth, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for pop-punk band All Time Low, says the group’s new album, Everyone’s Talking, out October 17, was inspired by the 20th anniversary shows they were playing in 2024. “There was such an outpouring of love and support from the fans, and that invigorated us to start writing new […]
Name Anton Newcombe Current City I live in Berlin and have my studio [there]. Really want to be in I’m one of those people that looks at property listings in Sweden and Norway on the ocean or lakes and thinks, “I could afford this…I don’t need people.” Excited about I’m excited to finish our tour; Canada, U.S.A., Mexico, then South […]
The city of Golden Sands may not actually exist, but it still has a weird and wonderful TV station. Programme 4 broadcasts commercials for local restaurants like Ramon’s Venetian Room (with new pleather-bound menus) and local businesses like Browner Carpeting (check out their floor-to-ceiling garage shag). There are ads for the annual Starving Artist Mathis […]
On a sweltering Saturday afternoon at Austin City Limits, the de la Rosa brothers of Latin Mafia are drenched in sweat after performing on the Miller Lite Stage. As one of the few Latin acts on the bill, the trio carry themselves more like Mexican rock stars after inciting mosh pits and crowd-surfing during their […]
“What’s crazy is we had two different sessions at Pachyderm. And each time the power went out, which we already thought was really weird. In fact, the guy who runs the studio, Nick [Tveitbakk], said that never happened in 15 years,” John Pelant explained, while sitting on a lawn chair from the safety of his […]