From Berklee to Los Angeles, the kind of rock that needs an exclamation point
INTERVIEW: DEAD POET SOCIETY
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DEVIL LOVE: A SOUND HONED OVER DECADES, WITH HEAVY INFLUENCES FROM BOTH COASTS
“That feels very different than Boston now, but my thoughts about the city is that Boston seems to be the scene that the Northwest grew into.”
INTERVIEW: HAYLEY THOMPSON-KING ON HER NEW ALBUM “SORORICIDE”
Clashing With Sororicide.
BLACK LIPS: NOT PURE COUNTRY BY ANY MEANS, BUT THEIR INTERPRETATION OF IT
"My songs mostly come out of experience or someone’s experience that’s close to me. A lot of my songs are stories or they bear some weight that comes from my life. I’m not that creative of a person, so I have to take it from real life, and I know a lot of weird characters from living all over the world and being around a bunch of them."
J RODDY WALSTON: “I’M ACTUALLY CREATING A LIMITED SUPPLY OF THAT EXPERIENCE”
"There will be some way for people to hear what I’m doing, maybe I’ll put it on the internet or something, but I just want to make art and not necessarily a bunch of products."
STICK TO THE PLAN: HALLELUJAH THE HILLS WENT THROUGH HELL BUT RETURNED FOR SEVENTH LP
"If a title is strong, unusual or funny, it’s because those are the type of things that will drive me to write a song for that title.”
TWIN PEAKS: CHICAGO GARAGE ROCKERS ON LESSONS LEARNED FROM OLD DAYS GIGGING IN DIRTY DIY JOINTS
"I feel very humbled by it. It’s crazy … starting when we did and now I’m 25 doing this."
THE HARD TIMES: HUMOR, MUSIC, AND WHY ANDY BOROWITZ IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST, WITH THE CREATORS OF PUNK’S SATIRICAL SAVIOR
Not only do they have a successful operation, but they’re releasing a new book, The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. I asked them about everything.
RADIO DAYS: HOW BILL LICHTENSTEIN GOT THE BAND BACK TOGETHER FOR A CRITICAL HUB HISTORY DOC
"The belief was always that this told a story about social change and people speaking up for what is right. If it was just about Boston, it would have a limited appeal, so really from the beginning we looked at how ’BCN in fact had a much broader influence, and then we tried to tell that story."
WHEEL OF TUNES: KURT VILE
The guitar jammer talks doing impersonations, supporting the ACLU, and the brutality of New England winters.
