Homegrown BLORRnography: An Interview With Chris Hess from Le Blorr
A sit-down with one of the most insane and entertaining bands to ever come out of Jacksonville. Apparently, popular bands actually do enjoy it when interviewers throw up on them.
One Man Rock And Roll Band: An Interview With Mark Sultan
"The preparation is in NOT preparing. Since I am alone, controlling all of the instruments, myself, I find it more liberating to never practice and not make set-lists, etc... To not adhere to any particular set of expectations. It's more fun. The downside is that when I break the band up, the arguments are usually...
Ryan Solomon: The smartest Dude in the room
This is by far the most satisfying interview I have ever done. I had the privilege to correspond with Ryan Solomon of San Diego’s DUDES. Trying to label his work at all is pointless. At times it reminds me of Air France, or Animal Collective, or Neon Indian, or even Wise Blood. And then it’s nothing like...
The Clearing and the Clear View It Lends: A Discussion with Phil Moore of the Bowerbirds
The Clearing, the Bowerbirds third album due out March 6th, 2012 on Dead Oceans, is a grand representation of Phil Moore and Beth Tacular’s outlook on the world, the life they live and the challenges that hail from that pursuit. By now, it should be understood that the Bowerbirds are a band enjoyed by many, especially those...
Distracted: A moment with Yellow Ostrich’s Alex Schaaf
Synconation had the opportunity to speak with Alex Schaaf of Yellow Ostrich, a great indie rock band originally from Wisconsin transplanted to NYC. He’s quickly gaining visibility, as we went through two different managers to eventually reach him and he sounds too busy to respond altogether. Forgivable though, as he’s about to embark on a lengthy tour...
Mass Appeal Madness: An Interview with NrIII
"Lyrically and musically, I feel that this is the first album to truly realize my goal for NRIII. It is looking at the depression, anger, and evil that is inherent in our communities, in our shackled capitalistic lives. I feel that modern life is a very soulless and mechanical existence. We are slaves to jobs,...
Sunbears! Teleologically Sound and Ecstatic – An Interview
SUNBEARS! are a musical stimulus, well crafted and intentional in giving their all towards a great live performance and listening experience. And I mean experience! They have just released their first full length album You Will Live Forever on New Granada Records and you can find it at your favorite online retailer.
An Interview with a Practitioner of the Ineffable – Fletcher Tucker of Gnome Life Records
“There is no one left to get things done. No one waiting to fill the world with something, so we must do it ourselves, in the best way that we know. We must give with as much purpose and love as there is within us. In this way we make our way, all of us...
Chrome Sparks: An Interview with Jeremy Malvin
For those of you not yet familiar with Chrome Sparks, I’ll wager that it will be part of the indie vocabulary (or hipsum) within the next year. Chrome Sparks is an electro-pop project by Jeremy Malvin, an Ann Arbor resident and University of Michigan junior. It shares some commonalities between popular chillwave music, but less...
Smooth as Chrome – An Interview with Sweden’s Mitch Murder
Diversity is the keyword of the Swedish design scene. Emotional values are now reckoned to be as important as function in Swedish craftsmanship and design in general. Everything is tested and retested, both aesthetic norms and traditional ways of working.
On a Bass with One String – A Conversation with Jon Bunch of Sense Field and Further Seems Forever
Jeremy Alan Gould interviews Jon Bunch of Sense Fieldm Further Seems Forever and Jon Bunch fame.
A Couple of Dead Winter Spots – An Interview with Seapony
Seapony has the type of sound that doesn't insist upon itself. That is, never abrasive, never jarring, just pleasantly there posing almost salubriously to the psyche. Listening to their It's just as good as daydreaming and projects that hazy veneer of watching old slideshows of your family at the beach. The band has one of...
