Our Five Most Popular Articles
Looking at our article archive, we’ve noticed there’s a lot of good content already in here that’s still relevant. It’s just not right on the front page. Here’s a countdown of our five most popular articles since we’ve been up and running: 5) Keeping it Long Distance: An Interview with Onra Synconation’s very first interview . . ....
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.
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In My Bedroom, Baby Blue Briefs, and Times New Viking
Dancer Equired gave me a free pass to be myself; I forgot to listen to it as a critic. I didn’t review it. I just lost my damn mind. Maybe it’s the subtle and sometimes blatant imperfections that tore down my guard. It’s riddled with pop ambiguity and a not-so-timid urgency to communicate some sort...
Conquering the Goths – An Interview with Titus Andronicus
Almost everyone gets restless. The bug to pick and go eventually sets in and for some reason or another, we all tend to feel disconnected at some point with our hometown. It's basically a right of passage . . . seeking a geographical cure. The Monitor, the latest offering of Titus Andronicus, successfully captures...
Danish Art Rock Rocks – A Conversation with Mew
Mew provided one of those moments. In a friend's car, a song came on that caught my attention, prompting me to stop him in mid sentence and ask, "Who is this?" So yes, I was late to the party on Mew . . . but I eventually arrived. If only it were fashionable to be...
From Hip-Hop Heights to Philosophical Troubadour
Maybe you know the name, maybe you don't, but you have definitely heard his music. The Fugees seemingly never-ending hits off of their album The Score, as well as Wyclef Jean's huge album John Forté has had an Odysseyean journey of sorts.
9.3 Million and Counting – Synconation Chats with ‘Mad Drummer’ Steve Moore
Steve Moore was simply doing what he does, performing on drums with his band Rick K & The Allnighters. But it wasn’t just any performance. It was a colossal attack of the skins, a performance by a man possessed to entertain, the type of drumming that made The Muppet’s own Animal look lethargic . . . a performance that...
All Over the Place and Back Again – A Conversation with Will Wiesenfeld
One of the most interesting electronic/beats-based albums of 2010 came from Will Wiesenfeld’s Baths project. Cerulean, the debut album from Baths, made it on quite a few year-end lists, but it seems to have stayed under the radar outside of the experimental electronic and glitch scenes. Released by anticon. records, Cerulean fits in well with that...
Dreams, Psychedelia and Muses: Inspiration from Nightlands
I had a chance to ask Dave Hartley about Nightland's Forget the Mantra as I try to figure out what type of creative process comes up with this kind of stuff. It’s going to be hard to write about this album without sounding like a space cadet. You've been warned.
