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An Interview with Veronica Falls, Great Scott, March 7, 2013
When people receive you quite well and like what you do, you can’t help but be influenced by that, and feel like you want to make something people will like. But we tried to do what we do, and make songs that we like, and not think about it too much.
17 April 2013Death EP by Bloody Knives
I could be way off, but it sure reminds me of classic Black Sabbath, going way back to Paranoid days.
2 April 2013A Conversation with Matt Etherton of Presents for Sally
The fact that someone has taken something you have written, recorded and then taken their own time not only to listen to it, but write and tell other people means more than anything I could possibly put into words.
19 March 2013The History of Colour TV-Emerald Cures Chic Ills (Saint Marie)
The beauty of good shoegaze rests in how it hits you, and this one bowls me over.
15 March 2013An Interview with Anna-Lynne Williams of Lotte Kestner
I can’t just sit around strumming a guitar for fun anymore. I can only last a few minutes. So having all these poems sitting around has helped me to finish songs more quickly, and the words are somewhat more intentional and vivid, because they were meant to be able to stand on their own.
11 February 2013Panda Riot-Northern Automatic Music (Saint Marie Records)
It can drip with gentle piano when you expect sonic bombast, or meander into the liquid notes of the lovely instrumental “Encrypted Wilderness”.
8 February 2013Lotte Kestner-Bluebird of Happiness (Saint Marie Records)
This memorable cycle of songs will resonate with listeners long after the final note has faded away.
5 February 2013In Memory of Danny Lackey, Co-Founder of When the Sun Hits Blog
He had the ability to touch the hearts of people all over the world, simply by being himself. He loved deeply both beauty and music; his passion was experiencing both of those simultaneously, whether he was making the music or listening to it.
28 January 2013Going Deep with Charlie Nieland of Her Vanished Grace
HVG has a weird intensity that makes it not regular pop, but also has a melodicism that is inviting. We kind of glower at you and serenade you at the same time.
29 December 2012An Interview with Rob McCleary of Spotlight Kid
It still amazes us when a support band turns up with a plectrum and a tuner and expect us to provide a full backline. We tend to tell them to get back on the tube and sort themselves out!
20 December 2012A Round Table with the Murphy brothers and Gary Klebe of Shoes
The best music ingrains itself into your being and helps get us through our lives, marking milestones and watershed moments in our lives.
2 December 2012A Virtual Chat with Preston Maddox of Bloody Knives
All the cool modern shoegaze bands I know are punk rock people at heart, they show up on the stage to GO OFF, not to piddle with their reverb pedal and pretend to be cool.
21 October 2012Hey Marseilles and Sea Wolf at Church - Saturday, October 20, 2012
Deftly played songs about nature, love, and the sea.
13 October 2012An Interview with Clay Jordan of PacificUV
In this day and age, everything needs to be sold with a catch phrase; if it takes more than 15 seconds or a sentence to explain, people are on to the next thing.
28 September 2012Hammock-Departure Songs
This transcendent double album is studded with stellar compositions that push you to a higher plane.
28 September 2012Beth Orton-Sugaring Season (Anti/Epitaph)
She is touted as the comedown queen, or the late night/Sunday morning pick me up for others, but the beauty of her work is that she can be whatever you want her to be.
22 August 2012An Interview with Hammock, Stargazers Extraordinaire
“We are both Southern born and bred. I think having that common background in the South, with all of its grandeur and undeniable flaws, pretty much permeates everything we do.”
22 June 2012Aimee Nash of The Black Ryder expounds on her band's work
It’s about making a monument to our imagination and trying to create something that is beyond ourselves.
20 June 2012Interview with Mat Flint of Deep Cut
The songs are often straightforward pop songs, but they’re pop songs with a twist. I’m not saying that we’re avant garde or experimental, because we aren’t really, but I really hope that we are subversive in some way, even if it’s just subliminal.
2 June 2012The Psychedelic Furs at the Iron Horse Music Hall (Northampton, MA), 5/29/2012
The perfect sonic storm faded away even as the tornadic maelstrom kicked up outside.
14 May 2012Daniel Land of the Modern Painters
I generally find that intention doesn’t come into the music part of record-making all that much – you just kinda start, and then sooner or later a direction makes itself apparent, and the momentum of that carries you through to the end.
8 April 2012Nada Surf with An Horse - Paradise Rock Club (Boston) - Friday, April 6, 2012
This enchanting power pop group put a spell on the entire audience during this Good Friday show at the Paradise in Boston. Well worth the trip.
8 March 2012EJ Hagen of Highspire
I quit painting many years ago to focus on music. And shoegaze / effect-based music was a natural fit for me due to the experimentation and lush beauty involved. It’s like painting for your ears.
27 February 2012Joey Shanks of The Blurries
Everything we like about the Blurries is born from what we were doing wrong as Slider Pines. Even now, we use that band name (which is god-awful) as a reverse rally cry for doing things better, or just differently.
23 February 2012A Brief Interlude with Sacha Lucashenko of The Morning After Girls
Never attempt to recreate what’s already been done, where’s the thrill in that?
6 January 2012Mark Peters of the Engineers
“I would hope that the real connection people would make with our music is a spiritual one…that lifts you to a higher mental state, and away from everyday consciousness.”
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