Category: Music Interview

Ritt Momney: Salt Lake City’s lo-fi indie hero channels lockdown misery into spirited pop cover

Ritt Momney: Salt Lake City’s lo-fi indie hero channels lockdown misery into spirited pop cover

In April Jack Rutter cut loose from his usual introspective indie with a, er, cover of Corrine Bailey Rae’s, ‘Put…

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The National’s Matt Berninger on going solo: “These songs are about the people that made me… me”

The National’s Matt Berninger on going solo: “These songs are about the people that made me… me”

Pretty much every music fan remembers where they were when they heard the news that David Bowie had died. Matt…

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CMAT: Dublin cowgirl turning shitposting into Americana bangers

CMAT: Dublin cowgirl turning shitposting into Americana bangers

Livestreaming the heroic struggle of eating an 80-piece KFC chicken bucket isn’t the typical way of promoting your debut single,…

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“We wanted to make something different”: the impact of Linkin Park’s ‘Hybrid Theory’, 20 years on

“We wanted to make something different”: the impact of Linkin Park’s ‘Hybrid Theory’, 20 years on

A furious blend of hip-hop swagger, rock catharsis, pop ambition and electronic escapism, ‘Hybrid Theory’ is the most important rock…

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Slow Pulp: Chicago group’s stunning debut navigates trauma and haunted studios

Slow Pulp: Chicago group’s stunning debut navigates trauma and haunted studios

If you look closely, the long, difficult story of Slow Pulp’s debut album ‘Moveys’ is told in the gorgeously animated…

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Tiña’s Joshua Loftin on the importance of ‘Positive Mental Health Music’

Tiña’s Joshua Loftin on the importance of ‘Positive Mental Health Music’

As the first band to have a full-length release on London’s hottest label Speedy Wunderground (the Dan Carey-run imprint known…

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Five things we learned from our In Conversation video chat with The Driver Era

Over the last few months, The Driver Era – aka brothers Ross and Rocky Lynch – have been steadily releasing…

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Soundtrack Of My Life: ‘Dumplin’ star Danielle Macdonald

Soundtrack Of My Life: ‘Dumplin’ star Danielle Macdonald

The first song I fell in love with Linkin Park – ‘In The End’ “I’m sure there were many, but…

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How do you bring the ‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater’ soundtrack into 2020? We asked the man who did

When Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater came out around the turn of the millennium, I – like so many other ’90s…

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The Lathums: Wigan heroes on local pride, topping the charts and supporting Blossoms

The Lathums: Wigan heroes on local pride, topping the charts and supporting Blossoms

‘The biggest crowd we’d played before we got asked to play Kendal Calling was in our local pub, The Crown….

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