July 4, 2009

INTERVIEWS

Boy in Static “My approach is to take things and exaggerate them.”
by Elzee
Eat Skull "We have a way of looking at things that is maybe realistic."
by M. Hugh Steeply
Anni Rossi "I don’t want there to be any unused space in the recording."
by Jeff Milo
Grouper "I feel hesitant about predicting any kind of future with music."
by D-BO
Akron/Family "All our ‘stylistic’ shifts were just snapshots of us experimenting, trying ideas, playing with them."
by Jeff Milo
sunn 0))) "It’s like an onion, man, all the layers and shit."
by Mangoon
Cryptacize "Nothing interests me in sparseness anymore than fullness."
by Jeff Milo
La Otracina "We are making OUR sound, and maybe it ain’t all ‘new,’ but it’s ‘ours,’ and it changes and grows."
by Mangoon
Extra Golden "There’s not a lot of African music that’s contemplative or music for music’s sake; it tends to serve a purpose."
by M. Hugh Steeply
Gang Gang Dance "Rock ‘n’ roll has been happening for so long. It’s really nice to see it go."
by Brendan Mahoney
Extra Life "I’m really into a certain amount of artifice in music."
by D-BO
Mi Ami "If a song is laid down too strictly, then we’d just be following the rules."
by M. Hugh Steeply
Titus Andronicus "You want people to understand that we’re human beings, and I think that’s really a punk rock thing."
by Todd Olmstead
Bill Callahan “All music is an attempt to escape seclusion.”
by Jeff Milo
Black Dice "You can find a drum beat pretty easily by accident."
by M. Hugh Steeply
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