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Interview w/ K-the-I???
Published: 03/06/2025
During the holiday rush of 2024, producer and multi-talented musician, Kenny Segal, would release yet another fantastic collaboration immediately after the fifth anniversary tour of “Hiding Places” with Billy Woods. However, fans did not expect this collaboration to be a grand return of one of the foundational MCs in alternative Hip Hop, Kiki Ceac, K-the-I??? Due to many years of living under a creative rut, Ceac had not released a full-length in over a decade. Thankfully, Ceac would come back swinging by conjuring the weirdest aspects of Segal’s production on “Genuine Dexterity.”
Interview w/ Dan Barrett
Published: 02/01/2025
As an everyman in a world of pretension, Dan Barrett has experience in a variety of professions outside of just music from education, marketing and real estate. However, he’s mostly associated with his artistic aspirations, which started in the 1990s while still a rebellious teenager playing in various Ska/Punk bands around his home base, Glastonbury, Connecticut. After hitting it off with Tim Macuga, Barrett would form Have A Nice Life in 2000 and begin working on acoustic emo ballads, evolving into what would become “Deathconsciousness” years later in 2008. As any true underdog story goes, the self-advertisement of this project landed on deaf ears and sparse reception in the earliest days of Have A Nice Life. Barrett would even launch a self-funded label, Enemies List Home Recordings, early on to circumvent any rejection. Miraculously, both the band and project would find a dedicated fanbase on forums and image boards such as 4chan in which anons connected to the relatively dense literature and philosophies that “Deathconsciousness” pulled from. Barrett would then continue to release music through a variety of aliases, phasing through different narratives surrounding depression and introspection throughout the 2010s, proliferating from coverage by TheNeedleDrop and various other commentators and publications, so much so that almost every terminally online music fan has a Barrett project in their favorites. If that’s not a lesson in patience and consistency then what is?
Interview w/ Alex Kent
Published: 01/19/2025
Ever since Sprain was cut short after the milestone record that was “the Lamb As Effigy” Alex Kent would gather the scraps and quickly regroup with Sylvie Simmons to form Shearling, crafting and now mixing an album that will serve as the satisfied successor. This has become one of the most anticipated underground releases this year and will likely deliver on all fronts, with Kent promising in this interview that it will be somehow more intense than everything he’s made before, yes…even including “The Lamb as Effigy.”
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Interview w/ Xinlisupreme
Published: 12/24/2024
During the early 2000s, the internet was beginning to open up music discussion, laying the groundwork for what directions of experimentation certain genres would take. This changing tide of publicity was both a positive and negative for the Oita-based artist, Yasumi, with his 2002 debut, “Tomorrow Never Comes” under the artist name, “Xinlisupreme," receiving critical acclaim from Pitchfork and beloved by music fans at the time. Yet along with praise came a surprising amount of online harassment from unnamed users and musicians alike, likely through the message boards and email providers that dominated pre-social media.
Interview w/ Parannoul
Published: 12/20/2024
Back in the summer of 2024, underground South Korean artist, Parannoul, would release his fourth solo full-length, “Sky Hundred.” The album serves as a reflection of sudden fame in the unfolding South Korean DIY scene and music obsessed internet circles gained from albums previously created by someone who was strictly a no expectation artist, even going as far as labeling themselves as a bona fide “loser.” Yet this shy creative became one of the flagship Korean artists among the Shoegaze and Indie Rock corners that past contemporaries like Jowall and 공중도둑 (Mid-Air Thief) had previously carved out.
Interview w/ Matthew Cruz from Longinus Recordings
Published: 11/01/2024
Even though it’s only been three years, it feels like this little label has been around forever and has aged eloquently throughout its many trials and tribulations. Launching out of a dorm room in some random town wedged between the great lakes, Matthew Cruz has amassed one of the most iconic rosters in recent memory ranging from 5th wave emo to some of the most cunning edge shoegaze at the moment.
Interview w/ Nicole Boychuk from I Hate Sex
Published: 08/23/2024
Though only active between 2015 to 2018, I Hate Sex served as a major creative outlet for the poetry and personal life of Nicole Boychuk, who is regarded as a prominent figure when it comes to female-fronted Screamo, her distraught vocals bordering on Emoviolence. Anyone in the know can attest to the intense shows of IHS with Boychuk screaming in their face just feet away, spotlighting the destruction of relationships; an excellent evening. It’s no surprise how the IHS fanbase and recognition have grown within the genre, even years after the band had officially split for good.
Interview w/ A Bucket of Jake
Published: 07/31/2024
Hailing from a town famous for being the fictional location of a 2000s sitcom, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Jake Joseph, well known by his YouTube handle, A Bucket of Jake, has went out of his way to fulfill his creative potential. Since his breakout video examining “Everywhere at The End of Time” by The Caretaker along with his collaborations with creators like Pad Chennington, DMS and Volksgeist, Joseph has been a vibrant creator, not just as a YouTuber, but a musician, podcaster and a full-time graphic designer.
Interview w/ Led
Published: 05/17/2024
Scattered across the darker corners of Spotify and Bandcamp, UK artist, Led, is a fresh face in the realm of experimental music. In just under a few years, they managed to arrange a generous size of cryptic albums and EPs under several aliases, dappling in plunderphonics, power electronics, industrial and sound collage.
Interview w/ INTERNET CLUB
Published: 05/02/2024
Straight out of the collective of figures during the inception of the internet-based micro-genre, Vaporwave, Dallas-based artist and producer, Robin Burnett, assembled some of the oldest releases in the scene from as early as 2011, collaborating with Leonce Nelson just shy of a year before the release of "Floral Shoppe." Burnett would continue to pump out some of the most recognizable classic Vaporwave releases during the early 2010s, while still in high school. Their aliases consist of Internet Club, Datavision Ltd., insight NetProject, Wakesleep and much more.