Interviews

According to pop folklore the garage (that abiding signifier of homely suburbia) was the place where aspiring guitar legends thrashed through their rehearsals. Thus “garage” became a sobriquet for the crude and raucous sounds pounded out by a legion of three chord wonders wielding Vox and Fender guitars, the mixture …

For every rock’n’roll millionaire there are thousands of talented artists scratching out a living. The choice is a tricky one: to establish a career takes an enormous amount of work and time just to reach out to an audience and become established. One of those bands that continue their struggle, …

Sweden’s “best-dressed rockers” Royal Republic, as declared by a German magazine, were back with their fifth album “Club Majesty” in May last year, a band that built their reputation by hard work on stages across Europe. Their maniacal live shows and irrepressible sense of style and humour have earned them …

Several breakthrough acts are now creating a vibrant new Gothenburgian underground, a scene with and enduring legacy built on bands from a wide range of genres as The Knife, In Flames, José González, Ace of Base, The Soundtrack of Our Lives and Mickey Dee, the former drummer in Motörhead. Like …

Punk been one of the most enduring cultural movements of the modern era since its origin in social and political movements in the mid-1970s. Bands as The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Stooges and Siouxsie & the Banshees are all examples of a seventies punk scene in full swing. But punk …

There’s an indie-rock tradition that burns bright in Australia. Some of the most exciting bands that we have covered the last years are from Down Under, bands as DMA’s, British India and DZ Deathrays. And those bands share something that we appreciate much when going for a gig: they’re dedicated …