Interviews

At the end of the 1980s, in my early teens, I was at my first DIY punk show in a run-down apartment building that housed a makeshift stage and had graffiti on the walls. To make it more spacious someone had torn down the walls between two apartments to make it possible to squeeze in a hundred people – tops. …

Australian hip hop three-piece Hilltop Hoods have been around since 1994 when Suffa (Matthew David Lamber) and Pressure (Daniel Howe Smith) joined forces. They were joined by DJ Debris (Barry John Francis) after DJ Next left the band in 1999. Since then they have released eight albums and six of those albums have reached number one on the Australian Record …

A story of success doesn’t necessarily need to involve chart-topping hits or millions of sold records, it could be to reach what you didn’t think was possible: to live off what you do and reach the goal that you dreamt of as a child. The story of Lights & Motion and the amazing adventures of its creator Christoffer Franzén starts …

After being the frontman in grammy-nominated Needtobreathe and already achieved great success with a band playing arenas today, frontman William Stanley “Bear” Rinehart III, known as Bear Rinehart, went solo with his project Wilder Woods, a project named after his children Wilder and Woods. In August last year, he released his self-titled debut album, a combination of modern alt-pop, R&B, …

The “glitter rock” era of the early 1970’s, best represented by bands as The New York Dolls, was conspicuously out of step with the dire economic situation by the mid-1970’s. Glam and glitter was ill-fitted with the worldwide economic depression. As the Dolls faded into managerial feuding and drug abuse, a group of neighbors in Forest Hills put together a …

Is there anything quite as excruciating as the suspended silence that follows when your favourite band or artist decide to pull the breaks? It’s that brief moment of uncertainty when you don’t know if it’s the end of a career that’ve had a major impact on your life or if it’s just a year off to recharge the batteries. Nicole …