Northampton singer Billy Lockett has been making waves in the pop scene since 2016 after the debut of his EP “Burn it Down”. Before that, he was known for his guitar performances and for supporting Lana Del Rey and Birdy on their tour in 2014. Shortly after the tour, his father passed away, leading to Lockett sitting in the cellar …
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Apparat on “LP5” struggles and adapting to a changing music industry: Interview
“Despite the fact that electronic music is the outcome of decades of technical development, it is only in most recent times that it has reached a stage at which it may be considered as part of the legitimate musical sphere”, one of the founding fathers of electronic music, Herbert Eimert, wrote in 1955 just four years after he established the …
Read More »Hamburg Crib Sessions #6: ELIH interviewed
Roots music or American traditional folk music include many categories of music as bluegrass, gospel, blues and Cajun to bring up a few examples, and have a special place in the history of music especially in the American South where it partly was intertwined in the process that brought forward The Emancipation Proclamation – black slaves became free people. Thus …
Read More »Danish post-punk/new wave inspired by Swedish melancholy: Boundaries interviewed
Since the sixties most internationally acknowledged music coming out of Scandinavia has been associated with Sweden. Bands like ABBA, Roxette and Ace of Base are just a few of those Swedish artists who have sold millions of albums across the world. You rarely hear much about similar success stories of neighboring countries Norway, Finland and Denmark but that’s about to …
Read More »Toughened up after a decade at the top: Harry McVeigh of White Lies interviewed
I was about to do my first Reading Festival in 2008 after an eleven-year long hiatus since I visited the festival the last time. Reading Festival back then had the rumor of being that festival you just had to visit if you wanted to discover the new stars on the indie rock scene years before anyone else ever heard of …
Read More »Saving the earth with “Gaia & Friends”: Crystal Fighters interviewed
Meeting up with bands just when they arrived at the venue a few minutes after lunch time and after a late night the evening before and a very long nightliner ride to the next city, isn’t the optimal interview situation. Frontman Sebastian Pringle admits that he is very tired and that we need to Photoshop the photos to make him …
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