Interviews

Eau Rouge have been building up momentum for a few years now with a following of fans growing and growing by cooking up a hybrid sound “that’s part indie and part electronica”, placing them alongside bands as Editors and M83 in British media. When the Stuttgart three-piece made a stopover in Hamburg to play Nochtwache, Messed!Up sat down with Jonas, …

In the beginning of 1994 I was still frustrated that Depeche Mode had “betrayed” their listeners by bringing alternative rock into their electronic soundscape with the release of “Songs of Faith and Devotion”. I never accepted the album until years later. However, a few months later a friend of mine played me “Dinner Without Grace” and I found some consolation …

One day in May this year we met up with Audiolith label boss Lars Lewerenz in a park in Hamburg, just to have a chat about nothing in particular but enjoying a beer in the green grass and learn to know more about Audiolith. Honestly, I didn’t know much about the label at the time but since I had an …

The last couple of years have seen Manchester four-piece The Slow Readers Club perform sell-out shows up and down the UK, including a sold-out Apollo at home. After two albums and very little attention, everything were about to change after supporting James around the UK. We had the opportunity to sit down with Kurtis, Aaron, James and David when they visited …

Music media and Reddit threads have been eulogizing the death of indie rock for what feels like an eternity. However, those bands they’re mourning is from the early 2000s, when bands like The Strokes made “Is This It” and The Libertines in Britain had “Up The Bracket”. From there, four- and five-piece rock bands cropped up everywhere like Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Von Bondies, Franz Ferdinand, …

Growing up in a tiny city in Sweden where most friends were either huge post-punk fans or completely immersed in Swedish punk music, you would probably think it would have affected a young man’s music taste thus thrusting him into the same musical trajectory as his friends, but the first wave of post-punk in the early eighties just passed by …