INTERVIEW: Max Harms Resolves to Leave “California”
Calling on the ghosts of outlaw country past, Arizonan Max Harms’ debut single “California” scorns LA for a more authentic life. I was taken by the lush steel guitars and Harms’ world-weary vocals. In our interview, Harms explains where that…
INTERVIEW: Sad Daddy Still Wanna Do This Shit When They Get Old
Since 2010, Arkansas outfit Sad Daddy has traveled down many a road–together and separately–at times focusing on their solo projects and then reuniting for a band project. The four members, Brian Martin, Joe Sundell, Rebecca Patek, and Melissa Carper, all…
INTERVIEW: RØRY Commented on Avril’s TikTok. Then They Went Viral
RØRY keeps their bio close to the vest, but maybe that’s because she wants her music to speak for itself. The British singer-songwriter finds inspiration in ’90s power pop and pop punk. They tell us more about “Uncomplicated”‘s origins and…
INTERVIEW: Aversions Set Quixotic Post-Punk Onto the World
A quixotic mix of American post-punk and ’80s post-hardcore, Aversions are modest East Vancouver work-a-days trying to live the axiom of art interlacing life. Muscular riffing, left-turn basslines and sledgehammer drumming provide the substrate for vocalist Sam Coll’s acidic takes…
INTERVIEW: Bianca Berkland’s Jazz Is a Call to Justice
Bianca Berkland is an exceptionally gifted, modern Jazz/Blues multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and performer originally from South Africa and England but now based out of Oliver, BC, Canada. Her growing presence in the Okanagan region over the past 4 years performing pop,…