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Interview by Parisa Eshrati  On her new full-length album, Love Is In The Shit, otay:onii creates an alchemic transformation of pain and despair into an act of love. Through a blend of experimental textures, folkloric performances, and deeply personal storytelling, the album embraces the sacred and profane as inseparable parts of the human experience. We caught up with otay:onii to discuss writing music between states of consciousness, fragmenting our ancestral stories into art, and the philosophy of finding hope in the even the shittiest places.
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Interview by Parisa Eshrati  We caught up with Philadelphia-based power pop rockers Sheer Mag during their Playing Favorites tour to go record shopping during their stop in Tucson, AZ at Wooden Tooth Records. In this interview, the band talks about their record selections - from '70s UK folk music to hardcore punk to instrumental field recordings and beyond! We also talked a bit about their latest album, favorite Mortal Kombat characters, seedy conversations in dive bar bathrooms, and more.
Interview by Parisa Eshrati  Before embarking on the Disposable Everything tour, we went record shopping with AJJ frontman Sean Bonnette at Wooden Tooth Records in Tucson, AZ. We spoke about his record selections, his favorite karaoke songs, Rod Stewart's mullet, multiverse theories, gnarly skateboard combos, and so much more.
An Application in Absurdity: Interview with Justin Pearson on Deaf Club's Bad Songs Forever EP7/18/2022 Interview by Parisa Eshrati  Photo credit: Becky DiGiglio Having just released their debut LP, Productive Disruption, at the start of 2022, San Diego-based powerviolence band Deaf Club hightailed their way straight into their follow-up EP to hone in on their absurdist sound. In the Bad Songs Forever EP, the band finds a new balance of structured songwriting while still crafting a densely layered blend of hardcore, grind and d-beat. We spoke with frontman Justin Pearson (The Locust, Swing Kids, etc.) on the thematic elements of their latest release, balancing humor with politically-charged messages, and much more.
Interview by Parisa Eshrati  Photo by Joseph Cultice Since rejoining the group in 2019, original Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom has been drawn back into the improvisational energy of the band. "The pull of the music for me is when you can get to a place where you’re not making the decisions. Rather, the music itself is making the decisions."
We caught up with Derrick during the Meat Puppets recent co-headlining tour with Mudhoney to talk about the magic of improvisational music, the group's evolution from a trio to an ensemble, the rise and fall of SST Records, and so much more. |
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