Interview w/ Summer Cannibals
The molar-gnashing mosaic of incendiary vocals and guitar bruising distortion roars, ever so confidently, over the drum eviscerating songs of Portland’s Summer Cannibals.
From Russia With Love, Maddie
TV Girl’s unique marriage of sound, history, and pathos is a testament to our generation’s curiosity with information and instant gratification. Academia through exhaustion. With Petering’s latest record, Who Really Cares, the contemptuous fatigue is more available than ever.
Interview w/ The Fresh Brunettes
The Fresh Brunettes’ melancholy resolve is dusted with glitter, mesmeric vulnerability, and fog-chasing sadness. The San Diego band – comprised of Aleisha Burton, Jerry Ibarra, Alexis McAfee – deals in gossamer wanderlust.
Interview w/ Briana Marela
Briana Marela’s quietly powerful, aching, and lush pastoral soundscape is both haunting and visceral. Her latest record, All Around Us, is a buoyant letter to the sometimes tenuous ebb of hope, love, and friendship.
Interview w/ Chastity Belt
Chastity Belt’s candid, satirical, and socially perceptive bow draw is one of self-referential sincerity. The band – Julia Shapiro, Gretchen Grimm, Lydia Lund, and Annie Truscott – hum, carve, and roar across their latest LP, Time to Go Home, with a confident gait and bittersweet humor
Interview w/ Scott Cooper
Scott Cooper is sitting back, resting in a wicker chair. An awning protects him from most of the San Diego sun, except for a few speckled slivers of light that lattice over his shirt. It’s a Wednesday morning, around 10:40, when he peers over the top of the Ivy Hotel, in which he now sits, to take in the sights of downtown. Cooper looks exhausted, but his smile is lively and genuine. I shake his hand and ask about his...
Interview w/ Christian McKay
English actor Christian McKay is a gentleman. The verbose wit, incessant charm, and the elegant accent were apparent immediately when speaking with the multi-talented actor and pianist. McKay, who may be adding screenwriter to his resume’s bullet list in the future, spoke passionately about his debut film, “Me and Orson Welles”, which opened this Friday. In director Richard Linklater’s spirited opus about a young, gregarious...
Interview w/ Robert D. Siegel
Slicked in a kind of skewed war paint, Paul Aufiero, a diminutive New Yorker, slings his runty arms around his best buddy, Sal, as they participate in the ritualistic fervor of being a football fan – or, more specifically, a Giants fan. Paul lives with his howling mother, who barks at him for slashing his fist through the air when he calls into a local sports radio station, as he reads off reams upon reams of scribbled...
Interview w/ Carlos Cuarón
A dirty soccer ball is plowed through by a player’s foot, the impact looks like a bag of flour was ripped open, its contents wafting through the air like a miniature dustbowl. But behind the rowing of legs, the zipping of penalty kicks, and the branding of grass stains, Carlos Cuarón is crafting one of the most endearing films of the early year. Known for christening bushels of blank paper with the ink of a...
Interview w/ James Gray
Leonard Kraditor, a man suffering from an acute sense of loss over his last relationship, skulks about in his room in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Heavily shuffling his feet one moment, then feigning confidence the next, Leonard’s emotions flutter impulsively through two women’s lives, creating a volatile spiral of hurried naiveté. In creating the story of Two Lovers, director James Gray made his most personal film to date. Gray...
