interviews

Hans Unstern Interview: Escape & Devotion

Hans Unstern Interview: Escape & Devotion

After (accidentally) meeting Austria’s aspiring art rock act Ja, Panik (German for: Yes, Panic) and getting signed by the band’s very own, just-founded Berlin label Nein, Gelassenheit (No, Tranquillity),... 

Interview: Crookers

Interview: Crookers

Milan DJ and producer duo Andrea “Bot” Fratangelo and Francesco “Phra” Barbaglia alias Crookers created a huge buzz in both, the electronic music scene and later as remixers of... 

Interview: Beach House

Interview: Beach House

Do you often look back to the good, old teenage days? Love and sex were still a new game to you and posters of your favourite bands covering your children’s room’s wallpaper. You didn’t... 

Interview: The Sound of Arrows

Interview: The Sound of Arrows

The rise of „real“, some-might-say-intellectual electronic music in recent years (see Justice, Hot Chip and Digitalism) and bands moving away from traditional indie rock and venturing into more experimental... 

Interview: William Fitzsimmons

Interview: William Fitzsimmons

Once upon a time, there were two birds. Both were head over heels in love and flew and chirped lovely around the world. One day one bird turned out to be a sweet sparrow, but the other one turned out... 

Interview: The XX have become cooler

Interview: The XX have become cooler

Everyone is loving The XX, right? Well, we do – and a growing number of people, too. Maybe we hit the first million mark just while you read this, maybe we are even far over the top. We have no... 

Interview: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

Interview: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour

Mette und Lars, heart of Danish The Asteroids Galaxy Tour with amazing sense for perfect pop hooklines ready to stuck in your head f.i. through an iPod TV ad, are sitting in an opulent room in Berlin... 

Interview: Air facing mother Earth

Interview: Air facing mother Earth

Their epoch-making first album “Moon Safari” faced the light of the day more than a decade ago but that doesn’t necessarily mean that Air start to retire from the music business. After... 

Interviewing Dizzee Rascal

Interviewing Dizzee Rascal

Imagine an indie label being able to shift more units of a single in one year than any competition from a major then imagine that indie looking likely to repeat that success the following year. In the... 

Zoot Woman interview: love³

Zoot Woman interview: love³

After a bunch of telephone interviews with artists sitting either in their back of limosousines while going over a highway or standing at an open phone box in the middle of Edinburgh – to call it...