INTERVIEWS
SHARP TONGUES
An interview with Carl Häger, vocalist for Gothenburg melodic hardcore band Sharp Tongues!
BARATRO
An interview with Baratro bassist and vocalist Dave Curran on the band’s backstory, their just-released No Comply LP, and much more!
BIRTH (DEFECTS)
A chat with Baltimore/DC-area noise-rock band Birth (Defects) on the eve of their final release.
RICKY LEIGHTON, DIRECTOR OF DOWNEAST HARDCORE: STORIES FROM THE KAVE
An interview with Ricky Leighton, director of the documentary Downeast Hardcore: Stories from The Kave, which focuses on Kathy Findlay’s venue The Kave in Bucksport, Maine, and the impact she and it had on the hardcore community and as a safe haven for many teens who felt isolated and like they didn’t fit in. Here was somewhere they could belong and be a part of something, a place of radical and unconditional acceptance (and great music).
MONSTERS
An interview with Chicago deathcore legends Monsters’ vocalist Frankie Pierri on the band’s return ‘After Death’!
LAUREN ALLARD
An interview with Manchester, UK-based photographer Lauren Allard.
WHEELCHAIR SPORTS CAMP
An interview with Kalyn Rose Heffernan of Denver’s Wheelchair Sports Camp on the eve of the release of the ‘oh imperfecta’ LP by Alternative Tentacles.
ALT.
An interview with vocalist Daniel Cullen-Richards of Australian alt-metal quintet alt. on the eve of the release of the band’s ‘Nevermore’ concept EP.
NO KNOWN WEAKNESS
An interview with vocalist Lev of Glaswegian hardcore band No Known Weakness about the Tales from the Clydeside EP, Glasgow and Scottish hardcore, the band’s origin story, and much more!
THIS IS HELL
An interview with guitarist Rick Jimenez on the return of LIHC legends This Is Hell!
KATIE FROST
An interview with award-winning London-based photographer Katie Frost.
SARAH TSANG
An interview with London-based photographer Sarah Tsang.
DOĞA SULTAN
An interview with Istanbul and İzmir, Turkiye-based Doğa Sultan, creator of the Antipode project: “I work mostly through textiles and clothes, but honestly I don’t see a hard boundary between disciplines. I move between garment design, publishing, street art, organizing. Antipode is one part of that, about documenting underground punk, hardcore and DIY culture beyond borders.”
CAN’T LOSE
An interview with vocalist Olin May of Boston hardcore act Can’t Lose about the band and Boston Hardcore more broadly.
BROKEN HABIT
An interview with Dublin’s Broken Habit covering the band’s origin story, the return of nu metal, the Nightshade EP (plus a bonus review of the EP), and much more!
DR. LAINA DAWES
An interview with Doctor Laina Dawes of Columbia University on heavy music scholarship, her book WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal, her upcoming book Engaged Aggression: New Ways of Thinking About Black Music, and more!
GENTILESKY
An interview with vocalist Yaprak Kırdök of Turkish-Sardinian punk/post-punk outfit Gentilesky on their origin story, the upcoming Dream LP, and more!
NEGATIVE FRAME
An interview with guitarist Olly Coyne of London metal-hardcore hybrids Negative Frame on their past, present, and future. “New Lows,” the first single from their first full-length album Break The Ice out August 7th, has just dropped!
NAUTICAL MILE
An interview with Perth, Australian pop-punk outfit Nautical Mile on their return from hiatus.
DOCTORS JAN HERBST AND MARK MYNETT OF THE HEAVINESS IN METAL MUSIC PRODUCTION PROJECT
An interview with Doctors Jan Herbst and Mark Mynett of the University of Huddersfield about their groundbreaking research into heaviness in metal music production.