Erin McKeown talks about touring, the genesis of her new album, and enjoying the holiday hang.
Popdose Interviews
Into every generation, a band is born to slay. They will stand against the forces of division, boredom, and overall ‘meh’. They are Volk, and they’re here to rock you.
“Hey, before you record, are we allowed to curse?”
“When you’re young, you’re just like, ‘You did this, you did this!’ And now it’s looking looking inward. It’s, ‘Let’s fix ourselves, honey.'”
“Our CD box sets make perfect little time capsules that fit neatly on my shelves and are far more acceptable to my wife than eighty 7″ singles scattered across the living room.”
In a wide-ranging new interview, The Ocean Blue’s David Schelzel discusses the band’s new album, what’s hiding in the archives, his supergroup with Butch Vig, and how bands can thrive in the streaming era.
For years I’ve wondered why the heck John Andrew Frederick’s indie rock collective, the Black Watch, has not enjoyed even the cult-like status of kindred spirit bands like the Chameleons,…
We have a new favorite phrase, and it is virtuous spiral.’
“Touring with Katy Perry was a great opportunity to try to enter the US scene, but that would also mean that we had to spend two more years promoting the album that we had already spent three years promoting.”
For the past two years, Grace Gaustad, 17, has been steadily building momentum on two fronts — to finish high school and launch a career in pop music. While her…
Beth // James is an indie folk pop duo from Austin, Texas, a city where one can imagine 70 percent of the population is a member of an indie folk pop…
In the year 2019, some 33 & 1/3 years after they started (give or take), The Reverend Horton Heat is bigger than ever. This past November, Victory Records released the…
We caught up with Matthew to talk about the vinyl reissues of his ’90s catalog plus the special Record Store Day release that will be out on November 24th.
We spoke with Adrian to get the scoop on his new Faith No More book, some tips and song suggestions for non-FNM fans and lots more.
One of my fondest memories from the fall of 2016, before the autumn of life as we knew it, was writing up the first POPDOSE profile of Hailey Knox. Back then,…
“That’s what I like about pop music: the only truth is the three and a half minutes of music you’re presenting to the audience.”
Ted Asregadoo speaks to novelist David Jackson Ambrose about his book “State of the Nation” and the state of the nation.
IPO founder David Bash discusses the ins and outs of presenting an annual music festival.
Paul Steel would like to introduce you to “Luxury Music.”
Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Django Haskins has been making music steadily with his band, North Carolina’s The Old Ceremony for over fourteen years; he’s been one of the key performers during the run…
Power pop secret weapon Paul MelanÁ§on preps new music that could have been no music at all.
I have an all-female band. And my big joke is that every time we hit a town, if it was guys, they’d be saying, ”Where’s the guitar shop?” With the girls, they all say, ”Where’s the Whole Foods store?”
Making music for families and kids isn’t something a lot of artists dream of doing. Some artists stumble into it. Some artists do it out of necessity. Some artists have…
Popdose first met rock journalist and power pop musician Ken Sharp through the supernova that is Omnivore recording artist, Cait Brennan, and her producer Fernando Perdomo. All three of their…
In 2017, singer Mike Stand was looking at a future where he could not sing. The circumstances would bring to him a voice from the past: his own.
The singer-songwriter goes intimate and stripped-down in an age of anxiety and complication.
In December, we had a pretty wild night in Los Angeles — a weird, bright ball of light appeared in the sky over the San Fernando Valley. Turned out it…
“Kirsty MacColl was cute as a button and smarter than anyone, and didn’t take any bullshit.”
We’re not gonna lie to you, what you’re about to see might terrify your brain space or arouse your nether regions. Whereas bands of other stripes have all but given…