With the health of Dennis Lyxzén unclear after he apparently suffered a devastating heart attack, we send our best wishes to him—and bring you a previously unreleased interview with Lyxzén from November 2019. Go to New Noise‘s website to read our conversation, during which Refused’s main man shares how he envisions the shape of the world to come.
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Refused Vocalist: ‘Revolution Isn’t Going To Happen Overnight’
Posted in Interviews with tags Dennis Lyxzén, Refused on 07/20/2024 by Kurt OrzeckKvaen’s ‘Formless Fires’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Interviews on 07/19/2024 by Kurt OrzeckNew Wave of Swedish Melodic Death Metal entry Kvaen succeed throughout the entirety of The Formless Fire, even in its weak spots, as the band’s passion for writing and performing stellar songs trumps all else. Fresh blood doesn’t get more bloodthirsty than this. Go to New Noise or click below for my full review.
At The Gates Eye Next LP; Tomas Lindberg Talks Philosophy, Literature In Epic Conversation
Posted in Interviews on 07/16/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
We left virtually no stone unturned with Lindberg, a hyper-literate social studies teacher who is far more obsessed with the magical realism of authors like Jorge Luis Borges and the philosophy of pessimism espoused by Eugene Thatcher than overexposed occultists like Aleister Crowley. Enjoy one of the headier, epic interviews with one of the most crucial members of not just MDM but of heavy metal on the whole in the last 30 years, via New Noise.
Cloud Rat Chat About Fave Fests, ‘Grimiest’ Venues
Posted in Interviews with tags Cloud Rat, Madison Marshall on 07/12/2024 by Kurt OrzeckAs everyone’s favorite “three-piece grindpunk psychonaut unit” (their words, not ours) head out for another tour, go to New Noise for some previously unpublished thoughts about music festivals they shared with me during a conversation last year.
Blvck Hippie’s ‘Basketball Camp’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Interviews on 07/10/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
On the second album by Blvck Hippie, Josh Shaw channels the momentum of emotional turmoil into a vibrant, propulsive musical feat with a bigger, bolder sound than their debut. Read my full review via FLOOD.
Orbit Culture Try To Keep Momentum Going With Next LP
Posted in Interview Transcripts, Interviews with tags Orbit Culture, Slipknot on 07/09/2024 by Kurt OrzeckIn light of Orbit Culture’s astronomical rise (pun most definitely intended), we break out the transcript of our February conversation with the Swedish band’s frontman. Go to New Noise for a closer look at the Swedish melodic death metal band that everyone—well, OK, the majority of people who have actually heard of the subgenre—are dying to know more about.
The David Yow Interview To End All David Yow Interviews
Posted in Interviews with tags David Yow, the Jesus Lizard on 06/17/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Expect to hear a lot about the Jesus Lizard in the coming months, during which the underground rock legends will release their first studio album in 26 years and play a smattering of shows in support of it. But regardless of what articles get published about the band and its immortal frontman, David Yow, you won’t get to know him any better than in this 6,178-word, up-close-and-personal feature just published on New Noise.
From designing billboards for Frozen and Garfield: The Movie to terrifying a hotel room service worker on accident to witnessing a horrific disease claim the life of his mother to briefly meeting Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme to throwing a Led Zeppelin-themed party to resisting Jesus Lizard reunion gigs to getting torn to shreds by his cat to turning the sound of his garage door into a song to breaking his nose on New Year’s Eve to linking up with David Lynch, Yow truly tells all like he never did before—and probably never will again.
GospelbeacH Is Dead. Long Live The Beachwood Sparks.
Posted in Interviews with tags Beachwood Sparks, GospelbeacH on 06/15/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Roughly a decade after Beachwood Sparks co-founder/bassist Brent Rademaker stepped out to front his alt/country project GospelbeacH, he recently scuttled it when his principal posse reactivated. “GospelbeacH was a fluke. … We had our moment,” he says. Read my full interview with Rademaker in the latest edition of The Big Takeover, the last great indie-rock publication. Get yer copy here.
Mikaela Davis Talks ‘Predetermined’ Pairing With Circles Around The Sun
Posted in Interviews with tags Circles Around the Sun, Mikaela Davis, The Big Takeover on 06/11/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Instrumentalists Circles Around the Sun and singer/harpist Mikaela Davis may appear to be unlikely collaborators on the surface. But the former’s affinity for psych-rock and the latter’s proclivity for folk and country mesh to their mutual advantage on the recently released After Sunrise.
Read my joint interview with both parties in the latest edition of The Big Takeover, the last great indie-rock publication. Issue #94 just went on sale at bookstores and record shops (the cool ones, that is). But if you’re not in the mood to leave the house, snag a copy here and it’ll magically arrive in your mailbox.
Meatbodies Frontman: ‘Kim Gordon Is The Shit’
Posted in Interviews with tags Chad Ubovich, Kim Gordon, Meatbodies, The Big Takeover on 06/10/2024 by Kurt OrzeckBehold, the latest and greatest issue of The Big Takeover, the last great indie-rock publication created by inimitably cool dude Jack Rabid. In it you’ll find one of three feature pieces scribbled by yours truly, including a profile on long-running garage-rock gurus Meatbodies.
The magazine features our wide-ranging conversation with frontman and Ty Segall collaborator Chad Ubovich, who transparently opens up about achieving sobriety, the new Meatbodies album Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom (In the Red) and bouncing back after losing his ability to walk.
Issue #94 of The Big Takeover just went on sale at bookstores and record shops (the cool ones, that is). But if you’re not in the mood to leave the house, snag a copy here and it’ll magically arrive in your mailbox!
The Bad Penny (beta) 