Six years elapsed since notoriously confrontational ruffians Oxbow last issued a record. Now they’re bursting back with more wisdom more distinctive approaches to their deeply affecting forays into experimental art-noise.
For my latest FLOOD feature, Oxbow’s members pull back the curtain on each song contained on the just-released Love’s Holiday (Ipecac).
Maintaining humility as both a songwriter and a musician could be the key to Lauren Watkins’ success: She never demands that luck go her way—instead, she puts herself in the best places for it to happen. Read my Music Connection profile on the artist here.
Dusty Brooks and Dorian Domi explain in my New Noise interview how this year’s edition of their experimental-music festival in Austin raises the bar.
Check out my interview with hardcore legends Jeromes Dream for New Noise about their latest LP, The Grey in Between — an early contender for best album of the year. Buy the print issue that features the story here.
Check out my interview with 74-year-old Faust original member and kraut-rock pioneer Jean-Hervé Péron for New Noise.
Catch up with Yellow Swans in my brand-new interview for New Noise, ahead of their first concert in 15 years tonight at Oblivion Access in Austin.
Amid the release of the band’s eighth studio album, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme discusses change, acceptance, and the sonic brutality of their latest offering in my wide-ranging interview with him for FLOOD.
Check out my New Noise interview with metalcore maestro Trevor Phipps of Unearth, whose newest album, The Wretched; The Ruinous, revolves entirely around environmental catastrophe. Buy the print copy of New Noise, which features the story, here.
Catch up with Midwife (a.k.a. Madeline Johnston) in my interview for New Noise, ahead of their concert tonight at Oblivion Access in Austin.
“It blows my mind that we can still connect” with new audiences, vocalist/guitarist Brandon Evans admitted in my New Noise interview ahead of the post-hardcore band’s performance in Texas.
The Bad Penny (beta) 