The next great installment of the Kalamashoegazer Festival series arrives this weekend, and for the first time, it's a two-day special event! Ambitious, to be sure, but it's a logical next step for a festival that draws fans from across the country (and beyond), making it a proper destination point for the scene. April Zimont took the time to chat with us about the thought process behind this bill, and […]
Drop Nineteens release Hard Light, their first album in nearly thirty years, on Friday 3 November, via Wharf Cat Records. And we're going to celebrate, every day, all week long. We've got a fresh World Broadcast Premiere from the album every night, 11pm Eastern, 8pm Pacific, Monday through Thursday. We're spinning up a one-hour edit of Thais' headline-making interview with Greg Ackell from nearly one year ago today (so big […]
Releasing today is the long-awaited debut album from Israeli dream pop artist Lital Hagayan. Luckily for me she was able to take time out from her busy schedule to talk over all things musical. We had a great chat about the album, Singularity, and how she defined her signature sound. If you want to know how Lital got into music, the creation of Singularity and who her key influences are […]
Some bands entertain, some thrill and excite but others completely transport you out of your life into strange fantastical worlds. This is my experience of The Stargazer Lilies. They remain a band I am in awe of and now a new album is nearly upon us. A new opportunity to explore the outer reaches of my imagination. Cosmic Tidal Wave is out this Frida,y so I took the opportunity to […]
With the release of Half Life, the new album from CASTLEBEAT I was dying to find out all about it. Luckily, Josh Hwang was available for a chat. We had a great conversation about the album, CASTLEBEAT and his label Spirit Goth. If you want to know how he honed that signature sound and what bands he has coming up for release on Spirit Goth then read on! […]
Formed in 2019 in Tokyo, Japan, re:lapse is a supergroup of sorts. Finding each other, and sharing their talents at the most fortuitous moment, well, that's just serendipity. We're grateful to Marky Anderson for the interview, re:lapse for agreeing to a translated interview (where language barriers can unintentionally obscure intention), Matthew and Ayumi for facilitating the interview and managing the translation. We're thrilled to have this opportunity. –Ed. Marky Anderson: […]
Krissy VanderWoude got the opportunity to sit down and chat with the cast of Film School (some of them, anyway) about the creative process, tour planning during the COVID era, the addition of new cast members (and much more) for her 18 August 2021 transmission of Drowned in a Sea of Sound. While that interview was pared down to a bite-sized seven minutes, this extended cut provides a much wider […]
One of my favorite bands is Blankenberge and I had the honor of hearing them live in concert two years ago in May of 2019 in Offenbach, Germany during their European tour. I love their amazing wall of dense, melodic sound. I interviewed them after that show and wrote a blog, which can be viewed on the DKFM website. And that was a follow-on from the first DKFM interview of […]
Our Richard Gehring talks to Dima of Life on Venus about tunes and tunings, and dreams come true. Life on Venus is a five-piece shoegaze and dream pop band based in Moscow, Russia. The band members are Dima (guitar, vocals), Lisa (vocals), Marat (bass), Ivan (guitar) and Gulya (drums). Life on Venus decided on the name because “life on Venus must be one of the most surreal and unbelievable things […]
