Fanfarlo‘s lead vocalist / frontman, Simon Balthazar, took time out of his busy schedule to answer some questions for me.  The band is generously offering their debut album (plus some bonus tracks), Reservoir, for $1 on their website. The album will only be available online till July 4th, so grab it while you can. The [...]

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Billed as the “fourth most popular folk parody duo in New Zealand”, Flight of the Conchords has become a new obsession of mine. The band recently moved to New York to try to infiltrate the American music scene with little or no success, but I’m sure more people will come around to Bret and Jemaine’s [...]

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Dear and the Headlights are perhaps my favorite new band from this year and their brilliant debut album, Small Steps, Heavy Hooves is still a constant listen for me. So as you can imagine I was very excited at the chance to chat with the lead singer and creative force behind the band, Ian Metzger. [...]

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One album that’s been getting a lot of playtime for me lately has been Girl Talk’s Night Ripper (I know I’m a summer behind on this, but I’m ok with that). So when an opportunity to ask Gregg a couple questions came up, I jumped on it. If for some reason, you haven’t heard Girl [...]

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This summer I did an email interview with a member (the one to the left) of the Australian indie pop trio – The Grates. Unfortunately, only a few of the questions came back answered and the contact that set me up with the interview isn’t around anymore so my hopes of getting the other questions [...]

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Before the Silversun Pickups/Headlights/Viva Voce show last week, I got the chance to sit down with my favorite local band and have a casual interview/conversation with them. We were a little pressed on time so we didn’t go to dinner (as I did with the Shearwater Interview), but we did grab some fast food while [...]

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