Along with her love of the violin, Archives confesses to being a collector of instruments and a growing effects pedal board that includes several EarthQuaker Devices.
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Meet Justus West, the 21-year-old Kansas City, Kansas-based multi-instrumentalist/producer making waves with a cadre of world-class heavies - from Mac Miller, Ariana Grande, and Jazmine Sullivan to Chris “Daddy” Dave, Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper, Timbaland, Ty Dolla $ign, and John Mayer.
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Most American musicians are tied to the East Coast, the West Coast, or the swath in the middle, but Angie Swan knows all three - and a chunk of the rest of the world - better than most.
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We chat about his incredible journey - both geographical and musical, from playing in high school hardcore bands to the process of developing his solo project, Sinkane, all the while getting scooped up by bands like Caribou, Of Montreal and Yeasayer.
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When most people were still collecting comic books and dreading middle school, Ilan Rubin was playing the Warped Tour and Woodstock with San Diego pop-punk band F.o.N.
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In a crowded field of bands, stoner, doom, psych, what have you, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats have always stood out with their superior songcraft and production, at once heavy and melodic, classic and new.
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Since forming in 2009, Full of Hell have been at the cutting edge nexus of noisy hardcore, noisy metal and just good old fashioned ear bleeding noise. We spoke to guitarist Spencer Hazard about life, music and we talked about a bunch of guitar nerd shit too.
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A multi-instrumentalist who joined Third Man Records as a session player before launching her solo career, she seems to have it all. Not only does she play guitar, bass, drums and keys, she sings, writes each part of every song, and also self-produces.
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Ex Hex is quietly saving rock n roll. They’re not too in-your-face about it, but go to a show, and you’ll walk away in a daze, wondering how the hell you’ve gone this long without having seen these guitar god torch bearers.
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Kicking off this thang, is an interview with Jonathan Nuñez of TORCHE. They have a new album out NOW called “Admission”, on Relapse Records. It’s a great spin, features EQD pedals big time, and you should check it out -as if you haven’t already!
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Last May, I got an email from friend-of-EarthQuaker (and master flangeman) Matt Sweeney, that read: “I can’t think of a more worthy endorsee for EQD than Tuareg phenom Mdou Moctar, who is on tour right now in the USA. He and his band blew the roof off of the spot in Brooklyn last night. People going apeshit.”
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Would it be weird to call Katie Harkin the Forrest Gump of amazing lady indie rock? Probably. But look up some of the coolest indie bands of the past 15 years – not coincidentally, most led by women – and you’ll see Katie Harkin.
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We talk about the band’s origins, influences, the paranormal and supernatural, and that Iggy Pop-eating-a-hamburger video, because, if you did a video featuring Iggy Pop eating a hamburger, wouldn’t you want to talk about it too?
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I wanted to move away from home, get a BMX bike, and a Moog. Those were the two things that were on my list, and those were the first two things that I did.
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For someone who didn’t grow up with grunge or ‘90s alternative rock, Alicia and her bandmates in Bully have managed to make one of the most exciting, ‘90s grunge/alternative rock records I’ve heard since – well, the ‘90s. Maybe even before that…
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It’s been fifteen years since Fugazi last performed, but their improvisational impulses remain intact in the Messthetics, a jazz-inspired group led by virtuoso guitarist Anthony Pirog and featuring Fugazi’s unmistakably muscular rhythm section of bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty…
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"I want to make a love song that's like when Arnold Schwarzenegger has to kill himself at the end of Terminator." - Cameron Avery
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I don’t think Mike Scheidt is going to like that we’re calling his interview “Ninja Powers”, because he is pretty much the most humble person I’ve ever met in my life. He’ll never utter a bad word about any person, band, or piece of gear, bristles when anyone says Yob is better than any other band, and even assured me at one point that he knows “exactly jack and shit...”
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You know George Pajon, Jr. Whether he’s co-writing platinum hits with the Black Eyed Peas, producing, writing, or playing guitar for artists as varied as Sting, Ricky Martin, Macy Gray, Sérgio Mendez, or “Weird” Al Yankovic; touring the world with Fergie, or bringing down the house with his new hard rock band Cairo Knife Fight, you’ve heard his music...
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Whitney Petty, guitarist extraordinaire of Seattle’s Thunderpussy, is the first musician we’ve interviewed whose livelihood has been threatened by the Supreme Court, who counts Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready as a super fan, whose first stint playing was with Deerhunter – not too shabby for a first band – and who not only absolutely shreds on guitar but also kills it on bass and drums...
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