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One Question Interviews: Audio Antihero
Feature — March 10, 2015
Jamie (Audio Antihero) SPB: What is the best pop song of the last 10 years? Jamie: I'm not deliberately rockist (I swear!) - but since “teen” started appearing in my ages, I've never really liked radio/Top 40 music all that much, so I'm probably not the best person …
One Question Interviews: Mikey Erg
Feature — March 10, 2015
Mikey Erg SPB: Do you get nervous before you play a show? Erg: For the most part I'm usually more excited than nervous. Sometimes I can get a little nervous if it's a big crowd or if it's a band that hasn't gotten to rehearse all that much, …
One Question Interviews: Jon McKiel
Feature — March 18, 2015
Jon McKiel SPB: Do you get nervous before you play a show? McKiel: Yes, but it really depends on whether I've played the room before, how much practice the band has had leading up, whether or not the sound check was ok, or the PA even exists! Sometimes …
One Question Interviews: Rat Storm
Feature — March 18, 2015
Nathalie Haurberg (Rat Storm/Closet Burner/Reality is a Cult Records) SPB: Do you wear earplugs when you play? Why/why not? Haurberg: I don't wear earplugs. I sometimes think I should, because my hearing is important. However, I just think it makes things sound different. If I'm playing it totally …
One Question Interviews: Strawberry Runners
Feature — March 18, 2015
Emi Knight (Strawberry Runners) SPB: What was the inspiration to start the band? Knight: The inspiration to start the band really began with living in Bloomington, Indiana, where most of my friends were in bands whose music would keep me up at night thinking of all the possibilities …
One Question Interviews: Wasted Wine
Feature — April 2, 2015
Robert Gowan (Wasted Wine) SPB: Who is your favorite 1990s artist? Gowan: Probably an obvious choice, but perhaps not for us: Tupac Shakur. As far as characters and universes, I get into Tupac the same way I do Zappa or Tom Waits. He has an extremely dynamic and …
One Question Interviews: Rhino / Mad Platter Record Store
Feature — April 2, 2015
Dennis Callaci (Rhino Records/Mad Platter/Video Paradiso-General Manager) SPB: When do you start planning for Record Store Day on a given year? Callaci: Record Store Day falls on Saturday April 18th this year, and for this year's event we have been working since late last year to get things …
One Question Interviews: My America
Feature — April 2, 2015
Matthew Turner (My America – guitar/vocals) SPB: What is the strangest trend you see in modern music (or in the industry)? Turner: This actually came up very recently when we were in the studio recording our new album with Kevin Bernsten. We were pretty aligned in terms of musical …
One Question Interviews: All Them Witches
Feature — April 6, 2015
Parks (All Them Witches) SPB: What is your favorite book about music? Parks: The way I feel about books on music is the same way I have always felt about music classes, and that is that they have no place in my life. That being said, I do …
One Question Interviews: Benny The Jet Rodriguez
Feature — April 6, 2015
Freeman (Benny the Jet Rodriguez - vocals/guitar) SPB: Do you wear earplugs when you play? Why/why not? Freeman: I do wear ear plugs. For a long time I used to wear construction headphones at practice and on stage. Once I saved up enough I bought custom noise canceling …
One Question Interviews: Amoeba Music
Feature — April 6, 2015
Marc Weinstein (Amoeba Records, co-owner) SPB: What shift in listening format has been the most surprising in your run as a store? Weinstein: The most surprising shift was back in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s when everybody was convinced they needed to buy their collection over again on this …
One Question Interviews: War on Women
Feature — April 6, 2015
War on Women SPB: Basements or bars (or both)? War on Women: That's like asking “day or night,” “loud or quiet,” “happy or sad.” You can't appreciate one without the other, regardless of preference. But no one has ever chipped their tooth moshing to us in a …
One Question Interviews: Kitten Crisis
Feature — April 6, 2015
Kyle Hall (Kitten Crisis) SPB: What is the longest (in time) tour you’ve been on? Would you do it again? Hall: I've been on a few tours that have been over a month but so far, never much more than that. Yes, I would do it again! In …
One Question Interviews: Kepi Ghoulie
Feature — April 6, 2015
Kepi Ghoulie (Groovie Ghoulies, solo) SPB: What is your favorite Christmas song? Ghoulie: Anything from A Charlie Brown Christmas, anything from Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart, or "You Make It Feel Like Christmas" by Neil Diamond OR "The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on …
One Question Interviews: Drug Church
Feature — April 11, 2015
Patrick Kindon (Drug Church) SPB: What is the best pop song of the past 10 years? Kindon: I typed up a whole thing about “Crazy In Love” by Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z), then realized that song came out in 2003, more than 10 years ago. Which brought on a …
One Question Interviews: Port of Sound Record Shoppe
Feature — April 11, 2015
Port of Sound Records SPB: How important is it to set yourself apart from other stores on Record Store Day? PoS: Most importantly, we work months ahead of the actual date, reaching out to all sorts of labels and distributors so that we can get every title in …
One Question Interviews: Malta
Feature — April 11, 2015
Cameron (Malta) SPB: As a songwriter, at what point does drawing influence from another subject become too close to mimicking? Malta: When we write, we take cues from subjects everywhere, real life and every aspect of media and art, but I'll try to talk specifically about how we …
One Question Interviews: Kill Hatsumomo
Feature — April 16, 2015
Erin Page (Kill Hatsumomo) SPB: Is there a specific poster that got you interested in the medium yourself? Page: What initially led me to making posters was the DIY cut and paste flier and zine movement of the mid ‘90s music scene of Peoria, Illinois -- where I …
One Question Interviews: Dr. Strange Records
Feature — April 16, 2015
Dr. Strange (Dr. Strange Records) SPB: How has Record Store Day changed your business? Dr. Strange: The truth is I didn’t even participate until the third one. I thought to myself “now this sounds like a gimmick” and I wanted nothing to do with it. But so many …
