Interviews

Brock Curtis, a native of rural South Australia, made his initial mark on music through audio engineering, where he discovered his creative passion and love of songwriting. Brock, a musician now based in Sydney, has worked with some of the largest Australian record labels and has a musical upbringing. He…

The Basel-based producer Audio Dope began his musical career by creating old-fashioned beats influenced by the US hip-hop sounds of the late 1990s. However, he soon fell in love with the instrumental music scene and established his own recipe by combining organic samples and vocal fragments with crisp synths and…

Chart-topping Hicks (Miqael Persson), a Swedish country music hero, has achieved international success with country songs that have won praise from both listeners and music industry luminaries. With more than 160K Spotify streams (over 60 million for songs he wrote!) and many #1 radio hits, as well as Gold and…

KABELLE, a new Synthpop group from London, England, formed in 2021 during COVID lockdowns. They spent that time remotely constructing their driving electronic sound with cues from Chvrches, The Presets, and The Naked and Famous. The ensemble consists of synth player and programmer Adam Gordon, singer Katie Jones, and drummer…

Saint Louis is allowing his pop romanticism to run wild throughout a folk music that is swept along with arrangements that are occasionally choral and occasionally flowery and whose meticulous aesthetics draw a nostalgic architecture. Saint Louis emits an air of forbidden loves, glorious adventures, and angelic troubles “sur fond…

Taiwanese-American singer, songwriter, and producer Sydne Strauss. Strauss was raised in the rural suburbs of Peculiar, Missouri, a small town, but her aspirations had always been much bigger. Strauss began performing in musicals at the age of 7, and she continued to do so throughout high school, but she never…

Swiss-Dutch artist Naomi Pacifique is active in the fields of poetry, music, film, and visual arts. Her music is greatly influenced by both literature and film because she studied creative writing at Oxford University and filmmaking at the London Film School. Poets like Alejandra Pizarnik, Anne Carson, and Sharon Olds…

Jen Ash, a former professional basketball player turned R&B singer-songwriter, broke out onto the world music scene with her single, “Crush On You.” The song received 29K Spotify streams and shot to the top of the UK iTunes R&B Songs chart. The artist, who was raised in France but was…

Rock and Alternative Pop, between the 2000s and 2022, somewhere between broken and okay: Even though she only began writing songs two years ago, Berlin-based artist Katie Drives captivates with a powerful lyrical exposure of burdensome topics that young adults are facing. Her voice and her music have similar dark,…

In his early years, Fat Cat—the hippest mog on the block—moved from city to city in search of other cats to meow with. He visited a variety of music venues, including sweaty rock clubs in Hamburg, smoky jazz bars in Paris, and underground blues bars in Warsaw.One of those exceptional…