04 May Edie Carey Unveils New Record Inspired by Motherhood
The record is also about the ‘veil’ of security that hides us from ourselves and others, and it’s also about lifting a veil to see the underbelly and truth of things. ...
Interviews
14 Apr The Loyal Seas: Bicoastal Pals Tanya Donelly and Brian Sullivan Navigate New Musical Terrain
Tanya Donelly and Brian Sullivan come from opposite ends of the timbre spectrum. But it makes for beautiful serendipity in The Loyal Seas....
11 Mar NYC Artist Puma Perl, on Regaining Our Footing and Bringing Communities Together
"Today, all answers are loaded. I’m personally doing reasonably well in the crumbling world we live in."...
30 Nov Passing Strange’s Anthony Paolucci on Raising a Piano Prodigy, Songwriting, and His Band’s New Baby — ‘Afterthought’
Connecticut indie-rock duo Passing Strange’s latest record is called Afterthought, but the 12-song collection is anything but. The album, which came out in October, encompasses an expansive sonic realm — impressively executed by just one vocalist/keyboardist (Kate Mirabella) and one drummer (Anthony Paolucci) — and...
09 Nov Courtney Seely, on Motherhood, Shifting Soundscapes and Creating ‘Future Self’
I already knew, having played a show with melodic Connecticut indie synth-rock trio Green Light, that their music is lyrically rich, sonically layered, and deeply cerebral. Yet I still made the amateur mistake of playing the song “Future Self” for the first time while running...
24 Sep Patti Rothberg Comes Clean About Love, Art, Life Beyond ‘The 1 and the 9’ And Those ‘Alanis’ Comparisons
Intro by Marisa Torrieri Bloom; interview by Rew Starr I don’t remember the moment I first heard singer-songwriter Patti Rothberg’s breakout hit “Inside” in the mid 90s, but I do remember watching Patti’s videos on MTV. She was a dead ringer for Beatlejuice-era Winona Ryder with the...
10 Sep Girls Girls Girls’ Nikita Seis and Tawny Lee on Reviving the ‘Crüe,’ Partying with Tommy Lee (and MGK), and Gigging in 2021
NYC-based Mötley Crüe tribute band Girls Girls Girls plays such a high-energy, awe-inspiring live show that phone calls and email requests to play private events are pretty much the norm (as are fangirls like me). So when the band received a random email in...