Category: Features

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #5

Primitive Motion

Tags A Guide to Saints, AKP Recordings, Bhajan Bhoy, Cardinal Fuzz, Cisser Mæhl, Feeding Tube Records, Hell on Hearth, Hypnodrone Ensemble, John Atkinson, Primitive Motion, Rocket Recordings, Room40, Smote, Sonic Pieces, Wolves and Vibrancy

Features Interviews

Michael Plater Interview: “Writing songs is about turning the conscious mind off”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 14, 2023
No Comments on Michael Plater Interview: “Writing songs is about turning the conscious mind off”

Michael Plater (photo: Fawnia Mountford)

Tags Bladud Flies, Enclosed and Silent Order, Extreme Noise Terror, Hypostatic Union, John Cale, John Hannon, Julian Wright, Mark Beazley, Mark Kluzak, Michael Lawrence, Michael Plater, Nico Nujumi, Reverb Worship, Stafford Glover, The Doomed Bird of Providence, Tony Millman, Weapon Eyes

Features Lost Albums

The Dream Syndicate: The Days of Wine and Roses

Post author By Sean Beardmore
Post date March 13, 2023
1 Comment on The Dream Syndicate: The Days of Wine and Roses

The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses

Tags Chris.D, Crazy Horse, Dennis Duck, Game Theory, Green on Red, gun club, Karl Precoda, Kendra Smith, Neil Young, R.E.M., Ruby Records, Slash Records, Steve Wynn, The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate, The Flesh Eaters, Tom Verlaine

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #9

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 8, 2023
2 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #9

Original images sourced from artists' Bandcamp pages.

Features Interviews

Katie Gerardine O’Neill Interview: “I’ve finally tied together a lot of my processes with this album”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 6, 2023
2 Comments on Katie Gerardine O’Neill Interview: “I’ve finally tied together a lot of my processes with this album”

Katie Geraldine O'Neill (photo from artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Beth Gibbons, Cruel Nature Records, Deadlians, DRR, Dublin Modular, Ecliptic of Culture, Jarboe, Katie Gerardine O'Neill, Little Gem, Open Ear, School Tour, Spilt Milk

Features Lost Albums

Riddle in the Rain: G.W. McLennan’s Fireboy 30th anniversary

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 3, 2023
1 Comment on Riddle in the Rain: G.W. McLennan’s Fireboy 30th anniversary

Grant McLennan

Tags Amanda Brown, american music club, Dave Dobbyn, G.W. McLennan, Go-Betweens, Grant McLennan, Lindy Morrison, mark eitzel, Paul Westerberg, Pavement, Robert Forster, Robert Vickers, Stpehen Malkmus, The Replacements, Tom Waits

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #4

Marlene Ribeiro (photo: Renato Cruz Santos)

Tags Adela Mede, Alaskan Tapes, Austin Cash, Brady Kendall, Cruel Nature Records, Ekin Fil, John Haughey, Landing, Marlene Riberiro, Nettwerk Music Group Inc., Night School Records, re:st, Rocket Recordings, Waxing Crescent Records, Winterwood

Features Interviews

Middleman Interview: “An album is definitely the next goal we’re working towards”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 17, 2023
1 Comment on Middleman Interview: “An album is definitely the next goal we’re working towards”

Middleman (Photo credit: Cole Flynn Quirke)

Tags Brainrotter Records, Greg Sage, Harper Maury, Islands of Love, Lily Pym, Middleman, Mission of Burma, Noah Alves, Self-Immolation Music, The Replacements, Wipers

Features

Tom Verlaine: The Eternal Purveyor of “Crystal-clear crisp sweet guitar suites”

Post author By Sean Beardmore
Post date February 7, 2023
4 Comments on Tom Verlaine: The Eternal Purveyor of “Crystal-clear crisp sweet guitar suites”

Tom Verlaine

Tags Albert Ayler, CBGB, david bowie, John Coltrane, Patti Smith, Richard Lloyd, Television, Thomas Miller, Tom Verlaine

Books Features Interviews

Community and Culture: An Interview with Orpheus Bookshop’s Garry Newley

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 23, 2023
1 Comment on Community and Culture: An Interview with Orpheus Bookshop’s Garry Newley

Tags ACDC, Elvis Presley, Gail Honeyman, Garry Newley, George Orwell, J.K. Rowling, Jack Kerouac, Jeffrey Deaver, Johnny Horton, Kurt Vonnegut, Midnight Oil, Orpheus Bookstore, Robert G. Barrett, Shakespeare, Slim Dusty, Sound Tavern, The Beatles

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #3

Kali Malone with Stephen O'Malley and Lucy Railton (photo credit: Chris Fullard)

Albums Features

Michael Head’s Dear Scott: My Album of the Year

Post author By stephenpotter
Post date January 11, 2023
1 Comment on Michael Head’s Dear Scott: My Album of the Year

Tags Arthur Lee, John Head, liverpool, Mick Head, Red Elastic Band, Shack, Strands, The Byrds

Features Interviews

2022 with Defend Vinyl’s Graham Jones

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 30, 2022
1 Comment on 2022 with Defend Vinyl’s Graham Jones

Defend Vinyl's Graham Jones (photo credit: via the label's Facebook page)

Features Interviews

2022 with Tall Trees Audio Mastering’s Stephen Kerrison

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 29, 2022
3 Comments on 2022 with Tall Trees Audio Mastering’s Stephen Kerrison

Stephen Kerrison

Features Film Television

Angelo Badalamenti: Absolute Sound and Vision

Post author By Sean Beardmore
Post date December 21, 2022
1 Comment on Angelo Badalamenti: Absolute Sound and Vision

Angelo Badalamenti

Tags Andy Badale, Angelo Badalamenti, Blue Velvet, Bobby Vinton, cocteau twins, Danny Boyle, David Lynch, Irving Berlin, Isabella Rossellini, Jane Campion, Jean Pierre-Jeunet, Joel Schumacher, Julee Cruise, Nancy Wilson, Nicholas Cage, Nina Simone, Paul Schrader, Twin Peaks

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 16, 2022
13 Comments on Sun 13’s Top 50 Albums of 2022
Sticky post

Collage by Sam Gill (@samgill82)

Tags ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 4ad, Aidan Baker, All Structures Align, Andreas Werliin, Archers of Loaf, Bella Union, BMG, Breathless, Broken Spine Records, Brutus, BUÑUEL, Chat Pile, Clouds Hill, Constellation Records, Cooking Vinyl, Cruel Nature Records, Desert Records, Destroyer, Dine Alone Records, Dischord Records, Drag City, Droneroom, Duquette Johnston, Duster, Earl Sweatshirt, Editions Mego, Ellis Swan, Empty House, Enablers, Esmerine, Exploding In Sound, Fat Possum Records, Golden Chariot Records, Gvantsa Narim, Haress, Hassle Records, Houseplants, Irregular Patterns, Jenny Hval, Johan Berthling, Joyful Noise Recordings, Kal Marks, Kenneth James Gibson, Kranky, La Tempesta International, Late Music, Lebenswelt, Lensmen, Loop, Luke Mawdsley, Matt Christensen, Meadows Heavy Recorders, Merge, Merge Records, Miasmah Recordings, Midira Records, Monastral, Mondkopf, Nadja, Nightingales, Nik Colk Void, Numero Group, OFF!, Oneida, Oren Ambarchi, OuZel Recordings / Under My Bed Recordings, Pan-American, Petra Haden, Preoccupations, Profound Lore Records, Quindi Records, Raum, Reactor, Rocio Zavala, Salisman & His Hermetic Order, Sarah Davachi, Sargent House, Sea Power, Single Lock Records, Soft Abuse, Soulside, Southern Lord Recordings, SPINE, Steven R. Smith, Suede, Swami John Reis, Swami Records, Tan Cressida, Tenor Vossa Records Ltd, The Flenser, The Lord, The Mars Volta, The Reds Pinks and Purples, Tiny Global Productions, Tough Love, Win Big Records, Winterwood, Wrong Speed Records, Yellowelectric, Yoshiwara

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Top Local Releases of 2022

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 14, 2022
5 Comments on Sun 13’s Top Local Releases of 2022

Tags 9 x 9 Records, Claire Welles, Defend Vinyl, Dune Boy, Good Grief, Hell on Hearth, moongoose, Outsider Art, Pete Benthem & The Dinner Ladies, Polexia!, Puzzle, San Lorenz, Simon Ward, The Welcome Addition, Tits Up

Features Interviews

Mike Vest Interview: “It’s great to see albums form over time”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 5, 2022
3 Comments on Mike Vest Interview: “It’s great to see albums form over time”

Mike Vest

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #8

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 28, 2022
7 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #8

Features Interviews

Salisman & His Celestial Bodies Interview: “We are always working on new material”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 25, 2022
2 Comments on Salisman & His Celestial Bodies Interview: “We are always working on new material”

Salisman & His Celestial Bodies

Tags Chris Tate, Creation Records, Cruel Nature Records, d_rradio, Jason Peirce, Jon Raedeke, Paul Foreman, Salisman & His Celestial Bodies, Salisman & His Hermetic Order, slowdive, Soft Speaker, spiritualized, Swervedriver, Travis Salisbury

Features Interviews

The Collegiate: In Conversation with Simon Ward

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 21, 2022
3 Comments on The Collegiate: In Conversation with Simon Ward

S. Ward

Features Interviews

Through A Room: An Interview with Bill Nace

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 15, 2022
1 Comment on Through A Room: An Interview with Bill Nace

Bill Nace_(Photo credit: Ryan Collerd)

Tags Aaron Dilloway, Bill Nace, Bitchin Bajas, Body/Head, Chris Corsano, Cooper Crain, Daniel Higgs, Drag City, Kim Gordon, Okkyung Lee, Steve Gunn

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #2

Tags Blanket Swimming, Christina Vantzou, Cruel Nature Records, Elrond, Kranky, Music for a Nightmare, Rocket Recordings, Shit and Shine, Stuart Cook, Waxing Crescent Records

Features Interviews

Droneroom Interview: “I prefer it if someone else tells me what they hear and see”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 11, 2022
7 Comments on Droneroom Interview: “I prefer it if someone else tells me what they hear and see”

Features Interviews

Tonal Intoxication: In Conversation with The Lord’s Greg Anderson and Petra Haden

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 9, 2022
5 Comments on Tonal Intoxication: In Conversation with The Lord’s Greg Anderson and Petra Haden

The Lord † Petra Haden (photo credit: Steven Perilloux)

Tags Bernard Herrmann, Bill Frissell, Earthings?, Engine Kid, Ennio Morricone, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, John Carpenter, John Williams Ian Astbury, Mike Watt, Petra Haden, Southern Lord Recordings, Sunn O))), That Dog, the cult, The Lord, The Twilight Singers, Tito & Tarantula

Features Interviews

Kenneth James Gibson Interview: “Surroundings are important”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 7, 2022
5 Comments on Kenneth James Gibson Interview: “Surroundings are important”

Kenneth James Gibson

Features Interviews

All Structures Align Interview: “We’re happy with how that contrast worked out”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 4, 2022
3 Comments on All Structures Align Interview: “We’re happy with how that contrast worked out”

All Structures Align (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Adam Ineson, All Structures Align, Bedhead, Bilge Pump, Deliluh, Haress, hey colossus, Hood, Ivan The Tolerable, June of 44, Neil Turnpin, Nub, Tim Ineson, Wrong Speed Records, Yann Tiersen

Albums Features

Label Watch: Strange Mono

Strange Mono

Tags Benjamin Schurr, Brian Reichert, Dan Angel, Dan Timlin, Drew Saracco, Jake Lenderman, Josh Meakim, Luna Honey, Maura Pond, Nyxy Nyx, Rachel Gordon, Sean Sprecher, Strange Mono, Tim Jordan

Albums Features

Weirdo Rippers #1

Original image source: Unsplash (photo credit: Namroud Gorguis)

Tags BRB>Voicecoil, Cinchel, Halina Rice, Injazero Records, Nickolas Mohanna, Omnibadger, Ordos MK.0, Soft Music, Sophia Subbayya Vastek, Stuart Cook, Trouble In Mind, Waxing Cresent Records

Features Interviews

Empty House Interview: “It came about as a quick idea”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 17, 2022
5 Comments on Empty House Interview: “It came about as a quick idea”

Empty House

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Karen & Peter Interview: “The writing is grounded very powerfully in the music”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 10, 2022
2 Comments on Karen & Peter Interview: “The writing is grounded very powerfully in the music”

Karen & Peter

Tags Benjamin Myers, George Orwell, Haruki Murakami, Ivan The Tolerable, Jaded Azurites, Karen & Peter, Karen Schoemer, Mike Griffin, Mike Watt, Minutemen, Mortuus Auris & the Black Hand/ MAbH, Oli Heffernan, Peter Taylor, Sky Furrows, SST, Tape Drift

Features Interviews

Floating Points: In Conversation with Esmerine’s Bruce Cawdron

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 7, 2022
5 Comments on Floating Points: In Conversation with Esmerine’s Bruce Cawdron

Esmerine (photo credit: Osha Cawdron)

Features Interviews

Total Eclipse: An Interview with Oren Ambarchi

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 29, 2022
5 Comments on Total Eclipse: An Interview with Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi (photo credit: Trianos Pakioufakis)

Features Interviews

Charlie Butler Interview: “Outside of music, comics and books are my biggest influences”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 21, 2022
5 Comments on Charlie Butler Interview: “Outside of music, comics and books are my biggest influences”

Charlie Butler

Features

Defending the Faith: Tailgunner and the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal

Post author By Nedim Hassan
Post date September 15, 2022
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Tailgunner

Features Interviews

Polexia! Interview: “We actually have an eerily similar taste in music”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 9, 2022
5 Comments on Polexia! Interview: “We actually have an eerily similar taste in music”

Polexia! (photo credit: Claire Welles)

Tags cocteau twins, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Godflesh, Jezebel Halewood-Legas, Johanna Connolly, Justin Broadrick, Krzystof Penderecki, Kylie Minouge, Lene lovich, Lizzie Mercier Descloux, Nina Hagen and Malaria, Outsider Art, Polexia!, SPINE, Susan Janet Ballion

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Video Premiere: Head Shoppe’s ‘Chapultepec Parque’

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 5, 2022
No Comments on Video Premiere: Head Shoppe’s ‘Chapultepec Parque’

Head Shoppe (photo provided by artist)

Tags Eric Harding, Head Shoppe, Kenneth James Gibson, Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Studio Sparks

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #7

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 2, 2022
11 Comments on Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #7

Albums Quarterly (original images sourced from respective artists' Bandcamp pages).

Features Interviews

Some Gift: An Interview with Enablers

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 29, 2022
10 Comments on Some Gift: An Interview with Enablers

Enablers

Tags Chris Summerlin, dAVID hAND, Enablers, hey colossus, Joe Goldring, Joe Thompson, Kevin Thomson, Neurot Recordings, Sam Ospovat, Swans, Wrong Speed Records, Years

Features Interviews

Haress Interview: “I really think the record is a product of its environment”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 26, 2022
8 Comments on Haress Interview: “I really think the record is a product of its environment”

Haress (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)