“We don’t really think about what kind of fans we want to attract when writing music, we make it for ourselves, ultimately. I would say listen to this album, if you want to hear something interesting from Australia,” Ela Stiles (of Songs) tells me of her latest project, Bushwalking… which is beyond interesting and actually quite brilliant. Bushwalking is comprised […]
“My first album really was born out of necessity – the desire and need to write and record music at that time in my life, coupled with the reality of raising a kid. I couldn’t be rehearsing with bands as much anymore,” singer/songwriter Kelli Scarr (former Moby and J. Viewz collaborator and member of Moonraker and Salt & Samovar… and […]
Dreamer’s Dose June 21, 2012 Despite its pitiful battery life and because it’s always with me, the iPhone is my tool-of-choice for interviews and just as we began, a notification on it popped up which one of the guys in Dreamer’s Dose noticed. Jesse: “I think you got a text.”Me: “That was Instagram.”Josh: “What’d you Instagram?”Me: “You.”The collective: “Ohhoho!! Okay! Let’s have […]
“The Lost Boys Sessions” Youth, young manhood, and talent. Factor in Travis Hawley (vox), Matt Depauw (guitar), Nick Fotinakes (guitar), Mikel Van Kranenburg (bass), Rico Rodriguez (drums) and their penchant for making a hybrid Killers/Cure rock noise so good that it compeled Rolling Stone Magazine to dub them “One of the top unsigned bands in the country.”and there you have […]
What’s this? A movie review? Get ready as High Voltage is gearing up to make the switch from music to lifestyle content very soon. Movies, Music, Books, Health/Wellness and so much more. And now for the main attraction… If there’s two things I’m extremely well versed in it’s the so-called 80s Hair Metal genre and The Sunset Strip, so you […]
You know that feeling when every ounce of faith that you’ve had over the years in something or someone comes to full bloom right before your eyes? Yeah, that’s what happened last night at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood when Dead Sara made their national television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live. When their manager asked if I was coming to the show, […]
“Aesthetically, we are into playfully morbid universes – Zombie flicks, Philip K. Dick, the Museum of Natural History – witches, bad dreams, Jesus, old gambling towns, gangsters, and creepy small towns,” explains Fenster, a Post-Pop trio whose methods and inspirations would seem to be as conceptually intellectual as their sounds are avant-garde-ily enjoyable. “We are really into cities and the […]
