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One Question Interviews: Learning Curve Records
Feature — June 9, 2019
Rainer Fronz (Learning Curve Records) SPB: Besides music, what other arts interest you? Fronz: Besides releasing records with Leaning Curve Records and searching the internet/basement shows for new dirgey bands, I have some other things I like and love. First off as far as a huge interest …
One Question Interviews: Repeater Records
Feature — June 10, 2019
Seth Babb and Chris Berry (Repeater Records) SPB: What stood out to you most in the reissue process as you revisited Gospel’s The Moon Is a Dead World? Repeater: The thing that really stood out putting out the reissue of “The Moon is a Dead World” was …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Batshit Crazy
Feature — June 23, 2019
Chuck (Batshit Crazy – guitar) SPB: What kind of guitar do you use, and how/why did you choose this one? Chuck: For the Batshit Crazy record I totally stumbled into using this DEAN guitar. The background of the guitar is I used to own a Recording & Rehearsal …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Martin Bisi
Feature — June 24, 2019
Martin Bisi SPB: What is your preferred guitar model for personal playing, and how has your production work affected that choice? Bisi: I started way late on guitar. I was a drummer during my teens, through my early years recording. It was drumming that helped me work with …
One Question Interviews: Good Riddance
Feature — June 28, 2019
Russ (Good Riddance) SPB: What do you remember of playing your first live show? Russ: I remember it being euphoric, the sense of watching people move and go crazy to the music my band was playing. We weren’t very good at our instruments then, but it didn’t …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Anthem Grief
Feature — July 21, 2019
Anthem Grief SPB: The two of you recorded the album on your own. How does the band’s live setup work? Anthem Grief: The two of us met through a previous band that was around for a short time. The two of us were the only ones who really …
Interviews: Nadir
Feature — July 29, 2019
Nadir is a punk trio with some names and faces you might recognize from their work with Off With Their Heads, Fake Boys, and Hard Pass. The trio has been around for a couple of years, but just released their debut Collecting Misery this year. The record plays rough-around-the-edges punk …
One Question Interviews: Nastie Band
Feature — August 26, 2019
Patrick Delaney (Nastie Band) SPB: The name Nastie Band kind of speaks for itself. Where there any runner-up names? Delaney: Nastie Band was, iz, and will be the only name. We all surrendered to it joining the band as the name preceded us. NASTIE is the iron rod …
One Question Interviews: fotocrime
Feature — September 2, 2019
Ryan (fotocrime) SPB: How do you preserve your voice while on tour? Ryan: Years ago I used to shred my vocal chords. Then I started singing at a volume level and in a range of pitch that suits my voice. I’ve had no problems or concerns since then.
One Question Interviews: Divided Heaven
Feature — September 5, 2019
Divided Heaven What is the strangest trend you see in modern music (music-wise or industry-wise)? The strangest trend I see in modern music is the return of the cassette tape. Who would've thought? I know, I know...there are cassette tape purists that will claim the media format never …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Nastie Band
Feature — September 8, 2019
Roddy Bottum (Nastie Band - keyboards) SPB: With Nastie Band, what keyboard do you play and how did you make this choice? Bottum: I play an Oberheim reissue by Dave Smith. It's called an OB-6. I play it cause it's a reissue of the first keyboard I owned. …
One Question Interviews: The Cactus Blossoms
Feature — September 15, 2019
The Cactus Blossoms SPB: Who is your favorite currently active country musician? Jack and Page: Willie Nelson
One Question Interviews: Rational Anthem
Feature — September 16, 2019
Chris (Rational Anthem – bass/backing vocals) SPB: How do you determine who sings in a given song? Chris: These days Noelle sings all of the songs. Chris does harmonies and backups. We split writing duties but since Noelle has the stronger voice we let her sing all the …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Dwarves
Feature — September 17, 2019
Blag Dahlia (Dwarves – vocals) SPB: What is the most important vocal element when doing sound check for a Dwarves show? Blag Dahlia: A sound man who isn’t profoundly retarded. They do exist, but to find them you have to travel far and wide sorting through countless buffoons …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Low Culture
Feature — September 29, 2019
Chris Mason (Low Culture/Macho Boys – guitar) SPB: What guitar do you play and how did choose it? Mason: A few years ago I bought a 1969 red Gibson SG and that's been my go-to ever since. It is far and away the most expensive piece of musical …
One Question Interviews: The Vandoliers
Feature — October 5, 2019
Joshua Fleming (The Vandoliers) SPB: How do you describe your sound to strangers? Fleming: It’s Texas Music.
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Ann Beretta
Feature — October 7, 2019
Rob Huddleston (Ann Beretta) SPB: Did you use a different model guitar on the recordings of your old material (Old Scars, New Blood) than on the original recordings? How did it affect the overall sound, in your opinion? Huddleston: The answer is yes and no. Old …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Frank Turner
Feature — October 11, 2019
Frank Turner SPB: What guitar do you play and what do you like about it when performing solo, versus with a full band? Turner: I play Martin D45 acoustic guitars live these days, I have four of them. They are spectacular instruments. I went through a lot of …
One Question Interviews: The Hussy
Feature — October 15, 2019
Bobby Hussy (The Hussy, Fire Heads, Cave Curse) SPB: Are you partial to a specific model of guitar? Bobby: I am partial to a few guitars depending on the project. In The Hussy I almost exclusively used offset Fender guitars like jaguars and jazzmasters, until rather recently when …
