“These songs ended up being about letting go, starting over, and forgiving people for things,” Gibb says of his latest album ‘Let’s Start Over.’
Read moreINTERVIEW: Juliana Hatfield Blocks Out the World As We Know It and She Feels Fine
“The concept of the album, and it became a little bit more than that, was coming to terms with a solitary life and trying to see it in a positive way rather than any other way,” Hatfield explains.
Read moreINTERVIEW: All Natural Revisit the Making of Their Underground Classic, ‘No Additives, No Preservatives’
All Natural take a no frills, strictly skills approach to their music throughout their debut album ‘No Additives, No Preservatives’ (1998).
Read moreINTERVIEW: Vanessa Daou Revisits ‘Zipless,’ Her Dynamic Declaration of Independence, 25 Years Later
“‘Zipless’ is a philosophical act couched as a sexual one, a statement of creative independence,” Daou explains. “Why should I—or anyone—be compromised as an artist, especially as a woman?”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Savannah Conley Navigates the High Stakes of a Career on the Cusp
“My words are the only thing I can absolutely, one-hundred percent control at all times,” Conley confides. “It’s coming out of my mouth, and it’s happening solely in my control.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Liela Moss Evinces and Embraces Another Side of Her Musical Muse
“Writing and recording most of the album in rural Somerset was extremely special,” Moss confides. “The elements, trees and moon cycle became the brightest, loudest companions.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Nicolay Revisits All That The Foreign Exchange Left Behind and the Legacy That Endures
“We have a responsibility to not look back, to get outside of our comfort zones,” Nicolay confides. “And I think we’ve always made music that we want to make.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Dubstar Rediscover Their Creative Muse and Reclaim Their Artistic Power
“I always felt like we were on the outside looking in,” Sarah Blackwood says of the Britpop scene in the ‘90s. “But, this time around, I’m happy being the outsider looking in.”
Read moreWaxing Poetic: KT Tunstall Traverses the Soul, Body & Mind | Interview
“I want to challenge how you feel and how you respond,” Tunstall explains. “I want a record to shift you, where you get on the ride and it takes you somewhere.”
Read moreResilient & Resolute: A Candid Conversation with Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies | Interview
Cowboy Junkies latest album ‘All That Reckoning’ is an outstanding set that underscores the band’s singularity it’s achieved over a thirty-plus-year career trajectory.
Read moreINTERVIEW: Stephen Lee Naish Digs Deep Into Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Know Your Enemy’ with ‘Riffs & Meaning’
“’Know Your Enemy’ is an example of the Manics’ iconoclast tendencies,” Naish explains. “But very little has been written about it and its obtuseness has mostly been forgotten or dismissed.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Quentin Harrison Delves Deep Into Madonna’s Discography with New ‘Record Redux’ Installment
‘Record Redux: Madonna’ is the fourth installment of Harrison’s “Record Redux” series following the previous Spice Girls, Carly Simon and Donna Summer volumes.
Read moreINTERVIEW: Bobby Brown Exercises His Prerogative & Embraces His Truth
“You go through ups and downs, challenges, trials and tribulations,” Brown explains. “But you have to be able to be strong for the ones that you love and for yourself.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Kandace Springs Summons a Deeper Shade of Soul
Kandace Springs’ sophomore studio album ‘Indigo’ is slated to hit stores September 7th courtesy of Blue Note Records.
Read moreGuilty Simpson Revisits His Debut Album ‘Ode to the Ghetto' (2008) | Interview
The Detroit-bred emcee delves deep into the making of 'Ode to the Ghetto,' one of the strongest hip-hop debut albums to surface in the 21st century.
Read moreLiving Colour’s Vernon Reid Navigates the Shadows and Light | Interview
Living Colour recently released their sixth studio album ‘Shade’—their first long player in eight years—to widespread critical acclaim.
Read moreINTERVIEW & TRIBUTE: Mr. Lif Revisits the Making of His Debut Album ‘I Phantom’ (2002)
Mr. Lif sat down with Albumism’s Jesse Ducker to revisit the making of his debut LP, a bona fide hip-hop classic.
Read moreINTERVIEW: Trailblazing Hip-Hop Legend Too $hort Explores the Keys to Surviving the Game
Longevity in the rap game has proven elusive for many an emcee, but Too $hort is one of the select few still going strong 30+ years into his career.
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