Our friend Dan Perrone recently sat down for a lengthy interview with The Casting Out, which includes Nathan Gray of Boy Sets Fire. The band self-released their debut full length Go Crazy! Throw Fireworks! in October.
Fucked Up are currently touring in support of their new album The Chemistry of Common Life, and before their Philadelphia show, Punknews' own inquisitive Aruban, Ollie Mikse, had a chance to talk to members of the band (Damien Abraham, Mike Haliechuk, and Josh Zucker) about their newfound "fame," records, and why school buses don't make the best of touring vehicles. Photos by Jen Warner.
Franz Nicolay may well be one of the busiest men in independent music. The Brooklyn resident plays keyboards for The Hold Steady, accordion/piano for World/Inferno Friendship Society and has a number of other groups on the go such as Anti-Social Music and Guignol. This past summer James Hepplewhite caught up with Nocilay at Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival where the two discussed all of Nicolay's musical ventures.
Oklahoma City's The Flaming Lips have just released their first feature film. Christmas on Mars has been in work since 2001 and tells the story of a colony on the Red Planet and their first Christmas in their new home. Paul Coover recently spoke about the film with the band's frontman Wayne Coyne.
This week, Warship, delivered their debut album, Supply & Depend. Formed by two former members of From Autumn To Ashes, Warship takes FATA's aggressive inclinations and channels them through a heavy rock base, as influenced by hardcore as by bands like Husker Du and Soundgarden.
Punknews.org spoke with Francis Mark and Rob Lauritsen about the new record, From Autumn to Ashes and the future for the longtime musicians.
Orange County's Mikoto just released their new album, We Are The Architects, the followup to their 2005 self-titled album. The band's vocalist Ray Harkins spoke with our own Sarah El-Hamzawi about the recording of the album and what the band has been up to.
We're happy to bring you a unique interview today which features artists Ed Trask of Avail and Heather Gabel interviewing each other about their music, life and art. Trask, who along with drumming in the beloved Richmond-based band is a well-respected artist, who was named ""Top 40 under 40" in Richmond for his art.
Gabel is of course, the artist responsible for much of Alkaline Trio's striking merch and imagery and has also produced merch designs for My Chemical Romance, AFI and The Lawrence Arms. She continues to work as an artist. The two artists recently put together an art show in Chicago.
We've included some of both artists' work in the interview. You can find more of Ed's work on his site and more of Heather's on hers.
It's almost time for The Fest, but we still have room to sneak in a few more interviews with some of the 250+ bands who will be playing this weekend in Gainesville.
Today we are pleased to present an interview between Punknews' Michael Dauphin and Patrick Costello, better known as Paddy, of Dillinger Four. The Minneapolis band has just released their fourth album, C I V I L W A R, and recently wrapped up a North American tour with NOFX. The band continues to be one of the most celebrated melodic punk bands in the genre, providing both catchy hooks and socially charged lyrics.
When his old band, Blood Brothers, disbanded in 2007, it didn't mean Jordan Blilie was through with music. In addition to his side-project, Head Wound City, Blilie enlisted some friends and started up Past Lives. Their album, Strange Symmetry, will be released on November 4 through Suicide Squeeze Records.
Punknews interviewer Zach Zeigler recently spoke to Blilie about the new band and starting the process all over again.
After designing t-shirts for Alklaline Trio for the past ten years, there's a good chance a bulk of you are wearing a design by Heather Gabel. The artist, who recently moved to Gainesville, Florida, has done artwork for a number of bands, including My Chemical Romance, AFI and The Lawrence Arms. She also has an art show opening up in Chicago this Friday. The All Rise Gallery features a number of artists in addition to Gabel. For more information on that, click here.
Meanwhile, in our ongoing effort to bring you interviews with people involved in the punk community through peripheral roles, we're pleased to bring you a conversation between Gabel and our own Ronnie Raffaniello.
Punknews.org's run up to The Fest continues right here as our own Dante 3000 interviews Richmond, Virginia's The Riot Before. The band recently released their first full-length, Fists Buried in Pockets.