An interview with Joe Volume

1) Hey Joe, what’s up? What’s new in your world?

Hey, that feels like an odd question at the time cuz honestly everything has changed, and I’m afraid that lots of aspects of my life have taken a turn for the worse. First up I got attacked in my apartment, which opened up a court case trial. I had a pending arrest and subsequent trial I had to get done with. Which really wasn’t a big problem except for the hefty fines I’d to pay to the fine Metropolitan Courthouse and the Los Angeles Police Department. Short after that my kidney collapsed and I had to swear off a lot of things, not booze of course. You know what’s funny? Doc told me I had more damage from eating all the hormone-grown greasy bullshit than actual alcohol damage. So there you go. Then I got thrown into a State Psych-Ward because of another incident, completely unrelated, they actually ended up kind of apologizing for the whole ordeal, but still. Continue reading “An interview with Joe Volume”

Sloucher.orgJuly 23, 2014August 5, 2014Leave a comment

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Interview – American Analog Set

I’ve been a fan of American Analog Set since that fateful day I came across The Golden Band. Living in Mexico meant that I never really had much chance to see them, until their show at Polyforum Siqueiros back in 2007. Skip forward a few years and I serendipitously find The Wooden Birds, a new project with Andrew Kenny sharing vocals with Leslie Sisson. I interviewed them and now, with the recent re-release of Know by Heart on vinyl, I interviewed Andrew Kenny. This interview was originally posted in Spanish at México’s La Pop Life, a cool website I write in Spanish for and the editor kindly agreed to let me post it here, unedited, in its original form. Continue reading “Interview – American Analog Set”

Sloucher.orgJune 13, 2014August 5, 20144 Comments

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Interview – Panoramas

Pretty weird how things happen in this road we call life. A few years ago, out of pure dumb luck, managed to get an interview with The Wooden Birds and then managed to review (and interview) Leslie Sisson while she was touring her solo project, Sisson. Fast forward to March 2014 and I saw Leslie Sisson in her new band, Panoramas, perform at The Ginger Man. A quick missed calls, text messages and facebook messages later I’m in a lil’ coffee shop in Austin called The Flightpath Coffee House.

I’m sitting in front of Panoramas, a three member soundscape machine consisting of Leslie Sisson (vocals, guitar), Rozie Castoe (vocals, bass) and Karen Skloss (drums.) The topics of conversation are : influences, band naming, SXSW misadventures, the genius of John Paul Jones and vintage 90s films. All of this fuelled with tea, Topo Chico water and a slightly inspiring brew of curiously strong coffee. Continue reading “Interview – Panoramas”

Sloucher.orgMay 23, 2014August 5, 20143 Comments

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Interview – Actual Wolf

A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to catch Retribution Gospel Choir at the now defunct The Grapes. Not only were they a fierce live monster, they all were very approachable people. Then I saw Low a year later and lo and behold, the beast behind the drums was on keys. Fast forward to a sampler I downloaded out of pure curiosity from a label called Chaperone Records, which included an Americana tinged band called Actual Wolf which I instantly dug.

30 seconds later, I realise the guy behind Actual Wolf is Eric Pollard, whom I’ve seen in both Retribution Gospel Choir and Low. Thanks to the wonders of social media, I catch up with Eric Pollard in a small apartment in Austin during SXSW 2014 and we talk about life, music and catharsis. Dressed mostly in black, like any modern cowboy should, we talked for a good half an hour.

Here’s the verbose gist: Continue reading “Interview – Actual Wolf”

Sloucher.orgMay 21, 2014August 5, 2014Leave a comment

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INTERVIEW | Two Trick Horse – Black Water & Milk

Monday 17th March saw Two Trick Horse release their free 2-track single ‘Black Water & Milk’ through Leeds’ Destroy All Records – home to Ikestra and Mahogany Hand Glider. I caught up with Marcus and Sam to talk about the single, being signed to a record label and dinosaurs (why not). Continue reading “INTERVIEW | Two Trick Horse – Black Water & Milk”

catchaddertonMarch 24, 2014August 5, 2014Leave a comment

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Tea with Jim Ghedi – an interview…

I arrived to find Jim Ghedi re-stringing his beloved acoustic guitar. Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden was spinning on the turntable in the corner.

“Tea, Bro?” he asks. Continue reading “Tea with Jim Ghedi – an interview…”

Sloucher.orgFebruary 21, 2014August 5, 2014Leave a comment

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Interview – Echodrone

Echodrone01 — Source: Echodrone’s Bandcamp.

It’s no secret that Shoegaze is a very much loved genre in this Shithole of a Website (TM) called Sloucher. Is it the inherent dreaminess of the sounds? Is it the sometimes whispered vocals? Is it the slight scary undertones of some songs? Whatever it is, our goose pimples are on the draw and all hairs on the back of our neck are ready to stand whenever those reverb & echo drenched notes arrive.

And for the cornucopia of bands we’ve found that do the genre, Echodrone is simply one of the best we’ve encountered. A serendipitous email and some very late reviews later and we’ve found the essence of the band still lingering in the halls of this joint.

So, an interview was not only a necessity, but a privilege. We got in touch with the band and Meredith Gibbons (vocals), Brandon Dudley (bass) and Eugene Suh (vocals, guitars) were kind enough to take our questions.

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Sloucher.orgJanuary 29, 2014August 5, 20142 Comments

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Podcast – 8 songs with Firesuite

Join us for another Radio Chaneque podcast. This time I interview Chris Anderson from Firesuite, one of my fave bands from Sheffield (I do talk a lot about them, yes). We talk about music, life and its vicissitudes and general band life while a little pet dog tries to bite my toes off. Recorded in 2012. Firesuite Bandcamp. Twitter. Facebook. Last.fm. Myspace. Soundcloud. Continue reading Podcast – 8 songs with Firesuite

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Sloucher.orgOctober 28, 2013August 6, 2014Leave a comment

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Interview : Joe Volume

A year ago, we reviewed Joe Volume‘s Lonesome Water, Lonely Sea and got in touch with him to get a few details about life, the universe and country blues. Fast forward a year and we’ve gotten back in touch with him. We ask him about tour life, Los Vincent Black Shadows and his new album, The Sullen Years. Enjoy: Continue reading “Interview : Joe Volume”

Sloucher.orgOctober 25, 2013August 5, 2014Leave a comment

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Interview – The Eastern Sea

So, last year, after buying a membership to Daytrotter, I haphazardly ran into this band, The Eastern Sea. I clicked on their session and after a couple of tracks, ‘The Match’ grabbed my entangled heartstrings and left them like a boondoggle. ‘The Snow’ finished the trick and I was one of the converted. I reviewed their album Plague (review) and managed to get lead singer Matt Hines to agree to an email interview.

Here we go:

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Sloucher.orgOctober 23, 2013November 27, 2014Leave a comment

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