Update On The Updates
Now that I’ve imported all my busking/street drumming posts from the other site all the interviews have been bumped down. So, to see sweet and graphically satisfying (meaning the type is inside the lines and stuff) interviews of Band of Horses , El Ten Eleven, The New Pornograhers, Buke and Gass, Sloan, Local H, Nada Surf, Broken Social Scene, Cheap Trick, Why?, Bear In Heaven, Sonny And The Sunsets, St Vincent, White Mystery, Delta Spirit, The Golden Dogs, Bazan & Band Click on these here links or just go to the Interviews link thing above. Thanks to all the great drummers who’ve participated in these interviews. Coming in the next couple of days, the lost interviews of Dinosaur Jr and Fang Island. Onward!...
Interview: Anthony LaMarca of St. Vincent @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Anthony LaMarca played a dynamic set with St. Vincent at this year’s Pitchfork, running the gamut from laid-back Levon Helm-style pocket to rigid Kraftwerkian tick-tock, and then finally spreading his free-jazz wings and cutting loose with a chaotic accompaniment to a feedback coda. His performance was the practicing of what he preached in our interview: put the song first, keep it simple, but also embrace the new possibilities opened up by technology. You can see why he’s been called on, not just by Annie Clark (St. Vincent), but also dream-pop patriarch Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500) to be part of their supporting casts. You’ll be able to catch him again in a few months when Dean & Britta play at Lincoln Hall in December. The transcript is in the Description area of the video. –Paul...
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