Interview
Drew Jacobs – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: Every artist’s first song is a milestone. But so is the latest song. Describe the first song/album you recorded, and also the latest song/album you recorded; what are the differences? DJ: As a teen (14-16). I had a stereo with an eight track recorder […]
Drew Jacobs – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. Photo by Monique Hilton-Jacobs. RRX: Every artist’s first song is a milestone. But so is the latest song. Describe the first song/album you recorded, and also the latest song/album you recorded; what are the differences? DJ: As a teen (14-16). I had a stereo with […]
Christine Bile – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: We all get a little support from those around us. And we also can be impressed by our fellow performers. Who do you admire in your community, and why? CB: There are so many great performers in both the Capital Region and the Berkshires. I […]
The Barblairian – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: Cover art is cool. It shows listeners what the artist thinks the album is all about. Because music can be felt visually. If you had to give the public a visual image that you think they would see and just “get” your groove right away, […]
Three Questions with Emily Wolfe – An Xperience Interview – by Rob Skane. Photo by Brittany Durdin. Texas-based guitarist Emily Wolfe has been releasing albums since 2012, four of them to be exact. And you would be wise to own them all. Her guitar work is absolutely blazing, and her songs are great. Epiphone guitars […]
Bill Ackerbauer – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. Bill Ackerbauer is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in the Adirondack foothills and Mohawk Valley. He is a founding member of The Insolent Willies and has previously performed with The Doghouse Carpenters, The Bentwood Rockers and other acoustic Americana groups. Bill is the founder and […]
A band is a beloved thing, an expression of that which can find no words but only notes and beats and sonic moxie. Mental Weather is the progeny of members of popular area bands Horse Grave and Ice Queen, and they put out their own groove. Photo credit: Christopher Simple. RRX: You just had your […]
Drab Stucco – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: I know when pitching it helps to tell someone it’s “this meets that.” So let’s try that with you. If you had to give me two bands that meet each other in your sound, what are those bands? More than two bands? Ethan: Drab […]
Lithium, Chptr. 19 – Xperience Fictioin – by Liam Sweeny. If Mel was the Mel of a month ago, and he’d seen a sparse row of tents on a city street, he’d have thought that they were waiting for the latest game console to come out in a chain store down the block. He never […]
Carm Grasso – Thanks for Asking! – by Liam Sweeny. RRX: What was the very first reaction to your music, from the first person to ever hear so much as a practice jam or the demo of your first song? CG: I remember this moment fondly and believe it helped shape the direction of my […]
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