Sylencer
FAULT: You describe you sound as Metal / Rock / Thrash. How do you
keep your sound so unique?
To be honest, those three genres are essentially forced labels. Everyone demands an artist has to be unique, but in the next breath, everyone wants to put a label on the artist’s music. In the world of heavy metal today, fans and artists alike are very genre obsessed. To some people we’re a metal…
Artist Spotlight: Ian Francis
UK-born mixed media artist Ian Francis has officially made his stateside solo debut with the opening of Fireland on March 3, 2011 at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City. Utilizing a mixture of ink, oil paint, pen, charcoal, acrylic paint, and graphite, Francis' new body of work takes his usual blend of abstraction, alienation, and eroticism to a whole new level.
Francis graduated with…
Darshana Congreve
ENERGY GIRL
FAULT: You describe you sound as Folk Rock / Rock. How do you keep your
sound so unique? Like sex, I’m making instinctive music. I don’t have any ideas of what a musical style is. I think sounds are universes you can call “Classic” “Rock” or even “Folk” but all this is only the genius brother of noise. Music has success to transform noise into beauty and this is the only thing I…
Mary Quant
rac_ka
FAULT: What's the story behind Rac_ka?
Kanade: ( Firstly, I regret not being able to speak English better, sorry.)
About "rac_ka" We met In 2003, became members of the same band.
Afterwards, we had the possibility of playing as a duo through the recordings
for that band.
Toru: The band started recording on 13th July 2005 , to trigger the formation of the rac_ka
project. At that…
“The Cry Baby”
FAULT: What is the story behind "The Cry Baby"?
Well, The Cry Baby came from my childhood, I grew up in a posh bit of London as a carer for my Mum. I had a completely weird existence in a mess with cats everywhere, a gran with severe dementia and a very sick mum. Abnormal was completely normal to me and when you're young you don't question this. When I was 18, I moved out. I gradually began to…
The Strokes
It’s been five years since The Strokes have formally released any new material but the wait is now over their new album, Angles is set to be released March 22nd.
Writing and demoing for Angles began in 2009. Delay in the release was primarily caused by "creative differences" with their producer Joe Chiccarelli. The band decided to scrap most of the material from Chiccarelli's sessions. They…
“Like It Was Yesterday”
“Like It Was Yesterday” Brad Elterman
When it comes to behind the scenes rock n roll photography you don’t have to look any further than the work of renowned Brad Elterman. Always the guy at the right place at the right time, and with his camera in tow, Brad was very much apart of the 70s and 80s hedonistic music scene in Hollywood, and his pictures show exactly that.
His limited edition, must…