We had the pleasure of interviewing Bert Keely over Zoom video! Echoing the '60s psychedelic happenings around Stanford University, Bert Keely has woven two remarkable careers - as a pioneering Silicon Valley computer engineer and a wonderfully versatile guitarist. During the dotcom boom, the band he co-created - the Flying Other Brothers - made some phenomenal music, worth a new listen and now collected in the new limited-edition box set Circle Back! A 20-year retrospective featuring the Flying...
Sep 10, 2021•55 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Kyla Carter over Zoom video! Rising star Kyla Carter's talent runs deep whether she is acting, singing, dancing, or performing on Broadway. Kyla is currently starring as ‘CJ Suki’ in the new DreamWorks animated series “TrollsTopia” streaming on Hulu and Peacock. She can also be seen starring as the same character in the Netflix series “Trolls The Beat Goes On”. Kyla’s single “Because You’re You” from Season 4 of the Netflix series soundtrack has become a hit w...
Sep 09, 2021•30 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Adrian Marcel over Zoom video! Platinum r&b recording artist Adrian Marcel released his first single of the year, “I Gotchu”. Produced by 2Tall and Hightone and written by Adrian Marcel, Sonny B and Ryn Nicole, the track keeps Adrian’s signature sound with elements of both modern and classic r&b, and all of the makings of a Summer lover’s anthem. The lyric video is also out today. An official video for the track will debut later this month. "From a man...
Sep 08, 2021•48 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Charles Spearin over Zoom video! Can you think of a more perfect lyric that captures the pandemic experience? Multi-instrumentalist and composer Charles Spearin, known for his work in Broken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think, and so much more music that has soundtracked the past two decades, insists he’s not much of a lyricist. In fact, his new solo album, My City of Starlings, is a largely instrumental collection of beautifully textured songs that glide between...
Sep 07, 2021•34 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Big Mother Gig over Zoom video! Milwaukee-bred/LA-based indie rock band Big Mother Gig are pleased to present the brand new music video for “That Day,” the latest single to be lifted from the band’s recently released full-length album, Gusto (order). For this particular song, home videos and photographs taken from three generations of frontman Richard Jankovich’s family seemed to be only way to tell this story about a specific life event, trauma and how it can...
Sep 07, 2021•50 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing SAINT PHNX over Zoom video! Siblings share harmony in its purest form. Their connection runs as deep as blood—and maybe even deeper. A brotherly bond drives the music of SAINT PHNX. The Glasgow duo of Stevie and Alan Jukes feel everything twice as hard together. Those mutual feelings inform the pair’s skyscraping alternative pop uplifted by towering hooks, eloquent songcraft, and energetic instrumentation. After gathering tens of millions of streams, touring w...
Sep 06, 2021•37 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Alexander Nate over Zoom video! Virginia-based singer, songwriter and music video director, Alexander Nate, is turning the pages of his own story into a cinematic visual, with the release of “Save This Dance For Me.” When it comes to Alexander’s music, he’s always digging deeper, focusing on writing in an autobiographical style about personal, but relatable, moments in life. Alexander’s main focus has always been to create a catalogue of in-depth music, as a v...
Sep 05, 2021•33 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Foghat over Zoom video! Foghat celebrates their 50th anniversary this year, and their live performances show why the band is still around and why they will be able to keep on rockin’ as long as they want to play! Their music is timeless, and touring is part of their DNA. Foghat’s live show is as intense as ever with the incredible energy and musicianship that one would expect and hope for from a seasoned band with such a long musical history and they are bring...
Sep 03, 2021•56 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing The Murlocs over Zoom audio! With their lineup including two members of the globally beloved King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Kenny-Smith and bassist Cook Craig), The Murlocs recorded at Button Pushers Studio in Melbourne with producer Tim Dunn, dreaming up a prismatic sound that pinballs from sunshine-pop to blues-punk to wide-eyed psychedelia. Naming John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Harry Nilsson’s Lennon-produced Pussy Cats among their key reference po...
Sep 03, 2021•38 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Alex Orange Drink over Zoom video! Brooklyn-based songwriter Alex Orange Drink, the solo moniker for Alex Zarou Levine of The So So Glos, is excited to present “Oxytocin (Luv Buzz),” the second track to be lifted from the Friday, September 17 release of his sophomore album titled Everything Is Broken, Maybe That’s O.K. (pre-order). On the upcoming album, Alex explores personal subjects, including grappling with a rare and life-threatening disorder, heartbreak,...
Sep 02, 2021•36 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Robert Randolph over Zoom video! Robert Randolph is a four-time Grammy nominated pedal steel guitarist and one of Rolling Stone’s “100 greatest guitarists of all time.” A virtuoso on the pedal steel, Robert jumped from spiritual to secular music and found an audience among blues fans, roots rock aficionados, and jam band followers with his fiery, passionate instrumentals and heartfelt music, earning fans like John Medeski, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews and T-Bon...
Sep 01, 2021•38 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Urethane over Zoom video! Pop-punk outfit URETHANE featuring legendary Hall of Fame professional skateboarder and guitarist Steve Caballero has signed to Cyber Tracks. Their debut album Chasing Horizons was produced, engineered, and mixed by Cameron Webb (Motörhead, Megadeth, Alkaline Trio, NOFX, Pennywise) and is due out on September 24, 2021. The band will be touring as well including some festival appearances. The album title was derived from the song “Wyom...
Aug 31, 2021•48 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Elliot Lee over Zoom video! Elliot Lee is best known for her viral hits which are characterized by a mix of dark pop melodies, fiery vocals, and bold thrash rock meets electronic sounds. Elliot’s new EP Queen of Nothing, explores the concept of Queendom and vividly recounts Elliot’s struggles to fit in and feelings of being “othered.” Anger, greed, loneliness, and bloodlust are all prevalent in this storyline layered with wild electronic melodies and vocals th...
Aug 30, 2021•29 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Natalie Shay over Zoom video! Natalie Shay is an indie-pop artist hailing from North London. The multi-award-winning musician has established an ever-growing presence and loyal fanbase through her explosive live performances and unforgettable anthems, recognising her as one of the UK’s hottest emerging talents. Her relatable lyrics touch on love, self-discovery and the everyday experiences of a twenty-something. Combining her youthful and charismatic aura with...
Aug 29, 2021•45 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing A Great Big World over Zoom video! GRAMMY-award winning multiplatinum duo A Great Big World just released their third studio album, Particles. The new album features 10 tracks, including their latest single “Glowing” which they recently performed on LIVE with Kelly and Ryan – watch the full performance HERE. Also featured is their stunning collaboration with Christina Aguilera, “Fall On Me.” Each song on Particles was written from an incredibly honest place, a...
Aug 28, 2021•41 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Dennis Lloyd over Zoom video! Multi-Platinum International Artist Dennis Lloyd recently dropped his debut Full-Length Album ‘Some Days,' via Arista Records / Sony Music Entertainment Following the overnight success of his smash single “Nevermind” and a tumultuous two-year period marked by litigation, exhaustion, and a self-prescribed break from the road, the multi-platinum international artist Dennis Lloyd is returning in full-form, reflecting on the highs and...
Aug 26, 2021•49 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Kabir Sehgal over Zoom video! Multi-GRAMMY Award (6x) and Latin GRAMMY Award-winning (5x) producer/artist Kabir Sehgal collaborates with leading BIPOC and women artists on his latest EP, Threshold, set for release on Tiger Turn (eOne) on Friday, August 27, 2021. An Indian American producer with more than 70 album credits to his name, Kabir Sehgal releases four singles leading up to Threshold with each showcasing the complexities of finding love and discovering...
Aug 26, 2021•30 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Dana Vaughns over Zoom video! Los Angeles-based triple threat Dana Vaughns is a fast-emerging artist making waves in the entertainment industry. The 23-year-old's fresh take on R&B combines classic 90s influences with a selection of pop and electronic sounds to create a musical identity that is uniquely his own. Dana's first taste of success was performing in Kidz Bop, leading to subsequent TV and film castings. After a brief stint as 1/3 of the boy band I...
Aug 24, 2021•36 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing John Nolan of Straylight Run over Zoom video! Craft Recordings is thrilled to announce Straylight Run's Live at the Patchogue Theatre — the band's only live album, captured at the height of their success in 2005…and then shelved for 15 years. While a handful of tracks from the performance were shared in 2020 as a Bandcamp exclusive, the forthcoming release will now include the full 16-song set and will be available for fans to enjoy on CD, vinyl, and across al...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 4 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Assertion over Zoom video! Off the song "Deeper In The Shallow," guitarist/vocalist Justin Tamminga says, "(the song) was written roughly 14 or 15 years ago. (It's) sort of a letter to my sister, who had just moved to the town I was living in and was starting to hang out with people in the "scene.” We grew up in an abusive household and a lot of these people’s actions mirrored those of my mom and stepdad. When you grow up in a traumatic environment, it tends t...
Aug 23, 2021•1 hr 6 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Losers over Zoom video! Berlin-based genre-defying band LOSERS have unveiled their long-awaited EP, EP01. With all four tracks, there were two halves to the production process - the initial ideas session followed by a more detailed fine tuning, all of which was separated by a couple of years. Not unlike an artist having lots of canvases with half-finished sketches to paint on, Losers have enjoyed the luxury of being able to finish things when the energy “felt ...
Aug 22, 2021•39 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Lifer over Zoom video! After an 18-year hiatus, hard rockers Lifer surprised fans last year when they reemerged with three new songs that even Lead Vocalist Nick Coyle said was a “surreal experience.” Now, the recently-reunited band is back with their fourth track "Hate Me Love Me" that will be part of a forthcoming five-song EP, solidifying the group’s long-awaited resurrection. Described by Guitarist Aaron Fink as a “modern hard rock song that blends the old...
Aug 21, 2021•1 hr 10 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Grizfolk over Zoom video! Grizfolk’s latest album, 'Grizfolk,' is an epic collection of songs built through multiple creative approaches to fit into a single moment of all-encompassing luster and artful, powerful, and fun auditory brilliance. It succeeds as a mix of both of the worlds their previous albums created, and in many ways, it achieves the sound the band had been chasing all along but weren’t yet prepared to fulfill. Half of the new songs were produce...
Aug 19, 2021•43 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing OMI over Zoom video! OMI established himself as an international artist to watch through a string of viral releases, including his world-renowned single “Cheerleader,” which spent six non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, went 5x Platinum, and garnered over 4 million Spotify weekly streams. The music video for the Felix Jaehn remix alone has accumulated almost 950 million YouTube streams to date, numbers comparable to those ...
Aug 18, 2021•28 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Kentö over Zoom video! NY-based multilingual singer, songwriter and producer, Kentö, recently released his single "Silhouette". Alongside the single release will be a breathtaking music video, paying homage to art films from the 90s and early surrealist cinema, directed by Kentö himself. (This isn’t the first time he’s sat in the director's chair [Billboard].) Kentö has been creating his own music for the past 8 years, developing songs that tell stories about ...
Aug 17, 2021•28 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Dez Money over Zoom video! Dez Money is a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles, CA. He was raised in a musical family as the son of multi-platinum recording artist, Eddie Money. Dez spent a good part of his life on tour with his family opening up the shows and playing guitar in the Eddie Money band. Carrying on his father’s legacy, Dez released a new song and lyric video for “Lost". “Lost” tells the story of someone stranded ...
Aug 17, 2021•42 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Two Feet over Zoom video! Two Feet enters his next era with the release of brand new single “Fire In My Head,” further cementing the signature fusion of confrontational alternative and structure-defiant electronic music that has launched him to 1.5 billion streams, Gold and Platinum scanned singles, a #1 hit on the Billboard Alternative chart, a $1 million NFT drop and more. Alongside the new song and video, out now on AWAL, Two Feet has unveiled a run of full...
Aug 17, 2021•44 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Mitch Grassi of MESSER over Zoom video! GRAMMY Award-winning vocalist Mitch Grassi today reveals “Machine,” the first original music from his new solo project, Messer. Messer is about freedom in identity, independence, confidence, queerness, the theatrical, and living your fantasy and romanticizing your life. Basking in beautiful solitude, embracing the darkness we carry within ourselves, as well as celebrating the moments of bliss, humanization, empathy, self...
Aug 16, 2021•27 min
We had the pleasure of interviewing Fredrik Saroea of DATAROCK over Zoom video! Fredrik Saroea is the frontman of Norway's bizarre, global indie sensation – DATAROCK. After years touring the world with alternative bangers such as "Fa-Fa-Fa" he now present an entirely different side to his songwriting The new solo album Rona Diaries was inspired by everything from post-rock (like The Sea and Cake) via hard-core (like Fugazi), noise-rock (like U.S. Maple), space-rock (like Flying Saucer Attack), a...
Aug 15, 2021•2 hr
We had the pleasure of interviewing Lea Thomas over Zoom video! Thomas creates worlds with her words, blending personal narrative with universal observations of both the mundane and spiritual, often in the same breath. Guiding her band between energies of introspection and exploration, focused calm and propulsive rhythms. Thomas’s second full length solo record is a dynamic reflection on themes of transformation, belonging, and self-discovery. Thomas’s naturalist perspective permeates many of th...
Aug 14, 2021•31 min
