Now that it's 2010, I can continue my "Artists I Did Not Discover" series, except this time obviously set in 2009, not 2008!
With all of the English songstresses that I have been listening to non-stop over the past year or so (see: Florence, Marina, Boots, Ellie, etc.), I'm very glad to finally be representing [...]

Sadly, another Artist I Did Not Discover in 2008. This one is a little more justifiably so - 6th Borough Project didn't release an album last year, only a few 12-inch singles. I would never have heard of 6BP if it were not for a DJ friend of mine; a housewarming party at [...]

It's been quite a long time since I've done an interview on here, mostly because I haven't had the time or energy to really devote to interviews (they used to be the bread-and-butter of this site - in 2005, we had almost 50 interviews!). However, when I heard about Origami Vinyl, Echo Park's newest [...]

Next in my woeful series on artists I didn't know about in 2008 (regretfully so) is Zomby. I'm not exactly sure where I heard about Zomby really, but I think it's something to do with someone sending me his song "Spliff Dub (Rustie Rmx)", which I thoroughly enjoyed.
At first, it was kind of like [...]

Continuing on my series of regretfully-ignorant-of-2008 posts (Does posting one thing count as a series? Perhaps not), another artist which I unfortunately did not know enough about last year was Flying Lotus. I moved last year, from a house filled with some of my best friends who so happened to be potheads and [...]

The end of a year is hardcore backtracking time for any self-respecting music nerd. Lists start popping up everywhere and as much as you think you know about the current state of cutting-edge music, you will always find at least 50 albums (I swear) that you have never heard of, saw briefly on a [...]

Reportedly, there was a downpour in Austin on Tuesday, the day before all of the music celebrations began. That was during the "Interactive" portion of SXSW, where, as my friends who had gotten here early described it, Austin was filled with computer geeks with hot wives. However, I arrived late Tuesday night and [...]

I had the lovely pleasure and opportunity to conduct an interview with Yuki Chikudate (vocal/keyboard) from Asobi Seksu. Unfortunately, I had some technical “issues” with my recorder during the course of our interview, but Yuki was such a trooper.
HSB: What and who are some of your influences on the new record?
YC: The [...]

Lisa Jean Lee conducted this interview with Jose Gonzalez over the phone; as a result of the trouble we had understanding some of his answers, combined with his limited English, the responses are here may seem a bit short and blunt.
HSB: A good friend of mine, Dert, recently produced and used several tracks from [...]

Kent: I guess we can start by saying your name, and what you do in MAE:
Rob: I’m Rob, and I play keyboards.
Jacob: Jacob, I play drums.
Mark: Mark, I play bass.
Zack: Zack, I play guitar.
Kent: How old are you guys, and how long have you been doing this?
Jacob: I’m [...]