Articles - Interviews
Interview with The Novatones
Charleston, SC has some fantastic local bands, and we at Independent Music Guide have been impressed with one particular cover band, The Novatones. While we don't usually write about cover bands, this...
Interview with Vinny Castellano from Belushi Speed Ball
Belushi Speed Ball is the brainchild of Louisville, Kentucky teacher Vincent Castellano and are known for being one of the most energetic and crowd inspiring thrash metal bands around. Sean had a chance...
Arthur Alexander Releases Sophomore Album
Imagine being in a bustling music scene in New York City, hanging out at CBGB's and other niche clubs, while fully immersing yourself in the punk rock scene that encompassed your entire being. That's...
Interview with Billy Batts & the Made Men
If you're into punk rock in the Southeast, you've probably heard of Atlanta's own Billy Batts & the Made Men. The trio of scrappy young dudes have been making a mark on the scene with prolific...
Interview with Away from Voivod
When the opportunity to speak with a member of one of our favorite bands pops up, there is not a moment wasted in reflection here at Independent Music Guide. So the chance to have a Zoom meeting with...
Interview with Athenar from Midnight
When the chance to interview one-man-metal-band Athenar (AKA Midnight), dropped in our collective laps, we ran straight to the front of the stage. All of his interviews display his dark sense of...
The Dark Tides of Black Valley Moon
Sam Williams has been a guitar hero for quite a while but never a surf guitar hero until the last couple of years. Known best for his work with punk rock legends Down By Law, the Florida six-stringer has...
Comfort Monk's Musical Gratitude
Podcasts and record labels seem ubiquitous in our digital, quarantined age but not many entrepreneurs choose to combine both endeavors like Columbia, SC's Comfort Monk. Started by Eddie Newman and...
Interview with the Heavy Eyes
I first discovered the Heavy Eyes during a night of blog-surfing around 7 or 8 years ago, and since then the Memphis stoner rock band has become one my favorites. With their new release, Love Like...
Q & A with Grace Joyner
Charleston, SC dream pop singer Grace Joyner is releasing her latest album, Settle In, after an absence of 4 years and it's been well-worth the wait. We have been fans of hers for even longer than...
Bad//Dreems' Alex Cameron
Interviewing rock guitarists isn't supposed to start with the interviewer getting grilled about their football team preferences (mine are the Carolina Panthers and UT Longhorns), but Bad//Dreems'...
Emily Lazar from September Mourning Talks Nerd Core and More
The female-led heavy metal band from Los Angeles, September Mourning, goes out of its way in originality and concept with music, costuming, and comic books. Yes, comic books. Emily Lazar, aka September,...
Damon Fowler Flaunts Acoustic Skills with George Thorogood
Good guitarists can be fouond anywhere, but there aren't as many that are as adept at playing "off the cuff" as Damon Fowler. In fact, he made a new album off of just that in late 2018 with...
An Interview with The Inspector Cluzo
From their own farmland in the South West of France, the two-man group, The Inspector Cluzo, releases their Anniversary album "We The People Of The Soil." Tommy Geilingh, IMG's Global Correspondent,...
Interview with Quarry
Super talented Multi-instrumentalist Indie Rock Solo Artist/Singer-Songwriter and Pinball Wizard Vittorio Tolomeo, the genius behind European artist Quarry, releases his new album “Super- Arcade”...
Talking with the Creators of Metal Swim 2
The first thing I notice in talking with Adult Swim creative team Laura Sterritt and Jason DeMarco about the new Metal Swim 2 compilation is their unabashed love for all things metal. You can tell that...
An Interview with 311
The Epicenter Festival is hosting a wide variety of bands during its inaugural event, including but not limited to well known nataional acts like Korn, Foo Fighters, and Tool. We had the opportunity to...
Letting Loose with Luthi
There is one common mantra shared by all the members of "The Boogie Circus" known as LUTHI: Keep it weird. With influences including old school R&B, psychedelic funk, and New Wave 80's...
An Overview of the Underhill Family Orchestra
The Underhill Family Orchestra is a group of five multi-talented musicians that make their home in Alabama. Though they may not be family by blood, they are in every other sense of the word. With bonds...
A New Album and Interview with Dan Bowskill
From the soil of Ghana and England grew a young man inspired by the greats such as Aswad, Gregory Isaac and Bob Marley and the Wailers. Thirsty for creation, he followed his calling that made him bloom...
Greek Artist Marinos Tokas Releases "Silogi"
Unknown to many, I am a convert to Greek Orthodoxy, albeit a pretty slack one. That hasn't kept me from working many Greek Festivals over the last dozen or so years though! As such, I've learned...
Interview with 500 Miles to Memphis
For 16 years now, some form of 500 Miles to Memphis has been making music that is hard to categorize and more importantly, hard to stop listening to. Although the lineup changed a bit early on, the...
Interview with Todd Morse
Todd Morse, a guitarist and vocalist who has toured with great bands such as H2O, Juliette and the Licks, and The Offspring has been on our radar for decades. However, we have never seen him record an...
Jaguar Dreams Bares Its Teeth
Every once in a while, you stumble across a band that digs its claws into your subconscious and refuses to let go. Jaguar Dreams is one of those bands. Made up of three musicians currently residing in...
Sarang V Interview
When we think of Indian music in the West, much like with Jazz, for many its complexity tends to shut off our minds. But, as with our special guest Sarang V. when it's fused with Contemporary, Electro,...