All posts in category Interviews

you won’t remember a thing

Let me con­fess some­thing. I tend to avoid pop­ular bands. All else being equal, I’m pretty sure I would like a band less just because it is pop­ular. I realize that sounds ter­rible, and no, it’s not to pre­serve my “hip­ster cred” or any­thing like that. Basi­cally, I want to like bands that I can […]

Girlpants interviews Magenta Skycode!

There are some bands that I hear once and feel like I’ve been hearing my entire life. It’s as if I woke up one day and his­tory had rewritten itself so that the band/album/song in ques­tion was always a part of my musical land­scape. The first time I heard Magenta Skycode’s IIIII, I was sitting […]

Girlpants Interviews Peter and the Wolf!

You may remember Peter and the Wolf as a delightful story from your youth. Thing is, Peter (whose real name is Red Hunter) is all grown up now. He’s aban­doned the­ma­tizing ducks with bas­soons… or what­ever the junk that was, and is cur­rently making some of the most spell­binding indie folk around. You can check this […]

A (Very) Brief Interview with Van She

Some bands have a lot to say; some, well, some have just a little. The guys below are Van She. You may remember them from one of my ear­lier posts (or, if you’re in Aus­tralia, from the radio every half hour or so). A couple of weeks ago I asked them for an inter­view via myspace […]

Girlpants interviews The Capes!

So it turns out it’s pretty easy to get inter­views with up-and-coming indie rock bands. Who knew? After using myspace for its intended pur­pose (no, not stalking that girl from 8th grade homeroom–the pro­mo­tion of inde­pen­dent bands!) for per­haps the first time ever, I found I had inter­views with both The Capes and Van She. […]

Hiplomacy, Filesharing, and the Brave New World of Media Distribution

This is an inter­view that I did yes­terday with my friend Peter, who is a first-year grad stu­dent at MIT’s Com­par­a­tive Media Studies pro­gram (CMS, for short). I’m the one being inter­viewed, but Peter has given me full per­mis­sion to repost the con­ver­sa­tion here. Since I’ve got little else to post at the moment and […]