INTERVIEWS

Juha Jyrkäs

How would you classify your music? I call it kantele metal. I’ve also used the definition “pagan heavy metal with electric and bass kantele” for promotional purposes. Basically it’s metal music made with kantele, the ancient Finnish string-instrument. I’ve made the kantele a metal instrument: I use both electric kantele …

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PATRICIA

Talk to us about your new music!  Upcoming 4th album is going to be cathartic, as I always try to stay synchronized with the outside environment.  Also my first song was remastered recently and it’s titled “Travel Freely” instead of “Travel Far”. Do you have any unreleased tracks?  Yes, but a …

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THE MARK

 How would you classify your music?  Even though I was a teenager in the eighties and I grew up with 80’s pop music, I love most music from before that era. Starting with the old jazz, blues and country guys from the 1930’s. My music is similar to the rock …

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RICK CHRISTIAN

How would you classify your music? Retro vibes wearing a jacket of rock. Who are some of your top 5 musical influences? Ministry, Pet Shop Boys, Smashing Pumpkins, Primus, Beastie Boys What do you want fans to take from your music? Music connects us all in defiance of human prejudice. …

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GENTRY BLUE

What do you hope to achieve with the music you create?  We hope our music inspires and maybe gives others a nice break from their day! How much time do you spend in your day on your music?  Not that much to be honest; we’re full-time students! But the time …

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KINDERCROWDCONTROL

What is the most proud piece of work you’ve put out so far in your career? I think we always love our most current piece. As we move along, we get more insight into ourselves, our writing methods, our instruments, recording technology, production skills etc etc. So, in this case, …

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Rocky Kramer  “Guitar Virtuoso”

Rocky Kramer is a Norwegian artist relocated to California with a love for the energy of seventies and eighties hard rock, as seen on his record “Firestorm.” I sat down to talk with him about his musical inspirations. One of my questions is about Scandinavia generally, or more specifically Denmark. …

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HIGHLAND KITES

How has your 2021 been so far? Any projects in the works that you can tell us about? Absolutely wild. My husband and I recently made the move to Nashville, we moved into a fixer upper so there’s been a lot of renos and projects going on. For the first …

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BLOOMING FIRE

New Year, new music?  Heeeey, thank you for having us…Not so much a new year now but we’ve been putting so much time into our new music this past year and the start of 2021. We started with a huge list of jams we’ve been working on over the years …

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IAN C. BOURAS

How would you classify your music? I often have a difficult time classifying my music, but the closest is probably Ambient. Who are some of your top 5 musical influences? My influences vary, and although it’s cliché, there are so many, but big ones are probably Bill Frisell, SRV, Bad …

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