Category: 2014

Sam Totman of Dragonforce

Sam Totman of Dragonforce

“…it’s kind of an overload of everything as we’ve always tried to make our music over the top and really fast and got all of this guitar stuff going on and these big layers in the chorus of choirs and all the crap like that.” From Bio: It’s astonishing to realise that DragonForce now have a history going back 15 […]

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Ace Frehley

Ace Frehley

“Yeah, it was that was by design, a lot of my fans always sight my ’78 solo record as their favourite Ace record, so I listened to it several times and purposely tried to write songs that were similar.” How do I sum up Ace Frehley? Yeah exactly… I’m dumbfounded too, but when you get to speak to a legend, […]

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Josh Franceschi of You Me At Six

Josh Franceschi of You Me At Six

“I feel very lucky that I’m in a band that next year will be our ten years from when we first started kicking about at school and I don’t think many people around us would’ve envisioned that ten years later, but also putting out records that are getting to number one.” From Release: YOU ME AT SIX are hailed as leaders […]

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Masato of coldrain

Masato of coldrain

“…we’re ready for anything that comes and I think the hardest part is that there was never a big scene in Japan, there wasn’t a lot of people that listened to a Japanese band that only sang in English, so there was a little bit of those kind of bumps but I think everything we’ve done over the years has […]

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Benny Horowitz of The Gaslight Anthem

Benny Horowitz of The Gaslight Anthem

“…it’s funny having a guy like Brian in the band and a lyricist like that, I’m just like anybody that listens to Gaslight at home when I hear these lyrics you know? So I rarely even ever ask Brian where it’s coming from because I start to think about where I think it’s coming from and the way that the […]

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Adam Brand

Adam Brand

“…at the end of the day I think music should be played and written and sung without the thought of a genre or a title, it should be played, written and sung from your heart and just enjoyed from your heart rather than pigeon holed.” From Release: Whatever gives Aussie music its heart, Adam Brand breathes plenty of life into its soul. […]

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Chris Jericho of Fozzy

Chris Jericho of Fozzy

“…when you get a little momentum in this business you want to keep it rolling and we’ve got enough momentum each time to get our foot in the door and now that our foot’s in the door we want to kick the damn thing open and burst into the next stage…” From release: Led by the inimitable duo of guitarist Rich […]

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Woody Weatherman of Corrosion Of Conformity

Woody Weatherman of Corrosion Of Conformity

“…and it may throw some people for a loop because you’ve got the guys that are pure metal, they want to see metal, then you’ve got the guys that want to see punk rock, then you’ve got the guys that are into doom or whatever *laughs* and I think we’ve always tried to grab a little bit of all of […]

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Ian Hill of Judas Priest

Ian Hill of Judas Priest

“…we’ve always tried to improve and push and get better over our forty years, we’ve obviously matured and improved as individuals and as a band as well, and I think trying to do things differently, but we’ve never been afraid to try anything you know…” From release: There are only a select number of bands that have accomplished what Judas […]

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Nathan Young of Anberlin

Nathan Young of Anberlin

“…when our name is brought up and in the conversation of music and this genre and this decade, if it’s just remember as good dudes and the guys that put music out that they loved and it felt real and it felt honest, if those were the words that were used to describe us and our career, that to me […]

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Jonny Hawkins of Nothing More

Jonny Hawkins of Nothing More

“…we just kind of told ourselves that we’re going to do this with or without a label, so we kind of stopped caring about getting signed. Then when it happened and we saw the amount of power that it had and to have this team of people and capital behind you, it just fanned that flame that’s always been inside […]

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Joe Principe of Rise Against

Joe Principe of Rise Against

“I think over the years bands can deviate from their sound and I feel like we haven’t. The sound of Rise Against is very present on ‘The Black Market’ and that just means the world to me, once we deviate from that sound, that’s when I start to worry *laughs*” From Bio: After 15 years, and six incendiary albums, Rise […]

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Scott Kay of Voyager

Scott Kay of Voyager

“It’s because the fans are the ones who make or break the band. They are the ones who buy the CD’s, merch, whatever they want to buy. We are grateful that we have some seriously dedicated fans, and they should be recognised as being the reason we’re still here.” From Bio: With four full-length albums under its belt and shows […]

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Shaun Morgan of Seether

Shaun Morgan of Seether

“The biggest challenge really is to just stay around and to stay relevant and to keep making music that people want to listen to, and to keep challenging yourself every time you make an album as you have to retain a sound that is comfortable and familiar but you also have to make it more interesting and personable with some […]

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Andy Williams of Every Time I Die

Andy Williams of Every Time I Die

“I think it’s honestly like in our head, that the minute that this becomes a compromise and doesn’t feel fresh, I don’t want to do it anymore, that’s the one thing with all of us, the minute it feels like work is when it’s time to just hang it up, like I don’t want to do that you know?” From […]

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Rob Hirst of Midnight Oil

Rob Hirst of Midnight Oil

“It’s funny how the years pass and you can think of the camaraderie and the busses and just the thrill of the band when things would take off and send a shiver up your spine on stage when we literally blew the roof off places or we just walked off the stage with 60,000 people out there knowing that every […]

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Joe Satriani

Joe Satriani

“I think that’s always the key, you’ve got to write great music and put all the entertainment stuff on the side and just try to concentrate on writing great music and you will eventually connect with your audience.” From Bio: One of the most influential and respected instrumental rock guitarists to emerge in the past three decades, Joe Satriani is that […]

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Dez Fafara of DevilDriver

Dez Fafara of DevilDriver

“I love the stage man, there’s no two ways about it. I love writing music, I love singing music, I love everything about music. I get up every day and all I do is listen to music, all day long until I go to bed and it’s every genre, man…” From Tour Release: While many bands in the modern era […]

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Ian Anderson

Ian Anderson

“When we talk about solo albums or the identity of Jethro Tull vs Ian Anderson, it doesn’t to me, nothing changes, I’m just doing what I do, after all these years living on the increasingly, incredible, unbelievable identity theft of a historical character’s name I would prefer my twilight years to be performed as Ian Anderson rather than Jethro Tull…” […]

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Ben Johnston of Biffy Clyro

Ben Johnston of Biffy Clyro

“… I’d almost go as far as to say we’re grownups now, possibly… I don’t know… we’re certainly the right age to be grownups, but I don’t know we’re mentally grownup yet, we kind of went from school bus straight onto tour bus, so that’s just put us in a perpetual state of adolescence…” From Tour Release: Biffy Clyro have […]

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Joel Birch of The Amity Affliction

Joel Birch of The Amity Affliction

“Well, it’s like a metaphor but it’s also very straight forward as well. I live near the ocean and it’s a very calming place for me and a place where I find great escape from any sort of problems in my life…” From Press Release: Urgent, aggressive, and remarkably cathartic, Let The Ocean Take Me is The Amity Affliction at their most […]

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Ray Ahn of Hard-Ons

Ray Ahn of Hard-Ons

“The attitude to playing in a band is quite different now because when we started there was a very unique and healthy underground scene where bands like the Hard-Ons who were never really on TV or radio but they could still go around playing five gigs a week all around the suburbs and all the venues were packed.” From tour […]

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Zac Hanson of Hanson

Zac Hanson of Hanson

“You always believe in yourself and that you’ve built a relationship with the music that will last, but yeah, it’s something that puts a smile on your face, when you see people respond and you see sold out shows, you believe in it but I think it’s still surprising when those things happen.” From Tour Release: HANSON, are back with […]

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Buzz Osbourne (King Buzzo)

Buzz Osbourne (King Buzzo)

“…now there’s something special in what we do, music and musicians in general, it’s very old and I honestly think it’s the most important art form. I feel fortunate that I can make a living doing what I want to do, it’s still a job, it’s still work and I bust my ass…” From tour release: With a career spanning […]

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Taylor Hawkins of The Birds Of Satan

Taylor Hawkins of The Birds Of Satan

“So all I can say is right now as a band we’re kind of at some point we’re trying to get as good as we can to record as good as we can and then when we get to that level when we know we’re as good as we can be then we leave it alone, then that’s it, that’s […]

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Josh Wills of Story Of The Year

Josh Wills of Story Of The Year

“…I love playing music with my friends and playing music that we wrote together and just the memories of writing and recording, and just looking out into the crowd, it took a few years for me to really kind of step back and appreciate what our music has done for some people.” From tour release: STORY OF THE YEAR are […]

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Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson

“…I just kept writing and I probably ended up with forty or fifty songs, and a lot of the things that fit together had that kind of lonesome and mournful vibe, but there were some that were also like sunshine was coming in, and that’s how it all kind of came together, it was like the songs that fit together […]

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Mark O’Connell of Taking Back Sunday

Mark O’Connell of Taking Back Sunday

“…The thing is, we didn’t come up with the title because of this, but at the same time personally the relationships within the band are the best they’ve ever been throughout the fifteen years of being a band, so it made perfect sense when he said it.” From Tour Release:  Selling millions of albums worldwide, TAKING BACK SUNDAY continue to deliver successful […]

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Bert McCracken of The Used

Bert McCracken of The Used

“…we’re an honest rock band and we’re fans of music, we’re fans first, so you see a band who really knows how to play live songs and very energetic, and I think that the music has a real kind of intimate sense of personal freedom and it’s really exciting and something to stand behind. There’s a lot of different vibes […]

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Jenna McDougall of Tonight Alive

Jenna McDougall of Tonight Alive

“…so our kind of mission was to make fans out of the rest of the audience and the general response every time I’d go to merch to meet people was ‘I’ve never heard of your band before’, and ‘I’m buying your album’, and ‘I really like what I heard tonight’ and that’s all you can ask for really.” From press […]

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