Q&A With Lindy LaFontaine

Describe your nominated work: It was actually an assignment for school. I attended The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (aka The Paul McCartney School) and was given an assignment to cover a song in my own style. The decision to cover “Low” was because a good friend of mine had always wanted to hear me [...]

Dance/Electronica 9th IMA Winner Boys Noize Is ‘Really Excited’ About Spank Rock’s New Music

After a massive showing at Coachella this month, German electro house and techno producer Boys Noize rocked New York’s Webster Hall this past weekend before settling into a more private role for the remainder of his week in the city: Alexander Ridha is producing MC Spank Rock’s next album. For the unaware, Boys Noize is [...]

Q&A With E.G. Bailey

Genre: My primary music genre is spoken word. However, for the last 14 years I’ve been combining spoken word with music from a number of different genres, ranging from jazz, hip hop, electronica, folk and sometimes even leaning towards rock.

Q&A With Kaspar Torn

Were there any happy accidents while in the studio, or did everything go as planned? The “computer game” section was not initially planned, but sort of happened while looking for a way to have contrast between two sections. On a broader sense, all my compositions start out as improvisations, so in a way everything could [...]

Q&A With Svoy

What’s the meaning of your name? Were there any other contenders?: The word “svoy” in my language is ambiguous and could mean “independent,” “local,” “one’s own,” “one’s friend.” There were no other contenders.

Alaska In Winter Revisits Old Medium for New Music Release

9th IMA Dance/ Electronica Album winner and Vox Pop Vote winner, Alaska in Winter Alaska in Winter is a one man band out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and consists of master mind front man Brandon Bethancourt.  Bethancourt decided this year to press his 3rd Album, Space Eagle (the motion picture soundtrack), on only 100 cassette [...]

9th IMA Winners Boys Noize on US & European Tour

Electronica/Dance act Boys Noize, 9th IMA Vox Pop Winner, will be touring the US and Europe. A bit of advice for his sets, don’t forget to wear some good dancing shoes! Jul 31 2010 8:00P FUJI ROCK JAPAN, JP Aug 6 2010 12:00A Bleilochtalsperre Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Thüringen, DE Aug 6 2010 8:00P SONNE, MOND UND STERNE [...]