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Video Spotlight: Carla Werner

Artist Features June 18, 2010

In this interview, conducted after her live set at Spark, Carla Werner offers up her insight on being a musician in this day and age. It is insight that has been formed by 15 years in the music industry, a major label deal, and her own start-up indie label. Her experience also includes a collaboration with Paul Oakenfold, a dance track called “Southern Sun,” which became an international smash hit and resulted in a performance on the hugely popular BBC show, “Top of the Pops.” There’s a lot of great stuff in this interview. Check it out.

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Video Spotlight: Dear And The Headlights

Artist Features May 25, 2010

After their show at the Murray Theater last year, Ian Metzger and PJ Waxman of Dear And The Headlights were great enough to answer a few questions for us. They discuss informational gems such as what they think of digital exposure and how they’ve approached creating a follow up to a successful album.

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Video Spotlight: Neon Trees

Artist Features May 18, 2010

In this video interview, we catch a glimpse of Neon Trees not long after “inking” their deal with Mercury Records, and get to see them before their roller coaster ride began. Neon Trees give us four stories about the origin of their band name (all of which are entertaining; one of which is actually true), touch on their record deal, discuss their songwriting influences and philosophy, and talk about some of the more interesting aspects of their band dynamics.

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Video Spotlight: Interview with Neff Headwear

Artist Features March 2, 2010

Taking a departure from our typical musician interview, we visited the headquarters of Neff Headwear to see exactly what their clothing line had to do with the music community. As we found out, they have quite a bit to do with the music world, including major involvement with the hip hop community and MTV (I know, I know…they barely qualify as music television anymore, but like it or not, MTV [...]

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Video Spotlight: Bishop Allen

Artist Features January 26, 2010

In the third of our Video Spotlight series, we feature Bishop Allen, a band that formed back in 2003 and have since found success through a lot of elbow grease and a little luck. Constant songwriting and touring–plus a marketing effort that spanned DIY and more traditional means–endeared them to the blogosphere and a loyal base of fans. Last year they even played two sold out shows on consecutive nights [...]

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Video Spotlight: Crystal Antlers

Artist Features October 8, 2009

Crystal Antlers got together because their high school music teacher was being investigated for child molestation. As absurd as that sounds, it actually starts to make sense in context of the world that is Crystal Antlers. It’s a place in which guitarists take kickboxing sabbaticals to Thailand, albums are crafted in a tour van using a boom box and a four-track, and vans are powered by restaurant grease.

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