Landon Jordan: Guitarist For Hire
E.E. Bradman
Atlanta guitarist uses his versatility and EarthQuaker pedal effects to heat up his home studio.
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How singer-songwriter-violinist-producer Sudan Archives uses EQD effects pedals to expand the sound of her songs and music.
Malcolm X Abram
Along with her love of the violin, Archives confesses to being a collector of instruments and a growing effects pedal board that includes several EarthQuaker Devices.
Read MoreJustus West: Soul Survivor
E.E. Bradman
Meet Justus West, the 21-year-old Kansas City, Kansas-based multi-instrumentalist/producer making waves with a cadre of world-class heavies - from Mac Miller, Ariana Grande, and Jazmine Sullivan to Chris “Daddy” Dave, Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper, Timbaland, Ty Dolla $ign, and John Mayer.
Read MoreAngie Swan: Electricity in Motion
E.E. Bradman
Most American musicians are tied to the East Coast, the West Coast, or the swath in the middle, but Angie Swan knows all three - and a chunk of the rest of the world - better than most.
Read MoreAhmed Gallab and the Legend of Sinkane
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We chat about his incredible journey - both geographical and musical, from playing in high school hardcore bands to the process of developing his solo project, Sinkane, all the while getting scooped up by bands like Caribou, Of Montreal and Yeasayer.
Read MoreThe Obsessions Of Ilan Rubin, From Woodstock To Nine Inch Nails To The New Regime
Benjamin H. Smith
When most people were still collecting comic books and dreading middle school, Ilan Rubin was playing the Warped Tour and Woodstock with San Diego pop-punk band F.o.N.
Read MoreVaughn Stokes of Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats: Lighting Small Fires
Benjamin H. Smith
In a crowded field of bands, stoner, doom, psych, what have you, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats have always stood out with their superior songcraft and production, at once heavy and melodic, classic and new.
Read MoreInterview with Full of Hell and Eye Flys Guitarist Spencer Hazard: Stolen Gear And Walls of Noise
Benjamin H. Smith
Since forming in 2009, Full of Hell have been at the cutting edge nexus of noisy hardcore, noisy metal and just good old fashioned ear bleeding noise. We spoke to guitarist Spencer Hazard about life, music and we talked about a bunch of guitar nerd shit too.
Read MoreOlivia Jean: Detroit Queen, Nashville Scene
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A multi-instrumentalist who joined Third Man Records as a session player before launching her solo career, she seems to have it all. Not only does she play guitar, bass, drums and keys, she sings, writes each part of every song, and also self-produces.
Read MoreInterview: Ex Hex
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Ex Hex is quietly saving rock n roll. They’re not too in-your-face about it, but go to a show, and you’ll walk away in a daze, wondering how the hell you’ve gone this long without having seen these guitar god torch bearers.
Read MoreRoadie's Corner: Torche
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Kicking off this thang, is an interview with Jonathan Nuñez of TORCHE. They have a new album out NOW called “Admission”, on Relapse Records. It’s a great spin, features EQD pedals big time, and you should check it out -as if you haven’t already!
Read MoreInterview: Mdou Moctar
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Last May, I got an email from friend-of-EarthQuaker (and master flangeman) Matt Sweeney, that read: “I can’t think of a more worthy endorsee for EQD than Tuareg phenom Mdou Moctar, who is on tour right now in the USA. He and his band blew the roof off of the spot in Brooklyn last night. People going apeshit.”
Read MoreAn Interview with Katie Harkin [Sleater-Kinney, Sky Larkin, Waxahatchee]
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Would it be weird to call Katie Harkin the Forrest Gump of amazing lady indie rock? Probably. But look up some of the coolest indie bands of the past 15 years – not coincidentally, most led by women – and you’ll see Katie Harkin.
Read MoreA Mid-Song Pizza Break with Death Valley Girls
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We talk about the band’s origins, influences, the paranormal and supernatural, and that Iggy Pop-eating-a-hamburger video, because, if you did a video featuring Iggy Pop eating a hamburger, wouldn’t you want to talk about it too?
Read MoreThe Black Angels’ Kyle Hunt: “My main goals were to buy a Moog synthesizer and a BMX bike.”
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I wanted to move away from home, get a BMX bike, and a Moog. Those were the two things that were on my list, and those were the first two things that I did.
Read MoreBully’s Alicia Bognanno is Winning
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For someone who didn’t grow up with grunge or ‘90s alternative rock, Alicia and her bandmates in Bully have managed to make one of the most exciting, ‘90s grunge/alternative rock records I’ve heard since – well, the ‘90s. Maybe even before that…
Read MoreThe Messthetics’ Anthony Pirog on Influence & Improvisation
Aaron Rogers
It’s been fifteen years since Fugazi last performed, but their improvisational impulses remain intact in the Messthetics, a jazz-inspired group led by virtuoso guitarist Anthony Pirog and featuring Fugazi’s unmistakably muscular rhythm section of bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty…
Read MoreEarthQuaker Devices Meets Tame Impala's Cameron Avery
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"I want to make a love song that's like when Arnold Schwarzenegger has to kill himself at the end of Terminator." - Cameron Avery
Read MoreYob’s Mike Scheidt Has Ninja Powers
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I don’t think Mike Scheidt is going to like that we’re calling his interview “Ninja Powers”, because he is pretty much the most humble person I’ve ever met in my life. He’ll never utter a bad word about any person, band, or piece of gear, bristles when anyone says Yob is better than any other band, and even assured me at one point that he knows “exactly jack and shit...”
Read More“Mistakes Are Great!” - George Pajon, Jr. (Cairo Knife Fight, the Black Eyed Peas) on His Musical Evolution
Aaron Rogers
You know George Pajon, Jr. Whether he’s co-writing platinum hits with the Black Eyed Peas, producing, writing, or playing guitar for artists as varied as Sting, Ricky Martin, Macy Gray, Sérgio Mendez, or “Weird” Al Yankovic; touring the world with Fergie, or bringing down the house with his new hard rock band Cairo Knife Fight, you’ve heard his music...
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