Interviews that our staff and DJ have conducted.
Interview and photography by: Makenzie Creden Sarah Beth Tomberlin started off day three of Pitchfork with a soft, intimate performance on the green stage. Tomberlin was added to the lineup, as she’s touring with Andy Shauf who also plays the festival, after Cassandra Jenkins dropped. She opened her set with a new song and played [...]
Photo By Alexa Viscius Conducted by Jess Dominguez Over a month ago, Chicago based artist Burr Oak released their debut album Late Bloomer. Songwriter Savanna Dickhut is the voice behind indie folk band Burr Oak, as well as a preschool teacher. Savanna shared with WLUW what influences her songwriting filled with imagery, beauty, and heartbreak. [...]
Interview conducted by: Makenzie Creden Half Waif's Mythopoetics, released July 9th on ANTI- records, is a collection of very personal stories and tender emotions interwoven between simple keyboard chords, crescendoing electronic arrangements, and explosive vocals. The album sounds of true catharsis. This week we had the opportunity to chat with the lovely Nandi Rose of [...]
By Anaïs Turiello Yoo Doo Right are a Montreal-based band with the power to electrify, hypnotize, and challenge the traditional ways of experiencing post-rock as we know it. The trio, consisting of Justin Cober, Charles Masson, and John Talbot, fuse krautrock with shoegaze, using their own blend of sonic experimentation paired with modern ideals of resistance [...]
Interview conducted by: Josie Stahler Hailing from Long Beach, the land of acts varying from Snoop Dogg to Sublime, Not That Bad seeks to bring a modern punk performance to a post-pandemic world. WLUW had the opportunity to chat with the lead vocalist of Not That Bad, Isaac Foster, on the challenges posed by COVID-19 [...]
Chloë Drallos photographed by Craigan Oster Interview conducted by Jess Dominguez Zilched is a band that intrigued me from the start. The honest lyrics and sometimes brutal noise-pop embodies teenage angst that will make you nostalgic. The Detroit rocker, Chloë Drallos, collaborated with drummer Nick Russo in releasing the debut album, Doompop, on October 23rd, 2020. Drallos [...]
By: Allison Lapinski Have you ever heard the first few chords of a song and immediately known that you’d love a band’s entire discography? This was the case upon my first listen of “Debutante,” a song from the Australian band Olivia’s World. There are a lot of things that I find intriguing, fresh, and simply [...]
Interview by Allison Lapinski Yeek is the name for Sebastian Carandang’s minimalist fusion of R&B, pop, and trap-inspired music. The New Jersey native spent his early years in Florida and California, leading to his first album, Love Slacker in 2015. Love Slacker and his sophomore album, Sebastian, are packed with moments of hesitation, reassurance, and [...]
