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Jeff Caudill: Sing along with it...
You may know Jeff Caudill from his early `90s band, Gameface. Since then he has recorded music as a solo artist, recently releasing Try To Be Here. Fernanda Alcantara (punknet.com.br), Brazilian music journalist, sat down with Jeff for this exclusive interview.   Let’s talk about your new  album,... 
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Midlake: The Courage of Others to be dar...
Midlake released The Trials of Van Occupanther in 2006, having reinvented themselves from jazz roots to indie rock, and have since become one of our favorite bands. In `07 they began recording their follow-up and released a beautiful acoustic EP, Oak and Julian. Puddlegum asked Eric Pulido a few questions... 
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Buildings Breeding giving away LP 2...
Chris Larsen admits that he never meant to start a band when he recorded as Buildings Breeding in 2006. The self-titled debut was really a “bunch of love letters Christapher Larsen made for Melanie Glover while she was overseas.” Any indie songwriter would be jealous of Larsen’s accidental... 
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Beau Jennings: Holy Tulsa Thunder interv...
Beau Jennings and his band, Cheyenne, relocated last year from Oklahoma to Brooklyn. After the band transitioned into their new community, Cheyenne released an ep and a full-length called The Whale, as Jennings worked as an architect. Not only did Beau Jennings work towards his band’s debut, he... 
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An interview with Winny Lee...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Do you remember in which state of mind you were two years ago, when your first album was released ? How do you feel now? I think that Open your book was just a side project from the start because when those songs were written the members in Winny Lee played in other bands, but it became... 
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Interview with Kevin Murphy from Farside...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Farside was initially inspired by bands like Husker Du, Bad Religion, Dag Nasty, early REM and the Descendents, Farside’s sound pre-dated a lot of current “emo” bands hitting the big time today. After several tours and lots of local shows, Farside called it quits in... 
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Writing for the Chinese Music Press...
BEIJING - In November last year I got a call from a flustered Chinese magazine editor. ‘Would you be able to do an 800 word album review for our December edition?’ she asked, adding ‘by tomorrow?’. Normally I would have turned this down as the money tends to be poor and the deadline was... 
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Holler, Wild Rose!: a collective vision...
ISTANBUL - Hailing from New Jersey, Holler, Wild Rose! is the perfect combination of shoegaze, post-rock and ambient. Despite the young existence of this seven-piece, they have already been compared to several masters of these genres in a big way. Their debut Our Little Hymnal is one of the wonders came... 
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A Cuckoo: some dusty nostalgia...
A Cuckoo is “some dusty nostalgia” rising from Leeds. His music is so involved with nostalgic elements that it is like a contemporary flashback to; the mystic breeze of old Mediterranean, trips through vineyards - corn fields and sepia colored open air theatres. Before the release of his debut: Destination... 
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Mark Dixon: An interview with the urban ...
John R. Williamson interviews Mark Dixon: 1) Describe how you arrived at your subjects. Your book feels a bit like a cab ride sometimes. That is the implicit metaphor of the book. I drove a taxi at night when I was in college, and the images of prowling those dark streets with one headlight out and...