Category: Interview

To gather six cool musicians in a basement home studio, record a track for the series The Blacklist, receive praise from BBC Radio 2, and still remain a simple guy from Yorkshire – that, in brief, is the story of Paul Stone. He created the project The Basement Collective, where the main values are sincerity,…

Falling asleep isn’t easy: thoughts going in circles, the phone winking with notifications, and silence feeling too loud. Composer Tim Corpus, it seems, has found a solution – and recorded it. For ten years he has been writing music for film, stage, and media projects: his works have sounded in Carnegie Hall, performed by the…

How does modern rock sound that is not afraid to look back at the classics, but at the same time confidently blazes its trail into the future? Ask Free Under Fire – the guys from the Canadian town of Ajax, who manage to combine the drive of alternative rock with warming melodiousness. In the breaks…

Once, he used to step onto the basketball court. Now he steps up to the microphone – and with the same stubborn drive with which he once fought for the ball, he now fights for a line, for a beat, for the right to say: “This is mine.” Jon Kabongo traded his familiar city for…

Kailan McGee knows how to surprise. The young artist from Cobourg, Canada, burst onto the music scene with a 21-track debut album spanning several genres, collected dozens of chart entries, nominations, and the title of Country Artist of the Year at the New Music Awards. The logical move after that would be to take a…

If you’ve heard “SNAP” – and you definitely have – know this: behind that hit stands a woman the industry once wrote off. Tamar Kaprelian landed deals with Clive Davis and Jimmy Iovine, lost them, took a pause, left for Columbia University, and came back – but this time on her own terms. Today she’s…

Stevie Palmer is one of Scotland’s most celebrated singer-songwriters – audiences sing along from the very first seconds, and his albums collect glowing reviews from critics. As a child, he dreamed of stepping onto the pitch in a Scotland shirt and scoring that decisive goal at the World Cup. A career as a professional footballer…

An anti-war song that would have had no place in Russia has received international recognition – and that alone says a lot about its power. Oxygen1um’s single “Fools Waited for a Miracle,” released in 2022 and later included on vinyl in VinylMoon Volume #93, was awarded bronze at the Global Music Awards in 2026. The…

Four years of gigs along the Ventura and Santa Barbara coastline – and a long-awaited record. Acid jazz and funk band Matterform releases their debut album (July 19, 2026), and the first singles already make it clear: there’s something special here. “Oxnardis” is a weightless, cinematic nod to Miles Davis, while “Toaster” shifts gears and…

Paris WYA is an artist who erased all cultural boundaries even before recording her first track. Born in Shanghai and raised between Paris and New York, she has become the perfect embodiment of a cosmopolitan pop artist of Generation Z. By day, she studies the harsh laws of economics at the business faculty of the…