Category: Interview

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…

Who said that sharp turns are the privilege of twenty-year-olds? Our guest today proves otherwise: you can swap a strict business suit for a leather jacket and make the world listen to your voice at any age. Stephen Wicks. In the past – a successful corporate executive and real estate entrepreneur, and today – a…

A classical guitar can tell stories just as well as a good book. And the easiest way to see that is to listen to “Rojo,” the new album by Cuban guitarist Laura Mazon Franqui. It’s red like passion, like memory, like everything you can never forget. We sat down with Laura to talk about her…

Having picked up drumsticks as a child, Pete Cater seems never to have put them down. Though, to be precise, there were no sticks yet: at sixteen months – a trash can lid and an innate sense of rhythm. Since then, much has changed. Staffordshire was left behind, London was conquered at 29 from scratch…

Rodeo Terrorists are “imaginary musical friends,” a group for late-night post-party jams, torn between a teenage dream of global fame and the harsh understanding that they will remain in obscurity forever. Behind this image stands Richard – an independent DIY artist, a person accustomed to looking at the industry from behind the scenes and only…