In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Kate Nash has done more than most in the last year to help female musicians. After the great success of her debut album, Nash wanted to give something back to the industry that had nurtured her. The result was a trust fund for new music, and the resulting record label, Have 10p Records. As well as this she has recently kicked off the fantastically-titled 'Kate Nash Rock N Roll For Girls After School Music Club', based on similar, riot-grrl inspired projects in America.»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
“No one really writes honest, hateful love songs. The kids never hear it like they should hear it – they should know about the farting, the fighting and the fucking, the pain and the pleasure.”
That was Aidan Moffat in the 90's, the decade his band Arab »
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
For fans of Arrested Development - the brilliant, multi-award winning comedy inexplicably cancelled by Fox in its third season - David Cross is the guilelessly loveable Dr. Tobias Funke. Repressed husband, frustrated actor, never-nude, erstwhile Blue Man and the word's first Analyst-Therapist to use the term 'AnalRapist' on his business cards, Cross's character bounded across the screen with a nerdy, naive energy - a cross between a village person and Maria from the Sound of Music. »
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Ahead of the free Rough Trade East instore this evening, Emmy The Great interviewed her support act ExLovers (also on the bill is DiS fave Eugene McGuinness)»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Emmy wanted to end end her week with something which wasn't music. So she caught up with Lightspeed Champion (aka Dev Hynes) to discuss comedian Steve Martin, enjoy... »
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
It's last day of Emmy the Great week but it's not over yet. Here Emmy swaps emails with Micachu from the road as Micachu and the Shapes are currently touring with Late of the Pier. »
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Ahead of the Valentine's Day release of his deluxe new album, How to Get to Heaven from Scotland, Emmy the Great caught up with a very busy Aidan Moffat to compute about romance, sex, Batman, monogamy. You know, all the major life questions.»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
"Idealism is sad," says Darren Hayman (formerly of Hefner) in this interview with Emmy the Great, and she says, it's perhaps when he's finding the little details in life that are the most banal and yet the most sad, that he hits you the hardest.»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Emmy interviews the folks from the oldest record shop in the world and best record shop in the UK, which she describes as "a shining bastion of independence". »
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Emmy profiles the The Caspian label, who've released the likes of Sleeping States, Mike Wrexler and have a single out on Monday from The Soft Pack. »
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Emmy the Great took a break from listening to Old vs New to email some questions to Markland Starkie, who is working on a new Sleeping States album in Bristol. He explained how the process is changing with the input of his drummer, Rose, how the Bristol DIY scene compares to London, and how Life Without Buildings was one of the best bands of the last decade.»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
As part of Emmy the Great week she's taken the opportunity to talk to some of her heroes. Here, she speaks to Victoria Legrand from Beach House via email.»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Spin calls it the equivalent of your first punch in the face. Time Out New York calls her the 'Best Lead Singer who Doubles as an Air Raid Siren'. She only saw her for ten minutes, four years ago, but Emmy hasn't forgotten a second. Maybe that's the best indictment she can give of her talent. »
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Younghusband are what happens when one man’s obsession with music becomes too much to keep to himself. As part of our Emmy The Great Week, Emmy chats classic US indie-rock, bedroom producing and origins in Watford with the young trio. »
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Our guest-editor Emmy The Great introduces Three Trapped Tigers, whom, she says, sound "like nothing else out there."»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Emmy the Great Week starts here!
The idea of a DiSection is simple: We ask an artist/band we like to walk us through their album, track-by-track, not unlike those director's commentaries you get on the bonus bit of a DVD. Here, Emmy The Great talks us through her debut album First Love, which is released today.»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Ahead of their four-week residency in London's The George, DiS gets up close and personal with The Wave Pictures, who have our writer feeling like "an idiot girl in a poodle skirt"»
In Depth by Emma-Lee Moss
Name-dropped by everyone from Beck to Connor Oberst, and heralded by many as the first to achieve that hissing ‘Omaha sound’, lo-fi pioneer Simon Joyner is finally returning to the UK for a handful of shows»
Review
by Emma-Lee Moss
If post-punk is the bandwagon, then The Mules are the guys behind the cactus waiting to strip it of valuables and spit-roast the driver. While some people hide their suburban AOR-dressed-as-Arcadia behind a life of debauchery, this Oxford-born quintet are happy to live as mother would have hoped, while producing some of the most frenzied, unclassifiable party music that you will ever hear...»
Review
by Emma-Lee Moss
What is so vital about five haphazard,
slightly shambolic indie kids from wintry Omaha? What’s so special
about five cheeky smiles and a couple of outbursts of “thank y’alls for coming"?»
