Tim Vordtriede"We've been making the music we've wanted to make for six years, and no one's wanted to hear it. They're starting to want to hear it, so either we hit our groove, or people have just finally caught up, or, a little of both." -- Adam Wills, Bear In...
Vee Hua 華婷婷2010 has come and gone, leaving in its wake a magnitude of amazing album artwork. This year, we decided to speak directly with the forces behind the album artwork about creative processes and inspirations. A massive feature with over 90 interviews...
"I seriously think one huge theme that all of us love in music is a quality of something sounding otherworldly. It sent us chasing the past, but almost from a fictitious [or] science fiction approach." -- Joe Haege
"I guess you kind of have to follow where life takes you..." -- Ryan Sambol
"I think we like to keep it tense. I think we like to keep a really healthy balance of, 'Ohhh, everything could fall apart at any given moment.'" -- Josh Lambert
"There is a kind of sense of falling backward that I think the songs conjure. Or blindly driving your car into a wall. A sense of sadness in all the amazing things in the world." -- Ben Shemie
The Fresh & Onlys' music is known for being hazy. Taking cues from San Francisco's historic psychedelic music scene, the band layers an aura of cloudiness on top of what essentially are good 'ole pop tunes.
In 2009, Ben Sollee, with some help from Oxfam America, rode from his hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, to Bonnaroo Festival, playing shows in small towns along the way. Later that year, Sollee embarked on a 500-mile, 16-day tour along the East Coast...