Production diary 12: Mastering crowdfunding the Flotsam and Jetsam way

Production diary 12: Mastering crowdfunding the Flotsam and Jetsam way

Posted on Jun 3, 2015 in Production diary

According to Wikipedia, Flotsam and Jetsam are ‘the remains of a shipwreck still floating in water’. That does definitely not apply to the band with the same name around frontman Eric A.K. Knutson. I mean, true, the Arizona thrash metal veterans have had their share of ups and down during their 30 year-career, but they are still here and […]

Production diary 11: A Testament for Breaking Bands and Herbal Vaporizers

Production diary 11: A Testament for Breaking Bands and Herbal Vaporizers

Posted on May 29, 2015 in Production diary

Does Chuck Billy really need an introduction? No. But just in case, here a few facts: Chuck Billy is a heavy metal legend. Not only is he a cancer survivor (hell yeah!), he is also the lead singer of Testament, co-manager at Breaking Bands, a management team looking to sign and develop new and veteran artists, and the […]

Production diary 10: Bonded by Blood in a legendary Bay Area Exodus

Production diary 10: Bonded by Blood in a legendary Bay Area Exodus

Posted on May 29, 2015 in Production diary

Tom Hunting, drummer for legendary Bay Area thrash veterans Exodus, told us about the ups and downs of a three decades long music career. He started in Exodus as a teenager and the journey has been characterised by many different emotions, accidents, and incidents. Too much happened to keep track of everything, such as the […]

Production diary 9: Mashrou’ Leila and how major an independent act can be

Production diary 9: Mashrou’ Leila and how major an independent act can be

Posted on May 27, 2015 in Production diary

Mashrou’ Leila is a Lebanese alternative pop-rock band that was founded in a music workshop at the American University in Beirut. The band received great media attention not only at home, but also across the Middle-East, as well as further away – like here in Europe. We had the great pleasure to meet and interview lead […]

Production diary 8: No Fun At All with new beginnings and running marathons

Production diary 8: No Fun At All with new beginnings and running marathons

Posted on May 18, 2015 in Production diary

No Fun At All is the legendary Swedish punk rock band that has brought California-like melodic anthems to skateboarding kids all across the globe through the 1990s before going into hiatus after a decade of rockin’ out and hundreds of thousands of records sold. We had the great honour to meet singer Ingemar and guitarist […]

Production diary 7: Black Milk and the art of making business rhyme

Production diary 7: Black Milk and the art of making business rhyme

Posted on May 15, 2015 in Production diary

Black Milk is a self-made hip hop producer and artist that knows exactly where he wants to go and how to get there. He has collaborated with several different artists from different genres and has mixed samples with real instruments on his productions. Also, his live performances with the Nat Turner Live Band have become […]

Production diary 6: Sonata Arctica and the pack of the metal wolfs

Production diary 6: Sonata Arctica and the pack of the metal wolfs

Posted on May 10, 2015 in Production diary

The Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica has been a household name in the metal scene for over a decade. Singer and mastermind Tony Kakko sat down with us in their tour bus to talk about his beginnings as a musician, how changing from an independent to a major label affected the band, and how he […]

Production diary 5: Talking about DIY with self-made shooting star Ryan McGarvey

Production diary 5: Talking about DIY with self-made shooting star Ryan McGarvey

Posted on May 6, 2015 in Production diary

It was great meeting and talking to Ryan McGarvey, a self-made blues shooting star from Albuquerque. He told us how he has been going about building his DIY-music venture and he has made it work as an independent artist, without the help of a major label. We also got to hear Ryan rocking out with his powerful […]

Production diary 4: More than just the band that rocked From Dusk Till Dawn

Production diary 4: More than just the band that rocked From Dusk Till Dawn

Posted on Apr 27, 2015 in Production diary

We had the great pleasure to meet the band that played the song for Salma Hayek’s legendary dance scene in From Dusk Till Dawn and filled the Titty Twister with great stoner rock music: Tito & Tarantula. However, the band around leader Tito Larriva is much more than just a spin-off from Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 […]

Production diary 3: Dog Eat Dog and 25 years of ups and downs

Production diary 3: Dog Eat Dog and 25 years of ups and downs

Posted on Apr 18, 2015 in Production diary

Dog Eat Dog found fame in the early/mid-1990s with their album All Boro Kings and their trademark hardcore metal-meets-saxophone sound. Bassist Dave Neabore and guitarist Roger Haemmerli talked to us about the ups and downs of Dog Eat Dog’s career spanning now 25 years. The band’s story sounds like taken out of a movie. It […]