EPISODE 4.07: Olli Herman of Reckless Love on publicity, technology, the 7-year rollercoaster of Rock N’Roll and more
“[Music listeners] don’t really listen music, they hear music, which is kind of cool in the sense that they live through music.” Olli Herman, Reckless Love In this #fhtz episode Olli Herman, frontman of Finnish hard rockers Reckless Love, elaborates eloquently on the difference between ‘listening’ and ‘hearing’ music, being a sucker for old-school, the two extremes […]
EPISODE 4.04: Wild Lies’ Matt Polley on longevity, the value of music and future label
“I don’t think that it belittles the music at all, because people are going to download it anyway. As long as they listen to it, they like the song, they think, ‘yeah, I’m gonna go see that band live,’ and that’s what we want.” – Matt Polley, Wild Lies Not only did we get to […]
EPISODE 4.03: Dj ASHBA from Sixx:A.M. on building his business, diversifying, and introducing a good cause
“What I miss about no Internet is the mystique about ‘rockstar’.” – Dj ASHBA, Sixx:A.M. Dj ASHBA took ten minutes off his busy tour schedule with Sixx:A.M. to talk with us about the necessity of diversifying one’s business as an artist, their cause #reasontorise, and he told us how his multimillion dollar company Ashba Media […]
EPISODE 4.01: Monster Truck’s Steve Kiely on tour options, finances and fans
“We’ve always had more of a challenge replicating our live show to a disc than replicating our disc in a live show.” – Steve Kiely (Monster Truck) Steve Kiely, drummer of Canadian rockers Monster Truck, sat down with us during the band’s most current European headlining tour. Steve elaborated on the importance of picking the right tour […]
EPISODE 3.11: Dave Holland on responsibility, publishing rights, and social media
“After the gig I usually go out and talk to people, have a little time to interact. I see social media as an extension of that, humanising what we do.” – Dave Holland We close Season 3 with the legendary jazz bassist, record producer and record company owner Dave Holland. Dave has been in the music […]