Thurston Moore Interviews Sic Alps
The staff here at ’SUP feel like our daddy just gave us a pony. Thurston Moore, he who is persistently curious and curiously persistent, agreed to interview San Francisco’s Sic Alps for us on a sunny day in March. (More …)
Cauldron
Toronto’s Cauldron truly deserve the most success from the public’s slowly rising interest in quality, real metal. Vocalist and bassist Jason Junop has been something of an underground metal icon for a number of years, due to his well-respected, now defunct band Goat Horn. (More …)
Edwyn Collins
As recording studios go, to say that of Edwyn Collins was akin to a living room would be an understatement. It is tucked away on a leafy residential street in North London. Upon arrival, Edwyn’s wife Grace greets me warmly, then shoos away their teenage son, who is slumbering on the sofa in front of a video game. She gets to work on presenting coffee and biscuits, then proceeds to launch into a story about Edwyn’s drummer going missing in New York on their recent U.S. visit, her rapid Scottish brogue going 10 to the dozen. (More …)
Lichens
I arrive at Neal Mello, a cozy, rustic, horse stable-chic vintage shop on Grand Street (in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, several blocks east of the BQE), to find Rob Lowe crouched behind an open laptop. “Dead Plane” from No Age’s Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat, 2007) is playing on the computer’s modest speakers, and it’s just at the part of the song where the filtered guitar emulates an airplane taking off. (More …)
