An Interview with Growing Pains
By Logan Normandeau Growing Pains at the Shredder in Boise Forever ago, I sat down with Oregon band Growing Pains to talk about their music, inspirations, and friendship. The band…
Interview with Hey, Ily at Treefort Music Festival 2024
Interview by Marina Malin Photography by Marina Malin Treefort Music Festival is a celebration of music nestled in Boise, Idaho. For five days, bands from across the country play in…
SoCC Interviews: The Maxo Interview
Maxo is an up-and-coming rapper hailing from Los Angeles, and he carries his city and familial roots close to him. Growing up with Billy Higgins, Prince, YG, and Kendrick Lamar,…
SoCC Interviews: The guccimei Interview
guccimei is a singer, songwriter, and producer from the Bay Area. Her sound is somewhere in the middle ground of electronic music and 90s R&B. guccimei grew up primarily in…
SoCC Interviews: The Yoshinobu Ozaki Interview
Image courtesy of Tim Bruns By Oliviero Zanalda In a crowded McDonald’s next to Taipei Main Station, I sit across from Yoshi, a man from a rural coastal province of…
SoCC Interviews: The Charlie Burg Interview
By Marina Malin Charlie Burg is a singer, songwriter, and producer who released his first mixtape in 2015 when he was in college. After transferring from Denison University to Michigan…
SoCC Interviews: The Seiji Oda Interview
Seiji Oda is a rapper, singer/songwriter, and producer from Oakland, California. He began producing and creating music in high school. Seiji rose to prominence when he and his brother Nathaniel,…
Interview with Ray Angry of The Roots
Anywhere he goes, Ray Angry is probably the most skilled pianist in any direction for many, many miles. However, at Pitchfork Music Festival, he is surrounded by some of the…
SoCC Interviews: The Jonah Mutono Interview
By Oliviero Zanalda Jonah Mutono is a multi-talented recording artist who released one of the best, and one of the most underrated, albums of 2020: GERG. This album is a…
Tank and the Bangas announce new album, “Friend Goals”
New Orleans-based band Tank and the Bangas have been blending together funk, gospel, spoken word, and hip hop since 2011. After winning NPR’s Tiny Desk concert in 2017, they accelerated…
