When I heard Graham Coxon was playing the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, I knew he was someone I had to interview. Besides having a new solo album set to drop in May, he’s touring with Pete Doherty and getting back together with this little band called Blur too. All were up for discussion on this warm, first day of Spring in Austin, Texas.
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Interview by Zachary Timm
Video by Maia Stern
Photo by Roger Kisby
Tripwire contributor Zachary Timm caught up with the guys from …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead right before their Brooklyn performance. They talked about their name, the recording of Century Of Self and other general topics that can only be discussed over a few friendly beers at the local watering hole.
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Wild Light just landed in New York yesterday in the middle of their two-month long tour that will eventually lead them down to Texas for SxSW. Lucky for you The Tripwire has been along for the whole ride. Well, maybe not personally, but they did give us flip cam clips of where they’ve been so far to show you what life is like on the road with Wild Light.
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Interview by Derek Evers
Video by Maia Stern
Here’s the deal; we hear Lady Sovereign is coming to NY for a couple of intimate shows to promote her latest singles and upcoming LP Jigsaw, which comes out on her very own Midget Records, April 7. Her publicist tells us she’s “tired of traditional interviews,” but that she likes drinking, video games and futbol. So trying to combine all of these concepts into one, I challenged the foul-mouthed, major-label bouncin’, midget of grime to a game of foosball.
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Luaka Bop has never done us wrong. The legendary world music label established by David Byrne is responsible for opening up a generation of American music listeners to the likes of Os Mutantes and Tom Zé among many others. Now that the playing field has been evened with music once considered outside the realm of American popularity breaking down barriers left and right, Luaka Bop has started to turn their attention to new artists. Enter Márcio Local.
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