Interview by Wezzy Crüze
Friday mornings are always a great time of the day to hit the beach, at least that’s what Grinspoon’s very own Phil Jamieson believes. In the lead up to his acoustic solo tour around Australia, which sees the iconic front man team up with Unwritten Law’s Scott Russo, we managed to catch a moment to talk all things music, life and zucchini slice.
Hello Phil
Continue reading Interview with Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon)
Interview by Ben Hosking
Fear Factory are heading to Australia in 2015 to play at SOUNDWAVE festival. Our Ben Hosking spoke with Fear Factory co-founder and guitarist Dino Cazares.
Interview by Dominic Feain
It’s been an extraordinary few years for Australian singer/songwriter Kim Churchill. Headline tours through Canada, the UK and Europe, signing a worldwide publishing deal with Sony ATV, opened for Billy Bragg, travel adventures and an upcoming Australian tour! Our Dominic Feain chats with Kim Churchill.
G’day Kim, so you’re just back from Canada?
Yeah yeah, I’ve been touring Canada for the last month and a bit.
Continue reading Interview with Kim Churchill
Currently on tour (November-December 2014) in support of his new album ‘Heartwood’, KARL S. WILLIAMS took time our for LifeMusicMedia…
:: What track changed your life ::
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground by Blind Willie Johnson. A wordless and primitive expression of pure beauty. It showed me that all artifice could be done away with and the song could be whittled to its core, transcending even language.
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Probably Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here. I have listened to it a million times and it always works.
Continue reading Q&A with Karl S. Williams
Queensland’s premiere 5 piece roots, rock, reggae outfit The Floating Bridges are recently released their explosive new single ‘Eloquence’ (video clip below).
The band – Dale, Cale, Dan, Jimmy and Johnny – took time out to answer a few questions for LifeMusicMedia.com
:: What track changed your life ::
Banapple Gas – Cat Stevens (Dale)
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication (Cale)
Powderfinger – Vulture Street (Dale)
Incubus – Science (Dan)
Nirvana – Nevermind (Jimmy)
Led Zeppelin – II (Johnny)
After the recent release of their new single “Plain Song” (video clip below) we caught up with The Dawn Chorus‘s Nathan Persal.
:: What track changed your life ::
“Enter Sandman” Metallica
:: What is your favourite Album ::
“Fight For Your Mind”, Ben Harper
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Recently released, “Bearing the Crown” (video clip below) is the latest single from Leanne Tennants debut album, “Pull Up Your Britches”.
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Leanne Tennant took time out to answer a few questions for LifeMusicMedia.com
:: What track changed your life ::
Small Change by Tom Waits
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Too many! I would have to narrow it down to 3.
Tom Waits – Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
The Eels – Hombre Lobo
The Dazed & Confused soundtrack
Having just released their brand new film clip for ‘I Know You Better’, Gavin Bowles of Sydney band Picture Perfect took time out to answer a few questions for LifeMusicMedia.com
:: What track changed your life ::
That’s a hard question. I’d have to say ‘Longview’ by Green Day. It definitely blew me away the first time I heard it. (Another one would be Hendrix’s version of ‘All Along The Watchtower’).
:: What is your favourite Album ::
‘American Idiot’ by Green Day. I always used to get shit about being a Green Day fan, but their music had a huge impact on me and that album is just a masterpiece, in every sense.
Continue reading Q&A with Gavin Bowles – Picture Perfect
Brisbane based six-piece Emma & The Hungry Truth can best be described as a combination of theatrical pop, tribal beats, soaring vocals and break-your-heart lyrics. With the launch of their debut EP “Feast” singer/songwriter Emma Dean took time out to answer a few questions for LifeMusicMedia.com
:: What track changed your life ::
“Last Goodbye” – Jeff Buckley
:: What is your favourite Album ::
“Under The Pink” – Tori Amos
Continue reading Q&A with Emma Dean – Emma & The Hungry Truth
Interview by Ben Hosking
US metal favourites PRONG will tour Australia and New Zealand for the first time ever this coming November (2014). We chat with founding member, singer/guitarist Tommy Victor
Hi Tommy it’s Ben here calling on behalf of LifeMusicMedia.com
How are you?
Hi Ben, I’m fine thank you
Prong has been going, on and off, for almost 30 years. Yet this is your first time to Australia. How come?
Why, I guess it’s just demand over the years and the band has been really active and more recently in the last three years we’ve had more momentum to play more places.
Continue reading Interview | Tommy Victor – PRONG
Interview by John Howarth
Max Bemis is the is the lead singer, primary composer and primary lyricist of the band SAY ANYTHING, as well as a founding member. Bemis is undoubtedly a tortured genius. His struggle with Mental illness is well documented and certain episodes have been recorded in the media. He has become somewhat of an advocate for Mental Health and has worked hard to get his condition under control. A recent dad with another little one on the way, family life has helped in his recovery. His devotion to faith is another reason Max has his life well on track. Say Anything are definitely a unique outfit and with their latest album ‘Hebrews’ he dropped ALL guitars in preference to strings and the outcome was stunning.
Continue reading Audio Interview | Max Bemis – Say Anything – Mental Health in the Music industry and more
Interview by Ben Hosking
Post Progressive Metal masters Dream Theater are returning to Australia in October 2014 to perform a number of intimate shows and it’s with great pleasure that Life Music Media spoke with Dream Theater keybordist Jordan Rudess ahead of the tour.
With a career spanning 30 years, how does the band stay motivated?
It’s not hard, we love what we do. Music is our lives and what we think about pretty much all of the time so playing it together is fun and when we go out we play concerts which is really cool because the audiences are generally great and it keeps the fun alive.
Continue reading Interview | Jordan Rudess – Dream Theater
:: What track changed your life ::
This is a pretty big call… Off the top of my head I’d probably have to say ‘Space They Cannot Touch’ by Kate Miller Heidke. I saw her perform at Woodford Folk Festival when I was a kid and she is a major reason I started writing songs.
:: What is your favourite Album ::
I actually don’t have one all-time favourite album! It changes all the time. My more recent faves include Megan Washington’s “There There”, Lucy Rose’s “Like I Used To” and Lorde’s “Pure Heroine”.
Continue reading Q&A with Hannah Rosa
:: What track changed your life ::
N.I.B by Black Sabbath.
:: What is your favourite Album ::
Today my favourite album is Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of A Madman
Continue reading Q&A With Paul Martin – Devilskin
Interview by Ben Hosking
With ANATHEMA making their long awaited first visit to Australia this August (2014), we were absolutely delighted when Daniel Cavanagh took time out to chat with LifeMusicMedia.com
Your August tour to Australia will be your first to our shores in your 25 year history. Why so long?
I don’t know why so long, it’s just the way it happened. Our career trajectory has had a kind of difficult course and hasn’t always had the backing or focus that it needed to really achieve great things. I think it’s only in the last few years that these things have been in place.
Continue reading Interview with Daniel Cavanagh – ANATHEMA
