Here are a few fun facts we learned this year: Simian Mobile Disco are obsessed by spoons, Justice are connoisseurs of smelly cheese, Feist was a dork in high school, and Black Kids used to like Sunday School but now they hate it. Find out more by reading our top ten music interviews of 2007…DAVID YOWInterviewing bands is so boring sometimes, what with the listless torrent of tiring self promotion and tour stories. Luckily I just spoke to David Yow and now I feel like I could bare-knuckle box Mike Tyson. David was the guy that used to get naked and frighten off audiences in Scratch Acid, the Jesus Lizard and now Qui.
SHAGGYShaggy has managed to adopt a Disney cartoon persona which makes his nymphomaniac music somehow seem family-friendly. I kinda hoped he would be a dick, but he was just a well-oiled interviewing machine. We got to talking about his love of pussy flavoured ice-cream and classy freaks with cottage cheese asses.
AU REVOIR SIMONEI wanna bone Au Revoir Simone. I admit it. The reason I wanted to interview the all-girl Brooklyn trio is because I fancy them. All three of them. At the same time. At their recent London gig I tried to chat them up, but we ended up talking about creepy stalker guys at gigs and I felt weird and had to make my excuses…
DAFT PUNKCurrently slaughtering festivals all over the world with their amazing robot revue, French dance titans Daft Punk are about to release their first feature film,Electroma, next month. It's a surreal space odyssey in which the robots try to become human. They almost never do interviews but we managed to sit down with Daft Punk to find out more about the movie…
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCOAfter producing the latest Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons albums, James Ford has been dubbed the Phil Spector of 2007. But he's a million miles away from being a paranoid-schizophrenic alcoholic who fires gun shots at musicians in the studio, enslaves his ex-wife, and murders someone from Xena: Warrior Princess (ALLEGEDLY)…
KID SISTERRight now if you're an aspiring non-ghetto girl rapper from the US, all you need to do to get a feature in Urb magazine is add Diplo to your friend list on MySpace and have a few references to giving head in your songs. It's pretty sad because it means talented, grinding girls like Kid Sister aren't getting the shine they deserve…
MIKA MIKOMika Miko are a new-wave punk band from Los Angeles, and one of the central groups of rascally scamps that have coalesced around downtown's the Smell. Their high energy songs and often-times quirky tactics (singing into a telephone receiver) would probably come off as affected if they weren't so damn good…
BLACK KIDSBlack Kids are an unsigned band who don't have a record and have never been on tour but are suddenly being tipped as the next big thing. We chatted to the Black Kids and found out what they're making of all the hyperbole…
GLENN BRANCAPeople get all uppity when you start throwing around terms like "art rock" and mouthing off about bands being experimental. Luckily, we can circumvent these types of asinine discussions by calling on people like Glenn Branca to straighten shit out. He was one of the catalysts for the whole big bang of experimental music in New York at the end of the 70s. Bands like Sonic Youth and Swans, as well as everybody who's honked their way onto their coattails lately, most likely wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for his tutelage…
FEIST / EMILY HAINESThey were Best Friends Forever when they sang together in Broken Social Scene, but Leslie Feist and Emily Haines grew apart. Feist relocated to Paris and became a solo star. Haines moved to New York and made it with Metric. Indie's leading ladies have hardly talked in recent years, never mind hung out. When we found out that they were both in London, we took them to a pub and got them drunk…
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