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Featured in The Grid this week.
My interview with Chad VanGaalen featured in Concrete Magazine
It seems in the three years since releasing the acclaimed Soft Airplane, Chad VanGaalen has done some major soul-searching. For his highly anticipated new album Diaper Island, the Calgary musician tackles such lofty topics as unkempt bush in “Shave My Pussy” and moonlights as Romeo on the impossibly sweet love song “Sara”.
“If somebody doesn’t like the song, I have to personally kick their ass,” the singer-songwriter and self-described “hobo dad” tells Concrete with a laugh. “It’s also very awkward to make other band members play a song about your girlfriend. It’s like, ‘Okay guys, now it’s time to play that song about my girlfriend.’ It seems strange on many levels. There are other things to be embarrassed about, though, besides writing a love song.”
My interview with J Mascis featured in Concrete Magazine
The awkward pauses around J Mascis’ devastatingly short responses are just long enough to convince you that he has little interest in talking to Concrete about his new solo venture, Several Shades of Why. that’s the assumption you’d make, at least, if you weren’t familiar with the bespectacled oddball at the center of Dinosaur Jr. [dinosaurjr.com].
Despite nearly 30 years in the music industry – a tenure which has seen the amherst, massachusetts native align himself with bone- rattling bands like Witch, Upsidedown Cross and most recently Sweet Apple, in addition to his main gig alongside Lou Barlow – Mascis has never gotten the hang of self-promotion. Nor has he had to. It’s not the witty quotes or magazine covers that won him a legion of fans. Mascis’ force lies in the dizzying guitar solos, the thundering wall of noise and that unmistakably voice, forever raspy and crackling.
