Interviews and Features on Indie Rock Artists
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Leland! San Francisco native singer/songwriter Leland Ettinger inhabits the hallucinatory LA seen by transplants like Canadians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell or Sacramento’s Joan Didion (from whom Leland & the Silver Wells derives its name). It is a world where Raymond Chandler’s murderers and victims are […]
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Matti Alfonzetti One of the greatest rock-voices ever, Matti Alfonzetti fronted Jagged Edge for a few years in the late Eighties, then he moved home to Sweden and formed Skintrade, which in the early and mid-Nineties had great international success with songs such as “One By One”, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Jeff Massey of The Steepwater Band You should already know these songs. If the old saying about talent equaling success were true, then The Steepwater Band would already be a household name, rubbing shoulders with Aerosmith, Bad Company and other like-minded travelers in our collective […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Speedfossil! Once Boston’s best-kept secret, Speedfossil, the creation of singer/songwriter Garret Vandermolen, is on the verge of breaking out of New England with their third LP and Red on Red Records debut release, NO ANESTHESIA. The band has been hailed by fans and critics alike as a […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Michael Veitch Michael Veitch can’t help but to look at music from all sides. This year–the same year that he’ll be appearing on PBS’s upcoming series about songwriters co-writing with Holocaust survivors, he will release an album with the title, “Wachtraum,” which means “days of dreams” […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Aaron Cabbage of Surge and The Swell Surge and the Swell is the solo and collaboration vehicle of Minnesota-based, Americana and Indie-folk, singer-songwriter Aaron Cabbage. Born in Kentucky, raised in Southeast Texas via Indiana and now calling Minnesota home, his influences run North to South. Cabbage pulls […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Lia Hide Lia Hide is the prolific lady of Greece’s dark, progressive, alt-pop. Her latest effort, The Missing Fourth Guest, is the fourth album by the Athenian avant-pop artist. The Missing Fourth Guest borrows its title from Plato’s ‘Timeaus’ dialogue opening line and discusses the emotional struggles […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Pat McManus Part 2 Patrick Frances McManus was one of 6 children born into an incredibly talented musical family in Derrylin, Co.Fermangh, N.Ireland. Pat’s father, John, and his mother Valerie were highly accomplished Traditional Irish music players, so it wasn’t long before Pat and his […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Pat McManus Part 1 Patrick Frances McManus was one of 6 children born into an incredibly talented musical family in Derrylin, Co.Fermangh, N.Ireland. Pat’s father, John, and his mother Valerie were highly accomplished Traditional Irish music players, so it wasn’t long before Pat and his […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Slyboots Every now and then you come across a band or artist that make you sit up and take notice. So it was when I heard the music of Slyboots for the first time, powerful sounds, and lyrics that connect and have meaning. That’s the […]
