Quick Hit Band Interview: Fire Heads

Fire Heads at The Hi Hat

Note: At the time, the band performed under a different name.

Q&A time with the band. Hope you enjoy:

How would you describe your sound? Fire Heads plays punk that's rough, kinda twangy, kinda jittery and real fast.

What are some of your favorite local Madison, WI bands that folks should keep an eye out on should they tour in Los Angeles? Madison has got a great music scene at the moment with a whole lot of bands given the size of the city. We all play in other bands (the Hussy, Proud Parents, Dumb Vision, Cave Curse) but for an unbiased opinion, two bands that are currently killing the game are Wood Chickens, who might be the hardest working band in the Midwest, and No Hoax who play speed punk with a groovy low end.

(Interview took place in May 2016.)

Quick Hit Artist Interview: Drum and Lace

Drum and Lace at the Bootleg Theater

Q&A time with the artist. Hope you enjoy:

How would you describe your sound? I'd say my sound is a mix of dark ambient electronica and cinematic soundscapes, with a hint of house.

Own Q&A time: Where do you draw inspiration from? I'm very inspired by anything visual, be it a photograph, a movie or even just a color palette. Mixing these elements with life experiences always create something really powerful.

Quick Hit Band Interview: Barb Wire Dolls

Barb Wire Dolls at The Whisky a Go Go

Q&A time with the band. Hope you enjoy:

How would you describe your sound? Live and on record it's two different things. Live it's raw and the energy explodes throughout the set into a thousand rock and roll pieces...on record, it's what it is: music to inspire you to get to a show so YOU can be blown up in a thousand pieces!

I know Barb Wire Dolls has done a lot of touring. Are there certain spots (cafes, parks, museums, hotels, etc etc) around the globe that you just love and are there any specific reasons why?Airports are cool. Love the feeling of going into a plane and in a few hours exiting onto a totally different reality and culture. It keeps you running.

(Interview occurred in June 2016.)

Quick Hit Band Interview: Smoke Season

Smoke Season at The Satellite

Q&A time with the band. Hope you enjoy:

How would you describe your sound? Ethereal soul with a shot of psychedelia

I noticed that you went to SXSW this year. How was the experience? Any interesting stories, perhaps? A. It was a trip. We loved meeting other bands and seeing the movers and shakers in the music scene. The most insane experience we had was playing a rooftop performance on the one night where there was a thunder storm. While we were onstage, the rain starting pouring down on us - we could see lightning in the distance. Luckily, we didn't get electrocuted in the process. It was pretty awesome - until our equipment got fried, of course.

(Interview took place in June 2016.)

Quick Hit Band Interview: Ivory Deville

Ivory Deville at Silverlake Lounge

Q&A time with the band. Hope you enjoy:

How would you describe your sound? If Chuck Berry was driving The Velvet Underground in a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, doing about 35mph, listening to The Gilded Palace of Sin, and meanwhile Leon Russell was coming from the opposite direction, doing 110 in a 1970 Dodge Challenger with The Ikettes on board, listening to Bleach, and they drove right past each other and waved.

Other than Los Angeles, where could you see yourself living and why? I'd be down the road in a cloud of smoke to some land I ain't bought.

(Interview took place in June 2016.)

Quick Hit Band Interview: Rod Melancon

Rod Melancon at the Silverlake Lounge

Q&A time with the artist. Hope you enjoy:

How would you describe your sound? At this point, it's just rock n roll sprinkled with southern grit. My voice and lyric content will always make things sound a bit southern.

Where is your favorite spot to write music? It's changes but my apartment or wherever I'm living at the time. My last record was written in Florida, Los Angeles and Joshua Tree.

Own Q&A. What's your favorite film? Terrence Malick's Badlands. Close seconds = The Last Picture Show and Apocalypse Now.

(Interview took place in June 2016.)

Quick Hit Band Interview: Alyeska

Alyeska at The Smell

Q&A time with the band.  Hope you enjoy:

How would you describe your sound? It alternates between that big sparkly Jazzmaster sound, like being in a snowstorm— with Dusty Springfield vocals.

I read that Alaska Reid comes from Montana, what does she miss most about Montana? I miss being in the town I grew up in, and the mountains, the Beartooths, the Crazies and the Absarokas.

(Interview took place in May 2016.)