Kamikaze Palm Tree Discuss "Mint Chip," Having Fun Making Music, and Inspirations | Feature Interview
Mint Chip, Kamikaze Palm Tree’s sophomore record, follows a backwards logic where making everything more bonkers somehow just makes it more coherent. Theirs is a proprietary recipe, not easily explained, but ahead of the release, the duo indulged questions about growing extra arms and the dog who inspires them.
Extra Arms Discuss "What Is Even Happening Right Now" | A Post-Trash Q&A
Following their 2019 album, Up from Here, Detroit’s Extra Arms have returned with the aptly-titled follow-up, What Is Even Happening Right Now?, with Ryan Allen and co. pulling out all the stops on this one. Allen and Daniel Stover answered some questions about the album’s fruition from writing to recording in a time of social distancing.
Self-Discovery and Nuances: An Interview with Dominique
Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Dominique Matelson has just released her new record The Instruction Manual. Post-Trash caught up with her to discuss her relationship with her voice, the circumstances surrounding the creation of her new album, what compels her to make art, reinventing yourself during a pandemic, and more.
These Arms Are Snakes’ Brian Cook on Finding Closure | Feature Interview
We don’t always get closure, but we deserve closure. In These Arms Are Snakes’ case, it took twelve years for the Seattle institution to close the door on what is one of the weirder and wilder catalogs in punk. Post-Trash’s Jordan Michael sat down with Brian Cook to discuss the band’s end, their legacy, and getting back together to close it out.
Katie Alice Greer Discusses Her Solo Debut "Barbarism," Creating Independently, and Werner Herzog | Feature Interview
No band to play with, no audience to play for, and the weight of so much change in so little time, Katie Alice Greer began a project that would become her first solo album, Barbarism - writing, performing, producing, and mixing an entire record herself, building something that could expose who she is creatively when no one else is looking.
Fashion Club's Pascal Stevenson on the Many Masks of "Scrutiny" | Feature Interview
In a literal sense, as a veteran touring musician with her band Moaning and as a sometimes-live-player with acts like Cherry Glazer and Girlpool, Stevenson is well-acquainted with performance and presentation. On Scrutiny, she draws on that musical experience to show its falseness as well as its potential to reveal deeper, darker truth.
On Her Solo Debut, Jasmyn Burke Is Flourishing Under Disguise of Loss | Feature Interview
In the five years since the last Weaves album, former bandleader Jasmyn Burke’s future has seemingly only opened even wider. Her solo debut solo In The Wild is out now, with production by John Congleton to augment her talents for obliquely catchy melodies and theatrical vocals. Burke spoke with Post-Trash about the process of discovering herself as a solo artist and developing the eight-page visual manifesto that guided the project.
Flattening Time with billy woods | Feature Interview
billy woods referred to Aethiopes as “one of the more complex ideas [he’s] ever tried to tackle.” That complexity is borne out in forcefully-delivered verses that criss-cross the globe and the time-stream. After the release, woods spoke to Post-Trash to shed some light on the record’s dense imagery, and since Aethiopes is his 10th LP, we also discussed its place in the arc of his accomplished career.
Surviving and Sticking to Her Guns: The World as Shilpa Ray Sees It | Feature Interview
Portrait of a Lady stems from Shilpa Ray’s own experience as a survivor of abuse and works outward through the larger cultural context. In wry, slow-burning ballads and synth-laden scorched-earth rockers, Ray comes on unfiltered and unequivocal. After the release, Ray spoke to Post-Trash about the struggle to be heard among her fellow musicians and the troubling political landscape her Portrait was painted on.
Gentle Heat Discuss New Album "Sheer," Not Wanting to Hear a Band's "Comedy Routine," and more | Feature Interview
Spring Silver Discusses Community Collaboration, Emotional Songwriting, 2008, and more | Feature Interview
I Could Get Used to This sounds like nothing you’ll hear this year, as Spring Silver continues to push their sound through distinct stylistic choices and lean, undeniable songwriting. Post-Trash was lucky enough to chat with K Nkaza about community collaboration, emotions in songwriting, the year 2008 and more.
A Sudden Injection Of The Unknown: An Interview With Trevor Nikrant
Trevor Nikrant is one-third of Nashville’s Styrofoam Winos. This past November, he released Tall Ladders, a riveting collection of psych-tinged pop and folk rock, traversing a vast spectrum of settings and psyches. Post-Trash’s Joe Guiterrez met up with Nikrant to chat about his songwriting process, David Berman, and Nashville.
Fievel Is Glauque | Feature Interview
Fievel is Glauque recently released an astounding record called Aérodynes EP, a wild batch of expansive and groovy tracks that showcases the band’s melodic and compositional virtuosity. Post-Trash’s Joe Gutierrez reached out to Zach Phillips and Ma Clément, chatted a bit, and explored their genesis, influences, process, and more.
"I Have to Write Raps": In Conversation with Defcee | Feature Interview
In November of 2021, Defcee released Trapdoor, a collaboration with producer Messiah Musik. Backwoodz Studioz, the current bastion of forward-thinking rap music released the album, giving Defcee’s already-rising profile a considerable shove. Defcee simultaneously writes from insular and elevated perspectives, presenting a harrowing personal narrative that speaks to the grander dystopia in which we’re mired.
Erica Dunn (MOD CON, Tropical Fuck Storm, Palm Springs) Discusses Songwriting, Post-Lockdown Inspiration, and Music Education | Feature Interview
Writing music is a way of life for Erica Dunn. She currently fronts the band MOD CON, offers her unique writing and playing talents to Tropical Fuck Storm, and quietly strums pensive songs on a nylon string guitar for Palm Springs. Dunn spoke to Post-Trash about inspiration, music theory, and what’s next for her myriad of different projects.
Oceanator on Baritone Guitars and Bad Brain Days in the Making of "Nothing’s Ever Fine" | Feature Interview
Nothing’s Ever Fine is heavier and more conceptual than its predecessor, tied together with a recurring guitar motif, building its absurdity in crushing riffs and buoyant melodies. Ahead of the release, Elise Okusami spoke with Post-Trash about crafting the record’s guitar tones, coping with anxiety, and revisiting her days growing up in the DC music scene.
A. Billi Free & The Lasso Discuss Their Collaborative Album "Holy Body Roll" | Feature Interview
Holy Body Roll is a groove-filled guidebook for healing, the soundtrack to help you move from tear-streaming breakdown to full-body boogie. The first collaborative album from Michigan multi-instrumentalist/producer The Lasso and New Mexico-based vocalist/emcee A. Billi Free is a quest for self-realization and self-preservation.
Pinch Points Discuss Balancing Hope and Pessimism on "Process" | Feature Interview
Pinch Points remain steadfast in their righteous anger. For all the ways the world has changed since the release of their 2019 debut, the list of alarms to sound has only gotten longer in the wake of ongoing environmental catastrophe. The band’s Acacia Coates and Adam Smith spoke to Post-Trash about their first professional recording experience and navigating the relationships between people and social systems.
Godcaster | Feature Interview
While technically an extension of 2020’s Long Haired Locusts, last year’s Saltergasp presented the band in a different light, subverting the tongue-in-cheek funk rock gestures of their debut into thrashing, high tempo motifs and noise-scrambled shreds of wailing riffs. The band spoke about their songwriting, playing live, and the future of their sound.