Artists and News

Video interview with the American rock band Dommin. FaceCulture spoke to guitarist/vocalist Kristofer Dommin about his first Dommin song, start of the band, the album Love Is Gone, a career in music, Los Angeles, role producers, discovered by Roadrunner, getting appreciation, leading a band, song writing, playing in Europe, painful songs and more....

AMSTERDAM - The Parlor Mob is een vijfkoppige band uit New Jersey. Ze maken rock 'n roll waarin, dankzij zanger Mark Melicia, veel reggae-invloeden in terug te horen zijn. Melicia luisterde in zijn jeugd veel naar Bob Marley. "Mijn vader was een groot fan. Eigenlijk is Bob Marley de reden waarom ik begonnen ben met muziek maken."

Video interview with the American singer-songwriter William Fitzsimmons. FaceCulture spoke to Fitzsimmons about his latest album The Sparrow And The Crow, his divorce, the reaction of his ex-wife about the album, forgiveness, rewriting history, confession in a public way, his guilt and betrayal, having blind parents, his first song, becoming a sing...

AMSTERDAM - Na de dodelijke mix van heroïne en cocaïne van zanger Layne Staley in 2002, leken de dagen van de Amerikaanse rockband Alice In Chains geteld. Toch verscheen afgelopen september voor het eerst in bijna veertien jaar een nieuw album: Black Gives Way To Blue.

Video interview with Julian Casablancas. FaceCulture spoke to the frontman of the garage rock band The Strokes about his solo debut Phrazes for the Young, 70's and 80's influences, visualising songs, the starting point of the album, the writing process, feeling pressure, a liberated feeling, The Strokes being a though music jury panel, new The Stro...

AMSTERDAM - Erg hoopvol is de titel van het eerste Dommin-album niet. Op Love Is Gone bezingt gothrockformatie Dommin dan ook de keerzijde van de liefde. Frontman Kristofer Dommin: "De songs zijn allemaal behoorlijk pijnlijk."

AMSTERDAM - The first songs for the second album of the American indie band Vampire Weekend, Contra, were already finished before there self-titled debut was released in 2008. The two years after the release were mainly used to think about the direction of the second album which was released in January.

AMSTERDAM - After a lot of line-up changes, the American alternative rock band Taking Back Sunday added guitarist Matthew Fazzi to work on the fourth album New Again. "He reminded us what was the most important: music itself", says lead singer Adam Lazzara.

AMSTERDAM - Last fall, debut album Is This It (2001) of American rock band The Strokes was voted 'best record of the decade' by music magazines NME and OOR. Singer Julian Casablancas almost simultaneously released his first solo effort: Phrazes For The Young.

AMSTERDAM - "It's nice to have friends in bigger bands," says Troy Van Leeuwen. For the European tour of his new project Sweethead, the Queens Of The Stone Age-guitarist made good use of his connections. The rock band opened for Eagles Of Death Metal and Them Crooked Vultures, both bands of QOTSA-colleague Josh Homme.

Video interview with the Norwegian metal band Darkthrone. FaceCulture spoke to Nocturno Culto (Ted Skjellum) about his movie The Misanthrope, being on the background, having their own studio, playing guitar, recordings for Circle The Wagons, new artwork and more. (15/01/2010)

Video interview met de Belgische gospel/jazzband Dez Mona. FaceCulture sprak met zanger Gregory Frateur over het derde album Hilfe Kommt, de wereld van Dez Mona, broeierige sfeer, spelen voor een niche, de magie van de contrabass, Pursuit Sinners, onmacht, Moments of Dejection or Despondency, geloof en meer. (30/11/2009)

AMSTERDAM - Vraag The Raveonettes' Sune Rose Wagner (41) of hij zichzelf als artiest belangrijk vindt en hij begint geheid te briesen. Voor Wagner telt de muziek en niets anders. "Het boeit me niet wie of wat mensen zijn", aldus de Deen. "Ik wil helemaal niet weten wie Jack White is."

AMSTERDAM - After the lethal heroine and cocaine mix of singer Layne Staley in 2002, the career of American rock band Alice In Chains seemed over. However, last september they released a new album, the first in almost fourteen years: Black Gives Way To Blue.

AMSTERDAM - The release of the album The Sparrow and the Crow (2008) made it for the American singer-songwriter William Fitzsimmons possible to get over his divorce. "Admitting in public that I was not a faithful person let me purge some of my guilt."