Photography by Andrew Zeiter Back in November I was in Austin for a different festival, Fun Fun Fun Fest, where I first met Asli Omar and the guys from The Tontons. At the time, the four piece blues-y rock group from Houston was riding a wave of publicity en route to their breakthrough project, Make […]
[SXSW Interview] Bishop Nehru Embodies ‘The Twenty Year Loop’
Photography by Asia Ashley For the length of my career covering music, one theory has always stayed planted firmly in the back of my mind. Explained to me in one of my first interviews, with 9th Wonder in 2009, the ‘Twenty Year Loop’ has shaped much of the way I have consumed and understood music, […]
[SXSW Interview] The Radkey Brothers Are Bringing Punk Back
Photography by Ra Ra Photography By the time I had gotten to The Hangar on 4th and Colorado, SXSW had begun to weigh on me. In what is easily evident from the journals throughout the week, this year’s South By was filled a bit more to the brim with corporate positioning and exclusive shows than […]
[SXSW] Music Festival 2014 Recap
Photo by Kristen Wrzesniewski In 1977, a water skiing Henry Winkler wore a leather coat and life preserver and attempted to ‘jump the shark’ in a move that become synonymous with the beginning of the end of a good thing. In that regard it was the long-running “Happy Days” sitcom. Last week in Austin, Texas, it […]
[SXSW Journal] Day 4
Photo by Kristen Wrzesniewski The weekend in Austin started off quickly with several interviews on the docket early. My feet, blistered, sore and just generally unhappy about the situation, slipped into a pair of Converse boots with the thought it would help with all the moving. Strapped up and ready to go I headed out to […]
[RH First Look] Sidewalk Chalk
Sidewalk Chalk embodies Chicago. As much as the recent Vice “Chiraq” documentaries have done the opposite as of late, the eclectic eight piece band from the Second City pulls from both their hometown’s past and present while focusing on writing it’s future. The immediately soulful feelings of their latest project, Leaves, released February 24, is […]
[Video] RH First Look: ZMoney
The temperature continued to drop, hitting seven degrees as my photographer, Bryan Lamb and myself pulled up to Emma’s, a restaurant on the west side of Chicago. As we drove west from the heart of the loop of Chicago down Route 64, the landscape began to change. Amongst a neighborhood with more storefronts closed or […]
[RH Interview] Giftz
Photography by ACJ Photos Chicago is a rough city. Since the advent of “drill”, GBE and Chief Keef, the stories of the city’s streets have been told primarily by artists that painted pictures of death and destruction and little else. Enter: Giftz, the gritty hip-hop artist from Chicago’s south side that has woven poetic lyricism […]