The ever present NYC hype machine kicked into full gear, creating a buzz and getting Northern State some attention.

It’s always hard to title an album. You try and find a title that captures all the emotions of the songs on the whole album.

Just you saying that gives me goose bumps. The fact that we are playing on the same stage is amazing. It is a real honor.

From the PLAYBACK:stl Archives:
“We were looking for a space we could call home,” Petersen said. “We were looking for a place we could afford with relatively high ceilings. Todd found this place, but we couldn’t afford it, and as he was leaving the guy told him, ‘All, right, I’ll cut [rent] in half.’”

Consider, then, St. Louis as country hotbed.

I think that emo is a piss-poor media term used to pigeonhole bands.

Over the last three years, The Damnwells have toured as much as possible and honed a sound that melodically carries their listeners into the fray and returns them just a little changed in the end.

Miller’s staying on Elektra sans 97’s felt like a betrayal to many longtime fans who wondered if the band would survive to make another record.

From the PLAYBACK:stl Archive: In speaking with Furstenfeld—he’s excited, animated, smiling broadly one moment and then yelling in anguish the next—it’s obvious that he’s a rare breed.

Leo’s messages are not just slogans or extended catchphrases; they take aim at every meaningful target a song should strike.

The story of the Bottoms Up Blues Gang is the story of the cooperative environment that exists among St. Louis blues musicians.

That’s how it was in those early days…an innocent dream of doing our own magazine, driven by all the passion we’d acquired over the years.

Two years after the paper had started, the owner and publisher of NP decided she just couldn’t do it anymore, and despite offers from elsewhere to continue the name, she wanted to stop.

I’ve always been mistrustful of anyone who gets too much credit in the media.

What’s your take on the Internet controversy?

They can suck my dick.

Music is one of those little worlds where we could be allowed to actually stand out as intellectuals.

The Bielanko brothers believe in what they are doing, and what they are doing is searching.

"I just pretty much started writing everything fresh, on electric guitar and incorporating a lot of grooves I had. I sort of started reconciling my disdain for my own stuff."

“It’s a little more contemplative than the last record. It wasn’t so much of a showcase for different songs as a more unified idea… It’s a little more novel-like.”

So here it is: The Phonocaptors sound like they stripped down rock ’n’ roll, inspected what it had to offer, and then rebuilt it the way they wanted.

Before he recruited his three new bandmates (guitarist Pelle Hillstrom, drummer Bryan Head, and bassist Leah Randi) through friends and people that he knew in the L.A. music scene, writing and recording songs on his home’s eight-track system became Walter’s main focus in life.

Oh yes, this is a team effort.