interview with wolf eyes’ john olson

Wolf Eyes sound artist John Olson talks with Catherine about noise, tours, folk music, and awkwardness.

INTERVIEW WITH WOLF EYES’ JOHN OLSON

interview with john dwyer

While it’s certainly been a long time coming, if you ask me, this massive two-part interview with OCS/Coachwhips’ frontman John Dwyer is more than worth the wait. Since this interview was conducted back in May of this year, Coachwhips have shaken their last moneymaker at a final, sweat-drenched NYC show, and Dwyer is already enmeshed in a fledgling project called Yikes. Though the world may now be a few months older and wiser than on that balmy Philly night when this interview was recorded, this ARTNOISE feature stands as an important historic record of JPD doing what he does best: runnin’ his damn mouth off.

PART ONE // PART TWO

interview with black ox orkestar

During the summer of 2004, I was able to meet up with two members of the group Black Ox Orkestar before their incredible set at Philadelphia’s Vox Populi. While this band is certainly one of the lesser-known acts on the Constellation Records roster, their debut recording Ver Tanzt? represents one of the most profound marriages of politics and music-making that I’ve ever encountered. True to form, this interview ranges from the aesthetics of punk rock to the Israel-Palestine conflict to questions of Jewish identity.

INTERVIEW WITH BLACK OX ORKESTAR

constellation records interview

Back in March of 2002, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Don from Constellation Records on the eve of the Iraq War. Originally printed in the webzine Deep Fry Bonanza (RIP), this interview made a lasting impression on me, informing a lot of my own efforts to reassert the political into the independent music scene.
PART ONE // PART TWO