Gut Feeling Podcast #14 - Kyle De Ville (Enact)

June 8, 2022

Photos by Thomas Teal The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Kyle De Ville, a British Columbia-born, Portland, Oregon-based guitarist with...

Gut Feeling Podcast #13 - Stephen McBean (Ex Dead Teenager/Pink Mountaintops)

May 25, 2022

Photo by Laura Pleasants The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Stephen McBean, a prolific, Vancouver Island-born, Los Angeles-based musician...

Collagist Paul Rentler Mangles Gene Simmons for Deaf Club

May 12, 2022

BY GREGORY ADAMS Earlier this year, I had a chance to speak with Deaf Club guitarists Brian Amalfitano and Tommy Meehan about mangling all sorts of pedal-...

Gut Feeling Podcast #12 - Lucas McFadden (Reserve 34)

April 27, 2022

Reserve 34 at Video In Studios. Photo by Gregory Adams The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Lucas McFadden, a Vancouver based musician...

PUP's Stefan Babcock on simple guitar set-ups: "just make this as idiot-proof as possible"

April 14, 2022

Photo by Vanessa Heins BY GREGORY ADAMS Few jilted love songs are primed to hit a guitarist where it hurts as much as PUP's "Matilda." The bittersweet, pop-...

Gut Feeling Podcast #11 - Larissa Loyva (Kellarissa)

March 30, 2022

Photo by Laura Harvey The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Larissa Loyva, a Vancouver based singer-songwriter currently releasing experimental...

Rewind: Year Future's Sonny Kay - "I’ve never really considered myself a musician"

March 17, 2022

Year Future at Modified Arts. Phoenix, AZ. Photos by Gregory Adams BY GREGORY ADAMS I recently found an old box of Memorex tapes containing interviews for a...

SASAMI on the transportive gaudiness of metal guitars

March 3, 2022

Photo by Drew Doggett BY GREGORY ADAMS Earlier this month I had the chance to speak with Los Angeles artist SASAMI for Northern Transmissions. The talk...

Spoon's Britt Daniel recalls experimental scraps of Get Nice!

February 17, 2022

Photo by Oliver Halfin BY GREGORY ADAMS Earlier this year I had a chance to speak with Spoon guitarist-vocalist Britt Daniel for Guitar World, with the talk...

Vancouver's Bratboy bring evolving fuzz, bondage-pop to "Dream Rope"

February 3, 2022

Photo c/o Bratboy BY GREGORY ADAMS While Bratboy singer-guitarist Bella Bébê describes the band's new "Dream Rope" single as "a pop song about...bondage,"...

Cloakroom's Bobby Markos on Dissolution Wave's glued headstocks and strategic fuzz

January 21, 2022

Photo by Vin Romero BY GREGORY ADAMS Earlier this month I had the chance to speak with Cloakroom bassist Bobby Markos for Northern Transmissions. In that...

Gut Feeling Podcast #10 - Adam Mitchell (Spectres)

December 29, 2021

Photo by Lindsey Wallace Hello! It's just about the end of the year, and once again I've invited Spectres guitarist Adam Mitchell onto the podcast to get...

Gut Feeling Podcast #9 - Ashley Webber (Ashley Shadow)

December 23, 2021

The latest Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Ashley Webber, a Vancouver based singer-songwriter whom just released her second solo album, Only The...

Rewind: S.T.R.E.E.T.S. - Skateboarding Totally Rules Everything Else Totally Sucks

December 16, 2021

S.T.R.E.E.T.S. at Pat's Pub.Photo by Gregory Adams. BY GREGORY ADAMS I must admit, that mini-guide to Global Symphonic from a few weeks back has still got me...

Chance Lovett's 7 year journey to soulful debut solo single

December 9, 2021

Photo by Victoria Black BY GREGORY ADAMS There’s a matter-of-fact efficiency to the title of Chance Lovett‘s latest single, “7 Years”. The soul song first...

Only Built 4 Recent Linx, Vol. 1

December 3, 2021

Failure, photo by Priscilla C. Scott Hi, hello! No interview this week, but I'm excited about the talks I can share a little later on in the month. While I'm...

METZ's Chris Slorach talks gratitude following massive gear theft

November 26, 2021

Photo by Norman Wong (IG) BY GREGORY ADAMS Even under the best circumstances, heading out on tour can be a total gamble of faith. Toronto noise-rock veterans...

Hotline TNT's Will Anderson talks Craigslist amp scores and neck-snapping shoegaze

November 18, 2021

BY GREGORY ADAMS You don’t have to be a total gearhead to know good tone. Sometimes all you need is volume and a lil bit of intuition. That just may be the...

Gut Feeling Rewind: A Luna Red - Finding warmth inside frigid souls.

November 11, 2021

BY GREGORY ADAMS Hey everyone! Shortly after posting last week's mini-guide to Global Symphonic, I remembered an old interview I'd done with A Luna Red's...

A mini-guide to Vancouver's Global Symphonic

November 4, 2021

BY GREGORY ADAMS Earlier this fall, Wolf Parade’s Spencer Krug announced he’s set to issue the first-ever vinyl pressing of his Sunset Rubdown project’s...

Matthew Sweet on his spooky musical salutes to Scooby-Doo

October 29, 2021

Photo by Evan Carter BY GREGORY ADAMS Released earlier this year, Matthew Sweet’s newest solo album, Catspaw, features the power pop great's most feral...

A mini-guide to New Jersey’s Gern Blandsten Records

October 22, 2021

BY GREGORY ADAMS “Fine musical products for the socially unaccepted” I’ve been trying to find a hard copy of this tagline/mission statement from Gern...

ACTORS on the cold, skewed solos of Acts of Worship: "I wanted to create the sound of the killer's mind unraveling"

October 8, 2021

Photo by Shannon Hemmett BY GREGORY ADAMS Of the many great scenes in Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat —his 1996 semi-fictionalized biopic on painter and friend...

Gut Feeling Podcast # 8 - Mark Palm (Supercrush)

September 23, 2021

This month's Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with Supercrush vocalist/guitarist Mark Palm. While currently based in Seattle, Mark grew up in Vancouver,...

Two Steps Down: Ken Olden on Damnation A.D.'s detuned drive

September 10, 2021

Damnation A.D. in the mid '90s You could look at Ken Olden's personal discography as an exercise in working in extremes. On the one hand, he's helped...

face to face's Trever Keith on punking up "Popeye" in the '90s

August 27, 2021

Photo by Derek Hahn BY GREGORY ADAMS For my money, one of the ‘90s best compilations was Saturday Morning: Cartoon’s Greatest Hits. Described at the time as...

Zoon's Daniel Monkman: I’ve got to put slide on this record...It really gives the feels

August 13, 2021

Photo by Vanessa Heins BY GREGORY ADAMS Whether through ethereal slide patterns or a mauve miasma of chord work, Zoon’s Daniel Monkman delivered a...

A mini-guide to the heavier side of Jade Tree Records

July 29, 2021

While occasionally accurate, it’s funny to think that a record label can be defined by a single genre. If you bring up Motown, Fat Wreck Chords, or Earache...

Gut Feeling Podcast # 7 - Terry Ondang (Noise Floor Recording Studio)

July 20, 2021

This month’s Gut Feeling Podcast is an interview with The Noise Floor Recording Studio‘s Terry Ondang. Currently based in Gabriola Island, B.C., the Noise...

Dumb's Nick Short on Spicing Up “Pizza Slice” with Whammy Action

July 16, 2021

Dumb’s “Pizza Slice” officially came out of the oven last week, but the Vancouver quartet’s latest, and arguably spiciest single (one side of a split 7-inch...

Gut Feeling Rewind: Tamaryn

July 8, 2021

Photo c/o Tamaryn BY GREGORY ADAMS We've got another rewind on-deck, this time looking at dark pop figure Tamaryn. I'd interviewed Tamaryn all the way back...

Missy D finds her voice through new Instagram interview series

July 2, 2021

Photo by Dessmin Sidhu Missy D has made her name in Vancouver as a longtime emcee with a penchant for soulfully-sung hooks. That’s on display, full-force,...

A mini-guide to Mud Records

June 25, 2021

Urbana, Illinois’ Mud Records began in the ‘90s as Geoff Merritt’s off-shoot label from his main imprint, the indie-pop focused Parasol Records (which,...

Soft Riot's Jack Duckworth surges through synth-driven Second Lives:

June 18, 2021

Photo c/o Soft Riot Jack Duckworth’s Discogs page is a hefty scroll-through, and even that is incomplete. Born on Vancouver Island but currently based in...

A mini-guide to Canadian punk hub Deranged Records

June 11, 2021

While seemingly having slowed down in recent years, Deranged Records remains one of the most prolific punk labels of the 21st century. Founded by Gord...

Said the Whale's Tyler Bancroft: "Finding a guitar tone that feels good is the hardest part of recording music"

June 4, 2021

Photo by Sterling LaRose (IG) Earlier this spring, Vancouver indie-pop veterans Said the Whale teased their still-in-the-works seventh full-length album with...

Gut Feeling Podcast #6 - Jimmy James (True Loves, DLO3)

May 27, 2021

The latest episode of the Gut Feeling Podcast is an extended look at True Loves / Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio guitarist Jimmy James, who I’d profiled for the...

Gut Feeling Rewind: Kylesa's Laura Pleasants

May 21, 2021

Kylesa circa the mid 00s Hey everybody! This week we're rolling with another rewind piece, this time looking back on Savannah, Georgia metal force Kylesa....

Jimmy James' platinum soul through a Silvertone

May 14, 2021

Photo c/o Jimmy James Written by Gregory Adams Jimmy James is a lifer in Seattle’s independent music scene, having slung soulful six-string licks across...

Gut Feeling Rewind: Betrayed's Aram Arslanian

April 26, 2021

Hey everyone, welcome back to Gut Feeling! Still working out some kinks, but the entire archive has been moved from Substack onto the newsletter’s current...

A quick update: moving Gut Feeling off of Substack

April 12, 2021

Hey everyone! Maybe you’ve caught wind of this, but either way it looks like the Substack Pro model has led to some rather exclusionary, transphobic rhetoric...

Diamond Rowe on Tetrarch's Negative Noise: "I wanted the solo to be weird instead of dad-shred"

April 9, 2021

Photo by Jeremy Saffer (IG) I recently had the chance to catch up with Tetrarch co-founders Diamond Rowe (guitar) and Josh Fore (guitar, vocals) for a piece...

Dyatlove's Rikki Jennings-Buford on pushing "The Chrysalis" past the pupal stage

April 2, 2021

Photo by Gordon Stephens Bands evolve over time, it’s only natural. Some shifts are obvious—consider the Beatles’ famously epic journey from their...

Motor-Psycho Nightmares: White Zombie's Sean Yseult on 29 years of La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1

March 26, 2021

Photo c/o Sean Yseult (IG) White Zombie’s trajectory was a wild one. Chronicled on 2016’s excellent It Came from N.Y.C. compendium, the group’s early days...

Vancouver's Devours Surviving the Game with new record label venture

March 19, 2021

BY GREGORY ADAMS It’s hard to make it in the music industry. Jeff Cancade, the Vancouver visionary behind Devours and the Golden Age of Wrestling, knows this...

Get Your Motor-Mine Conked Out: A brief look at Mid '90s Victoria Emo-Hardcore

March 12, 2021

New York City Rhythm, circa 1997. This week on the feed I caught Steve Bays— most well-known as the singer/keyboardist of Hot Hot Heat, but more recently...

Gut Feeling Podcast #5 - Ian Shelton (Regional Justice Center)

March 6, 2021

Photo by Mark Palm The latest episode of the Gut Feeling podcast is an interview with Regional Justice Center drummer/vocalist Ian Shelton. The band’s...

Sandstorm's P.J. La Griffe on bringing literal heavy metal to their Desert Warrior

February 26, 2021

Sandstorm are a mostly Vancouver-based trio whom released their Desert Warrior EP—the sophomore follow-up to 2019’s Time to Strike— earlier today through...

Gut Feeling Podcast #4 - Sean Lande (Strain)

February 19, 2021

Photo by Andrew Dennison The fourth episode of the Gut Feeling podcast is an interview with Sean Lande, lead guitarist and founding member of Strain, a...

The Farewell Bend's Brandon Butler: 'How many amplifiers can I get before it gets stupid?':

February 12, 2021

BY GREGORY ADAMS Kansas City’s the Farewell Bend burned briefly but brightly at the tail end of the ‘90s, an eyeblink in the grand scheme of post-hardcore....