How John Sebastian Beat the Devil as Daniel Mouse
BY GREGORY ADAMS There are a good chunk of spooky cartoons spinning through my brain around Halloween, but one that stands out in particular is 1978’s The...
Rewind - The Promise Ring x Evil Beavers Interview (1998)
Photo by Chrissy Piper BY GREGORY ADAMS Hey folks! Gut Feeling has just crossed the two-year mark, and to celebrate I'm taking things all the way back to my...
A mini-guide to '80s horror's hard rock zombies
BY GREGORY ADAMS Unless you're a year-round horror fan, odds are good you up your slasher and monster movie quota once October kicks in. I know I do! As...
Rewind: Hella's Spencer Seim chirps hard on duo's double solo album experiment
Hella at the Ché Café. La Jolla, CA. 2004. Photo by Gregory Adams BY GREGORY ADAMS Sometimes I forget what's in the archive. A while back I was looking at an...
Peter Matthew Bauer on Flowers' newfound lead fluidity, and transmogrifying hardcore into ska
Photo by Charlie Anastasis BY GREGORY ADAMS Peter Matthew Bauer has entered his guitar hero phase. For proof, take the onetime Walkmen bassist/organist’s...
Creeping Death's Trey Pemberton joins the TW Smith Guitars family with snarling custom Challenger
Photo by Adam Cedillo BY GREGORY ADAMS There’s nothing quite like the feeling of breaking in a new guitar. For Creeping Death guitarist Trey Pemberton, that...
Tunneling Through Kill Rock Stars' Hardcore Rabbit Hole
BY GREGORY ADAMS It has been a long while since the last label guide. This time we’re looking at some hardcore deep cuts from the Kill Rock Stars catalogue....
Heaven For Real on finding vintage guitars "all over the place" for tone-expanding Energy Bar
Photo by Beatrice Scharf-Pierzchala BY GREGORY ADAMS While the gearhounds obsessively refreshing the front page of Reverb.com would disagree, Heaven for...
PONY's Sam Bielanski on new single and bringing sass to My Little Pony voice work
Photo by Pretty Matty BY GREGORY ADAMS While Sam Bielanski's PONY just released another Pop Rocks-dusted bash in the form of "Did It Again," it turns out the...
Big Rig's Jen Twynn Payne brings bittersweet banjo twang to emo tunes
Photo by Geoffo Reith BY GREGORY ADAMS It's not too often an album is responsible for the birth of a music genre, but Vancouver outfit Big Rig's self-titled...
Gut Feeling Podcast #14 - Kyle De Ville (Enact)
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)
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
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)
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"
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)
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"
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
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!
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"
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,"...