Gut Feeling Rewind: Tamaryn
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
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,...
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A mini-guide to Mud Records
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:
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...
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A mini-guide to Canadian punk hub Deranged Records
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"
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)
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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?':
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....