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It's a good interview: Dead Confederate

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Coming within the next week will be an exclusive interview with Dead Confederate ... so yeah, pay attention!

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DeadJournalist.com's exclusive interview with Mason Proper is up. Check out this quality interview with the boys from Michigan here

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It is in my hands, so this week I'll be posting my exclusive interview with Michigan's Mason Proper. It's a good one, you'll want to check it out!

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My exclusive interview with Pierre de Reeder will be up later tonight. de Reeder, who released his debut solo album last month, is also the bassist for Rilo Kiley.

Here's an outtake from the interview:

Who were the artists that influenced you the most as a younger musician? Who most influences you now?

PdR: Ah influences É such a broad thing. Because even music I heard when I was six still has a lasting influence.

My young, young years had a lot of Tom Jones, Sinatra, Humberdink, etc. floating around the household.

But I guess I really started being interested in being a ÒmusicianÓ when I was around 14 and right at that time I was just coming out of a lot of classic rock. Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, etc. And moving into a strange combination of Reggae and Goth rock!

IÕve moved through the worlds of The Pixies, David Bowie, The Cure, The Zombies, Willie Nelson, The Jayhawks, Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith, Dylan, Neil Young and on and on. All of which endure and have had their influence.

ThatÕs the funny thing, to some degree, they always will.

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News and Notes coming this weekend. Interview with The Old Believers also coming this weekend.

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I'm happy to announce that my interview with Albert Hammond Jr. (solo/The Strokes) will be going up early this week.

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My interview with the Swedish band Those Dancing Days has been up for a couple of weeks, so check it out!

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My interview with the Swedish band, The Bell, is now up (link below). I've mentioned this band several times this year. Their new album came out last week, and it is a worthy purchase. The band has a mature sound that is steeped in the classic post-punk tradition.

The Bell Interview

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New Today: An exclusive interview with Snowden.

Here's an excerpt:
With the success of the band, it's no longer a project, so what is the most challenging aspect of being a "professional" musician? What do you wish you could change most about the reality of the music industry?

JJ: The challenging part of being an artist today is that there's no map to follow anymore. Yes, information is free and you can deliver your music to anyone in the world in a few minutes, but you're screaming out from a pack of a million animals. How can you be heard? How can you survive with less and less "grass" so to speak? We're part of an evolution right now and the only answers are trial and error.

For the full interview, click: here

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Check out this new interview with A Sunny Day in Glasgow (with MP3): HERE

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Check out our new, exclusive interview with Young Galaxy!

DeadJournalist.com Exclusive Interview with Young Galaxy

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The site is coming back slowly, and so with that lovely intro, the interview with Thee More Shallows is up. So check it out.

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if you read this site regularly, or if you are reading this for the first time, you've probably noticed that there haven't been any new interviews up in almost a month. i believe there's a saying, something along the lines of, "music is for the youth". while that isn't completely true - there is some merit to the concept.

a good friend of mine, who is my age, asked me yesterday what i had been listening to lately. my reply? nothing, there's simply been no time. even when there has been time, there hasn't been the drive to dive into a new cd and listen to it for hours. for the past eight months, i've been hoping that it would change. despite some blips here and there, it hasn't.

DeadJournalist.com was my next-generation way of staying in the music. i did not intend to let it languish as a time capsule; and especially not since readership was at it's zenith. reality is reality, and the reality is i'm not sure how much time i'll have to devote myself to the site in the upcoming months.

there are two three interviews that i only need to post, and six band made commitments to do interviews. i hope to complete these, at the least.

in the meantime, thank you for reading the site. i hope you've enjoyed the interviews. and hopefully, the laws of physics will get the site back in motion soon.

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The interview with Hail Social is in and will be going up soon.

It's either feast or famine with me these days. There are a number of interviews going in and coming out as quickly as I can get on them.

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EXCLUSIVE Interview: The Raveonettes
Chuck Norton, DeadJournalist.com
05.10.07

Five years ago, while walking through the CD section of a major electronics retailer, an album cover caught my eye. It looked like a movie poster from a 1950's noir film. Five minutes later, I owned the album.

It only took one listed to the EP to get me hooked. The band, Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, blended vintage rock and pop, all in a minor cord (B-flat) to create a distinctive sound that was, and is, unmistakable.

Thus began my affection for The Raveonettes.

From that 2002 EP, Whip It On, to their last release, 2005's Pretty In Black, The Raveonettes' slick, rebellious rock 'n roll sound evolved dramatically.

Pretty in Black found the band diversifying its sound by adding a techo beat to "Twilight" (which was influenced by both '50's sci-fi and Miss Kittin) and legendary voicalist Ronnie Spector on "Ode to L.A".

read more: here

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Very exciting - just got back the interview from Sune of the Raveonettes, so be looking for it in the next day or so!

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