Drew Gardner and Jesse Sheppard, the two-guitar duo of Elkhorn, share a musical brotherhood that spans several decades. From their nascent high school socialist-realist post punk band, Mayfirst, to teenage scavenger trips to the Princeton Record Exchange and City Gardens, the two came of age goofing along to the Dead Kennedys, the Butthole Surfers, and Sonic Youth in the dank Jersey/Philly-scene music holes. After college in the nineties Drew moved off to San Francisco and got deep into the free jazz/energy music scene as a drummer, where he collaborated with John Tchicai among many other heavy hitters. Post-college Jesse was transfixed by the modal excursions of ‘70s electric Miles Davis and the exploratory prognostications of King Crimson and Jimi Hendrix. When Drew moved back east in the late ’90s, the two were again in the same place at the same time, and it was only natural to play music together. A few years later Jesse decamped to the Philadelphia suburbs to raise a family and pursue filmmaking, and in the process discovered both American Primitive music—Jack Rose was living in Philly at the time and performing regularly—and his instrument—twelve-string acoustic guitar. Around the same time, Drew picked up the Fender Telecaster again, with an ear toward the extended electric solos of classic rock and a foundation of improvisational practice at his back.

The inherent duality of the band—acoustic/electric, traditional/modern, 12-string/6-string, fingerpicking/plectrum, ostinato/lead—coalesced to create the unified Elkhorn sound. They played their first show in 2013, and put out three official releases over the coming years: Elkhorn (Beyond Beyond is Beyond, 2016), The Black River (Debacle, 2017), and Lionfish (Eiderdown, 2018). East and West coast tours followed. With the double albums Sun Cycle and Elk Jam (Feeding Tube, 2019) Elkhorn stepped firmly into a series of collaborative efforts that redefined their ever-changing sound. Recording at Black Dirt again, the duo fluidly expanded to include Willie Lane on third guitar and Ryan Jewell on drums and tabla. The following year they returned with The Storm Sessions (Beyond Beyond is Beyond, 2020) and The Acoustic Storm Sessions (Centripetal Force/Cardinal Fuzz, 2020), recorded at Gardner’s Harlem home studio with long-time friend, Turner Williams on shahi baaja and electric bouzouki. The band's truncated March of 2020 tour was documented on the Southern Star cassette (Warhen Records, 2021) and shows the band in full flight with a wide range of guests, including Mike Gangloff of the band Pelt. Later that year The Golden Lag tape (Blue Hole Recordings, 2021) came out, documenting the band's only livestream performance of the pandemic. Jesse and Drew performed from Jesse's home, while Turner joined via WhatsApp from Marseille, France. Elkhorn music unfolds at its own pace. It is music with a point of view and momentum. It begins with an intention to be sincere and fully expressive in the moment, and often results in musical journeys toward transcendence. The duo is multitudes. The duo is one.

-Bio from Elkhorn site

Born in Paris, France, Amelie Rousseaux grew up with a mother who was an opera singe and a father who appreciated more of the rock n’ roll side of things. It was in the stars that Rousseaux would become a musician and artists herself and at the age of 12 her life changed drastically by David Bowie’s stellar “Heroes” album. Prior to Sofia Bolt, Rousseaux participated in a band called The Water Babies and in 2013 she was accompanied by her friend Louise Roam and together the first Sofia Bolt album was made. In this interview we explore Rousseaux’s youth growing up in France, the influence of her mother’s opera background, David Bowie, getting her first electric guitar, starting Sofia Bolt some 10 years ago and much more!

Jennings grew up in the Hillsboro Village in Nashville, TN where he rode skateboards and played with the local neighborhood kids. His parents got him a kid drum set and allowed him to take classical flute lessons, but quickly he transitioned to music of his own, finding something more personal and special within its unmeasurable gifts. He eventually met his close friend and bandmate, Jack Quiggins. The two lived in Knoxville, TN when they first formed T&TRR alongside their other friend, Matt McQueen on drums. The trio would soon meet Luke Schneider and eventually have the opportunity to work with the great Margo Price! In this interview we explore Jennings’ youth growing up, being surrounded by musical neighbors and families, relocating to Knoxville to form T&TRR, working with Margo Price and much more!

Athens, Georgia-based guitarist Shane Parish devotes much of his time to developing his singular and expressive voice as a composer, improviser and songwriter. He is a self-taught musician who communicates through emotion, unexpected melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuanced sense of form, and rich timbral variety, simultaneously drawing from the guitar’s history and aiming for its future. Avant Music News described Parish as “one of the most consistently innovative finger-picking acoustic guitarists in a generation.” In 2016, he was recognized for his solo acoustic efforts by composer John Zorn, who issued the album Undertaker Please Drive Slow on Tzadik Records, hailing it as “a remarkable and soulful acoustic solo project that digs deep into Appalachian roots… At times reminiscent of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, at times of John Cage and Morton Feldman.” Parish has self-released numerous recordings of folk interpretations in the years since Undertaker. According to All About Jazz, "Parish's deeply personalized spin on roots music transcends any semblances of playing it safe. More importantly, he establishes a musical conduit that pays homage to tradition while unlocking new passageways, enacted with the utmost sincerity." In 2022, he released Liverpool (Dear Life Records), a collection of sea shanties and nautical ballads reimagined for electric guitar.

Folk Radio UK noted, “One of his reasons for making this album was to unlock ‘the code to resonance within the body’, the inscrutable power that exists within worksongs that makes them timeless and uniquely human. It’s safe to say that he has achieved that goal and made a breathtaking and singular album in the process.”Parish also fronts the electric prog-punk band Ahleuchatistas, described as “…knotty, instrumental rock that blends punk, prog, jazz, non-Western music and improv into something exhilarating and even awe-inspiring [Wire Magazine]", "possessed of many moments of beauty and mayhem [Pitchfork]", "the kind of musical tug-of-war that sounds as jagged as it is graceful [NPR]", and "music of upfront physicality and twitchy intent [New York Times]”. Their 2004 album, The Same and the Other, (re-issued in 2008 on Tzadik Records) was described by John Zorn as “one of the most intense documents of compositional rock complexity ever recorded,” and “a cult rock masterpiece.” Ahleuchatistas has toured internationally and released nine albums on labels such as Tzadik, International Anthem and Cuneiform Records. In 2022 the band released their head-exploding maximalist 9th album, Expansion, with an all new trio lineup, featuring legendary bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle) and drum virtuoso Danny Piechocki.

In recent years, Parish has been performing a collection of original outsider folk songs that combine play-on-words about cognitive dissonance, personal excavation, sweet longing, subtle subversion, moral support, and mourning, with his singular and intricate acoustic guitar inventions. Like the scattershot trajectory of his career—free-folk improvisor, finger-style experimentalist, prog-punk shredder—Parish’s songs integrate a wide range of styles and techniques into well-crafted nuggets of sincerity and whimsy. A blazing country blues about apocalyptic forebodings careens into a mid-tempo minimalist pulse drone, ornamented by ethereal whispers of good intentions. An odd-metered contrapuntal prog-folk psychological thriller depicts the inner tension between multiple selves searching for authenticity. Delicately fingerpicked minor figures cascade beneath a deadpan spoken word poem about the futility of waiting to subvert the system from within. Harmonically rich and meticulously constructed musical eulogies mourn the passing of friends and loved ones, while basking in their eternal presence. The pieces move seamlessly in and out of Parish’s breathtaking instrumental flights of fancy, and candid extemporaneous musings. In the Spring of 2021, Parish received a surprise message from guitarist/composer Bill Orcutt, asking: “Can I send you some music?” Orcutt sent a recording of his forthcoming album Music for Four Guitars, and asked if Parish could transcribe it. Parish produced an 85-page score that was included as a PDF download with purchase of the album, which was released in September 2022.

Subsequently, The Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet formed with Ava Mendoza and Wendy Eisenberg joining Bill and Shane. The group began performing in Spring of 2023. Parish also enjoys improvising with friends and teaching lessons.

-Bio from Pasrish’s site

Born and raised in Nor-Cal, Hostetter was a single child that grew up spending separate time with her parents in different areas of the state. With both households bringing different influences to her childhood, she recalls her mother playing the likes of Johnny Cash, The Beatles and Peter Paul and Mary being very important in her formative years. Hostetter eventually found her own bands such as The Beach Boys, David Bowie, Bob Dylan and the more contemporary, Mac DeMarco. While attending college, she realized she needed more, so related to a commune in Anaheim where her spirit and musical horizon were expanded by the like of Buffalo Springfield, The Dead and Neil Young.

Taking a job at Vibrato, Herb Apert’s Jazz Club in Bel Air, Hostetter met her then boyfriend, Will Worden and the duo began playing music together and would soon meet her now bandmates and friends: Sam Burton, Connor (Catfish) Gallaher, Pierce Gibson, and Noel Friesen. In this interview we explore Hostetter’s youth growing up between two parents, her early influences, moving to a commune, meeting Sam Burton and the gang and her most recent project, Lady Apple Tree.

From Florida to Asheville, NC, McCassim grew up with a very influential home with parents that played the likes of Norah Jones, Fiest, Joni Mitchell and Dixie Chicks. McCassim’s parents got her behind the piano at an early age and by the time she started attending middle school, she was already exploring songwriting. Studying as an engineer major, it was until after graduating that McCassim knew there was something else in the stars for her. In this interview we explore McCassim’s youth growing up in Asheville, her influences, meeting her friend and bandmate Ryan Pollie, opening for Sharon Van Etten and her new EP Dual Twin (“This EP explores themes of family, my relationship with my mother and ultimately belonging. It was all recorded in one take.”) We’re also very excited to be debuting her short documentary surrounding the EP on Primitive Man Soundz!

Award winning composer, arranger, engineer and producer, Robert Slap is a native of Detroit, Michigan. His music spans a wide spectrum of styles that include R&B, Rock, Soul/Funk, Jazz, New Age, Latin, World, and Film music. His career kicked off in 1966 with the release of the garage band rocker, "Farmer John" recorded with the Tidal Waves. Signing with Hanna Barbera Records, Slap toured with many of the 60's great acts, including the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, Butterfield Blues Band, Herman's Hermits, Dobie Grey, MC5, Bob Seger, Mitch Ryder and later with Alice Cooper, Van Halen and many more. He continued his work as a session and touring guitarist with the Magic Tones, David Ruffin and the Drifters. He relocated to Los Angeles in the '70's to pursue his passion, working with a young Detroit songwriter, John Angelos, and reforming the Detroit based group "Mighty Quick". He also worked with Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson (MC5) with the group "Secrets", releasing a few records, but finding no audience.

In 1982 the hand of fate crossed his path and Robert joined Valley of the Sun Publishing in Malibu, CA. working as music director and producer for the  "New Age" label  until 1993. It was during these years Slap expanded his vision of music and tonalities, and mastering the craft of recording and producing records. He has over  40 album credits with various artists during that period. In the 90's he produced a series of recordings for Great American Audio including a line of aerobic exercise music and the popular "Music for Relaxation" series. He also had music featured on the Leeza Gibbons show and several other cable network series. Slap’s music has been featured on radio, broadcast TV shows, movie soundtrack/trailers, videos and documentaries. Currently, Robert writes and licenses his  music through GMP Music Library, Bongo Boy Records and the NUMERO GROUP, wich is currently releasing a retrospective of his recording catalog from 1983 -1996. In 2022, Intercontinental Music Awards honored Robert with "Best Production" for his recording of "Why can't we live together?".  He is a current voting member of NARAS and continues to search for new artists and music to explore with.

(Bio from Slap’s website)

Born and raised in Stockton, California, Olin was influenced by his parent’s house jams by the likes of John Lennon, Leon Redbone, Carly Simon and Michael Franks in his youth. By the time Olin was in middle school, music truly left its mark on his heart with an introduction to the Repo Man Soundtrack. Groups like Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Jonathan Richman and Iggy Pop eventually creeped in as the 1980s punk and hardcore scene revolutionized its youth. Olin formed his very first group in college called The Muse. A group that explored the growing appreciation for country, but in the “alt” vain, but after a change of heart, Olin left this group and eventually met his longtime friend and collaborator, the great Kyle Field of Little Wings. Relocating to Portland, OR in 2000, Olin really began to harness his craft during this time as he explored and expressed his abilities as a songwriter for the next two decades! In this interview we explore Olin’s youth growing up with his sisters, seeing a bong for the first time at an outdoor Herbie Hancock concert, eventually relocating to Portland, his pals and longtime collaborators: Lee Baggett and Kyle Field and his most recent record, Gary Owens, “I Have Some Thoughts” that will be released on Perpetual Doom later this summer!

Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, Plunket grew up with a father who was a preacher and a family that was very musically involved with their church where Plunket played drums. The hardcore scene was very prevalent as Plunket became a teenager and found his community in music before eventually relocating to Nashville, TN in 2010 where participated in his very own projects such as Psychic Hotline with Jessica McFarland and JP5. Plunket eventually met his friend and bandmate, Brian Kotzur and together the two set out to form a band on their own terms. And that was Country Westerns! In this interview we explore Plunket’s youth growing up in Atlanta and Athens, GA before relating to Nashville, TN, forming Country Westerns, becoming close with the Soft Junk folks, signing with Fat Possum, meeting and playing with the great Matt Sweeney and their new record that releases everywhere on April 28th!

Sam Blasucci is best known as one half of Mapache, a Southern California roots-rock duo just as instantly recognizable for their elegant, intertwined guitar parts as they are for their devoted, Nudie-Suit wearing fanbase. But when Blasucci was writing the songs that would become his debut solo record, Off My Stars, he found himself less focused on the guitar and more gravitated toward a different instrument: piano. The mother of Clay Finch, his Mapache bandmate, was getting rid of one, and so Blasucci took the piano, carefully transporting it to his home in Ojai, California, with the help of a few strong friends, including Farmer Dave Scher of Beachwood Sparks (and a Mapache collaborator). “Farmer Dave wasn’t even wearing shoes,” Blasucci remembers, laughing. Once the piano was safely in there, he became deeply attached, playing on it multiple hours a day: “It’s changed the way I think about music, having all the keys laid out in front of me,” he explains. “Having that sort of changed everything.” Also inspired by his recent time riding out the pandemic in New Orleans, where the clubs may have closed, but the music never stopped, Blasucci used that piano to start writing one of the most inspired batches of songs of his career thus far.

New gems like “Turn Yourself Around” and “Sha La La” were developing with a Southern swing and classic songbook sparkle, and when assessing the growing stack of music he was working on, Blasucci realized that there was something about these tunes that wasn’t quite suited for a Mapache record. Infused with an honest, personal perspective about settling into adult life—about developing as a person and a partner and a family member—these songs were straight from the heart, a clear window, recently Windexed, into the life of one of the most talented members of the L.A.-area underground rock scene. Using just as much inspiration from the music of Ronnie Wood and Sade as the films of Ingmar Bergman and the writing of Brian Doyle, Blasucci started to see a vision of songs that are all “fully autobiographical.” Blasucci reached out to songwriter and producer Johnny Payne, and the two decamped to Dan Horne’s Lone Palm Studio, the home/studio where Mapache has in the past both recorded and abided in. Blasucci’s direction to Payne—acting as producer and as multi-instrumentalist, performing on everything from shaker to “guitar pancake”—was simple: no pretense, no affect, no Mr. Cool. This approach is most evident through covers on the record—like a stripped-down, achingly beautiful version of Dido’s ubiquitous “Thank You,” or a New Orleans-porch-worthy version of the Cranberries’ classic “Linger.” “There was nothing ironic or gimmicky about wanting to do those,” notes Blasucci.

“I just really, really love those songs.” Also covered on Off My Stars is a raw take on Jimmy Fontana’s timeless ballad “Il Mondo,” sung in its original Italian by Blasucci, who belts it in a performance that ends with him giving it all he has, his voice cracking as he reaches the song’s epic finale. “Il Mondo” is a song that Blasucci particularly wanted to do as a means to get more in touch with his Italian roots—and this wouldn’t be the only way he’d tap into family on the album. On “Proud of You Dad,” Blasucci dug into his archives for a song that’s he had for some time, originally having written and recorded it just for his father, David Blasucci, a musician who was at one time a touring member in the band Toto, and who has performed and acted in Christopher Guest movies like A Mighty Wind. “If I ever told you this while we were in the same room / I know you would cover your ears and run,” Sam sings over a rustic, campfire acoustic progression. As Sam explains, David was a crucial influence on his taste: “A lot of the underlying styles that influenced the rest of the songs on the record definitely come from what he introduced me to,” Sam says. But Sam is his own man now, writing the new chapters of his own life with an aw-shucks tone that belies his prolific workload. Even through the pandemic—and even with the ongoing backlogs at pressing plants—Blasucci has still managed to put out beloved Mapache records in each of the last three years, and he and the band have no plans to slow down anytime soon. “I’m definitely the type of artist that is constantly creating,” Sam says, matter of fact. “And I can’t seem to really stop.”.

(Bio: Blasucci’s Bandcamp)

Born and raised in Farmersville, OH, Tirey grew up in the country where there were no street lights, typical commitments to get anywhere and hardly anyone around. But this special backdrop that intimidates a lot would eventually lead to Tirey’s love for music, more specifically, songwriting. Influenced by the likes of Conway Twitty and Dwight Yoakam in his early years, Tirey eventually started his very own band after high-school, Wes Tirey and The Easy Hearts and soon after relocated to Dayton for more action. With a few releases already under his belt at the time, Tirey released “I Stood Among Trees” with Dying For Bad Music and soon after his highly antiquated follow up “O, Annihilator” on Full Spectrum Records. Tirey now currently resides in Asheville, NC where he continues to work on music with his most recent music project, “Michael Ondaatje's “collected works of Billy the Kid” that will be released by the fine folks over at Sun Cru. In this interview we explore Tirey’s youth growing up in Ohio, his early influences, seeing Brooks and Dunn back in the day, living in Asheville, elements of songwriting, records he’s released over the years and his most recent project he’s absolutely stoked to share with the world!

The Heavy Heavy create the kind of unfettered rock-and-roll that warps time and place, immediately pulling the audience into a euphoric fugue state with its own sun-soaked atmosphere. Led by lifelong musicians Will Turner and Georgie Fuller, the Brighton, UK-based band began with a shared ambition of “making records that sound like our favorite records ever,” and soon arrived at a reverb-drenched collision of psychedelia and blues, acid rock and sunshine pop. As revealed on their gloriously hazy debut EP Life and Life Only, The Heavy Heavy breathe an incandescent new energy into sounds from decades ago, transcending eras with a hypnotic ease. In dreaming up Life and Life Only, The Heavy Heavy tapped into many of the musical touchstones that Turner describes as “deeply entrenched in our psyche”: Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, the Rolling Stones, British Invasion pop acts like the Hollies, folk-blues duo Delaney & Bonnie, to name just a few. Pushing past the confines of reverential pastiche, the band imbues their output with a strangely charmed quality and heady authenticity undeniably tied to their status as artists on the fringe, both philosophically and geographically. To that end, Turner hails from the remote town of Malvern, an enchanted stretch of the English countryside once frequented by the likes of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Kate Bush. “It’s famous for the healing qualities of its water, and there are ancient trees where the Druids used to worship—there’s a sort of magical-hippie aspect to it,” he notes. Fuller, meanwhile, elevates every track with her spellbinding vocals and magnetic yet wholly unaffected presence, building upon a kaleidoscopic career that’s included performing at Montreux Jazz Festival as a teenager as well as acting in the London theater.

Rooted in their effusive harmonies and fuzzed-out guitar work, Life and Life Only contains the first track Turner and Fuller ever recorded as The Heavy Heavy, a lilting piece of psych-pop titled “Go Down River.” “I’d had this song a while and couldn’t quite finish it, but then once Georgie added her vocals it all came together,” Turner recalls. “The male-female harmonies gave it this whole new sound; it just felt like lying in the green grass on a hot sunny day.” Self-produced in a London flat, the six-track project also brings that transportive power to songs like “Miles and Miles” (a bright and jangly number whose whirlwind velocity calls to mind late-’60s/early-’70s road dramas like Easy Rider and Vanishing Point), “Man of the Hills” (a groove-heavy homage to Turner’s otherworldly hometown), and “Sleeping on Grassy Ground” (a sweetly languid epic featuring a near-operatic vocal performance from Fuller, a classically trained singer). With their full-length debut due out in next year, The Heavy Heavy recently expanded their lineup to five members, allowing for an even more vast and bombastic sound now touched with heavenly four-part harmonies. A massively prolific outfit who’ve written and recorded hundreds of songs in the last two years alone, the band feels perpetually inspired by the pursuit of making music that provides a rarefied pleasure. “The driving force behind all our songwriting is to feel good, and to make other people feel good too,” Fuller points out. And thanks to their uncanny grace as sonic alchemists, The Heavy Heavy ultimately perform a certain magic with their music: eliciting a sublime daze that goes far beyond pure escapism.

In a little over one year The Heavy Heavy have toured relentlessly in the United States and Europe, garnering numerous accolades from both fans and critics. The Guardian deemed the band “one to watch” and praised their “thrillingly instinctive retro rock;” NME listed them as an Essential Emerging Artist for 2023. The Heavy Heavy appeared on national television on CBS Saturday Morning, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Their single “Miles & Miles” reached the top 5 of the Billboard AAA and Americana Radio Charts. The band also landed high profile placements, such as Netflix’s popular series Outer Banks. ATO Records released an expanded version of their EP Life and Life Only in March 2023, which includes harmony-laden covers of Father John Misty’s “Real Love Baby, CSNY’s “Guinnevere,” and Jonathan Wilson’s “Desert Raven.”

(Bio: from band’s site)

A London Based band formed by Reid Morrison And Laurie Sherman who are also members of Treetop Flyers. The two friends grew up relatively close to each other in West London and were influenced by skateboarding, football (soccer) and artists such as Van Morrison, Dylan, The Misfits, The Beatles and Jackson Browne. The duo met while participating in separate bands, but as the universe would have it, they joined together and over time Albert was born out of the ashes of pandemic. In this interview we explore both Morrison and Sherman’s youth growing up, their influences and what led them to get into music, forming their post-Albert groups and of course their most recent project… Albert!

Michael Dixon lives and breathes vinyl recordings. He runs multiple successful vinyl companies – based on his longtime love of education, records, outsider art and repurposing junk into handmade art pieces. He makes records by hand, one at a time, on 1940’s record cutting lathes. He runs several record labels and travels the world teaching crowds at events and festivals the secret art of vinyl record production. Michael's vinyl mini-empire is delivering living documents that are deeply rooted in a rich history and treasured artifacts that travel well into the future.

From Dixon’s site:

Raised in Bedfordshire, Sharp was raised in a very musical household with influences on him such as Michael Jackson, Paul Simon and The Incredible String Band before falling in love with bands like Sex Pistols, Oasis and hip-hop later down the line. When it came time for Sharp to play music himself, he wanted to be in AC/DC until his young ears heard Nirvana for the first time and then it was on! Sharp would later on form Wolf People when he moved back to Bedfordshire from London and would go on to release three incredible records on Jagjaguwar before the band went on a hiatus in 2020. But this did not stop Sharp from pursuing his love and passion for music. Recently he started a new project called Large Plants and In this interview we explore Sharp’s youth growing up his brothers, getting into music and going to see shows, starting Wolf People and eventually Large Plants.

Born in Hackensack, New Jersey to his native New York family, the Hirsch family decided to relocate to California when he was a young, finding out quickly that he was not a “beach kid”. Hirsch new he had a passion for music though and at the age of 13 he saw an insane lineup up at Irvine Meadows: The Ramones, Debbie Harry and Tom-Tom Club! As Hirsch got older and went off to college, he gravitated towards the hardcore scene that was going on at the time. Pparticipating in bands such as Ex-Ignota, Boxharp and The Court and Spark, he eventually met his longtime friend and bandmate, Mike Taylor. Together they started Hiss Golden Messenger before Hirsch began to venture out as a solo artists in years to come. Still heavily involved with HGM, Hirsch has been channeling his own material with 2021’s release of “Windless Day”, its sister album “Ghost of Windless Day” and most recently his Lagniappe Session for Aquarium Drunkard! It was great chatting with Hirsch about his life, how he got into music, meeting MT, kicking off an incredible solo career and much more!

Born in Western Mass, Bond was asked a very serious question by his mother around the time he was in 4th grade, “drums, or saxophone?”. In which Bond replied, “which one will get me the most girls?” He was a drummer right then there! Bond was and still is, very influenced by The Beatles and would later be swept up by Nirvana, more specifically, Dave Grohl. As time went on it would be that Bond would have the opportunity to play with folks that he admired such as John Andrews and Max Clarke, eventually joining their bands and helping to make their records and tours what they are! In this interview we explore Bond’s youth growing up with his sister, becoming a drummer, playing the local circuits, meeting the Woodsist family, making drumming his life and much more!

Born in LA to Belarusian immigrants, Shusterman relocated with his family as kid to Colorado where he would eventually set his roots and find his musical community. Being influenced by The Beatles, he picked up the keys and at just the age of 12 he started his very first band. In 2012 he met Ratecliff and after a few demos were sent across the table, he asked Shusterman if he’d be interested in working together and they’ve been inseparable ever since! In this interview we explore Shusterman’s youth, his early influences such as Nirvana, Radiohead and Brian Eno’s "Another Green World”, seeing Depeche Mode in the late 90s, playing in his local scene with future bandmates, meeting Ratecliff and much more!

Born and raised in Toronto, Sohota and his family moved to Northern California at just the age of four. He was influenced early on by Bollywood music his parents would listen too. He would later find the music that one of his sisters was listening to quickly sharpening his musical pallet and by the time he was in middle school, he was fully submerged. Prior to Healing Potpourri, Sohota participated in groups such as Produce Produce, Monterey Babe Aquarium, Gaarth, Burgers and G. Green. In 2013 he moved to San Fran to further pursue his music and find a community of like minded folks. During the pandemic Sohota released “Blanket Of Calm”, and “Paradise” and has been paving a way for HP ever since!

Born in Glendale, CA, Schwab began to fall in love with music as a young kid and was influenced by artists such as The Beatles, Elliott Smith, Todd Rundgren, Jon Brian, Everly Brothers, CSNY and his father’s band “Mad Anthony”. As Schwab began to enter his 20’s he tapped into his very own songwriting capabilities and immediately wrote his first song. In this interview we explore Schwab’s childhood growing up, meeting bandmate Jacob Loeb, forming Golden Daze and eventually Sylvie. With a summer tour in Europe and a new Sylvie album underway, Schwab has a lot of music to share with the world and we coudln’t be more excited to see and hear what he has in store.