I’ve been waiting a year for this album. I saw the Stick Men play live last year in Manhattan (with the California Guitar Trio), and I loved the show so much I saw them again a few days later in New Jersey. They played with high energy, humor, and most importantly, Chapman sticks! Some of [...]

Nick: Hello Dejan. Thank you for making this interview possible. How are you doing?
Dejan: Thank you for approaching me (us). I am like the weather these days, up, down, left right and then in the center.

Nick: Let’s start from an obvious spot, which is introducing your band, EYOT. How did it all start? [...]

What we’ve got here is the second album of these Italian prog metallers, and it happens to be the one that introduced me to their music. The thing that pops into my mind is the obvious influence of Dream Theater.  What’s mostly expressed through is, I have to say, remarkable musicianship. This album brings the [...]

Nick: Hello Paul. How are you doing?
Paul: I’m well, thanks.
Nick: How was the European tour you just completed? It’s good that you are back again and I hope there will be another leg of that one, so you might come and play Serbia again. You played here last year for the second time [...]

Nick: Hello, Mr. Wooton. Thank you for making this interview possible. What’s the latest news coming from Comus? There has been a 7” vinyl EP limited edition release, featuring a Comus song, besides involvement from Rameses III and Simon Finn. What can you say about this?
Roger: We played the HMV Forum with them in [...]

If someone has told me at the beginning of this year, that I might consider an album which has been both recorded and produced in two days, for the best album in 2010, I would probably laugh to death. But, I wouldn’t feel ashamed to accept that I failed on that one, because My Brother The Wind, a band consisted of Anekdoten’s Nicklas Barker, Makajodama’s Mathias Danielsson, Magnolia’s Ronny Eriksson and Tomas Eriksson, has made and produced a brilliant achievement, that would probably made even worst pessimist to believe in impossible. At the other side, this band is maybe not consisted of the elite of the genre, but doesn’t mean that they are not highly skilled and experienced musicians who know how to make a great record.

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Nick: Hey there, Danilo. How are you these days? You’ve just played the Exit festival, so how was it? Also, what are your impressions of the Faith No More concert? I know you’re a huge fan of them so seeing them live in Serbia must have been pretty special.

Danilo: Hey Nikola! I’m great. Really really great. I’m feeling that way beacuse of that Faith No More show! Maybe it’s too early to tell, but hell, I think it was the best gig in my whole life. I’m into Faith No More since I was 6-7 years old. I remember watching the Epic video clip and next thing I remember is listening to The Real Thing album. Angel Dust was the first bootleg tape I bought at the black market. It was 1992, it was war already over here and it was impossible to find music except bootleging it. I remember that the tape was lousy taped and the sound was really crap. Maybe I wouldn’t noticed if I didn’t tape a clip of Midlife Crisis before I went to buy it, so I went to the market to replace it. The guy was so surprised since I was a kid, a nine year old who could tell if the recording was crap or not! I got King For A Day CD for my 12th birthday from my brother and it was one of the first CD’s I ever got. It was also one of the most beautiful presents I got – being a kid and listening to some long-awaited album for the first time on the original CD, with great sound and looking at the lyrics at the same time… It’s one of those moments. After their 1998 breakup I was in doubt I’d ever had a chance of seeing them live. Last year when they announced the reunion thing, I was so happy! And the moment a friend sent me SMS that they’re booked for this year’s festival… I was over the roof. She was really sweet by telling me that way before the official festival statement was announced. I still keep that message in my phone

It is very common to link the term of “space rock” with Hawkwind, a band whose first album was released back in 1970, that’s a lot of time. Anyway, the band is still composing and creating very good songs and albums. Their last one had been released in 2006, but now after four years they returned with “Blood of the Earth”, and believe me, it is nice to see a veteran band creating stuff like this. The album is composed by ten tracks, with a total time of almost one hour, so fasten your seatbelts and prepare to this musical journey.

Nick: Gösta Berlings Saga started its musical journey back in 2000, if I’m not wrong, so this year is your 10th anniversary! Please tell us something more about your first days with GBS. How did it all begin?

Alex: You are absolutely right about the 10th anniversary, but personally I believe I will wait until 2014 before I celebrate it full-scale. However, what happened in 2000 was the first seed of what later became GBS. Me (Alex) and David shared rehearsal space at that time, with no real connection to each other apart from knowing each other from school, but we had no idea of our shared musical influences until we started talking at a meeting in our rehearsal space. I had been listening to progressive rock for a few years and David was playing in a cover band playing songs by The Doors, as well as playing other organ driven 60’s songs. Both of us were heavily into Hansson & Karlsson so we basically decided to stay after the meeting and it did not take many minutes for us to realize that we were onto something fun. And “fun” is probably the keyword for what has been our biggest influence ever since.