What’s the intention behind the music? Our ‘Stories’ section brings you interviews, features, personal opinions and columns about your favourite passion in the world.
For the third time in a row, NBHAP editor Chris attended one of Düsseldorf's most beloved festivals whose motto is Beautiful Music, Beautiful Places'. These have been the most beautiful ones ...
The talented Australian musician is back with new solo material and an extended tour. Time for a recap and a detailed outlook to what's about to happen next year.
A carefully curated programme packed with surprises and all your favourite new bands from 2020. The Spanish festival institution definitely knows how to craft such an event.
West Kirby - a seaside town half an hour train ride away from Liverpool - is the place where Bill Ryder-Jones records and writes his music. NBHAP author Louisa visited him in his hometown to get an insight into his latest record 'Yawn' and also beyond that.
Hamburg is the city where the Beatles were once started out. And it comes naturally that the city’s festival Reeperbahn Festival is a power plant for young bands waiting to be discovered. One of them are Pip Blom, a young band based in Amsterdam, who have been touring with names such as Garbage or Franz Ferdinand. We sat down to talk with them at the Beatles statue - where else?
With two new albums on the same label arriving almost simultaneously followed by a European tour together the teaming-up of these two made way too much sense. So, in order to have an appropriate preparation for that we reached out to both artists simultaneously as well.
The charming songwriter returns with his sweetly slack new album 'Bottle It In' after last year's collaborative release 'Lotta Sea Lice' with Courtney Barnett. It turns out, he is not so slack after all, having recorded the new songs all across The United States in various sessions. The epic result is sonically charming with a smooth vibe and lo-fi appeal.
Emma and Mia Kemppainen took the long road to their new record, but in the end Sad Bangers dancing steps through burnout and bleakness makes it their most rewarding album yet. NBHAP editor Austin Maloney had a conversation with them about it.
Especially with her latest album 'Turn Out The Lights' Julien Baker won hearts all over the world, turning the 23 year old American into the darling of emotional indie songwriting. With her newly found supergroup Boygenius she just dropped another more than promising project. A talk to her reveals that she's got no agenda with all that, but to connect: The marginalized, the angry, the majority. All can relate to her disarming emotionality.
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