Interview: Serena Ryder

by Talia Soghomonian

Canadian singer/songwriter Serena Ryder has been compared to many of the greats, from as Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin. After linking up with Canadian singer Hawksley Workman and signing to his label, she released her...

Interview: System Of A Down

by Talia Soghomonian

“Hi sweetie!” System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian greets everyone warmly, no matter how tired – or sick – he is.“I just woke up feeling real sick today. I’ve just been too stressed recently.”More...

HIM’s Ville Valo: “Sad music tends to make Finnish people happy! They never...

by Chris Ingold

Finnish goth-rockers HIM became superstars with the hugely successful Love Metal album and are now about to release its follow-up, Dark Light. musicOMH took the opportunity to catch up with garrulous frontman Ville Valo while...

King’s X: “We are the perpetual underdogs and we’re championed for it...

by Vik Bansal

Sometimes Lady Justice gets all moody and sticks a podgy middle finger up to the world. How else are we to explain the fact that veteran Texan trio King’s X were a massive influence on...

Death Cab For Cutie: “To think about kids having their first kiss to a Death Cab ...

by David Turnbull

Death Cab For Cutie are in the middle of the most important year of their careers to date. Having switched from an independent label to Atlantic, appeared on the smash teen drama The OC and...

Daniel Wylie: “I’m not in this for the money. I’m suspicious of peopl...

by Ben Hogwood

Daniel Wylie is the former frontman of Glasgow’s Cosmic Rough Riders, the band he left in 2002 to pursue a solo career. That solo career produced the critically acclaimed Ramshackle Beauty, and he’s about to...

Ash: “We’ve never said that this is the best we’re going to get”...

by Vik Bansal

It only feels like yesterday that a trio of Northern Irish sixth-formers called Ash were setting the world alight with their Jack Names The Planets, Petrol and Uncle Pat singles. It’s 10 years since vocalist...

The National: “It’s a kind of euphoric mix of whisky and adrenalin” &...

by Ben Hogwood

The National take brotherly love to new levels. Not one but two sets of siblings make up four fifths of the New York band, augmented by vocalist Matt Berninger. On the back of third album...

Interview: The Polyphonic Spree

by Jeremy Lloyd

Two years ago, at a time when The Strokes, The Hives and The Datsuns were hailed as the saviours of rock’n’roll, The Polyphonic Spree came along and offered something very different. Their white robes and 25-strong...

Interview: Sheryl Crow

by Talia Soghomonian

Far from being crippled, Sheryl Crow is back, and she’s sowing the seeds of melodies in her garden of Wildflower. She’s won nine Grammys, acted on the big screen and has notched up 14 years in...

Interview: Taz

by Ben Hogwood

South London’s musical riches are beginning to be mined to their full potential, particularly as far as urban music is concerned. Joining Roots Manuva, Dizzee Rascal, So Solid Crew, Ms Dynamite and Ty, there is...

Interview: Cherie Charles

by Ben Hogwood

The name Cherie Charles may not yet seem familiar, but if I replaced Charles with Ocean and said her father’s name is Billy, then you might immediately think: “When the going gets tough, the tough...

Interview: Five O’Clock Heroes

by Jeremy Lloyd

Five O’Clock Heroes are a rock ‘n’ roll quartet from New York. A two parts British, two parts American outfit, they’ve gained a fair amount of attention recently after releasing a handful of punchy, hook...

Interview: Dear Eskiimo

by Ian Roullier

‘Pop’: often no more than the sound made by the imploding egos of poor X-Factor wannabes.Their over-hyped, over-marketed, overblown forays into the world of music seeing them go from number one to no-one quicker than...

Sigur Rós: “The Icelandic mentality doesn’t include running down a street ...

by Michael Hubbard

For a band whose lyrics have never been in English and whose songs regularly clock in at more than six minutes long, Iceland’s second biggest musical export, Sigur Rós, are astonishingly successful. Even before the...

Midge Ure: “I fell into situations and found myself in amazing scenarios” &...

by Vik Bansal

Midge Ure has had about a dozen careers in one. Frontman of chart-topping ’70s popsters Slik; fill-in guitarist for the legendary Thin Lizzy; brains behind new romantics Visage; driving force behind Ultravox; successful solo artist...

Suicide’s Martin Rev: “There is no-one really to oppose America’s glo...

by Greta Pistaceci

The year 2002 sees the unexpected yet welcome return of two legends of contemporary music – Alan Vega and Martin Rev, known better together as Suicide. Part of the ’70s New York scene that spawned...

David Sylvian: “I’m not too good at small talk but love to get straight to what...

by Anthony Reynolds

David Sylvian, born in the year of the Dog, is now 20 years away from his most famous image – the bleach and the make-up – and is writing on a laptop from his bedroom....

Ed Harcourt: “I wanted to do something about man’s descent into madnessR...

by Linda Serck

Ed Harcourt is currently on tour promoting his successful third album Strangers, and of course musicOMH couldn’t let the opportunity pass to sit this multi-talented man down for an interview. So, on a drizzly afternoon...

Ash Grunwald: “What I’m doing is a cross between old delta blues, and hip-h...

by Michael Hubbard

On Melbourne’s vibrant blues scene you’ll find more besides grizzled exponents of traditional blues music. Alongside these virtuosos are exciting artists using their Australian roots and new technology to evolve the blues into the 21st...