Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"

Artificial Go: "Playing Music Together Has Felt Like Playing Hopscotch on a Sunny Day"

Josephine Network: "I Have a Vivid Memory of My Dad Playing Me a 45 of 'Great Balls of Fire' by Jerry Lee Lewis and It Totally Freaked Me Out. I Have Been a Rock N Roll Victim Ever Since"

Brower: "I've Joked That This Is My 'Depression Album,' and I Was Conflicted About Whether It's Too Serious"

The Unpredictable and Unmistakable Sounds of Chris Burns & His Going Concerns

Sharp Pins: "Without All Ages Shows, I Wouldn't Have Met My Best Friends in the World and I Wouldn't Be Inspired at All to Do Anything I'm Doing, or at Least the Stuff I'm Doing Wouldn't Be Very Good"

Winston Hightower: "I Found Myself Falling in Love With Punk Instead of Art School"

The Sheaves: An Ear-Scorching and Earthshakingly Spectacle

In The Red Records' Larry Hardy: "The Records All Sold Five or Six-Thousand Copies. Suddenly, I Was a Real Label" (Part Two)

From Suicidal Actresses to The Thames, Here's Marcel Wave!

Dummy: "We Make Things You Are Meant To Listen to From Front to Back"

John Andrews & The Yawns: "There've Been Some Artistic Decisions That I've Made That I Wish I Had Another Person To Bounce Ideas off Of. But You Live and You Learn and You Grow as an Artist"

The Strangely Addictive and Abrasive Sounds of Ismatic Guru

Shop Talk: "A Band Is Very Much Like a Polyamorous Marriage and I Am Very Glad To Be in a Happy One"

In The Red Records' Larry Hardy: "I Had The Stooges' 'Raw Power' by Late 1975, Way Before Punk Rock" (Part One)

Answering Machines: "I Started This Band To Have Fun and Do Whatever I Wanted"

Love Fiend: "Our Work in the Past Has Been a Little More Random and Disjointed, so We Wanted To Do the Opposite on This Record"

Self Improvement: Danceable but a Caustic Force

Ménage Détroit: "It Came Into Fruition Very Naturally. Duos Are Also Easy Because We Can Actually Communicate and Schedule Stuff"

The Spatulas: "It's Interesting to See What Develops From Opening Myself up to So Many Different Musicians"