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Tesla crashing. An interview with Jordan Dreyer of La Dispute

While doing research, I learned that some journalists who spoke with Jordan Dreyer around the release of No One Was Driving the Car in 2025 received nearly 50-page analyses of the album’s lyrics to help them prepare for the interview. It’s no surprise – just listening to any La Dispute record makes it clear that this vocalist’s works are essentially multi-layered, highly expansive novels. The same seems to apply to the interviews themselves.

Even though I caught Jordan backstage at Warsaw’s Proxima just before a sold-out March show, the result is probably the longest, most interesting, and at the same time the most pleasant conversation I’ve conducted for Undertone. About change, TikTok popularity, technology, the complex process of creating La Dispute’s music. About life. Give it a read.

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Heated Rivalry exploded! You can’t plan something like this. An interview with Peter Peter

I’ve learned more than once that the world is small and that life (not only mine) is often guided by happy coincidences — and my interview with Peter Peter is the best example of that. I first heard about this Canadian artist in 2024 and immediately started following his work. Even though I don’t understand more French than just “merci,” it turns out that language is no barrier at all — the real magic lies in the emotions you can hear in the music created by Peter Peter. Recently, the artist has gained even greater popularity thanks to the series “Heated Rivalry,” which tells the love story of two hockey players and for which he composed the soundtrack.

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It Started with Care and Love: Le Guess Who? And a Radical Act of Empathy

Le Guess Who? has been redefining what a music festival can mean — not only through bold programming, but also through the way it thinks about programming itself. In a world where culture is increasingly shaped by market logic, this festival offers something different: empathy as a radical act.

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Mistakes, messiness – no sequences. An interview with Author & Punisher

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Author & Punisher is celebrating 21 years, and Tristan Shone – engineer, composer, and vocalist – has released the project’s heaviest and most organic record to date. On the new album Nocturnal Birding, instead of cold sequences we get grit, mistakes, and raw energy: all played live. We talk about what it means to be an “industrial uncle,” why birds can inspire just as much as synthesizers, what it was like collaborating with Arca, and how volunteering at the U.S./Mexico border shaped Tristan’s work. It’s a conversation about an artist growing older, who after two decades on stage still manages to surprise. Both himself and his audience. Continue Reading “Mistakes, messiness – no sequences. An interview with Author & Punisher”

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5 non-metal albums that I love. Seb Alvarez (meth.)

Meth.’s music is a masterful blend of sludge, metal, post-hardcore, and noisecore, but the band’s vocalist, Seb Alvarez, points out that their inspirations reach far beyond those genres. That’s why, exclusively for Undertone, he put together a list of his favorite non-metal albums – and some of his picks are sure to surprise you! Continue Reading “5 non-metal albums that I love. Seb Alvarez (meth.)”

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Change takes time. An interview with George Clarke from Deafheaven

For over a decade, Deafheaven have been skillfully pushing the boundaries of what metal music can be – captivating and irritating music fans across the entire spectrum of guitar-based music. This year’s Lonely People with Power is not only the next step in the band’s artistic evolution, but also a deeply personal and mature reflection on how our perspective on ourselves, our families, the past, and the future shifts over time. I spoke with George Clarke about how Lonely People with Power works in a live setting, about photography as a personal medium, his collaboration with Paul Banks, his childhood, sobriety, and the idea of destiny – which, as it turns out, might not be so fixed after all. Continue Reading “Change takes time. An interview with George Clarke from Deafheaven”

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Dool – The Shape Of Fluidity – track by track

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