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Featured Artists – Stompboxes

Overlake’s Pedals and Creative Process

Overlake specializes in serving up gazey and delicious tracks that showcase strong songwriting chops. Though there’s enough wall-of-sound goodness to sink your teeth into, the band also manages to meld upbeat, indie-inspired choruses that you may find echoing up in the space between your ears all day. We asked them…Click on the title for more

Overlake’s Pedals and Creative Process

Heaven’s Pedals & Creative Process

A staple of the NYC music scene, Brooklyn band Heaven play music that sits somewhere between shoegaze and psych sensibilities and produces songs that act as sonic love notes to both genres. Their mind bending tracks have the ability to sound vast, sweeping and decidedly, not of this earth. Being the word…Click on the title for more

Heaven’s Pedals & Creative Process

Mutoid Man’s Pedals & Creative Process

only way to get any gain was to pin every knob to 10 and strum the guitar as hard as possible - even then it provided soft gain at best. Several broken strings later, I'd managed to savesome paper route money and bought my first distortion pedal - the DOD American…Click on the title for more

Mutoid Man’s Pedals & Creative Process

Salt Cathedral’s Live Rig

This is a cool interview by REMEZCLA with synth pop duo Salt Cathedral about their gear and live show set up. This is a really talented, Brooklyn based band hailing from Columbia that has been covered extensively in our sister blog The Deli NYC. https://www.youtube.com/embed/T3m4YecxdnE The pedals they use are mostly for vocals,…Click on the title for more

Salt Cathedral’s Live Rig

The pedals of Electric Eye’s Øystein Braut – in 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9OU4f-hLSA You'll be hard pressed to find a current band that sounds more psychedelic than Electric Eye, but the Norwegian group throughout the years has evolved far beyond that genre's mind altering confines. The band incorporates spacey sounds and fuzzy drones paired against a slick classic rock aesthetic. With those thick,…Click on the title for more

The pedals of Electric Eye’s Øystein Braut – in 2017

Fruit & Flowers’ Gear & Creative Process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTR246Km6co If you are feeling in the mood for surfy and grungey sonic fun, we've got a band for ya: they are called Fruit & Flowers and they hail from Brooklyn, NY. The four-piece is technically skilled, with fast-paced and fleshed-out guitar parts (as heard in tracks like “Pick Fairy”)…Click on the title for more

Fruit & Flowers’ Gear & Creative Process

Arthur Moon’s Pedals, Synths & Creative Process

Photo by Mia Min Yen (https://www.instagram.com/miaminyenphotos/) Lora: your past is in roots-ier genres, what prompted you to explore more adventurous sonic soundscapes? I think I’ll always be influenced by the way some American folk music can be so bizarre/illogical yet so emotionally accessible at the same time. Right now, the exploration…Click on the title for more

Arthur Moon’s Pedals, Synths & Creative Process

Prince’s Pedalboard Around 2012

The other day, one of our interns tragically spelled "pedals" with a "t" - guitar "petals" - which is actually kind of cute, since our beloved stompboxes do, in a way, look like colorful (square) petals. For fun, I Googled "petal shaped pedalboard" and this image popped up. A sense…Click on the title for more

Prince’s Pedalboard Around 2012

Sharkmuffin’s Pedals & Creative Process

NYC-based Sharkmuffin creates punchy garage rock wrapped in a fuzzy, '60s cool that is at once feminine and fearless. On the heels of a new album release, the masterminds behind the band, Tarra Thiessen (guitar/vox) and Natalie Kirch (bass/vox) gave us an in-depth look into the meaning behind their latest tracks,…Click on the title for more

Sharkmuffin’s Pedals & Creative Process

Field Mouse – Q&A about Pedals and the Creative Process

We have both watched each episode of Futurama (Season 1-5) at least 100 times each. So think about that. Really think about what a commitment to TV that is. What’s been inspiring your latest album, and why is it entitled "Episodic"? There was a lot of stuff that had happened…Click on the title for more

Field Mouse – Q&A about Pedals and the Creative Process

Guerilla Toss – Q&A about Gear and the Creative Process behind ‘GT Ultra’

Brooklyn via Boston avant-punks Guerilla Toss are ready to enter the next stage of their career with the release of a new full-length (entitled "GT ULTRA") on DFA Records. The album steps up the production values by several notches, broadening the act's appeal without affecting the "edge factor" that allowed them to…Click on the title for more

Guerilla Toss – Q&A about Gear and the Creative Process behind ‘GT Ultra’

Bangladeafy Jon Ehlers’ pedalboard (Bass)

If you understand music from a technical and creative angle, Brooklyn/Long Island duo Bangladeafy will, in all likelihood, blow your mind. We praised them enough already in our sister blog The Deli (they placed 2nd in our Best of NYC 2017 Yearly Poll for emerging artists, and their 2016 album…Click on the title for more

Bangladeafy Jon Ehlers’ pedalboard (Bass)