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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 for more

Bangladeafy Jon Ehlers’ pedalboard (Bass)

Bellows talk about their music, guitars, pedals & synths

[caption id="attachment_24760" align="aligncenter" width="620"] picture by Richard Gin[/caption] Bellows is the bedroom project of Brooklyn songwriter/guitarist/producer Oliver Kalb, an ex member of now defunct NYC artist collective The Epoch. Active with this solo project since the beginning of the decade, Oliver has developed a sound that's at once melodic, edgy and…... Click for more

Bellows talk about their music, guitars, pedals & synths

Send Medicine’s guitar pedals in “July Eyes”

Inspired by the mind expanding sounds of the '60s, Send Medicine began as the solo project for Toronto based singer/songwriter Julian Hacquebard in the summer of 2012. Now based in Los Angeles and expanded to five (and at times six) members , the band, in debut album "Scary Aquarius Daughter" honed…... Click for more

Send Medicine’s guitar pedals in “July Eyes”

Color Tongue Pedals & Creative Process

Color Tongue is a spacey, indie-psych rock band hailing from Brooklyn. Their latest release, Sprouts, is 8 tracks of inventive, sometimes atmospheric tracks, that while feeling expansive, ground itself with both its fun and infectious qualities. With such a myriad of different sounds coming from their latest record, we were curious…... Click for more

Color Tongue Pedals & Creative Process

Brooklyn’s The Boobies talk about Pedals

Brooklyn's own The Boobies are a garage pop four-piece with some instant-earworm songwriting chops, but don't let that fool you---the group isn't afraid to get dirty and bare their fangs when they mean it. With the recent release of their single, "Children of the Dark Art," the band agreed to give…... Click for more

Brooklyn’s The Boobies talk about Pedals

The Luyas’ synth and pedal arsenal

To celebrate our upcoming, first Montreal Stompbox Exhibit, we decided to interview one of the most intriguing Montreal bands of the moment: with ethereal vocals, and thick, multi-layered instrumentals, The Luyas craft the type of songs that yield new musical discoveries on each pass. Their dreamy indie/psych, engaging lyricism, and sometimes…... Click for more

The Luyas’ synth and pedal arsenal

James Supercave’s favorite pedal and synth

After winning The Deli's Best of 2015 LA Poll for Emerging Artist, in 2016 James Supercave went on to deliver on that "promise" with their perfect 2016 full length debut 'Better Strange.' This is one of those bands able to marry, in their songs, utter catchiness with a tense darkness and an overall enigmatic aura. We…... Click for more

James Supercave’s favorite pedal and synth

Lola Colt’s guitar pedals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_s2nakjoNw London-based sextet, Lola Colt, is moody, enigmatic, and offer such a palpable, otherworldly music that it's easy to find yourself swept up in their sound and tumbling down dark corridors led by a slew of fuzzy guitars, soaring melodic swells, and a set of siren-like vocals. With such a layered,…... Click for more

Lola Colt’s guitar pedals

Kassassin Street’s Pedals, Synths and Creative Process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uyYOZ7lXs4 Hailing from the UK's Southsea region, Kassassin Street brings a refreshingly breezy approach to psychedelia, with a danceability factor that will intrigue music fans nostalgic of the glorious psych pop British bands of the late '80s and early '90s, from the Charlatans to The Stone Roses to Happy Mondays. Throughout their still…... Click for more

Kassassin Street’s Pedals, Synths and Creative Process

Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pedals & Creative Process

Western MA-based GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! is one of those bands crafting deliciously head-spinning math-rock licks so labyrinthine, that you'd imagine it'd be tough for even a full four or five piece band to execute. So, when you hear that their music is the work of solely Joseph Andreoli (guitar) and Kenneth Topham (drums), it's…... Click for more

Giraffes? Giraffes! – Pedals & Creative Process

Doom Metal Band, King Woman, Talks about Guitar and Bass Pedals

If the ground were to one day crack open, and the sounds of Tartarus began to seep out of the earth, I'd like to imagine the hellish cacophony would sound a bit like King Woman. The San Francisco-based four-piece crafts the sort of doom metal that seems to herald the…... Click for more

Doom Metal Band, King Woman, Talks about Guitar and Bass Pedals

Delicate Steve’s Effect Pedals

This Is Steve by Delicate SteveIf music is language, Delicate Steve's mother tongue is electric guitar - with an assorted stompbox accent. Few contemporary guitarists master the six strings' vocabulary the way he does, unafraid as he is to experiment with tone, effects, and parts. Edgy and forward looking artists…... Click for more

Delicate Steve’s Effect Pedals