Lou Dominguez Q&A

Your name:

Lou Dominguez.

Where are you from?

Vienna, Virginia, USA.

How would you describe yourselves and your music?  

Folk/Americana.

Who are your main influences musically?  

Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Leonard Cohen, U2, REM, Warren Zevon.

What do you hope to achieve in music?  

My goal is to get my songs heard by as many people as possible.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?

Working with Producer John Jennings whose producing and playing credits include but are not limited to Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls, John Gorka, Tracy Grammar. 

And what’s the moment you want to forget?  

LOL, Too many to list here. I once had a journalist come to a CD release party. She missed the show but asked if I could do a number as the house thinned out. I had done a bit too much celebrating after the set. I walked off the stage in the middle of the song like I was Axl Rose because I kept screwing up the song. 

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?  

Record Store. It's got a connection to the past, it's about music, it's straight forward, it's a good representation, although I hate having to pick one song :-)

Where can we listen to it? 

www.loudominguez.com

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Where can we find out more about your music? 

www.loudominguez.com   

www.facebook.com/loudominguezmusic?ref=hl    

twitter.com/LouDominguezwtp  

itunes.apple.com/us/artist/lou-dominguez/id726493678

www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_srch_drd_B00FYI657A?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Lou%20Dominguez&index=digital-music&search-type=ss 

Dead Man Orchestra Q&A

Band name: 

Dead Man Orchestra.

Where are you from?

Beautiful ol' Vienna, Austria.

Who is in your band?

We are a so called classic power trio.

Christian Prehsler: Vocals, Guitar

Florian Frankl: Bass

Markus Haschny: Drums

When we go for an acoustic gig we might fill in other roles - even a banjo was spotted once.

How would you describe yourselves and your music?

We are a rock band, soaked in 90's grunge with a little of dirty old men blues on top of it. Dark but catchy and a little too old to die young…

Who are your main influences musically?

Oh, we like all kinds of stuff (as long as it's played by real musicians). Our tastes in music go in the same direction but differ in the details - which is a great because it offers us a variety of ideas to play with.

Markus' drumming is mainly inspired by hard punchers such as Dave Grohl (Nirvana) and Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Flo is into such things as Tom Waits and some weird, drunken pirate songs, and Chris has an affection to badly recorded noise rock.

  

What do you hope to achieve in music?

We hope to play exciting places and venues in front of a crowd that digs our music. (Unlimited supplies of booze and women wouldn't hurt either ;-) .)

  

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?

Doing this Q&A for your blog, of course!

And what’s the moment you want to forget?

If we wanted to forget a moment we probably would. Naturally we forget more than we can remember, so we are working hard on NOT forgetting things. If there is a moment we don't like, we just stop trying to remember it all the time aaand it's gone. What was the question again?

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?

For us it's impossible to break that down to just one song. We think our EP "The Final Twitch" represents our music best. A wide spectrum from laid back jazzy tunes to screaming guitars and buzzing drums.

Where can we listen to it?

http://soundcloud.com/dead-man-orchestra

Where can we find out more about your music?

deadmanorchestra.com

facebook.com/DeadManOrchestra

twitter.com/DeadManOrchestr

youtube.com/user/DeadManOrchestra

reverbnation.com/deadmanorchestra

soundcloud.com/dead-man-orchestra

cdbaby.com/cd/deadmanorchestra

Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I forgot to ask?

Check out the video to our single „Dragging You Down“: http://youtu.be/ZOJ31n6UFQw?list=UUyCN6FhCEgl76H3AYjh1I4Q

Erika Lloyd Q&A

Your name:
Erika Lloyd, previously known as Little Grey Girlfriend.

Where are you from?
I was born in Virgina USA, but because I come from a military family I have also lived in Heidelberg and Geoppingen Germany, Kansas, and North Carolina, and studied in Indiana and Vienna, Austria.  I currently live in Brooklyn, NY.

How would you describe yourself?
Experimental pop.

Who are your main influences musically?

Kate Bush, Jane Siberry, David Bowie, Goldfrapp, Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode, and Joni Mitchell.

What do you hope to achieve in music?

Communication in a deeply emotional and direct way: illuminating beauty, while telling of experiences and observations.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?

Being in the audience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Chanticleer's performance of a choral arrangement of my song "Cells Planets." It felt like a fantastic dream.

And what’s the moment you want to forget?

There are quite a few small moments I wish I didn't have to deal with on such a regular basis: mainly dealing with people who make a living trying to take advantage of eager musicians like booking agents who don't care about music, people with press relations or licensing scams, club owners, etc.

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?

"Time Pops Bubbles" because it is dark, but upbeat. 

Where can we listen to it?

http://littlegreygirlfriend.com/albums/little-grey-girlfriend/time-pops-bubbles-lyrics/


Where can we find out more about your music? 

http://www.erikalloydmusic.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/little-grey-girlfriend/id216067956

https://twitter.com/erikalloydmusic

https://www.facebook.com/erikalloydmusic

Anything else you’d like to say about your band/music that I forgot to ask?

I am currently transitioning into performing and recording as Erika Lloyd rather than Little Grey Girlfriend. I will be performing a few solo shows this spring, just vocals and piano, and then will add band members back in and record a new album. Upcoming solo shows: Thurs May 22, 7:30p at Caffe Vivaldi NY,NY and Fri June 13, 9p at The Hive Art Space Bushwick, Brooklyn NY.

Burning Chase Q&A

Your name:

Stefan Strasser - guitar, vocals.

Where are you from?

We’re all from in and around Vienna, Austria.

Name of band:

Burning Chase.

Who else is in your band?

Tom Goethe - also guitar and vocals. We share rhythm and lead parts for guitar as well as main and backing vocals more or less equally.

Siegfried Swoboda - drummer with the loudest snare in town

We’re currently transitioning between bassists, because Johana, our last one, will move back to Prague, where she’s from, to study.

How would you describe yourselves?

Alternative rock with funk, pop, heavy influences. It’s hard to pin it down, because it seems we’re constantly changing.

Who are your main influences musically?

Personally, Foo Fighters, King’s X, Dream Theater, Nuno Bettencourt, AC/DC … I really love rock music that kicks ass, but I like lots of different styles, from Beethoven over Stevie Wonder to Opeth. And I know Sigi, our drummer, also loves all kinds of rock music, Dave Matthews Band, Yes, also Foo Fighters, and is very much into everything funky and groovy, including fusion and jazz funk. Tom has a thing for John Mayer, but he also has a very diverse taste, as far as I know.

What do you hope to achieve in music?

Have fun! Write songs that people enjoy. Tom is the only professional musician in our group, but he makes his money with other projects and mainly with working as a sound engineer. Everybody else has a (more or less "normal") daytime job, which means we have to set realistic goals for our band. Playing some live shows, getting a song in the radio, reaching people and making them dance and enjoy themselves are what would make us feel accomplished.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?

Personally, my highlights are always great live shows where the crowd enjoys itself. I remember one particular one I had with my band in Japan (I used to live there for a couple of years) when we rocked a small dive bar that was absolutely packed. That was awesome! Or the one gig with another band where we played at the inauguration party of a Harley Davidson custom shop. That was a highlight, because I made more money with music that night than ever before or after, haha.

And what’s the moment you want to forget?

I’ve witnessed it a couple of times that a clash of egos destroyed or almost destroyed a band. That’s probably the worst thing for me in this world of making music / being in a band.

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?

Ooohhh… Impossible! We have only released two songs so fat that I could point to. I would probably pick Lie because I wrote it. But we have so many other great and different songs. It’s like asking a parent to pick their favorite child!

Where can we listen to it?

On Myspace: https://myspace.com/burningchase/music/songs

Or Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/burningchase

Where can we find out more about your music?

Well, our online presence is in it’s fledgling state. But you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Soundcloud.

https://www.facebook.com/BurningChase

https://twitter.com/BurningChase

https://myspace.com/burningchase

https://soundcloud.com/burningchase

Anything else you’d like to say about your band/music that I forgot to ask?

Well, some people ask us if we’re a political band. That’s because the two songs we have released so far are about the encroaching surveillance state (Step by Step) and about constantly being lied to by politicians and authority figures (Lie). Also, our band name is based about a series of paintings called Burning Chase, which show branches of Chase banks going up in flames. So, the question is justified. But, in fact, I’d say 90% of our songs are about a different subject matter. Personally, I am a rather politically minded individual with a skeptical, cynical and critical view of the world, so that’s bound to show up in some of the lyrics now and then. Most of our lyrics are about love, personal relations and stuff like that though.