Cheese on Toast met up with Die Die Die last week to have a chat about the release of their brand new album Form.

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The other week Cheese on Toast popped over to Tono’s flat in Grey Lynn to have a chat about Tono and the Finance Company and their brand new and awesome EP.

Watch it here

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Cheese on Toast popped over to Golden Axe’s flat in Eden Terrace the other morning to have a chat with Chris and Daif about their new album Fantasy Footwork.

You can watch the video of the interview here

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Last week we met up with Eddie Numbers at a local train station for a bit of a chat

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Eddie Numbers is playing at Cheese on Toast’s MUM night this Friday 9 July

check out his EP at bandcamp

Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, QOTSA etc etc) is coming to NZ this week to play his first ever solo shows here – and we’re pretty excited – Cheese on Toast spoke with Mark on the phone from his home in LA last week.

Listen to the interview here

Friday 2 July – Bodega
Saturday 3 July – Kings Arms

Cheese on Toast chatted with Tom and Antony of Glass Owls – who have just released their debut EP.

Watch the interview here

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Cheese on Toast spoke to Quinn Wlaker, singer of New York quartet Suckers on the eve of the release of their debut album.

The album, called Wild Smile is being released, in this part of the world, on Spunk and it’s being lauded as the album equivalent of David Bowie in Labyrinth. Suckers got together in 2007 when Quinn, his cousin Austin Fisher and their friend Pan would jump on stage before and after performances by their friends (and at that time still relatively unknown) bands – MGMT, Yeasayer, Chairlift and Real Estate.

Suckers released a self titled EP last year which was produced by Anand Wilder of Yeasayer and the internet media loved the shit out of it – led by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NME, and Nylon. This new full album is produced by Chris Zane who has produced The Walkmen, The National and Tapes n Tapes.

Anyway, you can listen to our interview with Quinn here. [side note - we fixed our audio problem and this is a lot clearer than, say the Hurts interview - sorry about that!]

Cheese on Toast went to visit Rachel & John from The Broken Heartbreakers at “Heartbreaker HQ” to have a wee chat about their brand new album Wintersun which is out now.

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See them live on tour – Christchurch @ Harborlight 25 June / Dunedin @ Chicks 26 June / Wellington @ Happy 2 July / Auckland @ Grey Lynn Library Hall 3 July

The other week Cheese on Toast spoke with Theor from Manchester electro-pop duo Hurts.

Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson met outside a nightclub, one thinking the other was in a band; turned out they both just wanted to be. After much to-ing and fro-ing they met musically on Prince.

“…the one thing that’s best about him is his he has got creative control of every aspect of what Prince is …he’s in control of the visual side of what he wants to say with his music.” Theo explains, going on to talk about how he feels pop music is better when total creative control is allowed to sit with the artists : “…that’s when the nature of pop music thrives – it thrives on individuality and the uniqueness of vision. That’s some thing that’s been diluted; it’s a very American thing to dilute it. There’s no harm in having the ambition of some of these big American acts, but if you can try and do it on your own terms it makes for a better output, I think, and it’s more believable and less patronizing.”

But they didn’t become Hurts immediately, having played in bands together for a while before decided to strip it all back down to the just the two of them in early 2009 :

“We had a couple of bands before, the two of us assembled a couple bands around us, but in hindsight they were the best kind of apprenticeship we could have asked for… we learned what to do and what not to do, most importantly… and then we eventually decided to keep it as the two of us, because democracy is overrated in the music industry – you can’t have too many cooks….”

Listen to the full interview here, where Theo also talks about recording their debut self titled album whch is due out in August.

Just the other day we caught up with Peter Hayes of BRMC on the phone.

They had just come off stage at a club in Sweden, and Peter was sounding “pretttty relaxed”

Have a listen to the interview here

BRMC play
FRI JULY 23rd • AUCKLAND • THE POWERSTATION
SAT JULY 24th • WELLINGTON • SAN FRAN BATH HOUSE
SUN JULY 25th • CHRISTCHURCH • AL’S BAR