_Sandbox Magazine Interviews Me!

Check out an interview with me from Sandbox Magazine, a Winnipeg online magazine. I’m featured as an ‘internet sensation’! Wow!

Thanks Sandbox!

View the interview here.

“If you’re looking for an alert, young-minded look at the independent music scene, Edmonton’s Vinyl & Vodka is one such blog noting the next alternative generation. You know the ones, this generation that has been won away from the charts by crossover groups from later in this decade, like Vampire Weekend, Santigold, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. V&V founder Willis Hip, however, still posts about Lady Gaga in heart-shaped phrases whenever she unleashes another audacious video.”

_Total Babe Plays 7th Street Entry (Interview) – Part 2

V&V: I don’t know if you had a chance to check out the blog within the last couple of weeks. But I wrote a little preview about you guys and mentioned your style/genre. I referred to it as Dream pop with a stylized folk structure. Would you say this is accurate?

TB: I think we are all pretty bad at describing ourselves. But yeah that’s accurate.

V&V: what lead you all to start collaborating as a band?

TB: What lead us….Well…… We’d all been working on different projects that kind of fell apart. Then we all got together and tried again and it worked. And we knew Jordan who is really great at guitar. We started off by trying classical, acoustic Classical, and then finally settled on our current sound and got lucky. Our current drummer has been with us for about 5 months now the other one left the band. He is actually the longest we’ve had a drummer.

V&V: That’s surprising. Who would not be in a band that books shows regularly??

TB: I think he left our band to be in a Sublime cover band.

V&V: I bet he’s regretting that decision now.

TB: Well we felt bad, we talked to him last night and he asked if we were playing any shows. And we told him we just played in the First Avenue main room w/ Drinking with Ian. And he was just kind of like “oohh”. But he’s cool and congratulated us. (more…)