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Good Question: Yvette Young of Covet

June 25, 2020 California Featured Articles Good Question Jacob Unterreiner

by Jacob Unterreiner

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I’ve spoken to a lot of musicians in my life. If I’ve learned one thing from these conversations it is that it is hard to pursue music in a balanced, healthy way. There’s a never ending wave of variables threatening artists–economic instability, narcissism, obsessiveness, and insecurity to name a few. So when you encounter somebody balanced, they really stand out.

I believe Yvette Young is one of those special people who has arrived at a balanced place. She might disagree with this categorization, and I’m sure she’s still got things she wants to improve, but from my perspective she has managed to compose incredibly impactful music with her band Covet while gracefully navigating the pressures of being a generational guitar talent, a social media phenomenon, and a bandleader…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of The YabYum Hour: Jacob Unterreiner

June 15, 2019 Anna Katen Arizona music Bonnie Anderson Featured Articles Garrett Bowers Jacob Unterreiner Radio Phoenix

Writer, musician, and YouTuber Jacob Unterreiner came down to Radio Phoenix studios on this edition of The YabYum Hour. Check out his process on writing, learning from musicians, his thoughts on the local music scene plus much more. And, as always, his complete playlist of music can be found below…

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Bassist Ali Dean on Architects’ Latest Album ‘Holy Hell’ [interview]

May 1, 2019 Featured Articles Interview Jacob Unterreiner Punk

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At its height, music is a monument to emotion.

You can use words to express powerful emotions, but a sentence or two can never capture the scope of a feeling. Language alone, to some degree, is always minimizing the intensity of an emotion. Music, however, can capture how big a feeling feels–it’s a large part of the reason we make it. We say to ourselves, “My feelings are so big, that they deserve more than words, they deserve a song.”

Architects’ new album, Holy Hell, is a monument to a pain too large to simply be talked about. It is a a monument to a pain that needs to be screamed into microphones and battered into drums.

I spoke with bass player, Ali Dean, about the new album and how the band has moved forward after the death of founding member Tom Searle…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast: Three Hour Spectacular

March 16, 2019 Allyson Bills Amy Young Anna Katen Brandon Kellum Carly Schorman Featured Articles Garrett Bowers Jacob Unterreiner Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen Mark Anderson Radio Phoenix Rebecca Rudnyk

After hosting radio shows (The Bungalow Show’s YabYum Hour, Rise!, and The YabYum Hour) on Radio Phoenix for 5 years, Senior Editor’s Mark and Carly have handed over their reigns to a new batch of hosts as the good times continue. Before they departed hour however they threw a three-hour long radio show spectacular and invited a bunch of YabYum Staff and family down to the studio to celebrate…

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Good Question: Brother Teresa Wants to Make You Dance with ‘Jam Chill Slam’ [interview]

March 6, 2019 Featured Articles Good Question Interview Jacob Unterreiner

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Brother Teresa really wants you to dance, but they don’t want to make it easy for you. The band’s acrobatic, boogie-inducing riffs are infectious, but sometimes they come in irregular time signatures; forcing the audience to think before they groove.

The band is fronted by a pair of singer-guitarists in Joe Allie and Salah Moharram, and is rounded out by bassist Bailey Stewart and drummer Dom Crooks. I sat down with the whole confounding crew in order to discuss their evolution as a band and their debut record: Jam Chill Slam…

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Good Question: Daughters Bring Their Raucous Energy to The Rebel Lounge

February 28, 2019 Featured Articles Interview Jacob Unterreiner Punk

by Jacob Unterreiner

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In 2003, Daughters played a show at the Mason Jar (before it became the Rebel Lounge). They were opening for Dillinger Escape Plan. Daughters’ drummer Jon Styverson recalls, “I remember the line to get in was wrapping into the street. I don’t know why it was in the street, but it was, and a car came by and hit like 4 people. It was terrible. After the show, I was at the merch table and these four kids came up to me in bandages, with blood all over their shirts–they’re the ones who got hit. They got released from the hospital and came right back to the show.”

This story tells you all you need to know about Daughters; they have fans who get hit by a car before the show starts, go the hospital, and manage to make it back in time to catch the set. It is not a leap to say the music Daughters makes is the soundtrack to brushing off the blunt force trauma of a car accident…

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