

While at Culture Collide festival in Los Angeles, Larry Heath had the opportunity to catch up with two members of Dutch alternative rock band De Staat. Dominated by vocalist by Torre Florim, the interview covered the general scope of the Dutch music scene, and the recording process for De Staat's new album Machinery was like one big party.

The USA interview series continues backstage at Filter Magazine's Culture Collide, where Larry Heath caught up with Datarock, to discuss just about everything they could possibly think of. But there's lot of discussion about musicals and their latest EP California, triple j, their self proclaimed "most extravagant single in history" and plenty more...

We continue our USA interview series with Larry Heath's chat with up-and-coming Dutch band Death Letters. The young duo (so young they can't legally be in most of the venues they're playing in America), comprised of Duende Ariza Lora and drummer Victor Brandt, are a high energy rock and roll band who are inspired by the likes of ...Trail of Dead. We catch up with them to find out about their new record, their adventures in America and more.

While on tour with CSS, JD Samson and her latest project MAN hit up the Culture Collide festival in Los Angeles. Backstage at the festival, I caught up with the member of Le Tigre to discuss the tour, MAN’s latest record and “coming out” as a poor musician on The Huffington Post.
So how is the tour with CSS going?


My third night at Culture Collide was a rather brief affair due to other engagements, but I got to catch some fantastic performances from a couple of bands I know very well, and a couple others I didn't know much about at all...




FILTER Magazine is enhancing its already-robust, second annual Culture Collide Festival lineup with even more international talent. The newly confirmed acts are scheduled to perform in Los Angeles, CA, October 6 – 9, 2011, and include:
Does It Offend You, Yeah? (UK)
Avi Buffalo (USA)
The Elected (USA)
The Morning After Girls (Australia)
The Gift (Portugal)
Midnight Surfer (USA)
Laura Jansen (The Netherlands)
Hands (USA)
The Lanskies (France)
Carina Round (UK)