INTERVIEWS | DYNAMIC (Music Zine)

If you’ve stopped by Jay Jay Pistolet’s MySpace recently, chances are you’ve seen Samantha Palileo. Last month Jay Jay added Palileo’s YouTube video cover of “Someone’s Book” to his webpage. Palileo just started writing original songs, but has beautifully covered musicians like Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale and Regina Spektor. Last week DYNAMIC got [...]

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Interview with Brett Randell

Despite growing up in a musical family, Brett Randell has only been composing and performing for two years. Randell studied marketing at the University of Maryland, but discovered his passion for singing and songwriting after purchasing an acoustic guitar for his 20th birthday two years ago. Since then he’s moved from New York to Austin, [...]

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Interviewing Improvising Ivyannabanana

Having taken formal piano lessons for nine years, I am frustrated with my inability to improvise. Admittedly, I was never a very diligent student; my first piano teacher fired me because I never practiced. However, you would think that after nine years of scales, theory, classical, romantic and popular training, that I would be able [...]