The Lytics - Winnipeg Hip-Hop Heavyweights

​The Lytics blew my face off at the 2010 installment of the Rifflandia festival and when I found out they were returning to Victoria in October 2012 I jumped at the chance to talk with them. After a stellar, but poorly attended show at Felicita's we sat down in the basement of the Martlet office for a late night about their latest record They Told Me​, being from Winnipeg and a surprising love of James Taylor.

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Charles Bradley - The Screaming Eagle of Soul

​This was the second interview I'd ever conducted. Despite some early complications, we got everything on track and it holds up to this day as one of the most emotional conversations I've had. This interview took place in August, 2011 as Bradley was gathering steam from the release of his debut record, No Time For Dreaming​. The only one of my interviews to ever be published in full, it first appeared on the Martlet.

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