Waaaaay back in spring of 2016 4Milecircus began collaborating on a pair of music video for their upcoming LP, Brighton, which was due for release in the fall. The album was still in process but singer/bassist Louisa was pregnant, everyone was busy AF and the band wanted to get footage in the can ASAP. The […]
Saul Williams has been an artist I (Nicole) have excitedly followed from poems to albums to Broadway musicals and beyond for about two decades now. His album Amethyst Rock Star, released way back in the spring of 2001, just about three months before attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon would shift the course […]
Mela Machinko is an amazingly talented singer and songwriter behind the superlative concept album Hov Said It Best and stunning ep 5am Blues, both of which are still in heavy rotation around here, despite being years old. Take a listen to how timeless her stuff is… So we are thrilled that Mela is planning to […]
Late Cambrian’s John Wlaysewski and Olive Hui sit down for the first of a two part conversation about making it work as an indie rock band. From meeting as background actors on Nurse Jackie through snagging reviews for their current LP, Golden Time, Olive and John take us through building and promoting a band. […]
Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché funding trailer from Velvet Joy Productions on Vimeo. I (this is Nicole) cannot overstate the importance of the phenomenal Poly Styrene and her fantastic band X-Ray Spex on my own development as an artist and a person. I am stunned into a kind of paralysis when attempting to express […]
We focus on fundraising in part two of our conversation with Lisa Hammer and Levi Wilson of Radiana, Maybe Sunshine, The Sisters Plotz, and a variety of other projects across multiple forms of media. Lisa and Levi discuss selling band merch to fund projects, the crowdfunding campaigns for SLC Punk 2 and the Sisters […]
Just a few of our fave seasonal tunes to help make the season bright. Mostly Christmas-themed. Not all. We narrowed it down to twelve fabulous selections. Enjoy! Happy Holidays from 4MileCircus!!!
From George Harrison to Ice Cube, photographer Chris Cuffaro has shot them all. In our fourteenth episode, Chris talks to Nicole and Sean about his Greatest Hits Project, which reflects on his storied and celebrated career. Chris also discusses “old school crowdfunding” to make the original music video for Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”, the […]
This October leading up to Halloween, we at 4MileCircus are revisiting the production of Small Talk. We will be adding new special features to the deluxe edition and running a series of reflections here on the blog from writer/director Nicole Witte Solomon and others who made this oddly enduring horror flick. Shawn Setaro is a […]