Villager's Conor J. O'Brien played the Eurosonic festival in Groningen, The Netherlands solo. Before he went on stage for a breathtaking performance Toazted spoke to Conor. He seemed to have lost his memory for some reason though...

Neil Young is over the hill, say dreamy Beach House from Baltimore. But who are they? Toazted introduces them to you.

Blood Red Shoes is back with a new album. Drummer Steven Ansell is quite happy with 'Fire Like This'. The band tries to keep everything in their own hands: "If you don't do it someone else will do it and they'll fuck it up."

What do you get when you combine four girls with every instrument possible and let them play what ever they want? That's right Katzenjammer! This Norwegian quartet was in the Netherlands and spoke with Toazted about their love for old movies, their music and how they met the drummer of The Ramones.

Because of the Amsterdam Dance Event Dave Clarke threw his own party in the Melkweg in Amsterdam. Toazted was there to make a short documentary with DJ Bone as host.

Placebo formed in 1996. In june 2009 their new album Battle for the Sun was released. The album is the first to feature new drummer Steve Forrest.
At the Pinkpop festival we had a first chance to get introduced to him. See the Toazted interview to see what he is like.

For some Pendulum is the New Prodigy, for some they are even bigger than God. One thing's for sure: Pendulum is going fast. Very, very fast. A nice conversation with subjects like the easyness of breaking through in the USA.

Regular John of Toazted, Troy van Leeuwen, spoke again with us, about half a year after the Paradiso show in Holland where they like spending time. What has changed? Is it just the venue’s or does it go beyond? And what is the kind of mood that fits Era Vulgaris? A sick carnival for instance?

"Thats the great thing about music, you can decide what it sounds like"

In the first part, Serj talks about his first experience as an solo artist, forming a band and playing the new material for the first time.

Interview with Andy Kato from Groove Armada. In the first part of the interview he talks about the attention the new album gets and the collaboration with Mutya Buena. He also explains why the album is called Soundboy Rock and what's so bad about the fact that people don't by music anymore.

The British rock band The Kooks played the Lowlands festival. Guest reporter Stacey interviewed the band and asked some questions about the new record, touring and much more. Check out this video interview with The Kooks. (August 2006)

The British pop band Hot Chip played Amsterdam in July 2006. Toazted spoke to two guys Joe and Al from the band to let them introduce themselves to people who don't know them yet. The pop group just released their second album "The Warning". In this interview you'll hear how the band got together and which direction the music went the last couple of years. Recorded in July 2006.

Interview with Jaga Jazzist from Norway. The interview is about their record "What We Must". In this interview brothers Lars and Martin explain why this record is different than other work they have ever made.

"When we go on tour. It's always sort of a holiday. We work 3 hours a day and have lots of fun all the time."

Great long and uncut MP3 interview with Gary and Nathan from Snow Patrol after a month of rest in January 2005 and after an exausting tour through the USA, UK and Europe. Recorded on the 20th of January 2005.

"The biggest surprise in 2004 was playing the Glastonbury festival. That was a highlight. Now we've sold more than a million copies already in the UK!"

An interview with the English band Bloc Party about their album Silent Alarm, English pop music and computer games. Recorded in Amsterdam, November 2004. (London Calling festival)

"Sometimes I am on the net and play games. Just to meet people. What you meet people on the net? Hahaha.."

I AM Kloot gave a wonderful show on the Dutch Lowlands festival 2004. After the show Toazted did an interview with Peter and Andy. Johnny was missing for a while..... Guess what he did.. Drinking!

Skindred is a new band with Benji, the ex singer from Dub War. In an interview Benji and Dan tell us stories about their new album Babylon.

"We've taken the Jamaican element and added guitars. I hope loads of other bands come and do this type of thing."

With the 1998 album "Moon Safari" the duo Air (Jean-Benoît Dunckel en Nicolas Godin) broke through. Sold millions of this album and after 3 years they returned with their new album "10.000 Hz Legend." Didn't sell that well and the guys never had as much success as before. In this interview the guys explain what the album is all about.

Bassist Mark Hoppus talks about the band's huge success, the grueling tour schedules and their hilarious videos.

"The only person that didn't think ours was funny was Christina Aguilera. She thought it was insulting. But pop music is so popular these days, that you need to make fun of it sometimes."

We did an interview with Massive Attack. Massive Attack formed in 1987 in Bristol and they were the pioneering force behind the rise of trip-hop. Toazted talked Daddy G. back in 1998 about their great album "Mezzanine".

"We weren't getting on that well so we decided to go into the studio and start working on the album on separate occasions."

NoFX were in Amsterdam in the late nineties. We did an interview with Fat Mike about the music business and the money behind it.

"Major labels rip bands off. They can make you sell more records but unless you go platinum you're not gonna make more money than what we're making."