Six different single releases this year has kept one Finneas O’Connell (who releases music under FINNEAS) very busy - in addition to the fact that he’s spent the year touring with his sister Billie Eilish, and working on her debut album, as well as collaborating with a number of other songwriters on their own musical projects.
coup de main - noun
\ˌkü-də-ˈmaⁿ
Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.
\ˌkü-də-ˈmaⁿ
Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.
Interview: FINNEAS on his 2018 releases and more.
September 25, 2018 by
rose_riddell
Interview: Maggie Rogers - choosing her own destiny.
September 25, 2018 by
Shahlin Graves
Maggie Rogers is an artist ready to make her mark and, finally, she’s able to do it on her own terms.
Interview: Roy Blair on 'Cat Heaven' and what's next.
September 25, 2018 by
rose_riddell
Roy Blair’s ‘Cat Heaven’ as he calls it, is to be a “forever coming of age,” and after releasing the criminally underrated album last year, the album’s fanbase is continuing to grow, nearly a year on from its release.
Interview: D’Arcy Carden on the third season of 'The Good Place'.
Midway through my interview with D’Arcy Carden, the Siri function on her iPhone randomly turns on, spooking us both. We’ve just been discussing her loveable character Janet from ‘The Good Place’, an artificial intelligence who has won hearts throughout the first two seasons of the show - and the fact that Apple's own version of artificial intelligence decides to join the party is something that plays on our minds for the rest of the interview.
Interview: Emily Kinney on her new album, 'Oh, Jonathan'.
September 25, 2018 by
rose_riddell
With her new album ‘Oh, Jonathan’, Emily Kinney transforms an autobiographical heartbreak into song-form, with songs like ‘Boy Band Hero’, where she reflects, “Maybe I just wanted love so badly.”
Currently on tour for the next two months in North America in support of the album, and with two new television projects in the works (‘Messiah’ and ‘Anhedonia’), Kinney shows no signs of slowing down soon.
Interview: Robert Schwartzman on new Rooney music + upcoming film 'The Unicorn'.
Robert Schwartzman's band Rooney has existed as a band for 19 years now, but never yet travelled to New Zealand. So, with the band's 20-year anniversary coming up next year, we travelled to San Diego to meet Schwartzman at the kick-off of their A Cosmic Interlude Tour and discuss his upcoming projects - both musical and filmic.
I think as times have changed, people start to question things and go through moments of trying to find your identity and your community again.
Interview: Maren Morris on 'Hero', touring with Niall Horan, and more.
While on tour with Niall Horan, Maren Morris kicked off their dates together in Auckland, New Zealand - during which Coup De Main met Morris to discuss her 'Hero' album, and progress on her next record.
I think the best relationship you can have, fan to artist or artist to fan, is just to be honest and not try to put on this facade that you're perfect or such a badass. Just be yourself and people see through that layer really quick if you are being disingenuous.
Interview: Miles Kane on his new album, 'Coup De Grace'.
"You imagined it got spelt wrong and it was named after your mag," jokes Miles Kane about the similarity in name between the title of his new album, 'Coup De Grace' (named after the closing move of his favourite WWE wrestler Finn Bálor), and the name of our magazine, Coup De Main.
To discuss his new record, we met Kane in a London pub (just around the corner from the studio where he wrote most of his new album with Jamie T)...
Interview: Lontalius on his upcoming album.
September 25, 2018 by
rose_riddell
New Zealander Eddie Johnson, known more commonly under his moniker Lontalius, returned to the musical world this year with the double-release of ‘I Wanted Him’ and ‘That Includes You’ (the latter of which was written with fellow CDM favourite, Roy Blair) - an insight into what’s to come as the follow-up to his ‘I’ll Forget 17’ debut album.
We caught up with Lontalius in Los Angeles’ Echo Park Lake to discuss the freedom of being an independent artist in 2018, playing live shows, and more…
Interview: Cailin Russo on the debut RUSSO EP, 'House With A Pool'.
On their debut EP ‘House With A Pool’, RUSSO (fronted by Cailin Russo) explore their sound within the seven songs - which includes a viral Vine sample, contemplation of heartbreak on ‘Ghost’, and an ‘Apeshit’ interlude in which Russo croons, “I'll just never get used to bein' alone.”
We hung out in Los Angeles with Cailin Russo to talk about the debut EP, future RUSSO music, and more…
Love will make you do the craziest things, love will make you go insane, love can kill you.