The Soundsphere Magazine Podcast

WWE’s self-described workhorse is heading to Glasgow and Manchester. Before the UK dates, he talks to Soundsphere about the mask, Chad Gable, the Intercontinental Championship, music, and why the way you treat people may matter more than the titles you win.
Ethan Page arrives at the interview with his face hidden behind a glittering mask and his patience already wearing thin. I call him the “workhorse of WWE”, pointing to a career built across TNA, the independent scene and other promotions. Page accepts the label, but is quick to clarify what he means by it.
For more visit: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/interview-wwes-ethan-page-goes-off-on-tko-i-am-the-guy/

There's a clock tower in the South of France that Mathias Court could see from his bedroom window as a child. It shouldn't have anything to do with a month spent screaming into walls of feedback in a freezing Philadelphia January, but that's the strange geometry of Rita, the fourth album from French rock four-piece Paerish, a record about Mediterranean summers built entirely in the snow, and comfortably the loudest, most restless thing the band has ever put its name to.
More here: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/interview-paerish-on-rita-legacy-and-the-art-of-not-giving-up/

She started training at 15, signed with WWE before she’d finished working out who she was, and then did the hardest thing in wrestling, she stopped. Now 25, rebuilding at TNA and figuring out where the character ends and she begins, Elayna Black talks to Dom Smith about anxiety, imposter syndrome, Deftones, and the one musical genre she’ll never love.
More here: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/the-lines-get-blurred-brianna-coda-reflects-on-rediscovering-elayna-black/

Thirty years after Republica’s self‑titled debut detonated on the mid‑90s scene, Saffron Sprackling still talks about the band like it’s all just kicking off. With a 30th‑anniversary reissue on the way and a new UK tour booked, she isn’t treating this as a museum piece. For her, Republica are still a living, mutating thing – and their legacy is about much more than nostalgia. For more visit: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/medicine-for-the-soul-saffron-sprackling-on-30-years-of-republica/

There’s a particular kind of dread that runs through the work of Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats—a slow, creeping unease that feels at once timeless and painfully contemporary. On the band’s new album, Shapes of Midnight (out September 18), that dread becomes fully weaponised: a twisted gothic vision of power, class, and paranoia that feels like Edgar Allan Poe dragged into the age of 24-hour news, billionaire bunkers, and endless crisis.
For more visit: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/culture/a-horrible-hellscape-inside-uncle-acids-shapes-of-midnight/

 
Three decades into a career that’s quietly shaped the emotional vocabulary of modern guitar music, Death Cab for Cutie find themselves in a rare position. They’re still here. Still functional. Still making records that matter.
For bassist Nick Harmer, that simple fact – survival, in all its mundane and miraculous forms – has become the real measure of success. Not the plaques, not the streaming numbers, not the festival font sizes. Just the continued ability to make music with his closest friends, to step onto a stage and feel that old electricity crackle through the room again.
On the band’s latest record, I Built You A Tower, Harmer and his bandmates lean into that reality with a calm confidence that only comes from time served. It’s not a victory lap, and it’s not a nostalgia piece. Instead, it feels like the sound of a band who have finally made peace with their own reflection – and decided they quite like what they see.
This conversation with Soundsphere finds Nick talking about Tower, the weight and wonder of “legacy”, streaming-era chaos, and what it means to stay Death Cab after all these years.
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One of TNA’s newest signings, Gabby Forza sat down with Soundsphere to tell us all about her career, her relationship to WWE superstar Bayley, her plans for the future – and the lesser-gnome facts about her origin story.
More here: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/wrestling-news/gabby-forza-on-joining-tna-spending-time-with-wwes-bayley-and-gnomes/

As Indi Hartwell gears up to face NXT’s Thea Hail in the TNA Knockouts TV Championship Tournament, we asked her about her time in TNA, her plans for the TNA Lockdown pay-per-view, and her viral moment between her and former Wyatt Sicks member Dexter Lumis (Samuel Shaw).
https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/indi-hartwell-talks-tna-championship-gold-lockdown-dexter-lumis/

When Stacey Haber talks about her life, it sounds like three or four full-time careers running in parallel. She’s a music lawyer, publisher, Chief Legal Officer to multiple companies, theatre-maker, former New York City judge, sample-clearance pioneer, and Fringe regular. At 64, instead of slowing down, she’s premiering a new show at the Edinburgh Fringe: Cereal Entrepreneur.
https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/the-art-of-never-retiring-inside-stacey-habers-cereal-entrepreneur/
 
 

As Humber Street Sesh 2026 barrels toward Hull Marina with over 100 acts across 11 stages and an expected crowd of up to 15,000 people, its co-founder Mark “Mak” Page is brutally honest: this festival is not guaranteed to exist next year. “It’s not a given, it’s not a case of like miss out this year, maybe come back next year. We need your support now.” 
This year’s Sesh isn’t just another date in the city’s cultural calendar – it’s the product of financial risk, community faith, and two and a half decades of obsession with grassroots music. Across a long, candid conversation, Mak opens up about the real costs of putting on a festival like this, why metrics aren’t everything when it comes to picking bands, and what he wants emerging artists to finally understand about treating themselves like a serious proposition.