The Soundsphere Magazine Podcast

There’s a particular kind of chaos that makes pro wrestling feel like home: big personalities cutting bigger promos. That’s Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW) right now – and right in the middle of that whirlwind is Jasmin St. Claire.
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There’s a particular kind of world-building that only really happens when someone has lived inside their obsessions long enough to breathe them back out as art. For Braydon Hill, better known as Zeruel, that world is stitched together from late nights with Soulsborne games, Metroidvanias, dark hip-hop, manga, anime, and the echo of his mother’s voice he grew up singing along to.
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When two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman first read the script for the indie film,  “Tuner,” he was surprised how Academy Award-winning documentary director Daniel Roher (“Navalny”) had navigated his first narrative fiction thriller. When two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman first read the script for the indie film,  “Tuner,” he was surprised how Academy Award-winning documentary director Daniel Roher (“Navalny”) had navigated his first narrative fiction thriller. Having spent his life playing piano and taking legendary roles like “The Graduate” and “Midnight Cowboy,” Hoffman had attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, and actually hoped to become a concert pianist. “The role of a piano tuner immediately resonated with me on a personal level,” he said.  “This was the first time in over 50 years of doing this, a guy came up to me and said, I wrote this for you,” he acknowledged during a press chat.
 
Hoffman plays veteran tuner Harry Horowitz, a gifted man who is well-versed in fixing pianos. Later, at a private screening at Black Bear Pictures in Los Angeles, the seven-time Academy Award nominee told the audience: “Somehow Daniel knew that (in real life) I played the piano.” He continued: “Daniel sent me a script, and I liked it very much. I told him it was very well written….I was in Europe, and he flew over to London on his own dime, and we just talked….What particularly struck me was the original way the story evolved into a heist genre; it felt fresh and compelling.” Hoffman said he was “shocked” because he had never met anyone like Roher before, who had worked on many layers of the crime-romance..
 
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After joining TNA Wrestling, the former WWE Cruiserweight Champion, Cedric Alexander, has allied with The System and become the new X-Division Champion after unseating Leon Slater. 
Soundsphere sat down with Cedric Alexander to discuss his new home, faction, and championship reign. More importantly, we discussed his upcoming title defence against several other wrestlers at Slammiversay in an Ultimate X match – which is arguably TNA’s signature match, for its signature championship.
For more visit: https://www.soundspheremag.com/features/interviews/cedric-alexander-tna-x-division-champion-slammiversary-ultimate-x/

There are conversations you have with artists where you can tell, within minutes, that the music isn’t a product – it’s survival. Talking with Tim De Gieter of Doodseskader is exactly that. We’re here to talk about the band’s latest record, The Change Is Me – a release that feels like it’s been dragged out of the darkest corners of the mind, but somehow still points toward something like hope. Not the flimsy, Instagram-ready kind, but the uncomfortable, honest, “this might never be perfect and that’s okay” kind.
 
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There’s a particular kind of electricity that only exists when wrestling leans all the way into the weird. Not just spooky lighting and jump-scares, but genuine psychological horror – the kind that stays with you after the show ends, the kind that bleeds into real life grief, legacy, and art. Right now in TNA, that electricity has a name: The Righteous – Vincent and Dutch – locked in a sprawling, reality-bending feud with Matt and Jeff Hardy that’s already pulled in multiple versions of the Hardys themselves, threatened to tear open the “Broken Universe” once again, and constantly circles one towering shadow: the late Windham Rotunda, known to millions as Bray Wyatt. Over the course of our conversation, it becomes clear that this isn’t just another storyline for The Righteous. It’s a meditation on horror, creativity, grief, and the people they call “the Many” – their fans, their believers, and everyone who sees something of themselves in the madness.
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TNA Wrestling's AJ Francis has managed to combine his love of music and wrestling into one persona. Be it within WWE or TNA, Francis has often been a highlight of any stable he's been part of, but after falling out with his last two tag-team partners, the leader of First Class is now going solo — and he's looking forward to it. 
For more visit: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/aj-francis-talks-tna-making-music-going-solo/

Is London still the centre for music journalism? 
Music journalism is an extremely competitive field.  A platform for creatives to show off their talents from creative writing to cultural analysis on an array of multimedia platforms. On the surface, it may seem there is equal opportunity to kickstart a music journalism career in the UK – the constant emergence of up-and-coming bands to underground gigs and all between. However, is there a divide in the North and South of England regarding opportunity?  
More here: https://www.soundspheremag.com/news/dr-simon-a-morrison-on-the-music-journalism-north-south-divide/

There’s a moment, tucked away in Lyra Valkyria’s story, that says more about her journey than any championship ever could. It doesn’t happen under the bright lights of WrestleMania, or with a title belt raised high. It happens in a small venue in Bray, Ireland, when she’s just starting out, waiting for her cue to step through the ropes. “I’ll never forget doing matches in Bray in Ireland, and the fear that I had of, like, I’m getting in next, you know, when I was just starting out, and honestly, that fear was way scarier than standing behind the curtain at WrestleMania.”
 
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A’ have just announced details of their first studio album in over 20 years, PRANG. The alt.rock faves will follow-up 2005’s Teen Dance Ordinance on May 22 via Cooking Vinyl, with vocalist Jason Perry explaining of their mindset in putting it together: “There’s a messiness to it that allows our personality to come through — which is where the magic really happens. I don’t want anyone to put on an ‘A’ record and think it sounds like it was hard work making it. Life’s hard enough – there has to be fun in making music.” Get your limited-edition hand-signed copy of PRANG with K! x ‘A’ sticker Jason adds that, “By the end of ‘A’ in 2005, I felt like we didn’t have anything to say anymore. Now, I really do. We had to go and live a life. We’ve seen massive lows that we’ve helped each other through. This album is gratitude – gratitude for friendship, for still making music, for still being alive.”