SINE is an /Electronic band created and led by singer and drummer, Rona Rougeheart. She has stepped from behind the kit to create her own strong, sexy female fronted project with influences such as, CURVE and GARBAGE with nuances of , DEPECHE MODE and .

ROCKSTAR: Hey Rona . . . the world in the crotch haha! The never know…someone has to make good to hear you are still rocking video was directed by Teresa Jolie. it! the scene with your alternative She has a great way of combining aggressive industrial sound. Tell me sexuality and style. She was perfect ROCKSTAR: OK, last question about this project. for us because SINE is a dark, sexy, . . . how important is it for you to stylish band. She did a killer job! express yourself as an artist and RONA: I’ve been writing songs performer? for a long time, but never thought ROCKSTAR: I think that there to use them for myself. It wasn’t was a part of you that was dying RONA: Expressing yourself is a until recently, that I decided to to get out from the back of the big part of being an artist. I don’t use my songs and create my own other band playing rhythm and get know how to be anyone else. I find band. I never envisioned myself as up front, grab that mic and start that if you try to compare yourself a lead singer, at all. I never wanted moshing. Am I warm? to others, you just set yourself up a “solo project” where I used my to fail. I’m just me and I don’t know own name. I wanted a band. I was RONA: Haha! Not exactly. I what else to do but be myself. very motivated by friends of mine really enjoy playing drums. Being who I saw creating their own music a drummer is amazing! It’s a lot of ROCKSTAR: Shout Outs? projects and were successful. It was fun. I’m not really a mosher haha! very inspiring. As far as being the leader of a band, RONA: I am so thankful to my it was more about taking my own family and all of my friends that are ROCKSTAR: I just loved the video steps and directions the way I see supportive of me. As far as shout and track “Feed the Vultures”. fit for myself and the band. outs go...let’s see: To Toni Halliday What was the inspiration for this and Dean Garcia from Curve: you song? Did someone piss you off or ROCKSTAR: What was the are the main influence of my band. what? LOL mental-emotional process like for To Shirley Manson from Garbage: you to pull a like this? you motivate me and give me hope RONA: Haha, that’s funny! No Is SINE your Project? that I can rise above all of the uphill one pissed me off. The song was battles that an artist faces. Last but written because I was so tired of RONA: Haha! Funny you mention not least, to Josh Homme from seeing public figures, celebrities that because on “Feed The Queens of the Stone Age: Thanks and everyday people being torn Vultures”, the drums I play are very for being an awesome person to me apart and trashed by the media Grohl-inspired. He’s one of my when I met you and for the quote for entertainment. Whether it’s favorite drummers. I never really ”someone has to make it, why not deserved or not, I always saw the saw SINE as my Foo Fighters, but me?“ – thank you for telling me media as the vultures and they I have joked about it because of the whole story on that. I live with need something to feed on to live. the whole “drummer turning into that quote in mind and I’m hoping It’s an aggressive song because it’s a front person” thing. It was a bit that I see you on the other side. an aggressive subject. It was the scary at first to think about being Haha! first single and video that I put a front woman, but I threw myself out because I wanted to make an into it and I’m glad I did. I’m very (By the way, if you ever meet impact upon my debut. I also told proud of what I’ve accomplished. Josh, ask him about that. It’s very friends that when I came out with I’m a big believer in doing what you inspirational.) +++ my music that I wanted to kick want to do in life or at least try. You