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Michael Ian Cummings (SKATERS) Talks Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

By Michael Ian Cummings | December 17, 2015

Michael Ian Cummings (SKATERS) Talks Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

This record harks back to the ‘90s while simultaneously reassuring the listener that they’re not alone in their millennial confusion.

Drew Daniel (Matmos) Talks Oneohtrix Point Never’s Garden of Delete

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By Drew Daniel | December 15, 2015

Drew Daniel (Matmos) Talks Oneohtrix Point Never’s Garden of Delete

The thought of taking on this record made our writer flinch and blush and feel uncomfortable — but it also made him excited.

Luke Haines (the Auteurs, Black Box Recorder) Talks One Direction’s Made in the AM

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By Luke Haines | December 14, 2015

Luke Haines (the Auteurs, Black Box Recorder) Talks One Direction’s Made in the AM

Our middle-aged writer takes on the massive boy band's latest—but turns down the iPod lest any music leak out and people think he's creepy and mental.

Emmy the Great Talks Yoko Ono and the Flaming Lips’ “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)”

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By Emmy the Great | December 11, 2015

Emmy the Great Talks Yoko Ono and the Flaming Lips’ “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)”

The Christmas single by the Flaming Lips and Yoko Ono is a reminder that music is one of the only environments in which futility cannot exist.

Dee Dee (Dum Dum Girls) Talks Kylie Minogue’s Kylie Christmas

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By Dee Dee | December 9, 2015

Dee Dee (Dum Dum Girls) Talks Kylie Minogue’s Kylie Christmas

For our writer, Minogue’s new Christmas album evokes the ghosts of Kylie Past, Present and Future.

Cassie Ramone (the Babies, Vivian Girls) Talks Train’s Christmas in Tahoe

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By Cassie Grzymkowski | December 7, 2015

Cassie Ramone (the Babies, Vivian Girls) Talks Train’s Christmas in Tahoe

Christmas in Tahoe is a new classic album. December it today!

Dave Hill Talks Danzig’s Skeletons

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By Dave Hill | December 4, 2015

Dave Hill Talks Danzig’s Skeletons

Danzig’s new album is totally great to listen to while porking, partying, sharpening your knife collection, or doing anything, really.

Zach Staggers (The So So Glos) Talks Leftöver Crack’s Constructs of the State

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By Zach Staggers | December 3, 2015

Zach Staggers (The So So Glos) Talks Leftöver Crack’s Constructs of the State

Leftöver Crack’s long-awaited new record is protest music in its most extreme incarnation.

Nimai Larson (Prince Rama) Talks Chris Isaak’s First Comes the Night

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By Nimai Larson | December 1, 2015

Nimai Larson (Prince Rama) Talks Chris Isaak’s First Comes the Night

Chris Isaak’s lyrics escorted themselves into our writer’s dead-bolted heart and transported her back to an old love affair.

Mackenzie Scott (Torres) Talks Pope Francis’ Wake Up!

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By Mackenzie Scott | November 30, 2015

Mackenzie Scott (Torres) Talks Pope Francis’ Wake Up!

The Pope's album has a bizarre sonic and rhythmic frame, yet it manages to impart its intended meaning to our virtually monolingual Millennial writer.