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Missy Mazzoli (Victoire) Talks Laurel Halo’s Chance of Rain

By Missy Mazzoli | October 30, 2013

Missy Mazzoli (Victoire) Talks Laurel Halo’s Chance of Rain

After listening to Laurel Halo’s new album Chance of Rain for the fourth time, I’m left with an impression that is more visual than aural...

Missy Mazzoli (Victoire) Talks Zola Jesus and J.G. Thirlwell feat. Mivos Quartet’s Versions

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By Missy Mazzoli | August 20, 2013

Missy Mazzoli (Victoire) Talks Zola Jesus and J.G. Thirlwell feat. Mivos Quartet’s Versions

The most striking part of Versions, the new album from Nika Roza Danilova, aka Zola Jesus, isn’t the presence of a string quartet or the...

Aaron Hemphill (Liars) Talks the Legendary Pink Dots’ The Gethsemane Option

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By Aaron Hemphill | July 19, 2013

Aaron Hemphill (Liars) Talks the Legendary Pink Dots’ The Gethsemane Option

The Legendary Pink Dots' 2010 album Seconds Late for the Brighton Line was the first album I ever pre-ordered online. The package...

Tim Harrington (Les Savy Fav) Talks Whatever Brains’ Whatever Brains

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By Tim Harrington | July 18, 2013

Tim Harrington (Les Savy Fav) Talks Whatever Brains’ Whatever Brains

There is a longstanding tradition in counterculture music of naming your band something so off-putting or so inane that it dares the world to dis...

Mark Eitzel (American Music Club) Talks David Lynch’s The Big Dream

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By Mark Eitzel | July 16, 2013

Mark Eitzel (American Music Club) Talks David Lynch’s The Big Dream

I wanna love this because I love David Lynch, and if I could just relax for 40 minutes, dammit, I would. Music is purity and pleasure and those...

Janet Weiss (Wild Flag, Quasi, Sleater-Kinney) Talks Os Mutantes’ Fool Metal Jack

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By Janet Weiss | April 30, 2013

Janet Weiss (Wild Flag, Quasi, Sleater-Kinney) Talks Os Mutantes’ Fool Metal Jack

Can you remember the first time you heard the Beatles? That day should be listed high among life’s momentous occasions — up there with the first...

Mish Way (White Lung) Talks the Knife’s Shaking the Habitual

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By Mish Way | April 17, 2013

Mish Way (White Lung) Talks the Knife’s Shaking the Habitual

When I worked at a rape crisis center, I had an older co-worker named Tamara. She was often invited to speak publicly about women’s issues...

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Liturgy, Survival) Talks Death Grips’ No Love Deep Web

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By Hunter Hunt-Hendrix | April 8, 2013

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Liturgy, Survival) Talks Death Grips’ No Love Deep Web

Death Grips have the ambiguous honor of being the most "now" band around right now. The originality of the music itself lies in their unique..

Andrew Savage (Parquet Courts) Talks Eat Skull’s Eat Skull III

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By Andrew Savage | March 28, 2013

Andrew Savage (Parquet Courts) Talks Eat Skull’s Eat Skull III

It's been a while since we've heard from Portland, Oregon's Eat Skull, a band that I could always rely on to be refreshing and uncompromising....

Vijay Iyer Talks Flying Lotus’ Until the Quiet Comes

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By Vijay Iyer | March 12, 2013

Vijay Iyer Talks Flying Lotus’ Until the Quiet Comes

To listen to this album on headphones is to be air-dropped into a teeming megacity in 2017: industrial runoff, overgrown wild vegetation...