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Tag: role models

Role Models: Quincy Jones Blew Up Nightmares on Wax’s Musical World

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By George Evelyn | December 17, 2021
By George Evelyn | December 17, 2021

Role Models: Quincy Jones Blew Up Nightmares on Wax’s Musical World

George Evelyn talks Thriller, learning to sample, and why he keeps looking back to the prolific music maker.

Role Models: Seafoam Walls’ Jayan Bertrand Wants to Still Believe in Kanye

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By Jayan Bertrand | November 16, 2021
By Jayan Bertrand | November 16, 2021

Role Models: Seafoam Walls’ Jayan Bertrand Wants to Still Believe in Kanye

On being inspired and disappointed by the complicated artist.

Role Models: Rowland S. Howard Taught Tropical Fuck Storm the Art of Tearing It Up

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By Tropical Fuck Storm | September 8, 2021
By Tropical Fuck Storm | September 8, 2021

Role Models: Rowland S. Howard Taught Tropical Fuck Storm the Art of Tearing It Up

Gareth Liddiard on The Birthday Party’s complicated guitarist.

Role Models: El Perro del Mar is Reconsidering RHCP

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By El Perro del Mar | July 27, 2021
By El Perro del Mar | July 27, 2021

Role Models: El Perro del Mar is Reconsidering RHCP

How reading Anthony Kiedis’s Scar Tissue changed Sarah Assbring’s mind about the Peps.

Role Models: Le Pain Found Shonen Knife and Devo on The Powerpuff Girls

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By Madeline Babuka Black | July 26, 2021
By Madeline Babuka Black | July 26, 2021

Role Models: Le Pain Found Shonen Knife and Devo on The Powerpuff Girls

The LA band on the life-changing soundtrack.

Role Models: My Chemical Romance Showed Glass Beach a Healthy Kind of Angst

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By Glass Beach | June 28, 2021
By Glass Beach | June 28, 2021

Role Models: My Chemical Romance Showed Glass Beach a Healthy Kind of Angst

The LA band pays tribute to their emo heroes.

Role Models: Prince Challenged Vijay Iyer’s Sense of What Music Was

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By Vijay Iyer | May 3, 2021
By Vijay Iyer | May 3, 2021

Role Models: Prince Challenged Vijay Iyer’s Sense of What Music Was

The Purple One left a formative impression on the jazz pianist as a pre-teen.

Askin’ Haskins: Geneva Jacuzzi Interviews Bauhaus’s Kevin Haskins

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By Geneva Jacuzzi | February 25, 2021
By Geneva Jacuzzi | February 25, 2021

Askin’ Haskins: Geneva Jacuzzi Interviews Bauhaus’s Kevin Haskins

The synth-pop artist celebrates the reissue of her debut album by talking to one of her biggest influences.

Tenci Will Never Get Sick of Love Is Overtaking Me

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By Tenci | July 6, 2020
By Tenci | July 6, 2020

Tenci Will Never Get Sick of Love Is Overtaking Me

Arthur Russell gave Jess Shoman the confidence to feel “like an open sore” on her new record.

What I Learned From Tony Allen

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By Miles Francis | May 25, 2020
By Miles Francis | May 25, 2020

What I Learned From Tony Allen

Miles Francis (formerly of Antibalas) outlines the lessons he took from listening to the late drumming legend.

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