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Case Oats: interview
Casey Gomez Walker is singing about her old home. Not necessarily the brick-and-mortar, physical Missouri house where she grew up and pasted lyrics to the wall, but the type of home that has attached to her interior, wrinkling memory, stories, and feelings throughout time. The home that will exist in…
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clipping.: Interview
Their lyrics curdled your blood, their noise loops impaled your eardrums, and now they’re here to make you groove. Back in 2010, three independently ambitious guys just wanted to make some noise and share their excitement for music with those around them. Fast-forward to 2025, the eclectic experimental hip-hop trio…
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Mamie Minch: Interview
Mamie Minch confronts questions of legacy with abandon. As a folk singer-songwriter, Minch re-wraps lyrical and thematic legacy with a graceful repose. As co-owner of Brooklyn Lutherie, a stringed instrument repair shop, Minch retells the buried histories of broken instruments. Despite these seemingly bifurcated identities, Minch’s work has always existed…
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Ghandrx: Interview
I first heard Ghandrx on a warm July night last summer while I was sitting on my fire escape. It was musky outside, the overgrown plants and ivy sagged on the neighboring apartment buildings, and the sky was transitioning from dark blue to black. My friend and I’d just finished…
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Horsegirl: Interview
Bundled up together in the confines of their Brooklyn practice space, Penelope Lowenstein, Nora Cheng, and Gigi Reece greeted me after their last rehearsal before hitting the road. The Chicago-turned-New York rock ‘n roll trio, known best as Horsegirl, were preparing for the first shows of their spring tour, performing…
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An Interview with Black Country, New Road’s Lewis Evans
The last time Black Country, New Road played the 575-capacity Bowery Ballroom in September of 2022, the entire setlist consisted of newly written unreleased material (bar a cover of Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever,”). Seven months prior, the outfit had announced the departure of their frontman Isaac Wood, who held…
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Of Montreal: Interview
In the early 1990s, Athens, Georgia catalyzed into a sonic safe haven, explosive pocket-sized community, sparkling artistic magical forest, and a new hub for the legendary music collective Elephant 6. Some of the most notable acts to crawl out of this scene include The Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel,…
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“We Had to Search for a Truer Self”: Jia Zhangke on the 22-year-long Journey towards Caught by the Tides
Jia Zhangke operates with the kind of precise and spontaneous patience of a fly on the wall of an archeological dig. Zhangke, born amid the reforms of the 1970s, came to prominence as a part of the “Sixth Generation” of directors in China’s post-socialist period; his films, often made without…
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Ty Segall: Interview
For psych-revival trailblazer Ty Segall, sometimes all a song needs to be about is how much he loves his dogs. “Go adopt a dog!” Segall says before the “dog portion of the night” in which he performed a collection of songs about his two pets to his Brooklyn audience. This…
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Walking Around With Free Range: Featured Interview
Sofia Jensen and I are rolling up our shirtsleeves to compare tattoos. We are standing outside of Greenpoint’s Warsaw on the first sweaty New York day in months, and Jensen, who fronts the band Free Range, is deciding whether we should grab a slice of pizza or frolic in the…
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Lily Seabird: Interview
Although it’s been long since the death of East Coast bohemia, glimmers of it still shine in the locus of Trash Mountain, a house that is painted pink sitting atop a decommissioned landfill site in Burlington, Vermont and has become a hub for artists, of any sense of the word,…
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Diamond Day: Featured Interview
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Canada was alit with folk music. Spread throughout the provinces, these acts were oftentimes musical families that recruited the entire household for the job. Beatrix Méthé and Quinn Banchard grew up in family bands in parallel, sharing something crucial in common before they…
