• Cameron Winter is Not Kidding This Time: Interview

    Cameron Winter is Not Kidding This Time: Interview

    Originally published April 18th, 2024 following Winter’s debut solo show. Geese’s Cameron Winter sings like a storm. “God of the sun I’m taking you down on the inside,” he wails in forceful acapella, opening the rock band’s latest record, 3D Country, with such conviction that you can’t help but worry…

  • Michael Rother (Neu!, Harmonia): Interview

    Michael Rother (Neu!, Harmonia): Interview

    Michael Rother has spent the last 40 years trying to set a ridiculous myth straight. No, he did not turn down an offer to collaborate with David Bowie.  There’s truth in the story’s bones. David Bowie was a professed superfan of Neu!, Michael Rother’s first band. During Bowie’s time in…

  • “Reproducing life as it is—I was never interested in that”: An Interview with Alain Guiraudie

    “Reproducing life as it is—I was never interested in that”: An Interview with Alain Guiraudie

    Alain Guiraudie’s breakout film Stranger by the Lake was all about murder and sex. His latest Misericordia is all about murder and the absence of sex. But the lack of anything explicit is somehow more titillating, making brawls between men ooze big-time sensuality. “I work on love scenes and fight…

  • Mercury Rev (Jonathan Donahue): Interview

    Mercury Rev (Jonathan Donahue): Interview

    Jonathan Donahue has been on the frontline of the indie rock scene since the early 80s. Hailing from upstate New York, the artist worked as a guitar technician and concert promoter, where he booked bands like Butthole Surfers and Flaming Lips. The latter he joined for their albums In A…

  • Friko: Interview

    Friko: Interview

    Nearly three years ago, a collection of bands from Chicago’s teenage-led indie rock scene stormed Thalia Hall on June 5th, 2022 to celebrate the release of breakout trio Horsegirl’s Versions of Modern Performance.  The billed acts, Post Office Winter, Lifeguard, Friko, and Horsegirl, each have their own approach to indie…

  • GFOTY: Interview

    GFOTY: Interview

    For one night only, hyperpop’s resident girlfriend GFOTY returned to Brooklyn to host the party of the year, featuring elaborate bridal costumes, appearances from DJ’s like Petal Supply, and a sneak peek of her new album. The London based artist Polly Louisa Salmon is known for her raunchy, over the…

  • Here’s Kassie Krut — The Trio That Will Spell It Out For You: Interview

    Here’s Kassie Krut — The Trio That Will Spell It Out For You: Interview

    There’s an urgency to Kassie Krut’s sound that makes you feel enviably alive. The thirty-something year old narrators, emerging from the beloved Philly-based math rock gig Palm, have traded in their guitars and formal band dynamics for the synthesizer, melting an industrial, electronic sound that’s simultaneously mesmerizing and disheveling. Novelty…

  • Eem Triplin: Interview

    Eem Triplin: Interview

    You may know him as that guy who sampled Tyler the Creator’s “Awkward” and went viral, but in fact he is much more. Eem Triplin, self-proclaimed ‘universal-dude’, is also a self-made producer and rapper, grounded in his craft and growing increasingly by the day. Growing up bored in Johnstown, PA,…

  • The Vision Became Clear to Me: Louis Cole Interview

    The Vision Became Clear to Me: Louis Cole Interview

    John Cage prophesied in his famous speech “The Future of Music: Credo” that “percussion music is a contemporary transition from keyboard influenced music to the all sound music of the future.” This declaration speaks to the central role that the drums have always played in pushing music into unexplored territories. …

  • Checking In with The Hellp

    Checking In with The Hellp

    The Hellp, the nine-year electro-rock project between Noah Dillon and Chandler Ransom Lucy, has been teetering on the verge of virality since its inception. Dillon and Lucy had no lifelong dreams of musicianship. Both were raised in rural pockets of the Western U.S. and share pasts of working odd jobs…

  • A Place to Bury Strangers: Interview

    A Place to Bury Strangers: Interview

    Photo: Ebru Yildiz, courtesy of the band “If you’re holding a guitar, that’s a dangerous weapon.” – Oliver Ackerman I first saw A Place to Bury Strangers headline at the Brooklyn Monarch in 2023. Admittedly, I had never heard of them before and had been to see the openers. Oliver…

  • Cosmopaark: interview

    Cosmopaark: interview

    Bordeaux-based shoegaze group Cosmopaark dives deep into introspection, modernity, and musical maturity with their latest EP, Backyard. Across its five tracks, the band blends intensity and intimacy, creating a sound they describe as “more self-assured and a little darker, though not outright gloomy”. Composed of Clément Pelofy (vocals, guitar), Wanda…