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Tortoise: interview
There are a few worthy places where the 20th century of music could have “ended.” Think about the lineages required to culminate in, say, A Tribe Called Quest’s sweeping blends of funk, jazz, and rap, or the plundered collages of Portishead, The Avalanches, or Handsome Boy Modeling School. But few…
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Sarah Kinsley: Interview
The musical work of Sarah Kinsley draws deeply from the penetrating ache of wanting something that you can’t seem to name. Being classically trained and endlessly curious, she writes pop songs that glimmer with surface-level euphoria before plunging you into colder and more disorienting depths. To search for answers in…
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ESG: Interview
There are few artists who can claim as much reach and influence over such a wide umbrella of styles: pop divas like TLC, hip-hop legends like MF Doom, and indie-scenesters like Unrest. That is except for ESG. Birthed in the Bronx in 1978, the dance-funk group are known for their…
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“There’s No Shame in It”: Dominic Hicks on Opening London’s Sleaziest Cinema
It’s movie night in New York City but all there is to see is your third viewing of Chungking Express at the Metrograph, or, if you’re feeling even crazier, a midnight screening at the IFC Center that, half-stoned, you will fall asleep in. Is there really nowhere in the world…
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Jackzebra: Interview
Jackzebra landed in Western consciousness with an exotic hype that had the same sensational fish-out-of-water media hype of Linsanity. Reductionally dubbed the Chinese Bladee by online commentators, there was a swift move to categorize Jackzebra as a known unknown. Media narratives soon emerged, that Jackzebra was somehow a representative of…
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Racing Mount Pleasant: Interview & Photos
Perhaps it was the icy album cover, lyrical references to coldness, and the frigid sounds of woodwinds and strings on the Racing Mount Pleasant’s self-titled sophomore record, but the wintry atmosphere outside the Bowery Ballroom seemed like a perfect backdrop to witness the band’s signature brand of frosty chamber pop.…
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Chicoutimi: Interview
Chicoutimi is both the name of a town in Quebec and the moniker of Thessa Mooij, a Dutch singer hailing from the seaside town of The Hague. Chicoutimi had always been musical, taking guitar lessons from a young age, and being from a city filled with Dutch-Indonesian rockers. Many Indonesians…
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Sorry: interview
Creaking up the attic stairs, I was not sorry to hear laughter cascading down from an artist hued dressing room. It was dimly lit with clothes tossed in preparation for performance with cracked-open beer cans and chips crunching between breaths. Sorry’s warm up began within the Bowery ballroom’s attic: a…
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Jordan Patterson: Interview
I walked into Union Pool on a windy October evening as Jordan Patterson stood mid–soundcheck with her trio on a bare stage. Having never seen the venue empty with the lights up, my eyes began tracing the cables curling across the floor and the bar stools scattered at odd angles.…
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Alireza Khatami: Interview
Well before The Things You Kill reaches its first act of violence, something far more unsettling has already begun to take shape. The universe of Alireza Khatami’s new film feels quietly askew. When a university professor returns home after his mother’s sudden death, he steps into a landscape clogged with…
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Folk Bitch Trio: Interview
Good things come in threes, as is the case with Folk Bitch Trio. The band, made up of Heide Peverelle (they/them), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her), and Gracie Sinclair (she/her) knew pretty instantly after their first rehearsal, spent on Peverelle’s bed drinking Asahi and passing around a guitar, that they wanted to…
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Daniel Avery: Interview
Daniel Avery was always a rock kid who revered Kyuss and Black Sabbath and felt determined to one day play in a band himself. Yet, upon moving to London from his small coastal hometown, he found community in the open arms of acid house and in the acceptance of techno.…
