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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.…
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Eliza McLamb: interview
It’s October, and I’m calling indie-pop singer, songwriter, and long-form essayist Eliza McLamb in a nexus of transition points: she’s between a farming sabbatical in the lush grounds of North Carolina, a year of New York City living, the leaving of the podcast she co-hosted Binchtopia, and the verge of…
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Siichaq: Interview
Siichaq is the Iñupiaq name and solo project of 23-year-old Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Kennie Mason, hailing from North Florida, along with her Jazz musician father. She first emerged in Jacksonville’s DIY music scene in high school, fronting bands and finding her footing as the only Native person in her community, shaping…
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chat Pile: Interview
Chat Pile is a very fitting name for a band that has thrived in apocalyptic noise. The Oklahoman sludge metal quartet derives its tag from the word for contaminated waste, created by mining operations from the late 1800s and mid-1900s. A chat pile is a mountain of toxicity, a visualization…
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Bush Tetras: Interview and Photos
Huddled over bowls of pho in Bushwick, passerbyers would not know Cynthia Sley and Pat Place had set New York’s post-punk scene on fire almost 50 years ago. Seeking something other than leather-clad punks or the glittery disco dancers, artists like Arthur Russell, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and Liquid Liquid blended…
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Google Earth: Interview
The name Google Earth often sparks imaginings of satellite landscapes and distant trees. But we should all reorient ourselves to make space for the experimental electronica duo, Google Earth. Still budding from its fresh start in 2021, the skillful collaboration of Jamie Riotto and John Vanderslice illuminates the whirlwind of…
